Publications in journals and conference volumes:

BECKER, L.P. & FRANZ, L. (1992): Ein neues Metatuffit-Vorkommen in Stattegg-Neudorf (nördlich Graz, Stmk.). Mitteilungen des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins der Steiermark, 121, 111-117.

FRANZ, L.; OKRUSCH, M. & SEIDEL, E. (1992): Comparison between pre-Alpidic basement rocks on Crete and the Dodecanese. "Proc. Internat. Earth Sci. Congr. on Aegean Regions (IESCA 1990)", IESCA Publication No.2, 198-205.

FRANZ, L. & OKRUSCH, M. (1992): Aragonite-bearing blueschists on Arki island, Dodekanese, Greece. European Journal of Mineralogy, 4, 527-537.

KELBER, P.; FRANZ, L.; STACHEL, T.; LORENZ, V. & OKRUSCH, M. (1992/93): Plant fossils from Gross Brukkaros (Namibia) and their biostratigraphical significance. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia, 8, 57-66.

KURSZLAUKIS, S.; FRANZ, L. & SMITH, C.B. (1992): Geologie, Geochemie, Geomagnetik und Geochronologie der Blue Hills. Zentralblatt zur Geologie und Paläontologie Teil I, 3/4, 249-251.

FRANZ, L.; BREY, G.P. & OKRUSCH, M. (1992): Kimberlite und Mantelxenolithe der Gibeon Provinz. Zentralblatt zur Geologie und Paläontologie Teil I, 3/4, 251-252.

FRANZ, L.; OKRUSCH, M. & BRÖCKER, M. (1993): Polymetamorphic evolution of pre-Alpidic basement rocks on the island of Sikinos (Cyclades, Greece). Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 4, 145-162.

FRANZ, L. (1993): Geochemische Untersuchungen von präalpidischen Amphiboliten der Insel Kreta und des Dodekanes (Griechenland). Zentralblatt der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, 144, 121-127.

KLEINSCHROT, D.; KLEMD, R; BRÖCKER, M.; OKRUSCH, M.; FRANZ, L. & SCHMIDT, K. (1993): The Nsuta manganese deposit, Ghana: geological setting, ore-forming process and metamorphic evolution. Zeitschrift für angewandte Geologie, 39, 48-50.

KLEINSCHROT, D.; KLEMD, R; BRÖCKER, M.; OKRUSCH, M.; FRANZ, L. & SCHMIDT, K. (1994): Protores and country rocks of the Nsuta manganese deposit (Ghana). Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 168, 67-108.

HEINRICH, W.; FRANZ, L.; HEIN, U. & HERMS, P. (1994): Microthermometry of synthetic fluid inclusions: an interlaboratory comparison using different heating/freezing stages. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 7, 295-313.

BRÖCKER, M. & FRANZ, L. (1994): The contact aureole on Tinos (Cyclades, Greece). Part I: field relationships, petrography and P-T conditions. Chemie der Erde, 54, 262-280.

DINGELDEY, D.P.; DÜRR, S.; FRANZ, L.; CHARLESWORTH, E.G.; OKRUSCH, M. & STANISTREET, I. (1995): A traverse through the northern branch of the Damara Orogen west of Sesfontein, Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 19, 315-329.

DÜRR, S.B.; DINGELDEY, D.P.; OKRUSCH, M. & FRANZ, L. (1995): Transpression in the Panafrican Kaoko Belt of northern Namibia: structural and petrologic implications. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie I, 3/4, 495-505.

FRANZ, L.; BREY, G.P. & OKRUSCH, M. (1996): Reequilibration of ultramafic xenoliths from Namibia by metasomatic processes at the mantle boundary. Journal of Geology, 104, 599-615.

FRANZ, L.; BREY, G.P. & OKRUSCH, M. (1996): Steady state geotherm, thermal disturbances and tectonic development of the lithosphere underneath the Gibeon Kimberlite Province (Namibia). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 126, 181-198.

KURSZLAUKIS, S. & FRANZ, L. (1997): Phase petrology, geochemistry and evolution on the ultrabasic-carbonatitic Blue Hills Complex (southern Namibia). Russian Geology and Geophysics, 38, 1, 50-68; Geologiya i Geofizika, UDC 552.333.5 + 552.113.

FRANZ, L.; BREY, G.P. & OKRUSCH, M. (1997): Metasomatic reequilibration of mantle xenoliths from the Gibeon Kimberlite Province (Namibia). Russian Geology and Geophysics, 38, 1, 261-276; Geologiya i Geofizika, UDC 552.323.6 (6).

HENK, A.; FRANZ, L.; TEUFEL, S. & ONCKEN, O. (1997): Magmatic underplating, extension and crustal reequilibration - insights from a cross section through the Ivrea Zone and Strona-Ceneri Zone / northern Italy. Journal of Geology, 105, 367-377.

FRANZ, L.; SCHUSTER, A.K. & STRAUSS, K.W. (1997): Basement evolution in the Rhenohercynian segment: discontinuous exhumation history of the Eckergneis Complex (Harz Mountains, Germany). Chemie der Erde, 57, 105-135.

ZURBRIGGEN, R.; FRANZ, L. & HANDY, M. (1997): Pre-Variscan deformation, metamorphism and magmatism in the Strona-Ceneri Zone (southern Alps of northern Italy and southern Switzerland). Schweizer Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 77, 361-380.

FRANZ, L.; SEIFERT, W. & KRAMER, W. (1997): Thermal evolution of the mantle underneath the Mid-German Crystalline Rise: evidence from mantle xenoliths from the Rhön area (Central Germany). Mineralogy and Petrology, 61, 1-25.

FRANZ, L. & WIRTH, R. (1997): Thin intergranular melt films and melt pockets in spinel peridotite xenoliths from the Rhön area (Germany): early stage of melt generation by grain boundary melting. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 129, 268-283.

FRANZ, L. & SEIFERT, W. (1998): Basement studies in a continental suture zone - Xenoliths from the Mid-German Crystalline Rise (Rhön area, Mid-European Variscides). Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 173, 263-303.

BRÖCKER, M. & FRANZ, L. (1998): Rb-Sr dating of metamorphic rocks from the Upper and Intermediate Tectonic Units on Tinos (Cyclades, Greece). Geological Magazine, 135, 369-382.

FRANZ, L. & HARLOV, D.E. (1998): High grade K-feldspar veining in granulites from the Ivrea-Verbano Zone, Northern Italy: fluid flow in the lower crust and implications for granulite facies genesis. Journal of Geology, 106, 455-472.

KURSZLAUKIS, S.; FRANZ, L. & LORENZ, V. (1998): On the volcanology of the Gibeon Kimberlite Field, Namibia. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 84, 257-272.

ROMER, R. & FRANZ, L. (1998): Ordovician Barrow-type metamorphism in the Strona-Ceneri Zone (Northern Italy) dated by U-Pb on staurolite. Schweizer Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 78, 383-395.

KURSZLAUKIS, S.; LORENZ, V. & FRANZ, L. (1998): The Gibeon Kimberlite Province. Namibia field excursion guide; 7th International Kimberlite Conference, Cape Town, 43-51.

KURSZLAUKIS, S. & FRANZ, L. (1998): Blue Hills Intrusive Complex. Namibia field excursion guide; 7th International Kimberlite Conference, Cape Town, 65-71.

HERZIG, P.M.; HANNINGTON, M.D.; STOFFERS, P.; BECKER, K.P.; DRISCHEL, M.; FRANKLIN, J.; FRANZ, L.; GEMMEL, J.B.; HOEPPNER, B.; HORN, C.; HORZ, K.; JELLINECK, T.; JONASSON, I.R.; KIA, P.; NICKELSEN, S.; PERCIVAL, J.; PERFIT, M.; PETERSEN, S.; SCHMIDT, M.; SEIFERT, T.; THIEßEN, O.; TÜRKAY, M.; TUNNICLIFFE, V. & WINN, K. (1998): Petrology, gold mineralization and biological communities at shallow submarine volcanoes of the New Ireland fore-arc (Papua-New Guinea): Preliminary results of R/V Sonne cruise SO-133. Inter Ridge News, 7, 34-38.

FRANZ, L.; ROMER, R. & DINGELDEY, P.D. (1999): Diachronous Pan-African granulite-facies metamorphism (650 Ma and 550 Ma) in the Kaoko belt, NW Namibia. European Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 167-180.

KURSZLAUKIS, S. & FRANZ, L. & BREY, G.P. (1999): The Blue Hills Intrusive Complex in Southern Namibia – relationships between carbonatites and monticellite picrites. Chemical Geology, 160, 1-18.

HANDY, M.; FRANZ, L.; HELLER, F.; JANOTT, B. & ZURBRIGGEN, R. (1999): Multistage accretion, orogenic stacking, and exhumation of continental crust (Ivrea crustal section, Italy and Switzerland). Tectonics, 18, 1154-1177.

WIRTH, R. & FRANZ, L. (2000): Thin amorphous intergranular layers at mineral interfaces in xenoliths: the early stage of melting. In: N. Bagdassarov, D. Laporte, A.B. Thompson (eds.): Physics and chemistry of partially molten rocks; Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 229-268.

BRÖCKER, M. & FRANZ, L. (2000): Contact metamorphism on Tinos (Cyclades, Greece). Part II: aureole characteristics, mineral chemistry and Rb-Sr chronology. Mineralogy and Petrology, 70, 257-283.

FRANZ, L. & WIRTH, R. (2000): Spinel inclusions in olivine of peridotite xenoliths from TUBAF seamount (Bismarck Archipelago/Papua New Guinea): evidence for the thermal and tectonic evolution of the mantle lithosphere under the mid-ocean ridge. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 140, 283-295.

SCHMID, R.; FRANZ, L.; OBERHÄNSLI, R. & DONG, S. (2000): High Si-phengite, mineral chemistry and P-T evolution of ultra-high-pressure eclogites and calc-silicates from the Dabie Shan, eastern PR China. Geological Journal, 35, 185-207.

FRANZ, L.; ROMER, R.; KLEMD, R.; SCHMID, R.; OBERHÄNSLI, R.; WAGNER, T.; & DONG, S. (2001): Eclogite-facies quartz veins within metabasites of the Dabie Shan (eastern China): pressure-temperature-time-deformation-path, composition of the fluid phase and fluid flow during exhumation of high-pressure rocks. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 141, 322-346.

SCHMID, R.; RYBERG, T.; RATSCHBACHER, L.; SCHULZE, A.; FRANZ, L.; OBERHÄNSLI, R. & DONG., S. (2001): Crustal structure of the eastern Dabie Shan – interpreted from a reflection profile and tomography. Tectonophysics, 333, 347-359.

MÜLLER, D.; FRANZ, L.; HERZIG, P. & HUNT, S. (2001): Potassic igneous rocks from the vicinity to epithermal gold mineralization at Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea. Lithos, 57, 163-186.

SEIFERT, T.; HERZIG, P.M.; HALBACH, P.; BECKER, K.P.; FRANZ, L.; LITTMANN, S. & HÖPPNER, B. (2002): OIB-Vulkanismus in einem Back-arc-Becken im SW-Pazifik (Nord-Fidschi-Becken, 16°50'S Triple Junction) - SO-99 (HYFIFLUX I) und SO-134 (HYFIFLUX II), Teilprojekt Petrologie. BMBF-Statusseminar Meeresforschung mit FS Sonne, BEO Tagungsband, 291-297.

FRANZ, L.; BECKER, K.P.; KRAMER, W. & HERZIG, P. (2002): Metasomatic mantle xenoliths from the Bismarck Microplate (Papua New Guinea) – thermal evolution, geochemistry and extent of slab-induced metasomatism. Journal of Petrology, 43, 315-343.

HERZIG, P.M.; PETERSEN, S.; KUHN, T.; HANNINGTON, M.D.; STOFFERS, P.; GEMMEL, B.; SKINNER, A.C.; BECKER, K.P.; CAMPBELL, N.C.; CAVILL-JONES, J.; FENSCH, M.; FRANZ, L.; GILLESPIE, E.J.; HENKEL, E.; KIDD, R., KIM, D.; KSIENZKY, F.; LANCASTER, R.; LEE, J.H.; MONECKE, T.; MÜLLER, M.; SMITH, D.J. & STROTHMANN, F. (2003): Shallow drilling of seafloor hydrothermal systems using R/V sonne and the BGS rock drill: Conical Seamount (New Ireland forearc) and PACMANUS (Eastern Manus basin), Papua New Guinea. Inter Ridge News, 12, 22-26.

GRIMMER, J.; RATSCHBACHER, L.; McWILLIAMS, M.; FRANZ, L.; GAITZSCH, I.; TICHOMIROWA, M.; HACKER, B. & ZHANG, Y. (2003): When did the ultrahigh-pressure rocks reach the surface? A 207Pb/206Pb zircon, 40Ar/39Ar white mica, Si-in-white mica, single grain provenance study of Dabie Shan synorogenic foreland sediments. Chemical Geology, 197, 87-110.

SCHMID, R.; ROMER, R.; FRANZ, L.; OBERHÄNSLI, R. & MARTINOTTI, G. (2003): Basement-cover sequences within the UHP unit of Dabie Shan. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 21, 1-18.

SCHMID, R.; WILKE, M.; OBERHÄNSLI, R.; JANSSENS, K.; FALKENBERG, G.; FRANZ L. & GAAB, A. (2003): Micro-XANES determination of ferric iron and its application in thermobarometry. Lithos, 70, 381-392.

MÜLLER, D.; FRANZ, L.; PETERSEN, S.; HERZIG, P.M. & HANNINGTON, M.D. (2003): Comparison between magmatic activity and gold mineralization at Conical Seamount and Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea. Mineralogy and Petrology, 79, 259-283.

RENNO, A.D.; FRANZ, L.; WITZKE, T. & HERZIG, P.M. (2004): The coexistence of melts of hydrous copper chloride, sulfide and silicate compositions in a magnesiohastingsite cumulate, TUBAF seamount, Papua New Guinea. Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1-16.

LIATI, A.; FRANZ, L.; GEBAUER, D. & FANNING, M. (2004): The timing of mantle and crustal events in South Namibia, as defined by SHRIMP-dating of zircon domains from a garnet peridotite xenolith of the Gibeon Kimberlite Province. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 39, 147-157.

KUHN, T.; ALEXANDER, B.; AUGUSTIN, N.; BIRGEL, D.; BOROWSKI, C; CARVALHO, L.M. DE; ENGEMANN, G.; ERTL, S.; FRANZ, L.; GRECH, C.; HERZIG, P.M.; HEKINIAN, R.; IMHOFF, J.F.; JELLINEK, T.; KLAR, S.; KOSCHINSKY, A.; KUEVER, J.; KULESCHA, F.; LACKSCHEWITZ, K.; PETERSEN, S.; RATMEYER, V.; RENKEN, J.; RUHLAND, G.; SCHOLTEN, J.; SCHREIBER, K.; SEIFERT, R.; SÜLING, J.; TÜRKAY, M.; WESTERNSTRÖER, U. & ZIELINSKY, F. (2004): The Logatchev hydrothermal field – revisited: preliminary results of the R/V Meteor Cruise HYDROMAR I (M60/3). Inter Ridge News, 13, 1-4.

FRETZDORFF, S.; WORTHINGTON, T.J.; HAASE, K.M.; HÉKINIAN, R.; FRANZ, L.; KELLER, R.A. & STOFFERS, P. (2004): Magmatism in the Bransfield Basin: Rifting of the South Shetland Arc? Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, doi10.1029/2004JB0034046.

BRÖCKER, M. & FRANZ, L. (2005): The base of the Cycladic blueschist unit on Tinos Island (Greece) re-visited: Field relationships, phengite chemistry and Rb-Sr geochronology. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 181, 81-93.

FRANZ, L.; OKRUSCH , M.; SEIDEL, E. & KREUZER, H. (2005): Polymetamorphic evolution of pre-Alpidic basement relics in the external Hellenides, Greece. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 181/2, 147-172.

PETERSEN, S.; HERZIG, P.M.; KUHN, T.; FRANZ, L.; HANNINGTON, M.D.; MONECKE, T. & GEMMEL, J.B. (2005): Shallow drilling of seafloor hydrothermal systems using the BGS Rockdrill: Conical Seamount (New Ireland Fore-Arc) and Pacmanus (Eastern Manus Basin), Papua New Guinea. Marine Georesources & Geotechnology, 23, 175-193.

ROMER, R.; FRANZ, L. & WIRTH, R. (2005): Chemical and isotopic effects of retrogression in metamorphic fluid inclusions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, DOI 10.1007/s00410-005-0053-4.