Vladimír Kusbach

Mgr. Vladimír Kolář Kusbach, Ph.D. (*1981) works from 2011 as researcher in research team ROCKS.
I am interested in processes of rock deformation from micro- up to lithospheric scale. My work is combination of field structural geology with metamorphic and magmatic petrology in order to describe and understand tectonic processes in space and time.
I am mainly focused on microstructural studies, which are an important tool for deciphering rock rheology and melt segregation processes. More specifically, main research topics are: (a) structural studies in orogenic belts, (b) crust and mantle interactions and large-scale tectonic processes, (c) microstructures, textures, deformation mechanisms and rheology of deformed rocks.
Research field: Deformation and rheological behaviour of lower continental crust rock complexes, rock deformation in general.

Main tools: Structural geology, microstructural analysis, petrological modelling, geochemistry, geochronology.

Current projects: 

Perspectives in magnetic fabric interpretation through 3D analysis (GACR 22-12828S)

Past projects:

AMS vs. shear zone (GJ16-25486Y)

Publications:

• Staněk, M., Machek, M., Kusbach, V., Píšová, B. (2024). Dataset of P-wave velocity anisotropy measured on spherical samples of various rock types with an example of data analysis of retrogression related changes in eclogite and peridotite. Journal of Geodynamics, 102032. doi: 10.1016/j.jog.2024.102032
• Roxerová, Z., Machek, M., Kusbach, V. K., & Vávrová, A. (2023). Strain localization: Analog modeling and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24, e2022GC010630. doi: 10.1029/2022GC010630
• Janoušek, V., Erban Kochergina, Y.V., Andronikov, A.V. & Kusbach, V.K. (2022) Decoupling of Mg from Sr–Nd isotopic compositions in Variscan subduction-related plutonic rocks from the Bohemian Massif: implications for mantle enrichment processes and genesis of orogenic ultrapotassic magmatic rocks. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch). doi: 10.1007/s00531-022-02199-w
• Kusbach, V.K., Machek, M., Roxerová, Z. et al. (2019) Localization effect on AMS fabric revealed by microstructural evidence across small-scale shear zone in marble. Sci Rep 9, 17483. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-53794-y
• Machek, M., Závada, P., Roxerová, Z., Petrovský, E., Špičák, A., & Kusbach, V. (2019). Crystal mush flow in small concentrically expanded pluton (Castle Crags pluton; Klamath Mountains, CA, USA). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 1954– 1974. DOI: 10.1029/2018GC008018

• Collett, S.; Štípská, P.; Kusbach, V.; Schulmann, K. & Marciniak, G. (2016) Dynamics of Saxothuringian subduction channel/wedge constrained by phase equilibria modelling and micro-fabric analysis Journal of Metamorphic Geology, DOI: 10.1111/jmg.12226
• Soldner, J.; Oliot, E.; Schulmann, K.; Štípská, P.; Kusbach, V. & Anczkiewicz, R. (2016) Metamorphic P–T–t–d evolution of (U)HP metabasites from the South Tianshan accretionary complex (NW China) — Implications for rock deformation during exhumation in a subduction channel Gondwana Research, DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.07.007
• Kusbach, V., Janousek, V., Hasalova, P., Schulmann, K., Fanning, CM., Erban, V., Ulrich, S. (2015). Importance of crustal relamination in origin of the orogenic mantle peridotite-high-pressure granulite association: example from the Namest Granulite Massif (Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic). Journal of the Geological Society 172, 4, 479-490 DOI: 10.1144/jgs2014-070
• Kusbach, V., Ulrich, S., and Schulmann, K. (2012). Ductile deformation and rheology of sub-continental mantle in a hot collisional orogeny: Example from the Bohemian Massif. Journal of Geodynamics 56–57 : 108–123, DOI: 10.1016/j.jog.2011.06.004. 
• Kratinová, Z., Machek, M., Kusbach, V., (2010). Fabric transpositions in granite plutons — An insight from non-scaled analogue modelling, Journal of the Geological Society of India 75 : 267-277, DOI: 10.1007/s12594-010-0014-z, PDF for free download.
• Závada, P., Kratinová, Z., Kusbach, V., Schulmann, K., (2009). Internal fabric development in complex lava domes, Tectonophysics 466 : 101–113, DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.07.005.