Publications
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

(Co) Author: Thomas, R.
(since 2005) [ All ]

























  • Thomas, R. (2009): Book review : Pegmatites by David London, publ. by the Mineralogical Association of Canada. Gems & Gemology, 45, 1, 52-52.
















  • Anderson, A. J.; Wirth, R.; Thomas, R. (2007): The alteration of zircon and its role in the remobilization of high field strength elements in the Georgeville granite, Nova Scotia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71, 15, Suppl. 1, A26.




















  • Trinkler, M.; Monecke, T.; Thomas, R. (2005): Constraints on the genesis of yellow fluorite in hydrothermal barite-fluorite veins of the Erzgebirge, Eastern Germany: Evidence from optical absorption spectroscopy, rare earth element data, and fluid inclusion investigations.. Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 3, 883-898.








  • Müller, A.; Thomas, R. J. (2009): Wachstumsstrukturen und chemische Zonierung von Quarz - ein Archiv der Magmenentwicklung spät-Herzynischer Granite und Rhyolithe des Erzgebirges. Zeitschrift für geologische Wissenschaften, 37, 4-5, 319-341.

  • Thomas, R. (2009): What can melt and fluid inclusion tell us about pegmatite-forming processes?. Estudos Geológicos, 19, 2, 15-19.



  • Thomas, R.; Davidson, P. (2008): Water and melt/melt immiscibility, the essential components in the formation of pegmatites; evidence from melt inclusions. Zeitschrift für geologische Wissenschaften, 36, 347-364.





  • Thomas, R.; Davidson, P. (2006): Progress in the determination of water in glasses and melt inclusions with Raman spectroscopy: A short review. Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaften, 34, 3-4, 159-163.







  • Gilg, H. A.; Thomas, R. (2011): The inside story of topaz. - In: Staebler, G.; Hansen, S.; Liebetrau, S.; Clifford, J. (Eds.), extraLapis No. 14: Topaz - Perfect Cleavage, 88-93.


  • Thomas, R. (2009): Freunde und Kollegen über Felix Grigorievich Reif. - In: Reif, F. G. (Eds.), Die Bedingungen und Mechanismen der Bildung granitischer Erz-Magmen-Systeme. Ausgewählte wissenschaftliche Arbeiten., Kremenetsky, 475-476.




  • Thomas, R.; Webster, J. D.; Davidson, P. (2006): Understanding pegmatite formation: The melt and fluid inclusion approach.. - In: Webster, J. D. (Eds.), Melt inclusions in plutonic rocks, Mineralogical Association of Canada, 189-210.

  • Webster, J. D.; Thomas, R. (2006): Silicate melt inclusions in felsic plutons: A synthesis and review.. - In: Webster, J. D. (Eds.), Melt inclusions in plutonic rocks, Mineralogical Association of Canada, 165-188.




  • Badanina, E. V.; Thomas, R.; Syritso, L. F. (2010): Contribution to understanding the genesis of ore-bearing rare-metal granites based on the melt and fluid inclusions study. Asian Current Research on Fluid Inclusions, 3rd Biennial Conference Asian Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ACROFI III) & XIV International Conference on Thermobarogeochemistry (TBG XIV) (Novosibirsk, Russia 2010), 20-21.

  • Badanina, E. V.; Thomas, R.; Syritso, L. F. (2010): Possible mechanisms for the trace elements concentration during the evolution of volatile-saturated granitoid magmas. IMA 2010 - 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association (Budapest, Hungary 2010), 612.

  • Borisova, A. Y.; Thomas, R.; Courtieu, C.; Guillaume, D.; Salvi, S. (2010): Boron, Rare-Metal (Li, Be, V, Zn, Ga, Rb, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb, Cd, Sn, Cs, Ba, REE, Ta, Pb, Th, U) and Metalloid (As, Sb) Concentrations in Melt Inclusions by in-situ Femtosecond LA-ICP-MS: Evidence for Extreme Enrichment and Heterogeneity of Peraluminous Melts. 13th International Conference on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry (EMPG) (Toulouse, France 2010).

  • Lukkari, S.; Thomas, R. (2010): The presence of two mutually immiscible melts during the late-stage crystallization of the Kymi topaz granite stock, Finland: evidence from melt and fluid inclusions. IMA 2010 - 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association (Budapest, Hungary 2010), 524.

  • Thomas, R.; Davidson, P. (2010): Fluid and melt inclusion: windows to hidden pegmatite-forming processes. IMA 2010 - 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association (Budapest, Hungary 2010), 604.





  • Badanina, E. V.; Syritso, L. F.; Thomas, R. (2008): Melt inclusions are the key for improvement of genetic conceptions for ore-bearing rare metal granites. Proceedings, 2nd Meeting of Asian current Research on Fluid Inclusions - ACROFI-2 (Kharagpur, India 2008), 19-21.

  • Badanina, E. V.; Tolmacheva, E. V.; Syritso, L. F.; Thomas, R.; Volkova, E. V. (2008): Reconstruction of mineral forming environments and formation conditions of volcano-plutonic association Sherlovaya Gora ore unit in East Transbaikalia: a case of melt and fluid inclusions in quartz. 13th All-Russian conference on thermobarogeochemistry in conjunction with the 4th APIFIS symposium (Moscow, Russia 2008), 78-81.


  • Thomas, R.; Davidson, P. (2008): Water and melt/melt immiscibility, the essential components in the formation of pegmatites. 13th All-Russian conference on thermobarogeochemistry in conjunction with the 4th APIFIS symposium (Moscow, Russia 2008), 176-179.



  • Thomas, R.; Davidson, P. (2007): The formation of granitic pegmatites from the viewüoint of melt and fluid inclusions and new experimental work. 'Granitic Pegmatites : the State of the Art' International Symposium (Porto, Portugal 2007), 13-16.





  • Naumov, V.; Kamenetsky, V.; Thomas, R. (2006): A record of alkali silicate-sulphate melts trapped as inclusions in chromium diopside (Inagly deposit, Yakutia, Russia).. 1st Meeting Asian Current Research on Fluid Inclusions ( (ACROFI I) (Nanjing 2006), 148-149.


  • Thomas, R. (2006): Progress in the determination of water in glasses and melt inclusions with Raman spectroscopy.. 1st Meeting Asian Current Research on Fluid Inclusions ( (ACROFI I) (Nanjing 2006), 227-229.


  • Veksler, I. V.; Schmidt, C.; Thomas, R. (2006): Phase equilibria in the peralkaline portion of the Na2O-K2O-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O system up to 1.2 GPa. AGU, GS, MAS, MSA, SEG, and UGM Joint Assembly (Baltimore, Maryland 2006).


  • Rickers, K.; Thomas, R.; Heinrich, W. (2005): The chemical evolution of a water-, B- and F-rich granite-pegmatite system related to a Sn-W mineralization: a melt/fluid inclusion study. 18th European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI) (Siena 2005).

  • Romer, R. L.; Thomas, R. (2005): U-Pb dating of micro-inclusions: The age of the Ehrenfriedersdorf tin deposit (Erzgebirge, Germany).. Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge : Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial SGA Meeting, Beijing, China, 18 - 21 August 2005, 8th Biennial SGA Meeting (Beijing, China 2005), 817-820.


  • Veksler, I. V.; Thomas, R.; Schmidt, C. (2005): Phase equilibria in the peralkaline portion of the system Na2O-K2O-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O up to 1.2 Gpa. PERALK 2005, Workshop on Peralkaline Rocks (Tübingen 2005).




  • Lukkari, S.; Thomas, R.; Haapala, I. (2007): Magmatic evolution of the Kymi topaz granite stock within the Wiborg rapakivi granite batholith, Finland: a melt inclusion study. Publications of the Department of Geology D12, University of Helsinki.