Jiri Slama

Title: Researcher

Phone: +47 55 58 35 29

E-mail: Jiri.Slama@geo.uib.no

Visiting address: Realfagbygget, Allegt. 41

 

Research activities

Provenance of on-shore and off-shore rocks at the western Norwegian margin (S2S part of the ESM projec

Deciphering the history of Jan Mayen microcontinent using the isotopic data. Study of the provenance of detrital minerals.

Detrital zircon U-Pb age record in sediments of Eastern Greenland and adjacent areas.

Factors affecting the accuracy of zircon U-Pb detrital studies – comparison of real and artificial samples.

Mineral single-grain Nd isotopic dating by means of laser ablation MC-ICP-MS technique.

Growth and behaviour of zircon in high-grade metamorphic rocks

Partition of trace elements between coexisting minerals in metamorphic rocks and their use in geothermometry

Natural reference materials for LA ICP-MS isotopic analyses

Palaeogeographic significance of the roof pendants of the Central Bohemian Plutonic Complex in the Bohemian Massif; sedimentary provenance studies

Education:      

October 2003 – September 2007:

PhD student of geochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. Completed 25.9.2007 with successfully defended PhD thesis entitled “Distribution of trace elements and Hf isotopes between metamorphic minerals”.

 1998 – 2003:

Student of the MSc programme in Geology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. Completed with successfully defended MSc thesis entitled ”Metaconglomerates of the Sedlčany-Krásná Hora metamorphic islet – petrology, geochemistry and geochronology and sedimentary provenance”.

 

Professional experience:       

Since November 2007:

Postdoctoral/researcher position at the University of Bergen, Department of Earth Science.

October 2004 - October 2007:

researcher, Institute of Geology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

March 2004 – November 2004:

technician in ICP-MS laboratory, Institute of Geochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague

 

 

Other activities and courses:

 Inter-laboratory comparison of detrital zircon dating (organized by J. Kosler and J. Slama, January-August 2011, the ILC included 10 laboratories worldwide, the results will be published in Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research).

Short Course on “Laser-Ablation-ICPMS in the Earth Sciences - CURRENT PRACTICES AND OUTSTANDING ISSUES” Following Goldschmidt 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 19-20, 2008

ICP-MS short course I and II; 2006 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Tucson, Arizona, January 8 - 14, 2006. lecturer: Prof. R.S. Houk

Member of the G.O.SARS research cruise to the island of Jan Mayen, INTER RIDGE project; 15.7.2005 - 4.8.2005 ; Organized by University of Bergen, Department of Earth Sciences

University of Bergen, Department of Earth Science - Socrates/Erasmus scholarship 3.11.2004 - 12.8.2005

Attendance of the 4th ICP spectrometry course in Brno, Czech Republic; September 15. – 17, 2004 Organized by the Ioannes Marcus Marci Spectroscopic Society

Graduate Summer School in Isotope Geochemistry; Třešť, Czech Republic, August 2003 Organized by Ministry of Environment CR, Charles University in Prague, Geophysical Institute CAS and Czech Geological Survey

Member of the Geochemical Society – Since 2006

Member of the Society of the National Museum in Prague (Mineralogical Section) - Since 2000

Member of the SGA Student Chapter Prague – Freiberg - Since 2003

 

Publications in Cristin

2012:

 

J. Slama, J. Kosler

Effects of sampling and mineral separation on accuracy of detrital zircon studies

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G³), vol. 13 (5), 17p,  doi:10.1029/2012GC004106 

 

2011:

 

E. G. Grosch, J. Kosler, N. McLoughlin, K. Drost, J. Slama, R. B. Pedersen

Paleoarchean detrital zircon ages from the earliest tectonic basin in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, Kaapvaal craton, South Africa.

 Precambrian Research, vol. 191, 1-2, 85-99

 

J. Zak, Z. Kratinova, J. Trubac, V. Janousek, J. Slama,  J. Mrlina

Structure, emplacement, and tectonic setting of Late Devonian granitoid plutons in the Tepla–Barrandian unit, Bohemian Massif

Full paper, Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch), vol. 100, 1477-1495.

 

Jiri Slama, Olav Walderhaug, Hege Fonneland, Jan Kosler, Rolf B. Pedersen

Provenance of Neoproterozoic to Upper Cretaceous sedimentary rocks, eastern Greenland: Implications for recognizing the sources of sediments in the Norwegian Sea.

Full paper, Sedimentary Geology, vol. 238, 3-4, 254-267

 

2009:

Evolution of the Jan Mayen Ridge – new geochemical and geophysical data from the Jan Mayen Fracture Zone

J. Slama, R.B. Pedersen, J. Kosler, A. Kandilarov and B.W.H. Hendriks

EGU General Assembly Wien, Austria, 20. – 24.04.2009

 

2008:

 

LamDate and LamTool: spreadsheet-based data reduction for laser ablation ICP-MS

J. Košler, L. Forst & J. Sláma

Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course 40

Laser-Ablation-ICP-MS in the Earth Sciences
CURRENT PRACTICES AND OUTSTANDING ISSUES

Appendix A4.

 

Laser ablation MC ICP-MS U-Pb zircon dating using multiple channeltron ion counting detection

J Kosler, D. Fliegel, J. Slama, R.B. Pedersen

18th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference 2008, July 2008, Vancouver, Canada

Goldschmidt Conference abstract, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 72, Issue 12, Supplement 1, July 2008, Page A492

 

Evolution of the Jan Mayen Ridge – New data from the Jan Mayen Fracture Zone

J. Slama, R.B. Pedersen, J. Kosler

18th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference 2008, July 2008, Vancouver, Canada

Goldschmidt Conference abstract, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 72, Issue 12, Supplement 1, July 2008, Page A877

 

J. Sláma, D. J. Dunkley, V. Kachlík, M. A. Kusiak

Evidence for a transition from island-arc to passive setting on the continental margin of Gondawana: U-Pb zircon dating of Neoproterozoic metaconglomerates from the SE margin of the Teplá-Barrandian Unit, Bohemian Massif.

Full paper, Tectonophysics., vol. 461 (2008), 44 – 59.

 

 

 

J. Sláma, J. Košler, D. J. Condon, J. L. Crowley, A. Gerdes, J. M. Hanchar, M. S. A. Horstwood, G. A. Morris, L. Nasdala, N. Norberg, U. Schaltegger, B. Schoene, M. N. Tubrett, M. J. Whitehouse

Plešovice zircon – a new natural reference material for U-Pb and Hf isotopic microanalysis.

Full paper Chemical Geology, vol. 249, no. 1-2 (2008), 1–35.

 

 

2007:

 

J. Sláma

Distribution of trace elements and Hf isotopes in metamorphic minerals

MS PhD thesis, 2007, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science

 

J. Sláma, J. Košler, J. L. Crowley, A. Gerdes, J. Hanchar, M. S. A. Horstwood, G. A. Morris, L. Nasdala, N. Norberg, U. Schaltegger, M. N. Tubrett, M. J. Whitehouse

Plešovice zircon – a new natural standard for U-Pb and Hf isotopic microanalysis.

17th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference 2006, August 19-24, 2006, Cologne, Germany

Conference abstract, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 71, Issue 15, Supplement 1, August 2007, Page A947

 

N. Norberg, L. Nasdala, J. Košler, J. Sláma, J. Götze, N. Groschopf

Radiation damage, internal textures and post-growth history of the Plesovice zircon standard.

17th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference 2006, August 19-24, 2006, Cologne, Germany

Conference abstract, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 71, Issue 15, Supplement 1, August 2007, Page A723

 

J. Sláma, J. Košler, R. B. Pedersen

Behaviour of zircon in high-grade metamorphic rocks: evidence from Hf isotopes, trace elements and textural studies.

Full paper, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 154, no. 3 (2007), 335-356.

 

 

J. Sláma, J. Košler, R. B. Pedersen

Behaviour of zircon in high-grade metamorphic rocks: evidence from Hf isotopes, trace elements and textural studies.

CzechTec 07 – 5th meeting of the Central European Tectonic Studies Group (CETeG) and 12th Meeting of the Czech Tectonic Studies Group (ČTS), April 11-14, 2007, Teplá, Czech Republic

Conference abstract, Geolines vol. 21, 74–75.

 

2006:

 

J. Slama, J. Kosler and R.B. Pedersen

Deciphering metamorphic evolution of rocks by means of Hf isotopes.

16th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference 2006, 27 August - 1 September 2006, Melbourne, Australia

Conference abstract, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 70, Issue 18, Supplement 1, August-September 2006, Page A596

 

J. Sláma, J. Košler, U. Schaltegger , M. Tubrett, M. Gutjahr

New natural zircon standard for laser ablation ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology.

2006 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Tucson, Arizona, January 8 - 14, 2006.

Conference abstract, ICP Information Newsletter, Vol. 31, special edition January 2006, 187-188.

2005:

 

J. Sláma, J. Košler

Use of Hf isotopes for tracing metamorphic processes. 

6th International Symposium on Applied Isotope Geochemistry, 11. – 16.9. 2005, Prague, Czech Republic.

Conference abstract, 6th International symposium on Applied Isotope Geochemistry, Břevnov Abbey, Prague, Czech Republic, September 11 – 16, 2005.  AIG 6 abstracts. 226 – 227.

 

J. Sláma, J. Košler

Significance of isobaric interferences in Hf isotopic analyses of geological samples.

Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 30.1. – 3.1. 2005, Budapest, Hungary.

Conference abstract, ICP Information Newsletter, Vol. 30, Nr.9, February 2005, 930.

 

2004:

 

J. Sláma, J. Košler

Zircon growth in mafic granulites from southern Bohemian Massif: laser ablation ICPMS trace element and Hf isotopic study of metamorphic minerals and zircon.

Conference abstract, International workshop on petrogenesis of granulites and related rocks, Náměšť nad Oslavou, October 1-3, 2004, special publication of the Moravian Museum in Brno. 56 – 57.

ESM (Earth System Modelling) project financed by Statoil, 2010 - 2015

 

The Jan Mayen Microcontinent - Searching for new knowledge on prospectivity, basin evolution, and sediment provenance (Project: 169400/S30 (KMB-2))