2025/in press
The Teplá–Barrandian unit: a fascinating archive recording >600 My of evolution of European crust
Authors: Žák J, Kraft P, Hajná J, Vacek F, Svojtka M, Kachlík V, Ackerman L, Verner K, Zulauf G, Dörr W, Tomek F, Janoušek V, Trubač J, Lehnert O, Syahputra R, Pašava J
Published: 2025 in Regional Geology Reviews (in press)
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Detrital zircon record of shutdown and migration of Cadomian volcanic arcs in the Bohemian Massif, with implications for Ediacaran to early Cambrian plate kinematics
Authors: Žák J, Svojtka M, Nance RD, Murphy JB
Published: 2025 in Precambrian Research (in press)
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Rheological inversion in high-grade metamorphic rocks: Evidence from folds, inverse folds, mullions and boudins (Bohemian Massif)
Authors: Zulauf G, Finger F, Gerdes A, Müller W, Tholen S, Žák J
Published: 2025 in Journal of Structural Geology (105339)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105339
2024
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