Herman van Roermund

Contact information

Dr. Herman L.M. van Roermund
Department of Earth Sciences
Utrecht University
Postbus 80021
3508 TA Utrecht
The Netherlands

Phone (+31) 030-253 5053
Fax (+31) 030-253 7725
E-mail
Office: N 206

Research Interests

• The Caledonian Orogeny – with emphasize on the Scandinavian Caledonides
• (Fossil) subduction zones
• High and Ultra-high pressure (U)HP metamorphic terranes and their geodynamic setting(s)
• Orogenic garnet peridotites
• Interactions between lower crust and upper mantle
• Microstructures and mineral- bulk rock chemistry of rocks and minerals
• Application of Electron Microscopy to Earth Sciences
• EM techniques include: EMP, SEM, TEM
• Geothermobarometry
• Monasite age dating

Teaching

• BSc-level: First year field work Aliaga
• MSc-level: 4th years course (GEO4-1435AW) Advanced Metamorphic Petrology and Mineralogy

Former graduate students

• W.M.van Haaften (1997): The effect of strain gradients on paleostress estimates.
• S. ten Grotenhuis (1997). Evidence for dislocation creep processes in garnets from the lower crust and upper mantle
• H. Brandsen (1998). Recrystallisation behaviour and associated chemical changes in white mica and its effect on obtained ages from 40Ar/39Ar laser probe studies
• A. Barnhoorn (1999): Garnet microstructures in the Ugelvik garnet peridotite
• A. de Ronde (1999): Reaction rims around garnet in the Ugelvik garnet peridotite (Western Gneiss Region, Norway)
• T. Heijboer (2001). Structural and chemical analyses of Otroy garnet peridotites, pyroxenites and websterites from WGR, Norway.
• F.Bouw (2001). Computing Cleavage.
• A.Litjens (2002). PT estimates of high-pressure metamorphic rocks from the Seve, Nappe Complex, Jämtland, Central Scandinavian Caledonides; including microprobe estimates on Fe3+/Fe2+.
• B. van Straaten (2003). The Pre-Caledonian, eclogite  facies and exhumation history of gneisses and eclogites at Otroy, WGR, Norway.           
• D. Wiggers de Vries (2003). The UHP metamorphic history of the Mageroy-, Raknestangen- and ‘near’ Raknestangen opx eclogites and exhumation with the surrounding rocks, Otroy, WGR, Norway.
• J.Bouma (2004). Monasite geochronology and geothermobarometry of eclogitic gneisses in the Jämtland (U)HP metamorphic terrane, central Swedish Caledonides.
• A. Hacker (2004) The tectono-metamorphic and geochronological history of basement and nappes in the Grotli-Tafjord Area, Western Gneiss Region
• J.C. Vrijmoed (2005). Tectonometamorphic and geochronological analysis of the Bud-Tornes area, SW-Norway, part 1; From Iapetus to Atlantic, part 2
• M.J. Harings (2005). Monazite EMP Geochronology applied to the Broken Hill Block,  NSW, Australia.
• M. Smit (2006). The tectonic and metamorphic history of UHP basal gneisses and Blaho-Surna cover complexes on Otroy, Moldefjord, northern WGR, Norway.
• H.J. Kooijman (2006). Geothermobarometry and Monasite Geochronology of the supracrustal rocks on south Midoy, WGR, Norway
• J. Linckens (2006). Monazite age dating and quartz LPO of rocks from the contact zone between the northern UHP basement complex and the southern MP cover complex, Otroy and Midoy, Western Gneiss Region, Norway.
• W.van Mierlo (2007). Correction procedures for EMP monazite age dating and their implications for the geochronology of part of the WGR, Scandinavian Caledonides.
• Len Paalvast (2007). UHP Metamorphism in Central Indonesia.
• Valby van Schijndel (2008) Monazite geochronology and geothermobarometry of the Høyvik group of the Caledonian Middle Allochthon and its structural significance to the underlying HP basement, WGR, Western Norway.
• Caja de Vries  (2008). The Nordfjord-Sogn detachment Zone in the Naustdal region, Norway.
• Annelies Bender (2009).  European Orogenic Garnet Peridotites.  Geothermobarometry, PT-paths and tectonic emplacement into the continental crust.
• Floris den Ouden (2009). Lunar Meteorites-Structural and chemical study of Dhofar 908, 909, 911 and 1085.
• Bart Verberne (2009). Structural analysis, geothermobarometry and geochronology of rocks from Gossa Island, Western Gneiss Region, Norway.
• Willem Dabekaussen (2009). First evidence of UHP at Gossa Island, WGR, SW Norway.
• Joost Meeren (2009).  A three-stage exhumation model for HP rocks from the Palu region, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia – a geothermobarometric study.
   

 

Publications

 

2000

McDonnell, R.D.,Peach, C.J.,Van Roermund, H.L.M., & Spiers, C.J. 2000. The effect of varrying enstatite content on the deformation behaviour of fine-grained synthetic peridodite under wet conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 13535-13553.

De Kloe R., Drury, M.R. and Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2000.  Grain boundary melt films and melt induced weakening in experimentally deformed olivine-orthopyroxene rocks. Phys Chem. Minerals 27; 480-494.

Mc Donnell, R.D., Peach, C.L., Van Roermund, H.L.M. and Spiers, C.J., 2000. Effects of varying enstatite content on the deformation behavior of fine-grained synthetic peridotite under wet conditions. J. Geophys. Research 105; No B6; 13.535-13.553.

Van Roermund, H.L.M., Drury, M.R., Barnhoorn, A. & De Ronde, 2000. Super-silicic garnet microstructures from an orogenic garnet peridodite: evidence for an ultra-deep (>6GP) origin. Journal of metamorphic geology, 18, 135-147.

 

2001

Drury, M.R. Van Roermund, H.L.M., Smet, J.H. de,Berg, A. P. van den, & Vlaar, N.J. 2001. Emplacement of deep upper mantle rocks into cratonic lithosphere by convection and diapiric upwelling. Journal of petrology, 42(1), 131-140.

Van Roermund, H.L.M., Drury, M.R., Barnhoorn, A. & De Ronde, A. 2001. Relict Majoritic Garnet Microstructures from Ultra-Deep Orogenic Peridotites in Western Norway. Journal of Petrology 42, 117-130.

 

2002

Van Roermund, H.L.M., Carswell, D.A., Drury, M.R. & Heijboer, T.C., 2002. Microdiamonds in a megacrystic garnet websterite pod from Bardane on the island of Fjortoft, western Norway: Evidence for diamond formation in mantle rocks during deep continental subduction. Geology 30, 959-962

 

2003

Brueckner,H.K. & Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2003. Dunks and Redunks: the repeated subduction of HP/UHP terranes in the Western Gneiss Region of the Scandinavian Caledonides. In Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 2003. Seattle Annual Meeting (Nov 2-5, 2003), 35 (6), paper No.229-3

Carswell,D.A., & Van Roermund, H.L.M.  2003. Occurrence and interpretation of garnet peridotite bodies in the Western Gneiss Region, Field guide, NGU Report 2003.057; 11-17 .

Carswell, D.A.,& Van Roermund, H.L.M., 2003. The Ugelvik and Raudhaugene garnet peridotite bodies and “country-rock” orthopyroxene-bearing eclogite lenses at Raknestangen and MagerØysundet.  Field guide, NGU Report 2003.057; 117-124.

 

2004

Dijkstra, A.H., Drury, M.R., Vissers, R.L.M. Newman, J. & Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2004.  Shear zones in the upper mantle: Evidence from alpine- and ophiolite-type peridotite massifs.  In: Alsop G.I., Holdsworth, R.E.  (eds.) Flow Processes in Faults and Shear Zones. Geol Soc London Special Publ. 224, 11-24

Brueckner, H.K., Van Roermund, H.L.M. & Pearson, N.J., 2004. An Archean (?) to Paleozoic Evolution for a Garnet Peridotite Lens with Sub-Baltic Shield Affinity within the Seve Nappe Complex of Jamtland, Sweden, Central Scandinavian Caledonides. Journal of Petrology 45, 415-437.

Brueckner, H.K. & Van Roermund, H.L.M., 2004. Dunk tectonics: A multiple subduction/eduction model for the evolution of the Scandinavian Caledonides. Tectonics 23, 1-20.

Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F., Green, H.W. 11, Renfro, A.P., Bozhilov, K.N., Spengler, D. & Van Roermund, H.L.M., 2004. Precipitation of pyroxenes and Mg2SiO4 from majoritic garnet: simulation of peridotite exhumation from great depth. Terra Nova , 16, 325-330.

Falus, G., Drury, M.R., Van Roermund, H.L.M. and Szabo, C. 2004. Magmatism-Related Localised Deformation in the Mantle: a Case study. Contributions Mineralogy and Petrology 146; 493-505.

Van Roermund HLM. & Brueckner, H.K. 2004. The Jamtlandian: A new orogeny in the Caledonides of central Sweden. In  Proceedings of the 32nd International Geological Congress, August 20-28, 2004, Florence, Italy.

 

2005

Carswell D.A. & Van Roermund, H.L.M., 2005 On multi-phase mineral inclusions associated with microdiamond formation in mantle-derived peridotite lens at Bardane on Fjortoft, west Norway. Eur. J. Mineral. 17; 31-42.

Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2005. Super-silicic garnet microstructures: an unusual but potential powerfull microstructure for lithosphere evolution. Abstract 7th IEC, Seggau, Austria. Mitt. Ősterr. Mineral. Ges. 150; 158.

Van Roermund, H.L.M., Spengler, D and Wiggers de Vries, D., 2005. Evidence for Ultra-High pressure (UHP) metamorphism within Proterozoic basement rocks on Otroy, Western Gneiss Region, Norway. Abstract 7th IEC, Seggau, Austria Mitt. Ősterr. Mineral. Ges. 150; 159.

Vrijmoed, J.C., Van Roermund, H.L.M. and Davies, G.R. 2005. North-eastward expansion of the Northern Ultra-high Pressure (UHP) domain, Western Gneiss Region, Norway;  Evidence from a Fe-Ti garnet peridotite body. Mitt.  Ősterr. Mineral. Ges. 150; 161.

Engel, B.,Bouma, A., Buist, W.G.,Swildens, B.,Van Roermund, H.L.M. & Jong, M.C.M. de 2005. Evaluation of diagnostic tests in the absence of a gold standard - models and applications. In Proceedings of the International Biometric Society, Multi-Regional Conference (pp. 36-38). Leicester, UK.

Van Roermund, H.L.M  2005. Diamant: opnieuw in de belangstelling van aardwetenschappers. Payenborchiana, 46/9(1), 27-29.

 

2006

Spengler, Van Roermund, H.L.M., Drury, M.R.,Ottolini, L., Mason, P.R.D. & Davies, G.R.,  2006. Deep origin and hot melting of an Archean orogenic peridotite massif in Norway. .Nature 440; 913-917. 

Vrijmoed, J.C.., Van Roermund, H.L.M. & Davies, G. 2006. Evidence for diamond-grade UHP metamorphism and fluid interaction in the Svartberget Fe-Ti garnet peridotite/websterite body, Western Gneiss Region, Norway. Mineralogy and Petrology 88; 381-405.

Vrijmoed, J.C., Smith, D.C. and Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2006. Microdiamond (in-situ) in the Svartberget Peridotite, Vestlandet, Norway, confirmed by Raman Microscopy. Geo-Raman ’06, 7th international conference on Raman Spectroscopy Applied to Earth and Planetary Sciences, 85-86.

Carswell, D.A. Van Roermund, H.L.M. & Wiggers de Vries, D.F. 2006  Scandian Ultra-high pressure metamorphism of Proterozoic Basement rocks on Fjortoft and Otroy in the Western Gneiss Region of Norway. International Geology Review 48-II; 957-977.

 

2007

Carswell, D.A. Van Roermund, H.L.M. & Wiggers de Vries, D.F. 2007. Scandian Ultra-high pressure metamorphism of Proterozoic Basement rocks on Fjortoft and Otroy in the Western Gneiss Region of Norway. Accepted  Lioue Volume AGU. In press.

Langedoen, J. and Van Roermund, H.L.M., 2007. Investigations into the genesis amd origin of an erratic block of retrograde eclogite from Haren (Groningen, thre Netherlands). Netherlands Journal of  Geoschiences - Geologie en Mijnbouw 86-2; 145-157.

Brueckner, H.K. & Van Roermund, H.L.M.  2007. Simultaneous HP metamorphism on both margins of Iapetus: Ordovician ages for eclogites and garnet peridotites from the Seve Nappe Complex, Swedish Caledonides. J Geol. Soc. London  164; 117-128.

Kadarusman, A., Massonne, H.J., Van Roermund, H.L.M. Perman H., Munasri. 2007. P-T evolution of Eclogites and Blueschists from Luk Ulo Complex of Central Java, Indonesia. International Geology Review 49 (4); 329-356.

 

2008

Scambelluri, M., Petke , T. and  Van Roermund, H.L.M., 2008. Fluid induced majoritic garnet crystallization during Scandian continental subduction. Geology 36; 59-62.

Vrijmoed, J.C., Smith, D.C. and Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2008. Raman confirmation of Microdiamond in the Svartberget Fe-Ti type garnet peridotite, Western Gneiss Region, Western Norway. Terra Nova submitted

Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2008. Recent progress in the northernmost UHPM domain of the Western Gness Complex: Scandian continental subduction down to 180-200 km depth. Submitted IEC Paisley; Journal Geological Soc London.

Van Roermund,H.L.M. 2008. A full day excursion to the Ugelvik and Raudhaugene garnet peridotite bodies on Otrøy. 33th IGC-Oslo; post conference excursion #34: A Tectono-stratigraphic transect across the central Scandinavian Caledonides

Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2008. Occurennce and interpretation of garnet peridotite bodies in the northernmost UHPM domain of the Western Gneiss Region, Norway. . 33th IGC-Oslo; post conference excursion #34: A Tectono-stratigraphic transect across the central Scandinavian Caledonides

2009

Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2009a. Recent progress in Scandian ultrahigh pressure metamorphism in the northernmost domain of the Western Gneiss Complex, SW Norway: continental subduction down to 180-200 km depth. Journal Geological Soc. London  166: 739–751

Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2009a. Mantle-wedge garnet peridotites from the northernmost ultra-high pressure domain of the Western Gneiss Region, SW Norway. Eur. J. Mineral. Fast Track Article. Fast Track DOI: 10.1127/0935-1221/2009/0021-1976.

Spengler, D,. Brueckner, H.K., Van Roermund, H.L.M. and Drury, M.R., 2009. Long-lived, cold continental subduction of Baltica towards 200 km depth. Earth Planet Sci Lett. 281:27–35.

Smit, M. A., Scherer, E., Bröcker, M. & Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2009. Timing of eclogite facies metamorphism in the southernmost Scandinavian Caledonides by  Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd geochronology. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol.  DOI 10.1007/s00410-009-0440-3.

In press

Scambelluri, M., Van Roermund, H.L.M. & Pettke, T.  2009 ( in press). Mantle wedge peridotites: fossil reservoirs of deep subduction zone processes. Inferences from high and ultrahigh-pressure rocks from Bardane (Western Norway) and Ulten (Italian Alps). Article Type: Special Issue: Lithos. ed: OReilly/Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary.

Barnhoorn, A., Drury, M. R.  and Van Roermund, H. L.M. 2009. Evidence for low viscosity garnet-rich layers in the upper mantle. Earth Planet Sci Lett. Accepted

Submitted

Brueckner, H.K., Carswell, D.A, Griffin, W.L, Medaris, Jr. L. G., Van Roermund, H.LM. and Cuthbert, S. 2009. The Mantle and Crustal Evolution of  Garnet-bearing Peridotite from the Western Gneiss Region, Norwegian Caledonides. Lithos.

Malaspina, N., Scambelluri, M., Poli . S. and Van Roermund H.L.M. 2009. Silicate-rich aqueous fluid sources for diamond crystallization in deep mantle wedges. Geology.

Abstracts

Scambelluri, M., Pettke, T. & Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2007

Fluid-induced crystallization of majoritic garnet during Scandian continental subduction, Western Gneiss Region, Norway.  Abstract EGU, Vienna.

 

Pettke T., Scambelluri M. and Van Roermund H.L.M. 2007.  Chemistry of fluid production in the subduction factory.  GSA Denver Annual Meeting (28—31 Okt). Invited speaker.  Ref: Abstract No: 130380 GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 39, No. 6.

Scambelluri, M., Herman J., Lauro M., Pettke, P., Rampone, E and  Van Roermund, H.L.M., 2007.  Orogenic garnet peridotites as tracers of mantle wedge transformations and metasomatism by subduction fluids. European Mantle Workshop (EMAW 2007), Ferrera, 29-31 August 2007. Italy. Speaker

 

Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2007. Recent progress in the northernmost UHPM domain of the Western Gneiss Region, Norway: Scandian subduction down to 180-200 km depths.

International Eclogite Field Symposium 2007, Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland. 29 June-6 July. Invited speaker.

 

Scambelluri, M., Van Roermund, H.L.M. and Pettke, T. 2007. Relict meso and microstructures in orogenic garnet peridotites as tracers of mantle dynamics and metasomatism at convergent plate margins.16th DRT meeting Milano-Oropa, Italy, 27 Sept-2 Okt. Speaker

 

Brueckner, H.K., Carswell, D.A, Griffin, W.L, Medaris, Jr. L. G., Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2008. The Mantle and Crustal Evolution of  Garnet-bearing Peridotite from the Western Gneiss Region, Norwegian Caledonides. Abstract IGC Oslo.

 

Spengler, D., Davies, G., Pearson, G, Mason, P., Van Roermund, H.L.M., Drury, M., Wiersma, E., and Vukmanovic, Z. 2008. Petrogenesis of Archean sublithospheric mantle preserved in the Otrøy peridotite massif, Norway. Abstract Goldschmid Conference Germany

 

Spengler, D., Pennock, G. M., Drury, M. And Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2008. Exsolved pyroxene in garnet and vice versa: a marker of craton evolution and UHPM? Abstract IGC Oslo 2.

 

Spengler et al. 2008. IGC Oslo-2 abstract.

 

Hopman, T.M., Keukenmeester, K.A., Deenen, M.H.L. Van Roermund, H.L.M. and Krijgsman, W. 2008. A Paleomagnetic study of the snake-like fold in Aliaga, Spain. Abstract NAC9; Veldhoven, The Netherlands

 

Barnhoorn, A., Drury, M.R., Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2008. Evidence for low viscosity garnet-rich layers in the upper mantle. NAC9-ISES/Solid Earth, abstract 70. Veldhoven The Netherlands

Scambelluri, M. Pettke, T. and Van Roermund, H.L.M. (2009). Deep subduction fluids and their interaction with the mantle wedge. Key note speaker. Abstract Goldschmidt Davos.

Malaspina, N., Scambelluri,M., Poli, S. and  Van Roermund, H.L.M. (2009). The oxidation state of majoritic garnets from Bardane (Western Norway) and fluid speciation in the deepest portions of the supra-subduction mantle wedge.  Abstract FIST09.

Smit, M.A., Scherer, E.E., Bröcker, M, Van Roermund, H.L.M., 2009: Lu-Hf  and

Sm-Nd dating of zoned garnet in eclogites from the southernmost Scandinavian Caledonides. DMG meeting, 87th Annual Meeting of the German Mineralogical Society, Halle (Saale), Germany.

Meeren, J.  and Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2009.  A three stage exhumation model for HP rocks from the Palu Region, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia- A geothermobarometric study. Abstract 8th International Eclogite Conference-Xining, Qinghai Province, China.

Dabekaussen, W., Verberne, B., Barnhoorn, A. and Van Roermund, H.L.M. 2009.  First evidence of Scandian UHPM from the island of Gossa, northern UHP domain, Western Gneiss Region, SW Norway. Abstract 8^th International Eclogite Conference-Xining, Qinghai Province, China.