Prof. Dr. Taras V. Gerya

Profile

Academic position	Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fields	Geophysics,Geology,Astrophysics
Keywords	numerical geodynamic modelling, plate tectonic processes, metamorphic processes, magmatic processes, planetary formation
Honours and awards	2024: EGU Augustus Love Medal 2021: AGU Francis Birch Lecture 2019: AGU Fellow 2018: Member of the Academy of Europe

Current contact address

Country	Switzerland
City	Zürich
Institution	ETH Zürich
Institute	Institut für Geophysik

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Walter Viktor Maresch	Fakultät für Geowissenschaften, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum
Start of initial sponsorship	01/04/2000

Programme(s)

1999	Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2004	Gerya, T.V., Yuen, D.A., Sevre, E.O.D. Dynamical causes for incipient magma chambers above slabs. In: Geology, 2004, 89-92
2003	Gerya, T.V., Yuen, D.A.: Characteristics-based marker-in-cell method with conservative finite-differences schemes for modeling geological flows with strongly variable transport properties. In: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2003, 295-320
2003	Gerya, T.V., Uken, R., Reinhardt, J., Watkeys, M.K., Maresch, W.V., Clarke, B.M. Cold fingers in a hot magma: numerical modeling of diapirs in the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. In: Geology, 2003, 753-756
2003	Barton, J.M.Jr., Gerya, T.V. Mylonitization and isochemical reaction of garnet: evidence for rapid deformation and entrainment of mantle garnet-harzburgite by kimberlite magma, K1 pipe, Venetia Mine, South Africa. In: South African Journal of Geology, 2003, 231-246
2003	Gerya, T.V., Yuen, D.A. Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities from hydration and melting propel 'cold plumes' at subduction zones. In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2003, 47-62
2003	Perchuk, L.L., Sazonova, L.V., van Reenen D.D., Gerya, T.V.: Ultramylonites and their significance for the understanding of the history of the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa. In: Petrology, 2003, 114-129
2002	Perchuk, L.L., Tokarev, D.A., van Reenen, D.D., Varlamov, D.A., Gerya, T.V., Sazonova L.V., Fel'dman, V.I., Smit, C.A., Brink, M.C., Bisschoff, A.A.: Dynamic and thermal history of the Vredefort explosion structure in the Kaapvaal craton, South Africa. In: Petrology, 2002, 395-432
2002	Taras V. Gerya, B. Stoeckhert, A. L. Perchuk: Exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks in a subduction channel - a numerical sumulation. In: Tectonics, 2002, 6 - 1-6 - 19
2002	Taras V. Gerya, B. Stoeckhert: Exhumation rates of high pressure metamorphic rocks in subduction channels: the effect of rheology. In: Geophys. Research Let. , 2002, 102-1-102-4
2002	A. P. Willner, E. Sebazungu, Taras V. Gerya, T. V. Maresch, A. Krohe Numerical modeling of PT-paths related to rapid exhumation of high-pressure rocks from the crustal root in the Variscan Erzgebirge Dome (Saxony/Germany). In: J. Geodynamics, 2002, 281-314
2002	Taras V. Gerya, L. L. Perchuk, M. V. Maresch, A. P. Willner, D. D. Van Reenen, C. A. Smit: Thermal regime and gravitational instability of multi-layered continental crust: implications for the buoyant exhumation of high-grade metamorphic rocks. In: European J. Mineralogy, 2002, 687-699
2001	Taras V. Gerya, W. V. Maresch, L. L. Perchuk, D. D. Van Reenen, C. A. Smit, A. P. Willner Collision and gravitational redistribution: a genetic association in granulite-facies terrains . In: Berichte der Deutschen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft - Beihefte zum European Journal of Mineralogy Vol. 13, 2001, 64
2001	Taras V. Gerya, B. Stöckhert, W. V. Maresch, A. L. Perchuk: Exhumation dynamics of high-pressure rocks in a hydrated mantle wedge: constraints from 2D numerical experiments. In: Berichte der Deutschen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft - Beihefte zum European Journal of Mineralogy Vol. 13, 2001, 64
2001	Taras V. Gerya, W. V. Maresch, A. P. Willner, D. D. Reenen, C. A. Smit: Inherent gravitational instability of thickened continental crust with regionally developed low- to medium-pressure granulite facies metamorphism. In: Earth ad Planet Sci. Lett., 2001, 221-235
2001	Taras V. Gerya, Alexey L. Perchuk, Bernhard Stöckhert: Numerical simulation of subduction zones: coupling of rheology, heat transfer, fluid budget, and phase equilibria. In: Universität Utrecht, Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology & Tectonics. Noordwijkerhout, 2001. 55
2001	Taras V. Gerya, C. A. Smit, D. D. Van Reenen, L. L. Perchuk: P-T conditions of decompression of the Limpopo high-grade terrane: record from shear zones. In: Journal of Metarmorphic Geology, 2001, 249-268