Publications

Book chapters

• Becker, J.K., Bons, P.D., 2007. Melt processes on the grain scale. In: Microdynamic simulations. Eds: Bohns, P.D., Koehn, D., Jessell, M.W.., Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 106, Elsevier, 300 pp.
• Becker, J.K., 2007. Appendix I : Introdcution to Elle. In: Microdynamic simulations. Eds: Bohns, P.D., Koehn, D., Jessell, M.W.., Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 106, Elsevier, 300 pp.
• Jessell, M.W., Bons, P.D., Becker, J.K., 2007. Grain boundary migration. In: Microdynamic simulations. Eds: Bohns, P.D., Koehn, D., Jessell, M.W.., Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 106, Elsevier, 300 pp.

Peer reviewed journals

• Becker, J.K., Siegesmund S., Jelsma H.A., 2000. The Chinamora batholith, Zimbabwe: structure and emplacement related magnetic rock fabric. J.Struct. Geol., 22: 1837 - 1853.
• Becker, J.K., 2000.The emplacement of the Chinamora Batholith (Zimbabwe) inferred from field observations, magnetic- and microfabrics. - Published online at: http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/diss/2001/becker, p. 180.
• Becker, J.K., Benn K., 2000. Structural study of the Kenogamissi Batholith and surrounding Abitibi/Swayze Greenstone belt. Ontario Geological Survey, Open File Report 6032: 9, 1-4.
• Becker, J.K., Benn K., Ayer J.A., 2001. Emplacement and Deformation History of the Kenogamissi Batholith and surrounding Swayze Greenstone Belt. Ontario Geological Survey, Open File Report 6023.
• Becker, J.K., Benn K., 2003. The Late Archean Rice Lake batholith and its place in the tectono-magmatic evolution of the Swayze and Abitibi granite-greenstone belts. Ontario Geological Survey, Open File Report 6132.
• Becker, J.K., Koehn, D., Walte, N., Jessell, M., Bons, P.D., Passchier, C.W., Evans, L., 2004. Numerical simulation of disequilibrium microstructures in solid-melt systems during grain-growth. J. Virtual Explorer, Vol. 14.
• Becker, J.K., Bons, P.D., Jessell, M.W., 2008. A new front tracking method to model anisotropic grain & phase boundary motion in rocks. Computers & Geoscience 34, 201 - 212.
• Becker, J.K., Bons, P.D., in prep. Liquid pressure and wetting angles in partially molten rocks.
• Bons, P.D., Becker, J.K., Elburg, M.A., Urtson, K., accepted. Granite formation: Stepwise accumulation of melt or connected networks? Earth and Environmental Sciences, Trans.Royal Soc. Edinburgh.
• Gomez-Rivas, E., Bons, P.D., Griera, A., Evans, L., Becker J.K., Peschler, A., 2007. Modelo analytico para estimar la deformación mediante el uso de shear bands. Geogaceta, 41, 99 - 102.
• Jelsma, H.A., Becker, J.K., Siegesmund S., 2001. The emplacement of the Chinamora Batholith (Zimbabwe). Z. dt. geol. Ges., 152, 2 - 4, 199 - 255.
• Ketchum, J.W.F., Ayer, J.A., van Breemen, O., Griffin, W.L., Pearson, N.J., O'Reilly, S.Y., Becker, J.K., 2008. Pericontinental Crustal Growth of the Southwestern Abitibi Subprovince, Canada—U-Pb, Hf, and Nd Isotope Evidence . Economic Geol., 103, 1151 – 1184.
• Piazolo, S., Jessell M. W., Bons, P. D., Evans L., Becker, J. K., submitted. Numerical simulations of microstructures using the Elle platform: A modern research and teaching tool . Submitted to Geol. Soc. India, Special Volume Modern Structural Geology.
• Schulman,K., Martelat, J.-E., Ulrich, S.,Lexa, O., Stipska, P., Becker, J.K., 2008. Evolution of microstructure and melt topology in partially molten granitic mylonite: Implications for rheology of felsic middle crust. J. Geophys. Res., 113, B10406, doi:10.1029/2007JB005508.
• Siegesmund, S., Becker, J.K., 2000. The emplacement of the Ardara pluton (Ireland): new constraints from magnetic fabrics, rock fabrics and age dating. Int. J. Earth Sci., 89, 307 - 327.
• Siegesmund, S., Jelsma, H.A., Becker, J.K., Davies, G., Layer, P., van Dijk, E., Kater, L., Vinyu, M., 2002. Constraints on the timing of granite emplacement, deformation and metamorphism in the Shamva area, Zimbabwe. Int. J. Earth Sci., 91, 20 - 34.
• Walte, N.P., Becker, J.K., Bons, P.D., Rubie, D.C., Frost, D.J. (2007): Liquid-distribution and attainment of textural equilibrium in a partially-molten crystalline system with high-dihedral-ablge liquid phase. Earth Planet. Sci. Let., 262, 517 - 532.
• Walte, N.P., Becker, J.K., Bons, P.D., Passchier, C.W., submitted. Evolution and significance of dynamic dihedral angles in a polycrystalline solid-liquid system.
• Wendler, F., Becker, J.K., Nestler, B., Bons, P.D., accepted. Phase-field simulations of partial melts in geological materials. Computers & Geoscience.