Metamorphic Petrology Research Group

Metamorphic Petrology Research Group (MPRG) is composed of academic members
of the Institute of Petrology and Strutural Geology and their post-graduate students. Our aim is
to the study of textural and phase relations amongst minerals in metamorphic rocks.
For this purpose, we use different modern approaches, mainly description of the distribution
of elements in minerals and their behavior during metamorphosis, geospeedometry, thermodynamical modeling, etc. The results of our research should be the understanding of processes of evolution and exhumation of UHP the rocks and of geodynamics of the collision orogenic zones.

Main topics of the research

• Exhumation of UHP rocks in collision orogeny
• Eclogites and ultrahigh-pressure rocks of the Bohemian Massif
• Petrological aspects related to partial melting of granitic rocks in (U)HP conditions
• Mass balance and major and trace elements zoning in atoll garnet from eclogite facies rocks
• Record of metamorphic and metasomatic processes at the contact of the felsic and mafic rocks in HT conditions
• The Jurassic Meliata Zone (Western Carpathians)
• Basement xenolites in metagranite from Panshir Valley, Western Hindu Kush

Team leader & members

• prof. Shah Wali Faryad
• prof. František Hrouda
• Dr. Radim Jedlička
• Dr. Martin Racek
• Mgr. Jan Kulhánek (PhD student)
• Mgr. Tereza Zelinková (PhD student)
• Hezbullah Moiny (PhD student)

Selected publications

• FARYAD, S.W., BALDWIN, S.L. JEDLICKA, R. and JEŽEK, J. 2019. Two-stage garnet growth
  in coesite eclogite from the southeastern Papua New Guinea (U)HP terrane and its geodynamic significance. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. doi.10.1007/s00410-019-1612-4.
• SIZOVA, E., HAUZENBERGER, C., FRITZ, H., FARYAD, S.W. and GERYA, T. 2019. Late orogenic heating of (ultra) high-pressure: slab rollback vs. slab breakoff. Geosciences, 9(12), 499.
• FARYAD, S. W., JEDLICKA, R., HAUZENBERGER, C. RACEK, M. 2018. High-pressure crystallization vs. recrystallization origin of garnet pyroxenite-eclogite within subduction-related lithologies. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112, 603-616.

Contact

Charles University
Faculty of Scicence
prof. Ing. Shah Wali Faryad, CSc.
E: faryad@natur.cuni.cz
T: (+420) 221 951 521 

More information

https://www.natur.cuni.cz/geology/petrology/research-groups/metamorphic-petrology-research-group?set_language=en

We have an interest for motivated post graduate students interesting in petrology.

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