2024/in press
Formation of Ediacaran stromatolitic cherts through a combination of biogenic and abiotic processes: New insights from the Bohemian Massif
Authors: Ackerman L, Žák K, Žák J, Ďurišová J, Poitrasson F, Skála R, Pašava J, Pack A
Published: 2024 in Precambrian Research (405: 107365)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2023.105012
Magnetic multi-fabrics as tools for understanding ignimbrite emplacement processes: an example from late-Variscan Tharandter Wald Caldera, Bohemian Massif
Authors: Olšanská I, Tomek F, Chadima M, Foucher MS, Petronis MS
Published: 2024 in Journal of Structural Geology (178: 105012)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2023.105012
Magnetic fabric of OPS mélanges: a tool for unravelling protracted histories of oceanic plates from sea-floor spreading to tectonic emplacement into accretionary wedges
Authors: Pellerey L, Žák J, Tomek F, Festa A
Published: 2024 in Journal of the Geological Society (181: jgs2023-141)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2023-141
Geochemical fingerprinting of continental crust trapped in Cadomian volcanic arcs along northern Gondwana
Authors: Santolík V, Ackerman L, Kachlík V, Žák J, Sláma J, Strnad L, Trubač J
Published: 2024 in Gondwana Research (131:91-114)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2024.03.001
Late Archean sedimentary basins in the northeastern Superior Province, Canada: plume-generated crustal tears or syn-convergent accretionary belts?
Authors: Svojtka M, Žák J, Kachlík V, Ackerman L, Tomek F, Vacek F, Sláma J
Published: 2024 in Precambrian Research (406: 107386)
doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2024.107386
A complex interplay between pluton emplacement, tectonic deformation, and plate kinematics in the Cretaceous Sierra Nevada magmatic arc, California
Authors: Tomek F, Žák J, Verner K, Ježek J, Paterson SR
Published: 2024 in Tectonics (43: e2023TC007822)
doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023TC007822
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Authors: Žák J, Svojtka M, Kachlík V, Ackerman L, Tomek F, Vacek F, Sláma J
Published: 2024 in Precambrian Research (414: 107613)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2024.107613
2023
The significance of cherts as markers of Ocean Plate Stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental conditions: New insights from the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian Blovice accretionary wedge, Bohemian Massif
Authors: Ackerman K, Žák J, Kachlík V, Pašava J, Žák K, Pack A, Veselovský F, Strnad L
Published: 2023 in Geoscience Frontiers (14: 101478)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2022.101478
The late-Variscan high-temperature collisional episode in the southwestern Moldanubian Zone (Bohemian Massif)
Authors: Megerssa L, Verner K, Buriánek D, Pour O, Tomek F, Schiller D, Martínek K
Published: 2022 in International Journal of Earth Sciences (112: 631–658)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-022-02258-2
Multi-stage metal enrichment and formation of gold mineralization in black shales: the role of high heat flow in a rift setting
Authors: Pašava J, Ackerman L, Žák J, Svojtka M, Magna T, Pour O, Trubač J, Veselovský F
Published: 2023 in Mineralium Deposita (58: 1051–1073)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-023-01169-9
Analysis of fracturing processes leading to caldera collapse
Authors: Somr M, Žák J, Kabele P, Tomek F
Published: 2023 in Earth-Science Reviews (241: 104413)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104413
Hot plutonism in a cold accretionary wedge: what terminated the Cadomian orogeny at the northern periphery of Gondwana?
Authors: Syahputra R, Žák J, Tomek F, Kachlík V
Published: 2023 in Precambrian Research (390: 107041)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107041
On the anatomy and structural control of a dyke swarm that fed caldera-forming ignimbrite eruptions
Authors: Tomek F, Olšanská I, Trubač J, Černý J, Rejšek J, Ackerman L
Published: 2023 in Journal of the Geological Society (180: jgs2022-119)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-119
Dynamics of Cambro–Ordovician rifting of the northern margin of Gondwana as revealed by the timing of subsidence and magmatism in rift-related basins
Authors: Žák J, Sláma J, Syahputra R, Nance RD
Published: 2023 in International Geology Review (65: 3004–3027)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2023.2172619
In search of the Rheic suture: detrital zircon geochronology of Neoproterozoic to Lower Paleozoic metasedimentary units in the Balkan fold-and-thrust belt in Bulgaria
Authors: Žák J, Svojtka M, Gerdjikov I, Vangelov DA, Kounov A, Sláma J, Kachlík V
Published: 2023 in Gondwana Research (121: 196–214)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2023.04.010
Exploring the link between spatiotemporal patterns of plutonism and geodynamic regimes at the end of Archean: an example from the northeastern Superior Province, Canada
Authors: Žák J, Svojtka M, Sláma J, Tomek F, Kachlík V, Ackerman L, Vacek F, Trubač J
Published: 2023 in Precambrian Research (392: 107073)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107073
2022
The diversity of sources of late Archean granites reflects a transition from plume-dominated to plate tectonics in the Superior Province, Canada
Authors: Ackerman K, Žák J, Kachlík V, Svojtka M, Tomek F, Santolík V, Sláma J, Trubač J, Strnad L, Vacek F
Published: 2022 in Precambrian Research (370: 106525)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106525
Carbon, oxygen, and strontium isotopic fingerprint in Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian limestones in an active margin setting: A record of local environment or global changes?
Authors: Ackerman K, Žák J, Žák K, Pašava J, Kachlík V, Hora J, Veselovský F, Hajná J
Published: 2022 in Precambrian Research (370: 106538)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106538
Ultrahigh-temperature granites and a curious thermal eye in the post-collisional South Bohemian batholith of the Variscan orogenic belt (Europe)
Authors: Finger F, Schiller D, Lindner M, Hauzenberger C, Verner K, Žák J
Published: 2022 in Geology (50: 542–546)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G49645.1
The supercontinent cycle and Earth’s long-term climate
Authors: Nance, RD
Published: 2022 in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1515: 33–49)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14849
Petrogenesis of low-pressure intra-oceanic arc granitoids: Insights from the late Neoproterozoic Avalonian–Cadomian orogen, Bohemian Massif
Authors: Santolík V, Ackerman L, Kachlík V, Sláma J, Mészárosová N
Published: 2022 in Lithos (428–429: 106808)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2021.10.004
Cambrian sedimentary basins of northern Gondwana as geodynamic markers of incipient opening of the Rheic Ocean
Authors: Syahputra R, Žák J, Nance RD
Published: 2022 in Gondwana Research (105: 492-513)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2021.10.004
Magnetic fabrics of rhyolite ignimbrites reveal complex emplacement dynamics of pyroclastic density currents, an example from the Altenberg–Teplice Caldera, Bohemian Massif
Authors: Vitouš P, Tomek F, Petronis MS
Published: 2022 in Bulletin of Volcanology (84: 75)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2021.10.004
Altenberg–Teplice Caldera sourced Westphalian fall tuffs in the central and western Bohemian Carboniferous basins (eastern Variscan belt)
Authors: Tomek F, Opluštil S, Svojtka M, Špillar V, Rapprich V, Míková J
Published: 2022 in International Geology Review (64: 441-468)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2020.1858357
The Balkan terranes: a missing link between the eastern and western segments of the Avalonian–Cadomian orogenic belt?
Authors: Žák J, Svojtka M, Gerdjikov I, Kounov A, Vangelov DA
Published: 2022 in International Geology Review (64: 2389-2415)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2020.1861486
2021
Arc-related black shales as sedimentary archives of sea-level fluctuations and plate tectonics during the late Neoproterozoic: an example from the Bohemian Massif
Authors: Ackerman L, Pašava J, Žák J, Žák K, Kachlík V, Šebek O, Trubač J, Svojtka M, Veselovský F, Strnad L, Santolík V
Published: 2021 in Marine and Petroleum Geology (123: 104713)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104713
Pannotia: in defence of its existence and geodynamic significance
Authors: Murphy JB, Nance RD, Cawood PA, Collins JW, Dan W, Doucet LS, Heron PJ, Li ZX, Mitchell RN, Pisarevsky S, Pufahl PK, Quesada C, Spencer CJ, Strachan RA, Wu L
Published: 2021 in Murphy RB, Strachan RA, Quesada C (Eds.) Pannotia to Pangaea: Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic Orogenic Cycles in the Circum-Atlantic Region. Geological Society, London, Special Publications (503: SP503-2020-96)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1144/sp503-2020-96
Elemental and isotopic compositions of trench-slope black shales, Bohemian Massif, with implications for oceanic and atmospheric oxygenation in early Cambrian
Authors: Pašava J, Ackerman L, Žák J, Veselovský F, Creaser RA, Svojtka M, Luais B, Pour O, Šebek O, Trubač J, Vosáhlová E, Cividini D
Published: 2021 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (564: 110195)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110195
No more blind dates with calcite: fluid-flow vs fault-slip along the Očkov thrust, Prague Basin
Authors: Roberts NMW, Žák J, Vacek F, Sláma J
Published: 2021 in Geoscience Frontiers (12: 101143)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2021.101143
Distributed crustal shortening followed by transpressional shearing in the Superior Province, northeastern Canada: a Late Archean analogy to modern accretionary plate margins?
Authors: Žák J, Tomek F, Svojtka M, Vacek F, Kachlík V, Ackerman L, Ježek J, Petronis MS
Published: 2021 in Precambrian Research (362: 106322)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106322
2020
Magmatic tempos in large hot orogens in comparison with continental margin arcs
Authors: Trubač J, Žák J, Kondrová L
Published: 2020 in Journal of Geology (128: 465–475)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/711346
Detrital zircon geochronology and processes in accretionary wedges
Authors: Žák J, Svojtka M, Hajná J, Ackerman L
Published: 2020 in Earth-Science Reviews (207: 103214)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103214
2019
Architecture and composition of ocean floor subducted beneath northern Gondwana during Neoproterozoic to Cambrian: a palinspastic reconstruction based on Ocean Plate Stratigraphy (OPS)
Authors: Ackerman L, Hajná J, Žák J, Erban V, Sláma J, Polák L, Kachlík V, Strnad L, Trubač J
Published: 2019 Gondwana Research (76: 77–97)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2019.07.001
A giant late Precambrian chert-bearing olistostrome discovered in the Bohemian Massif: a record of Oceanic Plate Stratigraphy (OPS) disrupted by mass-wasting along an outer trench slope
Authors: Hajná J, Žák J, Ackerman L, Svojtka M, Pašava J
Published: 2019 in Gondwana Research (74: 173–188)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2018.10.010
Deciphering the Late Paleozoic to Mesozoic tectonosedimentary evolution of the northern Bohemian Massif from detrital zircon geochronology and heavy mineral provenance
Authors: Nádaskay R, Žák J, Sláma J, Sidorinová T, Valečka J
Published: 2019 in International Journal of Earth Sciences (108: 2653–2681)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-019-01781-z
A review of mesoscopic magmatic structures and their potential for evaluating the hypersolidus evolution of intrusive complexes
Authors: Paterson SR, Ardill K, Vernon RH, Žák J
Published: 2019 in Journal of Structural Geology (125: 997–1016)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2018.04.022
Emplacement dynamics of syn-collapse ring dikes: an example from the Altenberg–Teplice caldera, Bohemian Massif
Authors: Tomek F, Žák J, Svojtka M, Finger F, Waitzinger M
Published: 2019 in Geological Society of America Bulletin (131: 997–1016)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B35019.1
Protracted multipulse emplacement of a post-resurgent pluton: the case of Platoro caldera complex (Southern Rocky Mountain volcanic field, Colorado)
Authors: Tomek F, Gilmer AK, Petronis MS, Lipman PW, Foucher MS
Published: 2019 in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (20: 5225–5250)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008477
Polykinematic foreland basins initiated during orthogonal convergence and terminated by orogen-oblique strike-slip faulting: an example from the northeastern Variscan belt
Authors: Tomek F, Vacek F, Žák J, Petronis MS, Verner K, Foucher MS
Published: 2019 in Tectonophysics (766: 379–397)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.05.023
A lifetime of the Variscan orogenic plateau from uplift to collapse as recorded by the Prague Basin, Bohemian Massif
Authors: Vacek F, Žák J
Published: 2019 in Geological Magazine (156: 485–509)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756817000875
Complex mid-crustal flow within a growing granite– migmatite dome: an example from the Variscan belt illustrated by the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and fabric modeling
Authors: Žák J, Verner K, Ježek J, Trubač J
Published: 2019 in Geological Journal (54: 3681–3699)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3335
2018-2014
2018
Žák J, Svojtka M, Opluštil S (2018) Topographic inversion and changes in the sediment routing systems in the Variscan orogenic belt as revealed by detrital zircon and monazite U–Pb geochronology in post-collisional continental basins Sedimentary Geology 377: 63–81
Hajná J, Žák J, Dörr W, Kachlík V, Sláma J (2018) New constraints from detrital zircon ages on prolonged, multiphase transition from the Cadomian accretionary orogen to a passive margin of Gondwana Precambrian Research 317: 159–178
Žák J, Sláma J (2018) How far did the Cadomian ʽterranesʼ travel from Gondwana during Early Paleozoic? A critical reappraisal based on detrital zircon geochronology International Geology Review 60: 313–338
2017
Hajná J, Žák J, Dörr W (2017) Time scales and mechanisms of growth of active margins of Gondwana: a model based on detrital zircon ages from the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian Blovice accretionary complex, Bohemian Massif Gondwana Research 42: 63–83
Kabele P, Žák J, Somr M (2017) Finite element modeling of magma chamber–host rock interactions prior to caldera collapse Geophysical Journal International 209: 1851–1865
Tomek F, Žák J, Verner K, Holub FV, Sláma J, Paterson SR, Memeti V (2017) Mineral fabrics in high-level intrusions recording crustal strain and volcano-tectonic interactions: the Shellenbarger pluton, Sierra Nevada, California Journal of the Geological Society, London 174: 193–208
Trubač J, Janoušek V, Žák J, Somr M, Kabele P, Švancara J, Gerdes A, Žáčková E (2017) Origin of reverse compositional and textural zoning in granite plutons by localized thermal overturn of stratified magma chambers Lithos 277:315–336
Žák J, Sláma J, Burjak M (2017) Rapid extensional unroofing of a granite–migmatite dome with relics of high-pressure rocks, the Podolsko complex, Bohemian Massif Geological Magazine 154: 354–380
Žák J, Verner K, Tomek F, Johnson K, Schwartz JJ (2017) Magnetic fabrics of arc plutons reveal a significant Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous change in the relative plate motions of the Pacific Ocean basin and North America
Geosphere 13:11–21
2016
Paterson SR, Memeti V, Mundil R, Žák J (2016) Repeated, multiscale, magmatic erosion and recycling in an upper-crustal pluton: implications for magma chamber dynamics and magma volume estimates American Mineralogist 101: 2176–2198
Faryad SW, Kachlík V, Sláma J, Jedlička R (2016) Coincidence of gabbro and granulite formation and their implication for Variscan HT metamorphism in the Moldanubian Zone (Bohemian Massif), example from the Kutná Hora Complex Lithos 264: 56–69
Faryad SW, Žák J (2016) High-pressure granulites of the Podolsko complex, Bohemian Massif: an example of crustal rocks that were subducted to mantle depths and survived a pervasive mid-crustal high-temperature overprint Lithos 246–247: 246–260
Opluštil S, Schmitz M, Kachlík V, Štamberg S (2016) Re-assessment of lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and volcanic activity of the Late Paleozoic Intra-Sudetic, Krkonoše-Piedmont and Mnichovo Hradiště basins (Czech Republic) based on new U-Pb CA-ID-TIMS ages Bulletin of Geosciences volume 91: 399–432
Tomek F, Žák J, Holub FV, Chlupáčová M, Verner K (2016) Growth of intra-caldera lava domes controlled by various modes of caldera collapse, the Štiavnica volcano–plutonic complex, Western Carpathians Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 313: 183–197
2015
Johnson K, Schwartz JJ, Žák J, Verner K, Barnes CG, Walton C, Wooden JL, Wright JE, Kistler RW (2015) Composite Sunrise Butte pluton: insights into Jurassic–Cretaceous collisional tectonics and magmatism in the Blue Mountains Province, northeastern Oregon Geological Society of America Special Paper 513: 377–398
Žák J, Verner K, Tomek F, Holub FV, Johnson K, Schwartz JJ (2015) Simultaneous batholith emplacement, terrane/continent collision, and oroclinal bending in the Blue Mountains Province, North American Cordillera Tectonics 34: 1107–1128
Tomek F, Žák J, Chadima M (2015) Granitic magma emplacement and deformation during early-orogenic syn-convergent transtension: the Staré Sedlo complex, Bohemian Massif Journal of Geodynamics 87: 50–66
Faryad SW, Kachlík V, Sláma J, Hoinkes G (2015) Implication of corona formation in a metatroctolite to the granulite facies overprint of HP-UHP rocks in the Moldanubian zone (Bohemian Massif) Journal of Metamorphic Geology 33: 295–310
2014
Hajná J, Žák J, Kachlík V (2014) Growth of accretionary wedges and pulsed ophiolitic mélange formation by successive subduction of trench-parallel volcanic elevations Terra Nova 26: 322–329
Tomek F, Žák J, Chadima M (2014) Magma flow paths and strain patterns in magma chambers growing by floor subsidence: a model based on magnetic fabric study of shallow-level plutons in the Štiavnica volcano–plutonic complex, Western Carpathians Bulletin of Volcanology 76, Article No. 873
Trubač J, Žák J, Chlupáčová M, Janoušek V (2014)Magnetic fabric and modeled strain distribution in the head of a nested granite diapir, the Melechov pluton, Bohemian Massif Journal of Structural Geology 66: 271–283
Verner K, Žák J, Šrámek J, Paclíková J, Zavřelová A, Machek M, Finger F, Johnson K (2014) Formation of elongated granite–migmatite domes as isostatic accommodation structures in collisional orogens Journal of Geodynamics 73: 100–117
Žák J, Verner K, Janoušek V, Holub FV, Kachlík V, Finger F, Hajná J, Tomek F, Vondrovic L, Trubač J (2014) A plate-kinematic model for the assembly of the Bohemian Massif constrained by structural relations around granitoid plutons Geological Society, London, Special Publications 405: 169–196