Bjarne Almqvist
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Rock Physics with specialisation in magnetism at Department of Earth Sciences; Geophysics
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- +46 18 471 35 70
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- Bjarne.Almqvist@geo.uu.se
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- Geocentrum, Villavägen 16
752 36 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Villavägen 16
752 36 UPPSALA
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My research focuses on the dynamics of continental crust and its physical properties. I use a mix of field work, laboratory experiments and modelling, with target to better understand the deformtion of crust during tectonic events (i.e., orogeny) and crustal mechanics, and mass transport throughout the crust.
Biography
Since May 2013, Researcher, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.
2010 – 2013, Post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Geology, ETHZ
2010, D.Sc. Degree, ETH-Zürich, Institute of Geophysics
2006, M.Sc. Degree, Lakehead University, Dept. of Geology
2003, H.B.Sc. Degree, Lakehead University, Dept. of Anthropology

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Geophysical Journal International, 2025
- DOI for Magnetosomal Greigite as the source of intermediate and inverse magnetic fabrics at IODP site M0061 (Baltic Sea)
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Part of Hydrogeology Journal, p. 425-448, 2025
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 2025
- DOI for The More the Merrier: Multi‐Frequency Magnetic Susceptibility of Loess and Palaeosols as a Sensitive Climate Proxy
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Part of Estonian journal of earth sciences, p. 134-140, 2024
- DOI for The COSC-2 drill core and its well-preserved lower Palaeozoic sedimentary succession: an unexpected treasure beneath the Caledonian nappes
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Part of Chemical Geology, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Geophysical Journal International, 2025
- DOI for Magnetosomal Greigite as the source of intermediate and inverse magnetic fabrics at IODP site M0061 (Baltic Sea)
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Part of Hydrogeology Journal, p. 425-448, 2025
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 2025
- DOI for The More the Merrier: Multi‐Frequency Magnetic Susceptibility of Loess and Palaeosols as a Sensitive Climate Proxy
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Part of Estonian journal of earth sciences, p. 134-140, 2024
- DOI for The COSC-2 drill core and its well-preserved lower Palaeozoic sedimentary succession: an unexpected treasure beneath the Caledonian nappes
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Part of Chemical Geology, 2024
Part of Catena (Cremlingen. Print), 2023
Part of Terra Nova, p. 213-219, 2023
- DOI for Brittle basement deformation during the Caledonian Orogeny observed by K-Ar geochronology of illite-bearing fault gouge in west-central Sweden
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Magnetic fabric analyses of basin inversion: a sandbox modelling approach
Part of Solid Earth, p. 447-461, 2023
- DOI for Magnetic fabric analyses of basin inversion: a sandbox modelling approach
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Part of Minerals, 2022
- DOI for Editorial for Special Issue “Mantle Strain Localization—How Minerals Deform at Deep Plate Interfaces”
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Part of Resources, 2022
- DOI for Elastic Wave Propagation in a Stainless-Steel Standard and Verification of a COMSOL Multiphysics Numerical Elastic Wave Toolbox
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Part of Scientific Drilling, p. 43-57, 2022
- DOI for COSC-2 – drilling the basal décollement and underlying margin of palaeocontinent Baltica in the Paleozoic Caledonide Orogen of Scandinavia
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Magnetic fabric signature within a thrust imbricate: an analogue modelling approach
Part of Tectonics, 2022
- DOI for Magnetic fabric signature within a thrust imbricate: an analogue modelling approach
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Part of Geological Society of America Bulletin, p. 3022-3048, 2022
- DOI for Large-scale, flat-lying mafic intrusions in the Baltican crust and their influence on basement deformation during the Caledonian orogeny
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Part of Quaternary Research, p. 49-73, 2021
- DOI for Enviromagnetic study of Late Quaternary environmental evolution in Lower Volga loess sequences, Russia
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Part of Journal of Structural Geology, 2021
- DOI for Influence of décollement friction on anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility in a fold-and-thrust belt model
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Part of Precambrian Research, 2021
- DOI for Paleomagnetic studies of rapakivi complexes in the Fennoscandian shield – Implications to the origin of Proterozoic massif-type anorthosite magmatism
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Part of Quaternary Science Reviews, p. 107057, 2021
Part of Tectonophysics, 2021
- DOI for Seismic anisotropy of mid crustal orogenic nappes and their bounding structures: An example from the Middle Allochthon (Seve Nappe) of the Central Scandinavian Caledonides
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Part of Tectonophysics, 2021
- DOI for Pressure, temperature and lithological dependence of seismic and magnetic susceptibility anisotropy in amphibolites and gneisses from the central Scandinavian Caledonides
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Part of Geophysical Journal International, p. 709-727, 2021
Part of Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 2021
- DOI for Core‐log‐seismic integration in metamorphic rocks and its implication for the regional geology: A case study for the ICDP drilling project COSC‐1, Sweden
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Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 2021
- DOI for Decrypting Magnetic Fabrics (AMS, AARM, AIRM) Through the Analysis of Mineral Shape Fabrics and Distribution Anisotropy
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Part of Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020
- DOI for The Arctic Ocean Manganese Cycle, an Overlooked Mechanism in the Anomalous Palaeomagnetic Sedimentary Record
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Brittle deformation during eclogitization of early Paleozoic blueschist
Part of Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020
- DOI for Brittle deformation during eclogitization of early Paleozoic blueschist
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Magnetic susceptibility parameters as proxies for desert sediment provenance
Part of Aeolian Research, 2020
- DOI for Magnetic susceptibility parameters as proxies for desert sediment provenance
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Part of Computers & Geosciences, 2020
- DOI for 3D rock fabric analysis using micro-tomography: An introduction to the open-source TomoFab MATLAB code
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Magnetic properties of pseudotachylytes from western Jämtland, central Swedish Caledonides
Part of Solid Earth, p. 807-828, 2020
- DOI for Magnetic properties of pseudotachylytes from western Jämtland, central Swedish Caledonides
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Part of Applied Geochemistry, 2020
Part of Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, p. 3289-3310, 2019
Pressure-induced magnetovolume effect in CoCrFeAl high-entropy alloy
Part of Communications Physics, 2019
- DOI for Pressure-induced magnetovolume effect in CoCrFeAl high-entropy alloy
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Magnetic fabric development in the Lower Seve thrust from the COSC-1 drilling, Swedish Caledonides
Part of Tectonophysics, p. 212-228, 2019
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, p. 7934-7961, 2019
Part of Canadian journal of earth sciences (Print), p. 948-957, 2019
Part of Geophysical Journal International, p. 1089-1107, 2019
- DOI for Coring induced sediment fabrics at IODP Expedition 347 Sites M0061 and M0062 identified by anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS): criteria for accepting palaeomagnetic data
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Initial surface failure and wear of cemented carbides in sliding contact with different rock types
Part of Wear, p. 43-55, 2018
Part of Frontiers in Earth Science, 2018
- DOI for Syn-Emplacement Fracturing in the Sandfell Laccolith, Eastern Iceland: Implications for Rhyolite Intrusion Growth and Volcanic Hazards
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Part of Tectonics, p. 3545-3576, 2018
Bulk strain in orogenic wedges based on insights from magnetic fabrics in sandbox models
Part of Geology, p. 483-486, 2018
Part of Journal of African Earth Sciences, p. 193-206, 2018
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, p. 3999-4019, 2017
Part of Earth and Planetary Science Letters, p. 156-167, 2017
Part of Geological Society Special Publication, 2016
Magma transport in sheet intrusions of the Alnö carbonatite complex, central Sweden
Part of Scientific Reports, 2016
- DOI for Magma transport in sheet intrusions of the Alnö carbonatite complex, central Sweden
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Part of Journal of Quaternary Science, p. 526-537, 2016
Part of Tectonophysics, p. 40-55, 2016
- DOI for 3D reflection seismic imaging at the 2.5 km deep COSC-1 scientific borehole, central Scandinavian Caledonides
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3D magnetotelluric modelling of the Alnö alkaline and carbonatite ring complex, central Sweden
Part of Tectonophysics, p. 218-234, 2016
Part of Tectonophysics, p. 14-28, 2016
Part of Marine and Petroleum Geology, p. 56-71, 2015
Part of Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, p. 3472-3483, 2015
Part of Earth and Planetary Science Letters, p. 24-33, 2015
Part of Tectonophysics, p. 41-57, 2015
The role of stress on chemical compaction of illite shale powder
Part of Geological Society Special Publication, 2015
Part of Scientific Drilling, p. 1-11, 2015
- DOI for COSC-1 - drilling of a subduction-related allochthon in the Palaeozoic Caledonide orogen of Scandinavia
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The formation of the Namib Sand Sea inferred from the spatial pattern of magnetic rock fragments
Part of Earth and Planetary Science Letters, p. 168-172, 2014
The Ronda Peridotite (Spain): a natural template for seismic anisotropy in subduction wedges
Part of Geophysical Research Letters, 2014
- DOI for The Ronda Peridotite (Spain): a natural template for seismic anisotropy in subduction wedges
Part of Tectonophysics, p. 1-5, 2014
Numerical support of laboratory experiments: Attenuation and velocity estimations
Part of Acta Geophysica, p. 1-11, 2014
Part of Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, p. 1819-1841, 2013
Synchrotron-based X-ray tomographic microscopy for rock physics investigations
Part of Geophysics, 2013
Part of Geophysical Journal International, 2013
Part of Tectonophysics, p. 162-178, 2013
Part of International journal of earth sciences, 2012
Part of Bulletin of Volcanology, 2012
Part of Geophysical Journal International, 2012
Part of Journal of Structural Geology, p. 54-60, 2012
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research, 2011
Melt migration in basalt columns driven by crystallization-induced pressure gradients
Part of Nature Communications, 2011
Part of Journal of Structural Geology, p. 1010-1022, 2011
Magnetic susceptibility as a tool to study deformed calcite with variable impurity content
Part of Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 2010
Elastic properties of anisotropic synthetic calcite-muscovite aggregates
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research, 2010
Magnetic fabrics of the Morcles nappe complex
Part of Tectonophysics, p. 89-100, 2009
Correcting distorted paleosecular variation in late glacial lacustrine clay
Part of Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, p. 20-43, 2008
Specimen size and improved precision with the Molspin spinner magnetometer
Part of Earth and Planetary Science Letters, p. 381-386, 2006
Installation age of limestone masonry determined from its viscous remagnetization
Part of Geoarchaeology, p. 29-60, 2006
Articles, review/survey
Conference papers
Numerical, predictive and experimental study on elastic wave propagation in crystalline rocks
2021
Joint pressure and temperature effects on seismic properties of gneisses and amphibolite
2021
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Part of Mineral Exploration Symposium, p. 1-3, 2020
Growth stages of cryptodomes: Examples from Iceland and Argentina
2019
Magma Deformation During Laccolith Emplacement: Examples From Iceland And Argentina
Part of Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 2018
Syn-emplacement fracturing in the Sandfell laccolith, eastern Iceland
2018
2017