Research Interests
Structural reconstruction of the Zone of Erbendorf/Vohenstrauß
(ZEV) using three-dimensional modelling software. The Mesozoic tectonic
history of the region was removed incrementally to discern the post-Variscan
state of the ZEV. Specifically, the following stages were modelled;
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Neogene block faulting
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Upper Cretaceous transpression (see
Tanner et al. 1998; Sp. Publ. of Geol. Soc. London 135,
275-287)
3D structural reconstruction of the Northern Calcareous Alps and the Dolomites.
This project has just begun and is part of the Transalp Project.
Using structural and petrological tools to understand the features and
properties of migmatites. This work has concentrated on the migmatites
of the Moldanubian gneisses of the Oberpfälzer Wald (Western Bohemian
Massif). I have published the following papers on this subject;
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Tanner & Behrmann 1997: A study of strain
and partial melt transfer in a banded migmatite. Journal of Structural
Geology 19/11,1405-1417.
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Tanner 1999: The scale-invariant nature of
migmatite from the Oberpfalz, NE Baravia and its implications for melt
transport Tectonophysics 302/3-4, 297-306.
Dissertation
My doctoral dissertation, accepted by the Faculty of Natural Science, Gießen
University, Germany in December 1995, was entitled "Strukturen und Gefüge
in hochgradig metamorphen Gneisen der mittleren Oberpfälz und Westböhmens"
(Structure and textures of the high-grade metamorphic gneisses of the middle
Oberpfälz and western Bohemia). It is now published under the same
name as part of the "Gießener Geologische Schriften" (Nr.57,
175pp, 1996. Lenz-Verlag, Gießen; ISSN 0340-0654).
I have published many of the results of my dissertation as separate papers;
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Tanner& Behrmann 1995: The
Variscan tectonics of the Moldanubian gneisses, Oberpfälzer Wald:
a compressional history. - N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh.197:
331-355
This paper summarises the major structural history of the Moldanubiananddiscusses
the tectonic implications.
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Schuster & Tanner 1995: Excursion to the northern and middle part of
the Oberpfälzer Wald/NE Bayern - deformation and metamorphism of the
Moldanubian. Zbl. Geol. Paläont. Teil 1.H. 5/6, 591-605
This paper concentrates on the metabasite quarries at Winklarn and
Niedermurach and other outcrops which demonstrate the metamorphic and structural
history of the Moldanubian.
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Behrmann & Tanner 1997: Carboniferous tectonics of the Variscan basement
collage in eastern Bavaria and western Bohemia. Geol Rundschau
S86,15-27.
This paper summarises the Carboniferous history of the central Variscan
units and quantifies the volume of late Variscan granites that intruded
the area.
Some offprints are still available.