Andreas Ertl, Dr. rer. nat. (Sc.D.)

 

Vienna, 2009

 

Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie

Room 2B348

Geozentrum – Universität Wien

Althanstrasse 14

1090 Vienna

Austria

Phone: +43/1/4277/53257

 

 

 

Research Interests:

Mineralogy; crystallography and crystal chemistry; X-ray diffractometry; crystal chemistry of tourmaline, boron-rich minerals, manganese oxides/hydroxides, sulfosalts.

 

 

Tourmaline (olenite) with tetrahedrally-coordinated boron:

 

Colorless boron-rich olenite with the formula:   Zoned Fe-bearing B-rich olenite from Koralpe,

(Na0.4 Ca0.3[]0.3) (Al2.4 Li0.4[]0.2) Al6 (BO3)3       Styria, Koralpe

(Si4.9 B0.8 Al0.3 O18) (OH)3 [O0.6(OH)0.3F0.1]

 

 

                        Eo-alpine Pegmatite (with bluish-greenish boron-rich olenite) crosscuts a mylonitic

garnet-bearing micaschist.

                        Locality: Koralpe, Styria, Austria.

 

 

 

Most important publications (Last update: Jan., 19th, 2012)

 

1994

Ertl, A., Libowitzky, E. & Pertlik, F. (1994): Chemische und röntgenographische Untersuchungen an Eskimoit (~Ag7Pb10Bi15S36) und Heyrovskyit (~AgPb10Bi5S18) vom „Rauriser Goldberg“, Hüttwinkeltal, Land Salzburg. Mitt. Österr. Miner. Ges., 139, 135-142, Wien.        http://members.a1.net/andreas.ertl/ertl_et_al.(1994).pdf

1995

Ertl, A. (1995): Elbait, Olenit, Dravit-Buergerit-Mischkristalle, Dravit, Uvit und ein neuer Al-Turmalin (?) von österreichischen Fundstellen. Mitt. Österr. Miner. Ges., 140, 55-72, Wien.

1997

Ertl, A., Pertlik, F. & Bernhardt, H.-J. (1997): Investigations on olenite with excess boron from the Koralpe, Styria, Austria. Österr. Akad. Wiss., Math.-naturw. Kl., Abt. I, Anzeiger, 134, 3-10, Wien. http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/buecher/files/1997/pdffile/01-A05I.pdf  http://webmineral.com/specimens/picshow.php?id=%20859

1998

Ertl, A. & Brandstätter, F. (1998): Olenit mit Borüberschuß aus einem Metapegmatit östlich der Stoffhütte, Koralpe, Steiermark, Österreich. Mitt. Abt. Miner. Landesmuseum Joanneum, 62/63, 3-21, Graz. http://members.a1.net/andreas.ertl/ertl&brandstätter(1998).pdf

Ertl, A. & Pertlik, F. (1998): Replacement of silicon by boron in the tetrahedral positions of phyllosilicate structures. Scripta Fac. Sci. Nat. Univ. Masaryk. Brun., 26 (1996), 67-68, Brno. (Scripta Facultatis Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis)    http://members.a1.net/andreas.ertl/ertl&pertlik(1998).pdf

1999

Bernhardt, H.-J., Brandstätter, F., Ertl, A., Körner, W., Mikenda, W. & Pertlik, F. (1999): Untersuchungen an einem borhaltigen Muskovit-2M1 von der Koralpe, Steiermark. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 100 A (1998), 1-11, Wien. http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/d/verlag/annalenA.html

http://members.a1.net/andreas.ertl/bernhardt_et_al.(1999).pdf

Ertl, A. (1999): Nachruf auf Hofrat Dr. Peter Beck-Mannagetta. Mitt. Österr. Geol. Ges., 90 (1997), 207-212, Wien. http://www.geol-ges.at/mitt-90.htm http://members.a1.net/andreas.ertl/ertl(1999).pdf

2000

Ertl, A. & Heede, H.-U. (2000): Haben einige Eklogite der Typuslokalität in der Sau- und Koralpe außer der eo-Alpinen Metamorphose auch eine permische und eine variszische Metamorphose erlebt? Mitt. Abt. Miner. Landesmuseum Joanneum, 64/65, 5-22, Graz.   http://members.a1.net/andreas.ertl/ertl&heede(2000).pdf

Hughes, J.M., Ertl, A., Dyar, M.D., Grew, E.S., Shearer, C.K., Yates, M.G. & Guidotti, C.V. (2000): Tetrahedrally coordinated boron in a tourmaline: boron-rich olenite from Stoffhütte, Koralpe, Austria. Can. Mineral., 38, 861-868. http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/mineral/86138-4.html http://webmineral.com/specimens/picshow.php?id=%20859

Ertl, A. (2000): Druckabschätzungen in Metabasiten und Metapeliten mittels des Pyropanteiles in Granaten (engl. transl.: Pressure determination from metabasites and metapelites by using the pyrope component of garnets). 21 pp., Eigenverlag, Wien. http://members.a1.net/andreas.ertl/ertl(2000).pdf

2001

Ertl, A., Hughes, J.M. & Marler, B. (2001): Empirical formulae for the calculation of <T-O> and X-O2 bond lengths in tourmaline and relations to tetrahedrally-coordinated boron. N. Jb. Miner. Mh., 2001(12), 548-557.

Kalt, A., Schreyer, W., Ludwig, T., Prowatke, S., Bernhardt, H.-J. & Ertl, A. (2001): Complete solid solution between magnesian schorl and lithian excess-boron olenite in a pegmatite from Koralpe (eastern Alps, Austria). Eur. J. Mineral., 13, 1191-1205. 

            http://hermia.ingentaselect.com/vl=8506372/cl=37/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/linker?ini=schweiz&reqidx=/cw/schweiz/09351221/v13n6/s18/p1191

2002

Ertl, A. & Hughes, J.M. (2002): The crystal structure of an aluminum-rich schorl overgrown by boron-rich olenite from Koralpe, Styria, Austria. Mineral. Petrol., 75, 1-2, 69-78. http://springerlink.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=cbflykxvmq6j8u1trg3h&referrer=parent&backto=issue,4,8;journal,15,29;linkingpublicationresults,1:105515,1

Ertl, A., Hughes, J.M., Pertlik, F., Foit F.F. Jr., Wright, S.E., Brandstätter, F. & Marler, B. (2002): Polyhedron distortions in tourmaline. Can. Mineral., 40, 153-162. http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/mineral/tcm-15340-1.html

Marler, B. & Ertl, A. (2002): Nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopic study of excess-boron olenite from Koralpe, Styria, Austria. Am. Mineral., 87, 364-367. http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/TOC/Abstracts/2002_Abstracts/FM02_Abstracts/Marler_p364_02.pdf

Schreyer, W., Hughes, J.M., Bernhardt, H.-J., Kalt, A., Prowatke, S. & Ertl, A. (2002): Reexamination of olenite from the type locality: detection of boron in tetrahedral coordination. Eur. J. Mineral., 2002, 14, 935-942. http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/ExpandTOC/ingenta?issue=pubinfobike://schweiz/ejm/2002/00000014/00000005&index=8

2003

Pertlik, F., Ertl, A., Körner, W., Brandstätter, F. & Schuster, R. (2003): Na-rich dravite in the marbles from Friesach, Carinthia, Austria: Chemistry and crystal structure. N. Jb. Miner. Mh., 2003(6), 277-288. http://titania.ingentaselect.com/vl=9499528/cl=16/nw=1/rpsv/cw/schweiz/00283649/v2003n6/s3/p277

Ertl, A., Hughes, J.M., Prowatke, S., Rossman, G.R., London, D. & Fritz, E.A. (2003):  Mn-rich tourmaline from Austria: structure, chemistry, optical spectra, and relations to synthetic solid solutions. Am. Mineral., 88, 1369-1376. http://pegmatopia.ou.edu/Recent%20Publications/docs/Mn-rich%20tourmaline%20Am%20Min.pdf  http://minerals.gps.caltech.edu/Manuscripts/2003/Austrian_Mn_olenite/Index.htm

Prowatke, S., Ertl, A. & Hughes, J.M. (2003): Tetrahedrally-coordinated Al in Mn-rich, Li- and Fe-bearing olenite from Eibenstein an der Thaya, Lower Austria: A chemical and structural investigation. N. Jb. Miner. Mh., 2003(9), 385-395. http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/ExpandTOC/ingenta?issue=pubinfobike://schweiz/njmm/2003/00002003/00000009&index=1

Ertl, A., Hughes, J.M., Brandstätter, F., Dyar, M.D. & Prasad, P.S.R. (2003): Disordered Mg-bearing olenite from a granitic pegmatite from Goslarn, Austria: A chemical, structural, and infrared spectroscopic study. Can. Mineral., 41, 1363-1370. http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/mineral/tcm-136341-6.html

2004

Hughes, J.M., Ertl, A., Dyar, M.D., Grew, E.S., Wiedenbeck, M. & Brandstätter, F. (2004): Structural and chemical response to varying [4]B content in zoned Fe-bearing olenite from Koralpe, Austria. Am. Mineral., 89, 447-454. http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/TOC/Abstracts/2004_Abstracts/FM04_Abstracts/Hughes_p447_04.pdf

Ertl, A., Schuster, R., Prowatke, S., Brandstätter, F., Ludwig, T., Bernhardt, H.-J., Koller, F. & Hughes, J.M. (2004): Mn-rich tourmaline and fluorapatite in a Variscan pegmatite from Eibenstein an der Thaya, Bohemian massif, Lower Austria. Eur. J. Mineral., 16, 551-560. http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/ExpandTOC/ingenta?issue=infobike://schweiz/ejm/2004/00000016/00000003&index=17

Hughes, J.M., Ertl, A., Bernhardt, H.-J., Rossman, G.R. & Rakovan, J. (2004): Mn-rich fluorapatite from Austria: Crystal structure, chemical analysis, and spectroscopic investigations. Am. Mineral., 89, 629­-632.

            http://www.users.muohio.edu/rakovajf/Mn%20rich%20fluorapatite%20from%20Austria.pdf  http://minerals.gps.caltech.edu/Manuscripts/2004/Mn_apatite/Index.htm

Marschall, H.R., Ertl, A., Hughes, J.M. & McCammon, C. (2004): Metamorphic Na- and OH-rich disordered dravite with tetrahedral boron, associated with omphacite, from Syros, Greece: chemistry and structure. Eur. J. Mineral., 16, 817-823.

            http://titania.ingentaselect.com/vl=8147149/cl=42/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/linker?ini=schweiz&reqidx=/cw/schweiz/09351221/v16n5/s11/p817

Ertl, A., Pertlik, F., Dyar, M.D., Prowatke, S., Hughes, J.M., Ludwig, T. & Bernhardt, H.-J. (2004): Fe-rich olenite with tetrahedrally coordinated Fe3+ from Eibenstein, Austria: Structural, chemical, and Mössbauer data. Can. Mineral., 42, 1057-1063. http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/mineral/tcm-105742-4.html

2005

Ertl, A., Rossman, G.R., Hughes, J.M., Prowatke, S. & Ludwig, T. (2005): Mn-bearing “oxy-rossmanite” with tetrahedrally-coordinated Al and B from Austria: structure, chemistry, and infrared and optical spectroscopic study. Am. Mineral., 90, 481-487.

            http://ammin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/full/90/2-3/481#GILLER-2003 http://131.215.067.048/rossmanite/Austria_Eibenstein/Austria-index.htm

Fuchs, Y., Ertl, A., Hughes, J.M., Prowatke, S., Brandstätter, F. & Schuster, R. (2005): Dumortierite from the Gföhl unit, Lower Austria: chemistry, structure, and infra-red spectroscopy. Eur. J. Mineral., 17, 173-183.

            http://caliban.ingentaselect.com/vl=1959822/cl=123/nw=1/rpsv/cw/schweiz/09351221/v17n1/s17/p173

            Pictures of dumortierite from the Gföhl unit: http://www.mindat.org/photo-145317.html  http://www.mindat.org/photo-145048.html

Ertl, A., Pertlik, F., Prem, M., Post, J.E., Kim, S.J., Brandstätter, F. & Schuster, R. (2005): Ranciéite crystals from Friesach, Carinthia, Austria. Eur. J. Mineral., 17, 163-172. http://caliban.ingentaselect.com/vl=1959822/cl=123/nw=1/rpsv/cw/schweiz/09351221/v17n1/s16/p163

            Pictures of ranciéite crystals from Friesach: http://www.mindat.org/photo-145043.html

2006

Ertl, A. (2006): Über die Etymologie und die Typlokalitäten des Minerals Schörl. Mitt. Österr. Miner. Ges., 152, 7-16.

            http://www.uibk.ac.at/mineralogie/oemg/bd_152/152_07-16.pdf

London, D., Ertl, A., Hughes, J.M., Morgan VI, G.B., Fritz, E.A. & Harms, B.S. (2006): Synthetic Ag-rich tourmaline: structure and chemistry. Am. Mineral., 91, 680-684. http://www.minsocam.org/msa/ammin/toc/Abstracts/2006_Abstracts/Apr06_Abstracts/London_p680_06.pdf 

Cempírek, J., Novák, M., Ertl, A., Hughes, J.M., Rossman, G.R. & Dyar, M.D. (2006): Fe-bearing olenite with tetrahedrally coordinated Al from an abyssal pegmatite of the Bohemian massif at Kutná Hora: Structure, crystal chemistry, and optical spectra. Can. Mineral., 44, 23-30.

            http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/mineral/tcm-02344-1.html

Ertl, A., Hughes, J.M., Prowatke, S., Ludwig, T., Prasad, P.S.R., Brandstätter, F., Körner, W., Schuster, R., Pertlik, F. & Marschall, H. (2006): Tetrahedrally-coordinated boron in tourmalines from the liddicoatite-elbaite series from Madagascar: Structure, chemistry, and infrared spectroscopic studies. Am. Mineral., 91, 1847-1856. http://www.minsocam.org/msa/ammin/toc/Abstracts/2006_Abstracts/ND06_Abstracts/Ertl_p1847_06.pdf

Ertl, A., Kolitsch, U., Prowatke, S., Dyar, M.D. & Henry, D.J. (2006): The F-analogue of schorl from Grasstein, Trentino – South Tyrol, Italy: crystal structure and chemistry. Eur. J. Mineral., 18, 583-588.  http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/ejm/2006/00000018/00000005/art00006  

Ertl, A. & Wagner, A. (2006): Topas, Beryll und Ferrotantalit aus einem Pegmatit bei Heidenreichstein, Niederösterreich. Eigenverlag, Wien.

            http://members.a1.net/andreas.ertl/ertl&wagner(2006).pdf

2007

Ertl, A. (2007): Über die Typlokalität und die Nomenklatur des Minerals Dravit (About the type locality and the nomenclature of dravite). Mitt. Österr. Miner. Ges., 153, 265-271. http://www.uibk.ac.at/mineralogie/oemg/bd_153/153_265-271x.pdf

Ertl, A. & Prem, M. (2007): Late-stage hydrothermal alteration products occurring in the Stewart Mine, San Diego Co., California, U.S.A. Mitt. Österr. Miner. Ges., 153, 273-274. http://www.uibk.ac.at/mineralogie/oemg/bd_153/153_273-274x.pdf

Ertl, A., Hughes, J.M., Prowatke, S., Ludwig, T., Brandstätter, F., Körner, W. & Dyar, M.D. (2007): Tetrahedrally-coordinated boron in Li-bearing olenite from “mushroom” tourmaline from Momeik, Myanmar. Can. Mineral., 45, 891-899. http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/mineral/tcm-89145-4.html

Ertl, A. & Rossmann, G.R. (2007): Preliminary study of higher-temperature treatment of canary tourmaline. Gems & Gemol., 44, 322.

2008

Ertl, A., Rossman, G.R., Hughes, J.M., Ma, C. & Brandstätter, F. (2008): V3+-bearing, Mg-rich, strongly disordered olenite from a graphite deposit near Amstall, Lower Austria: A structural, chemical and spectroscopic investigation. N. Jb. Miner. Abh., 184, 243-253. http://caliban.ingentaconnect.com/vl=5530378/cl=22/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/linker?ini=schweiz&reqidx=/cw/schweiz/00777757/v184n3/s2/p243

Ertl, A. (2008): About the nomenclature and the type locality of elbaite: A historical review. Mitt. Österr. Miner. Ges., 154, 35-44. http://www.uibk.ac.at/mineralogie/oemg/bd_154/154_035-044.pdf

Ertl, A., Brandstätter, F. & Prem, M. (2008): Moldanubische Korundvorkommen mit Rubin und Saphir bei Drosendorf, Waldviertel, Niederösterreich. Mitt. Österr. Miner. Ges., 154, 45-51. http://www.uibk.ac.at/mineralogie/oemg/bd_154/154_045-051.pdf

Ertl, A. & Hamilton, M. (2008): Der Magnesit vom Eichberg bei Gloggnitz (Niederösterreich) und dessen Begleitminerale: Eine Mineralogische Studie. Mitt. Österr. Miner. Ges., 154, 53-57. http://www.uibk.ac.at/mineralogie/oemg/bd_154/154_053-057.pdf 

Ertl, A., Dyar, M.D., Hughes, J.M., Brandstätter, F., Gunter, M.E., Prem, M. & Peterson, R.C. (2008): Pertlikite, a new tetragonal Mg-rich member of the voltaite group from Madeni Zakh, Iran. Can. Mineral., 46, 661-669. http://canmin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/46/3/661

Ertl, A., Tillmanns, E., Ntaflos, T., Francis, C., Giester, G., Körner, W., Hughes, J.M., Lengauer, C. & Prem, M. (2008): Tetrahedrally coordinated boron in Al-rich tourmaline and its relationship to the pressure–temperature conditions of formation. Eur. J. Mineral., 20, 881-888. http://eurjmin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/5/881

2009

Ertl, A., Kolitsch, U., Meyer, H.-P., Ludwig, T., Lengauer, C.L., Nasdala, L. & Tillmanns, E. (2009): Substitution mechanism in tourmalines of the “fluor-elbaite”-rossmanite series from Wolkenburg, Saxony, Germany. N. Jb. Miner. Abh., 186, 51-61. http://www.schweizerbart.de/resources/downloads/paper_previews/72763.pdf

Natkaniec-Nowak, L., Dumańska-Słowik, M. & Ertl, A. (2009): “Watermelon” tourmaline from the Paprok mine (Nuristan, Afghanistan). N. Jb. Miner. Abh., 186, 185-192. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/njma/2009/00000186/00000002/art00004 

Ertl, A., Mali, H., Schuster, R., Körner, W., Hughes, J.M., Brandstätter, F. & Tillmanns, E. (2009): Li-bearing, disordered Mg-rich tourmalines from the pegmatite-marble contact from the Austroalpine basement units (Styria, Austria). Mineral. Petrol., DOI 10.1007/s00710-009-0082-1.

Novák, M., Henry, D., Hawthorne, F.C., Ertl, A., Uher, P., Dutrow, B.L. & Pezzotta, F. (2009): Nomenclature of the tourmaline-group minerals. Report of the Subcommittee on Tourmaline Nomenclature to the International Mineralogical Association’s Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification, 45 pp. http://members.a1.net/andreas.ertl/novak_et_al._(2009).pdf

2010

Ertl, A., Marschall, H.R., Giester, G., Henry, D.J., Schertl, H.-P., Ntaflos, T., Luvizotto, G.L., Nasdala, L. & Tillmanns, E. (2010): Metamorphic ultra high-pressure tourmalines: Structure, chemistry, and correlations to PT conditions. Am. Mineral., 95, 1-10.

             http://www.minsocam.org/msa/ammin/toc/Abstracts/2010_Abstracts/Jan10_Abstracts/Ertl_p1_10.pdf (No. 13 of the most read articles in Am. Mineral.; May 2010)

Ertl, A., Rossman, G.R., Hughes, J.M., London, D., Wang, Y., O’Leary, J.A., Dyar, M.D., Prowatke, S., Ludwig, T. & Tillmanns, E. (2010): Tourmaline of the elbaite-schorl series from the Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, California, U.S.A.: A detailed investigation. Am. Mineral., 95, 24-40.   http://www.minsocam.org/msa/ammin/toc/Abstracts/2010_Abstracts/Jan10_Abstracts/Ertl_p24_10.pdf  (no. 15 of the most read articles in Am. Mineral.; May 2010)

Ertl, A., Mali, H., Schuster, R., Körner, W., Hughes, J.M., Brandstätter, F. & Tillmanns, E. (2010): Li-bearing, disordered Mg-rich tourmalines from the pegmatite-marble contact from the Austroalpine basement units (Styria, Austria). Mineral. Petrol., 99, 89-104. http://www.springerlink.com/content/a334540257781128/ 

2011

Ertl, A., Draganits, E., Grasemann, B., Ntaflos, T., Giester, G. & Tillmanns, E. (2011): Synkinematic tourmaline growth on brittle-ductile normal faults (Despotiko Island, Aegean). Can. Mineral., 49, 105-116. http://www.canmin.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/1/105

Hughes, J.M., Rakovan, J., Ertl, A., Rossman, G.R., Baksheev, I. & Bernhardt, H.-J. (2011): Dissymetrization in tourmaline: The atomic arrangement of sectorally zoned triclinic Ni-bearing dravite. Can. Mineral., 49, 29-40. http://www.canmin.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/1/29

Henry, D., Novák, M., Hawthorne, F.C., Ertl, A., Dutrow, B.L., Uher, P. & Pezzotta, F. (2011): Nomenclature of the tourmaline-supergroup minerals. Am. Mineral., 96, 895-913. http://www.minsocam.org/msa/ammin/TOC/Abstracts/2011_Abstracts/MJ11_Abstracts/Henry_p895_11.pdf

Ertl, A., Kolitsch, U., Dyar, M.D., Meyer, H.-P., Henry, D.J., Rossman, G.R., Prem, M., Ludwig, T., Nasdala, L., Lengauer, C.L. & Tillmanns, E. (2011): Fluor-schorl, IMA 2010-067. CNMNC Newsletter No. 8, April 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, 75, 289-294. http://pubsites.uws.edu.au/ima-cnmnc/

2012

Ertl, A., Schuster, R., Hughes, J.M., Ludwig, T., Meyer, H.-P., Finger, F., Dyar, M.D., Ruschel, K., Rossman, G.R., Klötzli, U., Brandstätter, F., Lengauer, C.L., Tillmanns, E. (2012): Li-bearing tourmalines in Variscan pegmatites from the Moldanubian nappes, Lower Austria. Eur. J. Mineral., (accepted).

Ertl, A., Kolitsch, U., Dyar, M.D., Hughes, J.M., Rossman, G.R., Pieczka, A., Henry, D.J., Pezzotta, F., Prowatke, S., Lengauer, C.L., Körner, W., Brandstätter, F., Francis, C.A., Prem, M. & Tillmanns, E. (2012): Limitations of Fe2+ and Mn2+ site occupancy in tourmaline: evidence from Fe2+- and Mn2+-rich tourmaline. Am. Mineral., (accepted).

Bačik, P., Uher, P., Ertl, A., Jonsson, E., Nysten, P., Kanický, V. & Vaculovič, T. (2012): Zoned REE-enriched dravite from a granitic pegmatite in Forshammar, Bergslagen province, Sweden: EMPA, XRD and LA-ICP-MS study. Can. Mineral. (accepted).

Ertl, A., Hughes, J.M., Bernhardt, H.-J., Rakovan, J. & Rossman, G.R. (2012): Vanadium-rich muscovite from Austria: crystal structure, chemical analysis, and spectroscopic investigations. Can. Mineral., (accepted). 

Ertl, A. & Tillmanns, E. (2012): The [9]-coordinated X site in the crystal structure of tourmaline-group minerals. Z. Krist., (accepted).

Ertl, A., Giester, G., Ludwig, T. & Meyer, H.-P. (2012): Synthetic olenite: correlations of single-crystal structural data. Am. Mineral., (submitted).

 

ADDITIONAL DATA

Structural and chemical data of Cu-bearing elbaite from Paraiba, Brazil; additional data to Ertl et al. (2002): Polyhedron distortions in tourmaline. Can. Mineral., 40, 153-162.  http://members.a1.net/andreas.ertl/elbaite(Cu)_add_data.pdf

 

Lectures and Posterpresentations

1987, 31. Aug. Lecture (in English) at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, as guest speaker for the Mineralogical Society of Queensland about “Minerals from Austria.

 At the Queensland Museum, with the president of the Mineralogical Society of Queensland (1987)

1998, 13. Nov.  Lecture (in German) at the University of Graz, Graz, Styria, Austria, Institut für Mineralogie-Kristallographie und Petrologie, for the “1. Kor-Saualm Workshop about boron-rich olenite from Koralpe: „Interpretation der Mineralogie von Turmalin mit Relevanz zur metamorphen Entwicklung des Koralpen Kristallins“ (Interpretation of the chemical composition from tourmaline in relation to the metamorphic evolution of the Koralpe).

1999, 22. Sept. Lecture (in English) at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, Laboratoire de MinéralogieCristallographie, for the “2nd European Workshop on Tourmaline and Borosilicates about „Replacement of silicon by boron in tourmaline- and mica type structures.

2000, 28. Sept. Lecture (in German) and posterpresentation at the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, for the DMG-Meeting about Tetraedrisch koordiniertes Bor in natürlichem Turmalin und Muskovit (tetrahedrally-coordinated boron in natural tourmaline and muscovite).

2001, 27. May  Lecture (in German) at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Geozentrum, Room 2A122, about „Pegmatite in der KoralpeVierkoordiniertes Bor im Turmalin (Pegmatites from the Koralpe – four-coordinated boron in tourmaline).

2001, 25. Sept. Posterpresentation at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Geozentrum, for the MinPet2001 about Hellblaue Olenit-Schörl-Dravit Mischkristalle von Ebersdorf, Niederösterreich (lightblue olenite-schorl-dravite tourmaline crystals from Ebersdorf, Lower Austria) (Ertl, Pertlik & Bernhardt).

2002, 25. Mar. Posterpresentation at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, Schweiz, for the Ninth International Symposium on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry – EMPG IX about “Tetrahedral boron in olenite from the type locality (Schreyer, Ertl, Hughes, Bernhardt, Kalt & Prowatke) and co-author of the poster “Structural and chemical response to varying [4]B content in olenite from the Koralpe (Hughes, Ertl, Dyar, Grew & Brandstätter). http://www.the-conference.com/JConfAbs/7/pdfs/92.pdf

2002, 13. Nov. Lecture (in English) at the Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, U.S.A., Shideler Hall, about “Tetrahedral boron in tourmalines, where it is, and how to find it.

2003, 20.-23. June  Posterpresentation at the International Symposium on Light Elements in Rock-forming Minerals LERM 2003 in Nové Město na Moravě, Moravia, Czech Republic, about Tetrahedrally-coordinated boron in liddicoatite from Madagascar” (Ertl & Hughes) and co-author of the poster Mn-rich tourmaline from the Moldanubicum in Austria: Structure and chemistry” (Hughes, Ertl, Prowatke & Rossman). 

2003, 20. Nov. Lecture (in English) at the Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, Mlynská dolina, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Room B1-501, about “Tourmaline – unusual compositions and interesting structural details”.

2004, 30. Mar. Lecture (in English) at the Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, U.S.A., Shideler Hall (12:00 am), about “Tourmaline – News from the tourmaline group”.

2004, 5. April    Lecture (in English) at the University of Massachusetts, South Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S.A., Morrell Science Building (10:10 am), about “Tourmaline – News from the tourmaline group”.

2004, 12. April Lecture (in English) at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, U.S.A. (1:00 pm), about “Tourmaline – News from the tourmaline group”.

2004, 14. April Lecture (in English) at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., Fourth Floor East Wing, Mineral Sciences Seminar Room, E410 (10:00 am), about “Tourmaline – News from the tourmaline group”.

2004, 20. April  Lecture (in English) at the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A., Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex, E208 (3:30 pm), about “Tourmaline – News from the tourmaline group”.

2004, 23. April   Lecture (in English) at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A., Sarkeys Energy Center, Room 830 (9:00 am), about “Tourmaline – News from the tourmaline group”.

2004, 30. April   Lecture (in English) at the Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California, U.S.A., 1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Geology Department, Building E, Room 220 (7:30 pm), for the Mineralogical Society of Southern California, about “Tourmaline – News from the tourmaline group”.   

2005, 3. June    Lecture (in German) at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Geozentrum, Room 2A122 (11:15 am), about "Zur Struktur Al-reicher Turmaline" (About the structure of Al-rich tourmaline).

2006, 5. May    Lecture (in German) at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Geozentrum, Room 2A122 (11:15 am), about "Dumortierit und seine Substitutionen" (Dumortierite and its substitutions).

2006, 26. Aug.  Lecture (in English) at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Hotel, San Diego, California, U.S.A., Randle Ballroom A/B (11:50 am), for the Gemological Research Conference (GRC) (hosted by GIA) about Elbaite from the Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, California” (General Gemology).

2006, 1. Dec.    Lecture (in German) at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Geozentrum, Room 2A122 (11:15 am), about "Turmaline der Liddicoatit-Elbait Reihe” (Tourmalines from the liddicoatite-elbaite series).

2007, 31. May  Lecture (in German) at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Geozentrum, Room 2B204 (Eberhard Clar-Saal) (3:30 pm), about “Al- und B-reiche Turmaline: Mineralogie und Vorkommen” (Al- and B-rich tourmalines: Mineralogy and occurrence).

2007, 23. Aug.  Lecture (in English) at the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Room A3 (16:00 am), for the 17th V. M. Goldschmidt Conference (19th – 24th Aug. 2007) about “Werner Schreyer’s experiments on synthetic B-rich high-pressure tourmalines and micas” (Ertl & Tillmanns).

2007, 18. Sept.  Posterpresentation at the Hotel Steigenberger Therme Meran, Meran, South Tyrol, Italy, for the MinPet2007 (16th – 21st Sept. 2007), aboutWechselwirkung zwischen dem Al-Gehalt der Y-Position und dem B-Gehalt der T-Position in Turmalinen: Ein Beitrag zur Kristallchemie“ (Ertl & Pertlik).

2007, 24. Sept.  Lecture (in English) at the McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Frank Dawson Adams Building, Room 232 (3:15 pm), about “The wide range of tourmaline chemical composition and what it tells us about the environment of crystallization”.

2007, 25. Sept.  Lecture (in English) at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, U.S.A., Department of Geology, Delehanty Hall, Room 219 (12:15 pm), about “The wide range of tourmaline chemical composition and what it tells us about the environment of crystallization”.

2007, 28. Sept.  Lecture (in English) at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine, U.S.A., Department of Earth Sciences, Edward Bryand Global Sciences Center, Room 100 (3:00 pm), about “The wide range of tourmaline chemical composition and what it tells us about the environment of crystallization”.

2007, 1. Oct.     Lecture (in English) at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., Department of Mineral Sciences, Fourth Floor East Wing, Conference Room (10:15 am), about “Tourmaline minerals”.

2008, 21. April  Lecture (in German) at the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Mineralogisches Institut, INF 235, Großer Hörsaal (5:15 pm), about "Turmaline unterschiedlicher Lithologien: Neuigkeiten über die Turmalingruppe und interessante Korrelationen (Geowissenschaftliches Kolloquium).

2008, 23. April  Lecture (in German) at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Institut für Mineralogie, Gebäude NA, Hörsaal 3/99 (12:15 am), about "Turmaline unterschiedlicher Lithologien: Neuigkeiten über die Turmalingruppe und interessante Korrelationen (Geowissenschaftliches Kolloquium - GMG Kolloquium).

2008, 24. Oct. Lecture (in German) at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Geozentrum, Room 2A120 (11:15 am), about "Metamorphe Turmaline und deren Bedeutung” (Metamorphic tourmalines and their significance).

2009, 15. Jan. Lecture (in German) at the University Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany, Building 50.41, Room 145/146 (5:30 pm), about "Turmaline - eine bedeutende Mineralgruppe (Tourmaline – an important mineral group).

                            with Thomas Neumann

2009, 5. May  Lecture (in German) at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Geozentrum, Room 2B204 (Eberhard Clar-Saal) (11:15 am), about “Characterisation of tourmalines from different environments and correlations between structural and chemical data”.

2009, 10. Sept. Lecture (in English) at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, Riverside Campus, Building C, Room 0-823 (11:30 am), for the MinPet2009 & 4th Mineral Sciences in the Carpathians Joint Conference (7th – 11th Sept. 2009) about “The schorl-elbaite solid solution and useful correlations” (Ertl & Tillmanns).

2009, 14. Sept. Poster at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle an der Saale, Germany, Melanchthonianum (4:30 pm), for the DMG 2009 (13th – 16th Sept. 2009) about Fluor-Schörlvom Erzgebirge, dem Gebiet der Typlokalität für Schörl” (“Fluor-schorl” from Erzgebirge, the area of the type locality for schorl) (Ertl, Tillmanns & Kolitsch).

2009, 26. Sept. Lecture (in English) at Święty Krzyż, Holy Cross Mts., Poland, Lecture Hall (9:20 am), for the PTMin2009 (24th – 27th Sept. 2009; 40th anniversary of the Mineralogical Society of Poland) about “Investigations on tourmalines of the elbaite-schorl series” (Ertl & Tillmanns). 

2009, 28. Sept. Lecture (in English) at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland, Hall 28, Pavilion A-0, Room 29 (2:00 pm), about “Metamorphic tourmalines and their significance”.

2009, 9. Oct.    Lecture (in German) at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Geozentrum, Room 2A120 (11:15 am), about "Ekkehart Tillmanns – sein wissenschaftliches Wirken für die Kristallographie: Ein Rückblick”.

    with Lutz Nasdala

2009, 9. Dec.    Lecture (in German) at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Geozentrum, Room 2A122 (HS II) (5:00 pm), about Vulkane in Kenya und Tansania, Ostafrika” (Vulcanos in Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa).

2010, 23. Aug. Lecture (in English) at the Danube Riverside Campus (Lágymányos) of the Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, Room N-C (11:40 am), for the 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association (21st – 27th Aug. 2010) about The correct formula for Mg- and Fe3+-bearing tourmaline: the influence of the <T-O> distance on the <Z-O> bond length (Ertl, Hughes & Tillmanns).

                           with Edward Grew    

2010, 21. Sept. Lecture (in German) at the Schloss, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany, Lecture Hall S9 (9:45 am), for the 88th Annual Meeting of the German Mineralogical Society (19th22th Sept. 2010) about “Die effizienteste Methode um Turmaline zu charakterisieren: Röntgenographische Einkristalluntersuchungen (Ertl & Tillmanns).

                           with Peter Schmid-Beurmann

2011, 23. June  Final Plenary lecture (in English) at the Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Plenary Hall (5:00 pm), for the XVII International Conference on Crystal Chemistry, X-Ray Diffraction and Spectroscopic studies of minerals (CCXRDS) (20th – 24th June 2011) about “Tourmaline – still a Mystery” (Ertl & Tillmanns).

2011, 29. June  Lecture (in English) at the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Moscow, Russia, Lecture Hall (5:00 pm), about News on zoned tourmaline crystals with different colours.

2011, 22. Sept.  Lecture (in German) at the University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, room MS11-15 (11:30 am), for the Joint Meeting DGK, DMG and ÖMG: Crystals, Minerals and Materials (20th – 24th Sept. 2011) about Das Rätsel der ungeordnetenTurmaline (Ertl & Tillmanns).

 

 

As Visiting Professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany (SS 2011)

 

 

Teaching Kristallographie für Geowissenschaftler and Grundlagen der Röntgenbeugung und Röntgenspektralanalyse

(Crystallography for Geoscientists, Basics of X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Spectroscopic Analysis).

http://lsf.uni-heidelberg.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfoPerson&publishSubDir=personal&keep=y&purge=y&personal.pid=19878

 

 

Berlin, Germany, 2009

        

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Lecture on metamorphic tourmaline in Vienna, Austria, 2008

  

 

with Ekkehart Tillmanns                                                                             with Ekkehart Tillmanns and Konstantin Petrakakis

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Germany Tour 2008

Andreas Ertl with RAINER ALTHERR, RONALD MILETICH, HORST MARSCHALL, THOMAS LUDWIG, HANS-PETER MAYER,

WALTER MARESCH, HEINZ-JÜRGEN BERNHARDT, BERND MARLER, KLAUS-DIETER GREVEL, HANS-JOACHIM MASSONNE &     THOMAS REINECKE.

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U.S.A. & Canada Tour 2007

            Andreas Ertl with John M. Hughes, DENNIS MAHONEY, SYLVIA PARKER, ROBERT F. MARTIN, EDWARD S. GREW,

Martin G. Yates, Félice Naus-Thijssen, Eva R. Wadoski-McClelland, Jeffrey E. Post, Michael A. Wise, &

Eloise Gaillou.

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Gemological Research Conference in San Diego, California, 2006

 

with Elena V. Sokolova, Frank C. Hawthorne, George E. Harlow & George R. Rossman        with Matthew C. Taylor, Anthony R. Kampf & Jeffrey E. Post

  

              with Brendan M. Laurs, Federico Pezzotta & Björn Anckar                                                 with Frank C. Hawthorne

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Andreas Ertl talks about tourmaline from the Himalaya Mine

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George R. Rossmanns visit in Vienna, 2005

 

            at the Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie, Wien                     at the Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

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U.S.A. Tour 2004

      

ANDREAS ERTL visiting John M. Hughes, John Rakovan, M. Darby Dyar, Carl A. Francis, George E. Harlow, Jeffrey E. Post, Darrell Henry & Barbara Dutrow, David London, George R. Rossman, Brendan M. Laurs,

Bill Larson, Anthony R. Kampf, and the Mineralogical Society of Southern California.

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More Webpages About Minerals/Tourmaline:

http://www.geol.lsu.edu/henry/

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/faculty/rossman/rossman.html

http://minerals.gps.caltech.edu/

http://131.215.067.048/rossmanite/

http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/Special/Pig/

http://minerals.gps.caltech.edu/Manuscripts/2003/Austrian_Mn_olenite/Index.htm

http://pegmatopia.ou.edu/Personnel/D%20London%20Vita.pdf

http://www.webmineral.com/

http://www.geo.arizona.edu/AMS/amcsd.php

http://www.mindat.org/index.php

American Mineralogist:  http://www.minsocam.org/msa/ammin/ammineral.html  

European Journal of Mineralogy: http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/ejm/volumes

Canadian Mineralogist: http://www.mineralogicalassociation.ca/template/EJournal/