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Dr. Thomas Griffiths, MSc

T: +43-1-4277-54318

th.griffiths@univie.ac.at

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas-Griffiths-5

Winter term 2024

280017 VU Introduction to Crystal Optics and Microscopy of Rock-Forming Minerals

Summer term 2024

280011 VU Macroscopic Identification of Rocks - (including 2 field days)

280023 VO Petrology of Magmatic and Metamorphic Rocks

280024 UE Microscopy and Analysis of Magmatic and Metamorphic Rocks

280030 VO Geochemical Evolution of the Earth

280031 UE Quantitative geochemistry

300161 UE Interdisciplanary ecological field course

Winter term 2023

280017 VU Introduction to Crystal Optics and Microscopy of Rock-Forming Minerals

280195 PR Individual Research Project Geology, Paleobiology and Geobiology

Peres, S., Griffiths, T., Colle, F., Iannini Lelarge, S., Masotta, M., Pontesilli, A., Mancini, L., & Abart, R. (2024). Identifying crystal nucleation mechanisms in a synthetic trachybasalt: a multimodal approach. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 179(9), [84]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-024-02161-w

Kohn, V., Alifirova, T., Daneu, N., Griffiths, T., Libowitzky, E., Linner, M., Ertl, A., Abart, R., & Habler, G. (2024). Directed growth of a sector-zoned garnet in a pegmatoid from the Bohemian Massif, Austria. Lithos, 466-467.

Joachim-Mrosko, B., Konzett, J., Ludwig, T., Griffiths, T., Habler, G., Libowitzky, E., & Stalder, R. (2023). Al and H incorporation and Al-diffusion in natural rutile and its high-pressure polymorph TiO₂ (II). In V. V. Schijndel, K. Cutts, I. Pereira, M. Guitreau, S. Volante, & M. Tedeschi (Eds.), Minor Minerals, Major Implications: Using Key Mineral Phases to Unravel the Formation and Evolution of Earth's Crust (pp. 123-147). The Geological Society of London. Geological Society Special Publications Vol. 537 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6829367.v1

Peres, S., Griffiths, T., Colle, F., Iannini Lelarge, S., Masotta, M., Pontesilli, A., & Mancini, L. (2023). Discerning different nucleation mechanisms in synthetic trachybasalts: example from three Titanomagnetite populations in single experiments. Paper presented at MinWien2023, Wien, Austria.

Kohn, V., Griffiths, T., Libowitzky, E., Ageeva, O., Abart, R., & Habler, G. (2023). Petrogenetic information stored in needle-shaped rutile inclusions in pegmatoid garnet. Paper presented at MinWien2023, Wien, Austria.

un, U., Huraiova, M., Griffiths, T., Habler, G., Abart, R., Hurai, V., & un, U. (2023). Preliminary EBSD analysis and interpretation of Spinel-Olivine-Plagioclase pseudomorphs in skarnoid xenoliths from Southern Slovakia.

Schuster, R., Tiede, L., Ageeva, O., Griffiths, T., Abart, R., & Habler, G. (2023). Microstructure and texture of a spinel corona around a basalt hosted corundum xenocrystal. Journal of Petrology, 64(2), [egac130]. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egac130

Griffiths, T., Habler, G., Ageeva, O., Sutter, C., Ferrière, L., & Abart, R. (2023). The origin of lattice rotation during dendritic crystallization of clinopyroxene. Journal of Petrology, 64(1), 1-19. [egac125]. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egac125

Peres, S., Griffiths, T., Colle, F., Iannini Lelarge, S., Masotta, M., Pontesilli, A., & Mancini, L. (2023). Homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation in synthetic trachybasalts: microstructural evidence from Titanomagnetite crystals of different populations. EGU, General Assembly 2023, Wien, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-15129

Kohn, V., Alifirova, T., Daneu, N., Griffiths, T., Abart, R., & Habler, G. (2023). Nanoinclusions in apparently inclusion-free sector-zoned pegmatoid garnet – their impact on P, Ti and Na concentrations. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-4836

Rice, A. H. N., Hofmann, C., Tschegg, C., Anderson, M., Hobiger, G., & Griffiths, T. (2023). Palinspastic reconstructions constrained by sediment geochemistry; a new approach to correlating structurally dismembered lithostratigraphic units in the Caledonides of N. Scandinavia. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-2089

Griffiths, T., Habler, G., Ageeva, O., Sutter, C., Ferriere, L., & Abart, R. (2023). What is the cause of lattice rotation in clinopyroxene dendrites?. EGU, General Assembly 2023, Wien, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-9162

Sutter, C., Habler, G., Abart, R., Griffiths, T., & Ferrière, L. (2021). CURVED GROWTH OF CLINOPYROXENE DENDRITES IN A BASALTIC ROCK-PSEUDOFULGURITE. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft, 167, 148.

Kohn, V., Griffiths, T., Abart, R., & Habler, G. (2021). Microstructure and Orientation Relationships of a Garnet Host Crystal and Rutile Inclusions in a Pegmatite from the Moldanubian Zone (Bohemian Massif, AT). Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft, 167, 115.

Peres, S., Griffiths, T., Colle, F., Iannini Lelarge, S., Mancini, L., Masotta, M., & Pontesilli, A. (2021). SYNCHROTRON RADIATION MICROTOMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF A SYNTHETIC TRACHYBASALT: INSIGHTS INTO TITANOMAGNETITE NUCLEATION MECHANISMS. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft, 167, 132.

Griffiths, T., Kohn, V., Abart, R., & Habler, G. (2021). Using electron backscatter diffraction to determine the formation mechanism of mineral inclusions in garnet. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10116

Griffiths, T., Habler, G., & Abart, R. (2020). Determining the origin of inclusions in garnet: Challenges and new diagnostic criteria. American Journal of Science: an international earth science journal, 320(9), 753-789. https://doi.org/10.2475/11.2020.01

Li, C., Habler, G., Griffiths, T., Rečnik, A., Jeřábek, P., Götze, L. C., Mangler, C., Pennycook, T., Meyer, J. C., & Abart, R. (2018). Structure evolution of h.c.p./c.c.p. metal oxide interfaces in solid-state reactions. Acta Crystallographica. Section A: Foundation and Advances, 74(5), 466-480. https://doi.org/10.1107/S205327331800757X

Griffiths, T., Habler, G., & Abart, R. (2018). Inclusion formation in pegmatite garnet by oriented nucleation and intergrowth. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20, [EGU2018-15257]. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/EGU2018-15257.pdf

Li, C., Jerabek, P., Habler, G., Griffiths, T., Rečnik, A., Mangler, C., Pennycook, T., Meyer, J. C., & Abart, R. (2018). Structure of reaction interfaces and their migration during diffusive phase transformations. Geophysical Research Abstracts.

Discerning different nucleation mechanisms in synthetic trachybasalts: example from three Titanomagnetite populations in single experiments

Stefano Peres (Speaker), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Fabio Colle (Contributor), Stefano Iannini Lelarge (Contributor), Matteo Masotta (Contributor), Alessio Pontesilli (Contributor) & Lucia Mancini (Contributor)

17 Sep 2023 → 21 Sep 2023