Professor Dr Gregor Markl

Gregor Markl works on transport and enrichment phenomena in the the Earth's crust during magmatic, metamorphic or hydrothermal processes. These topics are investigated using a combination of field work with thermodynamic modelling and state-of-the-art major, trace and isotope geochemical analytical methods applied to rocks and (paleo)fluids. In recent years, the petrology and geochemistry of alkali-rich magmatic rocks and the mineralogy and geochemistry of hydrothermal ore deposits have become his major foci of scientific interest and his group is at the moment the world-wide leading one for the petrologial-geochemical analysis and understanding of peralkaline magmatites which may show an enormous enrichment of rare metals such as niobium, zirconium, tantalum or the Rare Earth Elements. Markl has published more than 100 contributions to international scientific journals and wrote a scientific textbook, a book for children on the evolution of the Earth, a book on the history of mining in the Schwarzwald of Southern Germany and a book on the uranium deposit Menzenschwand.