Prof. Dr. Mengist Teklay

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsGeochemistry (Inorganic, Organic, Biological),Petrology,Geology
KeywordsGeochemistry, Isotope geology, Arabian-Nubian Shield, Afro-Arabian Continental Flood Basalt, Eritrea

Current contact address

CountryEritrea
CityAsmara
InstitutionUniversity of Asmara
InstituteEarth Sciences Department

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Albrecht W. HofmannAbteilung Geochemie, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie (Otto-Hahn-Institut), Mainz
Prof. Dr. Alfred KrönerInstitut für Geowissenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz
Prof. Dr. Klaus MezgerInstitut für Mineralogie, Universität Münster, Münster
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2000

Programme(s)

1999Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2007Alexander V. Sobolev, A.V., Hofmann, A.W., Kuzmin, D.V., Yaxley, G.M., Arndt, N.T., Chung, S.L., Danyushevsky, L.V., Elliott, T., Frey, F.A., Garcia, M.O., Gurenko, A.A., Kamenetsky, V.S., Kerr, A.C., Krivolutskaya, N.A., Matvienkov, V.V., Nikogosian, I.K., Rocholl, A., Sigurdsson, I.A., Sushchevskaya, N.M. and Mengist Teklay: The Amount of Recycled Crust in Sources of Mantle-Derived Melts.. In: Science, 2007, 412-417
2006Ulf B. Andersson, Woldai Ghebreab and Mengist Teklay: Crustal evolution and metamorphism in east-central Eritrea, south-east Arabian-Nubian Shield.. In: Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2006, 45-65
2006Mengist Teklay: Neoproterozoic arc-back-arc system analog to modern arc-back-arc systems: evidence from tholeiite-boninite association, serpentinite mud flows and across-arc geochemical trends in Eritrea: southern Arabian-Nubian Shield.. In: Precambrian Research, 2006, 81-92
2005Mengist Teklay, Yemane Asmerom and Teofilos Toulkeridis Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotope ratios in flood basalts from Eritrea: evidence for temporal progression from low-Ti tholeiitic to high-Ti alkaline flood basalts in Afro-Arabian CFB province.. In: Periodico di Mineralogia, 2005, 167-182
2003Mengist Teklay, Tewelde Haile, Alfred Kröner, Yemane Asmerom and John Watson: A back-arc palaeotectonic setting for the Augaro Neoproterozoic magmatic rocks of western Eritrea.. In: Gondwana Research, 2003, 629-640
2002Mengist Teklay, Alfred Kröner and Klaus Mezger Enrichment from plume interaction in the generation of Neoproterozoic arc rocks in northern Eritrea: implications for crustal accretion in the southern Arabian-Nubian Shield.. In: Chemical Geology, 2002, 167-184
2001Mengist Teklay, Alfred Kröner and Klaus Mezger: Geochemistry, geochronology and isotope geology of Nakfa intrusive rocks, northern Eritrea: products of a tectonically thickened Neoproterozoic arc crust.. In: Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2001, 283-301