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1974
Affiliations
University of Johannesburg(Current)
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
University of the Witwatersrand
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Institut für Sonnenphysik
Axel Hofmann is an author at University of Johannesburg specializing in engineering, geology, and earth science.
Top concepts
EngineeringEarth ScienceGeologyGeochemistryTectonicsPetrologyGeochronologyGeographyMarine GeologySedimentology
Publications per year
1974–2024
Iron Formation: The Sedimentary Product of a Complex Interplay among Mantle, Tectonic, Oceanic, and Biospheric Processes
Andrey Bekker, John F. Slack, Noah J. Planavsky et al. · Economic Geology · 2010 · 960 citations
Alteration and geochemical patterns in the 3.7–3.8 Ga Isua greenstone belt, West Greenland
Ali Polat, Axel Hofmann · Precambrian Research · 2003 · 854 citations
Geochemical Anomaly, Engineering, Paleoenvironmental Change +8
Boninite-like volcanic rocks in the 3.7–3.8 Ga Isua greenstone belt, West Greenland: geochemical evidence for intra-oceanic subduction zone processes in the early Earth
Ali Polat, Axel Hofmann, Minik T. Rosing · Chemical Geology · 2002 · 854 citations
Early Earth, Geochemical Evidence, Volcanology +8
Precambrian crustal components, plutonic associations, plate environment of the Hercynian Fold Belt of central Europe: Indications from a Nd and Sr isotopic study
T. C. Liew, Axel Hofmann · Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology · 1988 · 753 citations
Engineering, Continental Tectonics, Central Europe +7
Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event
Noah J. Planavsky, Dan Asael, Axel Hofmann et al. · Nature Geoscience · 2014 · 594 citations
Biosignature, Biogeochemistry, Photochemistry +9
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