Dr. Paul R. Eizenhöfer

Dep. of Geosciences, University of Tübingen

Tübingen, Germany

Email:

paul-reinhold.eizenhoefer@uni-tuebingen.de

Qualifications

2015 Ph.D., The University of Hong Kong, Geology

2010 Dipl. / M.Sc., Heidelberg University, Geology & Palaeontology

Publications(Selected)

1. Cloetingh, S. Koptev, A., Kovacs, I., Gerya, T., Beniest, A., Willingshofer, E., Ehlers, T.A. Andric-Tomasevic, N., Botsyun, S., Eizenhöfer, P.R., François, T., Beekman, F. (2021). Plume-induced intra-continental foundering of lithospheric mantle: An overlooked mechanism of subduction initiation? Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems..

2. Eizenhöfer, P.R., Glotzbach C., Büttner, L., Kley, J., Ehlers, T.A. (2021). Turning the Orogenic Switch: Slab Reversal in the Eastern Alps Recorded by Low Temperature Thermochronology. Geophysical Research Letters.

3. Hou, W., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Eizenhöfer, P.R., Zhang, X., & Liu, Q. (2020). A ~2.5 Ga magmatic arc in NE China: New geochronological and geochemical evidence from the Xinghuadukou Complex. Geological Journal, 55(4), 2550-2571.

4. McQuarrie, N., Eizenhöfer, P.R., Long, S.P., Tobgay, T., Ehlers, T.A., Blythe, A., Morgan, L., Gilmore, M., Dering, G. (2019). The influence of foreland structures on hinterland cooling: evaluating the drivers of exhumation in the eastern Bhutan Himalaya. Tectonics.

5. Eizenhöfer, P.R., McQuarrie, N., Shelef, E., Ehlers, T.A. (2019). Landscape Response to Lateral Advection in Convergent Orogens over Geologic Time Scales. JGR: Earth Surface.

6. Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Zhu, Y., Wang, B., Eizenhöfer, P.R., ... & Tsui, R. W. (2019). Timing of the final closure of the middle segment of the Paleo-Asian Ocean: Insights from geochronology and geochemistry of Carboniferous–Triassic volcanosedimentary successions in western Inner Mongolia, China. Bulletin, 131(5-6), 941-965.

7. Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Zhu, Y., Wang, B., Eizenhöfer, P.R., & Zhang, X. (2019). Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the final closure of the middle segment of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. Gondwana Research, 69, 73-88.

8. Xu, B., Zhao, G., Li, J., Liu, D., Wang, B., Han, Y., Eizenhöfer, P.R., ... & Liu, Q. (2018). Ages and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from the Permian strata in the Bengbatu area (Inner Mongolia) and tectonic implications. Geoscience Frontiers.

9. Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Li, X., Zhu, Y., Eizenhöfer, P.R., ... & Tsui, R.W. (2018). Geochronology and Geochemistry of Paleozoic to Mesozoic Granitoids in Western Inner Mongolia, China: Implications for the Tectonic Evolution of the Southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. The Journal of Geology, 126(4).

10. Gilmore, M.E., McQuarrie, N., Eizenhöfer, P.R., & Ehlers, T.A. (2018). Testing the effects of topography, geometry, and kinematics on modeled thermochronometer cooling ages in the eastern Bhutan Himalaya. Solid Earth, 9(3), 599.

11. Eizenhöfer, P.R. and Zhao, G. (2018). Solonker Suture in East Asia and its bearing on the final closure of the eastern segment of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean. Earth-Science Reviews, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.09.010.

12. Zhang, X., Zhao, G., Eizenhöfer, P.R., Sun, M., Han, Y., Hou, W., ... & Xu, B. (2017). Varying Contents of Sources Affect Tectonic-Setting Discrimination of Sediments: A Case Study from Permian Sandstones in the Eastern Tianshan, Northwestern China. The Journal of Geology, 125(3), 299-316

13. Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Eizenhöfer, P.R., Zhu, Y., Hou, W., ... & Wang, B. (2017). Geochronology and geochemistry of Permian to Early Triassic granitoids in the Alxa Terrane: Constraints on the final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. Lithosphere, 9(4), 665-680.

14. Liu, Q., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Eizenhöfer, P.R., Zhu, Y., Hou, W., & Zhang, X. (2017). Timing of the final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in the Alxa Terrane: Constraints from geochronology and geochemistry of Late Carboniferous to Permian gabbros and diorites. Lithos, 274, 19-30.

15. Zhu, C. Y., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Eizenhöfer, P.R., Liu, Q., Zhang, X., ... & Hou, W. (2017). Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yilan greenschists and amphibolites in the Heilongjiang complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications. Gondwana Research, 43, 213-228.

16. Zhu, C. Y., Zhao, G., Sun, M., Han, Y., Liu, Q., Eizenhöfer, P.R., ... & Hou, W. (2017). Detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic data for meta-sedimentary rocks from the Heilongjiang Complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications. Lithos, 282, 23-32.

17. Xu, B., Zhao, G., Li, J., Liu, D., Wang, B., Han, Y., Eizenhöfer, P.R., … & Liu, Q. (2017). Ages and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from Paleozoic strata in the Chagan Obo Temple area, Inner Mongolia: Implications for the evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Gondwana Research.

18. Zhu, C. Y., Zhao, G., Ji, J., Sun, M., Han, Y., Liu, Q., Eizenhöfer, P.R., … & Hou, W. (2017). Subduction between the Jiamusi and Songliao blocks: Geological, geochronological and geochemical constraints from the Heilongjiang Complex. Lithos, 282, 128-144.

19. Zhang, X., Zhao, G., Eizenhöfer, P.R., Sun, M., Han, Y., Hou, W., ... & Xu, B. (2016). Late Ordovician adakitic rocks in the Central Tianshan block, NW China: Partial melting of lower continental arc crust during back-arc basin opening. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128(910), 1367-1382.

20. Zhang, X., Zhao, G., Eizenhöfer, P.R., Sun, M., Han, Y., Hou, W., ... & Zhu, C.Y. (2016). Tectonic transition from Late Carboniferous subduction to Early Permian post-collisional extension in the Eastern Tianshan, NW China: Insights from geochronology and geochemistry of mafic– intermediate intrusions. Lithos, 256, 269-281.

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