Recent publications
This page shows the 5 most recent publications per expertise group in the Department of Earth Sciences, as obtained from the database Pure. For the complete Utrecht repository, please visit the .
experimental rock deformation (HPT-lab)
2026
Li, X., Si, G., Cao, W., & Li, T. (2026). Anisotropic damage characterisation by integrating moment tensor inversion and P wave velocity monitoring. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 167, Article 106947.
2025
Arts, J. P. B., Rodrigues, D., Nader, F. H., Drury, M. R., Matenco, L. C., Willingshofer, E., & Niemeijer, A. R. (2025). Interaction between diagenesis and faulting in sandstone reservoirs: Inferences from the Groningen gas field. Journal of Structural Geology, 201, Article 105554.
Verberne, M. A. M. (2025). Disentangling subsidence: Towards a holistic approach. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Utrecht 木瓜福利影视.
Lei, H., Zhou, Y., Niemeijer, A. R., Chen, J., & Spiers, C. J. (2025). Frictional Behavior of Natural Granite Gouges at Hydrothermal Conditions With Varied Initial Grain Size. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(19), Article e2025GL115135.
Zhang, L., Mi, Z., Cao, W., Liu, L., Tas, L., & Hermans, T. (2025). Multi-objective optimization of energy efficiency and geomechanical safety in high-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage (HT-ATES) systems based on coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) analysis. Energy, 332, 1-18. Article 137096.
mantle dynamics & computational geophysics
2025
van der Meer, D. G., Stap, L. B., Scotese, C. R., Mills, B. J. W., Sluijs, A., & van Hinsbergen, D. J. J. (2025). Phanerozoic orbital-scale glacio-eustatic variability. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 667, 1-10. Article 119526.
Trapp-M眉ller, G., Caves Rugenstein, J., Conley, D. J., Geilert, S., Hagens, M., Hong, W. L., Jeandel, C., Longman, J., Mason, P. R. D., Middelburg, J. J., Milliken, K. L., Navarre-Sitchler, A., Planavsky, N. J., Reichart, G. J., Slomp, C. P., Sluijs, A., van Hinsbergen, D. J. J., & Zhang, X. Y. (2025). Earth鈥檚 silicate weathering continuum. Nature Geoscience, 18(8), 691-701.
Wang, T., Zhou, Y., van Hinsbergen, D. J. J., Sun, J., Cheng, X., Chai, R., Xu, S., Wang, P., & Wu, H. (2025). Paleomagnetic Evidence for a Late Permian Qaidam-North China Connection, and the Cryptic Final Mesozoic Intra-Asian Suture. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(8), Article e2025JB031123.
van Hinsbergen, D. J. J., Lamont, T. N., & Guilmette, C. (2025). Lithospheric Unzipping Explaining Hot Orogenesis During Continental Subduction. Tectonics, 44(7), 1-29. Article e2025TC008993.
Thieulot, C., & Bangerth, W. (2025). On the choice of finite element for applications in geodynamics 鈥 Part 2: A comparison of simplex and hypercube elements. Solid Earth, 16(6), 457-476.
paleomagnetism
2025
de Boer, R. A. (2025). Whispers of the North: Towards deciphering Earth's magnetic history from individual magnetic minerals. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Utrecht 木瓜福利影视.
van Grinsven, L., B茅guin, A., Kuiper, K. F., & de Groot, L. V. (2025). The evolution of a Mid-Miocene geomagnetic reversal. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 667, Article 119464.
Palcu Rolier, D. V., Liu, Z., Wei, W., Popov, S., Golovina, L., Vasiliev, I., Krijgsman, W., & Algeo, T. (2025). Paleoenvironmental evolution of the Eastern Paratethys: Tracing the Tethys Ocean legacy through geochemical proxies. Chemical Geology, 692, Article 122974.
Ma, Y., Hu, S., Dekkers, M. J., Yang, T., Niu, C., & Wang, H. (2025). An updated inclination-only fold test for paleomagnetic studies. Tectonophysics, 912, Article 230854.
P芒rvulescu, L., Livadariu, D., Mizeranschi, A. E., Che葲an, M. A., Lamoly, A. M., Ion, M. C., Neac膬, A. M., M茅sz谩ros, M. S., Molnar, A., Mocioac膬, E., Satmari, A., Fusu, L., Panaiotu, C., Clavero, M., & Palcu Rolier, D. V. (2025). Toward Scientific Clarity in the Evolutionary Puzzle of Austropotamobius Crayfish. Journal of Biogeography. Advance online publication.
petrology
2025
Kioe-A-Sen, N. M. E., van Bergen, M. J., Alimoenadi, G., Kriegsman, L. M., & King, H. E. (2025). Shear-zone related gold mineralisation in silicified meta-sediments: The Paleoproterozoic Overman deposit (Guiana Shield, Suriname). Ore Geology Reviews, 186, Article 106892.
Soderman, C. R., Weller, O. M., Copley, A., Finch, A. A., & Beard, C. D. (2025). Petrogenesis of cogenetic silica-undersaturated and -oversaturated rocks: Quantifying the role of crustal assimilation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 667, Article 119516.
Lenstra, W. K., Lantink, M. L., Hennekam, R., Mason, P. R. D., Reichart, G. J., Hilgen, F. J., & Slomp, C. P. (2025). Precession-driven variations in phosphorus cycling facilitated Earth's oxygenation in the early Proterozoic. Chemical Geology, 691, Article 122857.
Zetterlind, A., Kopacz, N., Jumpertz, L., Lagasse De Locht, S., Schneidt, A., Deelen, S., Krijnen, M., van Ingen, H., Hellebrand, E., & ten Kate, I. L. (2025). Laboratory simulations of prebiotic ponds to investigate the impact of ultraviolet radiation on glycine dissolved in aqueous solutions. International Journal of Astrobiology, 24, Article e16.
Ibanez-Mejia, M., Ernst, R. E., Kroonenberg, S., Urbani, F., Soederlund, U., Kamo, S., Lewis, M., Eddy, M. P., Maclennan, S. A., Antonio, P., Mason, P. R. D., & El Bilali, H. (2025). A mantle-plume trigger for one of Earth's largest Precambrian silicic large igneous provinces in the Amazonian Craton. Geology, 53(8), 647鈥651.
seismology
2025
ALICE Collaboration (2025). Light neutral-meson production in pp collisions at = 13 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025(8), 1-47. Article 35.
ALICE Collaboration (2025). J/蠄-hadron correlations at midrapidity in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025(7), Article 23.
ALICE Collaboration (2025). Multiplicity-dependent inclusive J/蠄 production at forward rapidity in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025(7), Article 238.
Akinremi, S., Fadel, I., van Wettum, A., Ruigrok, E., Thomas, C., & van der Meijde, M. (2025). Spatiotemporal evolution of broadband seismological networks in the Netherlands and the added value of the NARS-DICTUM array. Annals of Geophysics, 68, 1-17.
Rijal, A., Cobden, L., & Trampert, J. (2025). SeisTeC: A neural network tool to constrain mantle thermal and chemical properties from seismic observables. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 361, Article 107317.
structural geology & EM
2025
Arts, J. P. B., Rodrigues, D., Nader, F. H., Drury, M. R., Matenco, L. C., Willingshofer, E., & Niemeijer, A. R. (2025). Interaction between diagenesis and faulting in sandstone reservoirs: Inferences from the Groningen gas field. Journal of Structural Geology, 201, Article 105554.
Ortega-Arroyo, D., O'Ghaffari, H., Pe膷, M., Gong, Z., Fu, R. R., Ohl, M., Cattania, C., & Pl眉mper, O. (2025). 鈥淟ab-Quakes鈥: Quantifying the Complete Energy Budget of High-Pressure Laboratory Failure. AGU Advances, 6(5), Article e2025AV001683.
Papeschi, S., Rizzo, R. E., Rielli, A., Tarling, M., Moggi Cecchi, V., Pecchioni, E., Boschi, C., Okazaki, K., Hirose, T., & Vannucchi, P. (2025). Carbonation and deformation of oceanic serpentinites in the Elba subduction channel: Evidence for fluid鈥搑ock interaction at seismogenic depth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 666, Article 119488.
Stoll, N., Weikusat, I., Jansen, D., Bons, P., Daranyi, K., Westhoff, J., Llorens, M.-G., Wallis, D., Eichler, J., Saruya, T., Homma, T., Rasmussen, S. O., Sinnl, G., Svensson, A., Drury, M., Wilhelms, F., Kipfstuhl, S., Dahl-Jensen, D., & Kerch, J. (2025). Linking crystallographic orientation and ice stream dynamics: evidence from the EastGRIP ice core. Cryosphere, 19(9), 3805-3830.
Thaysen, E. M., Butler, I. B., Hassanpouryouzband, A., Spurin, C., Freitas, D., Rizzo, R., Alvarez-Borges, F., Atwood, R., & Edlmann, K. (2025). Time-resolved 2D and 3D imaging of hydrogen and brine displacement processes in porous Clashach sandstone. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 694, Article 137704.
tectonics
2025
Arts, J. P. B., Rodrigues, D., Nader, F. H., Drury, M. R., Matenco, L. C., Willingshofer, E., & Niemeijer, A. R. (2025). Interaction between diagenesis and faulting in sandstone reservoirs: Inferences from the Groningen gas field. Journal of Structural Geology, 201, Article 105554.
Kularatne, K., Beaudoin, N. E., S茅n茅chal, P., Moonen, P., Youssef, S., & Nader, F. H. (2025). Pioneering data on detection, identification and quantification of key carbonate minerals using spectral tomography. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 182, Article 107536.
Nistor, V., Matenco, L., Munteanu, I., & Willingshofer, E. (2025). Defining the formation mechanism of regional scale-folds. Global and Planetary Change, 254, Article 105033.
Randjelovi膰, N., Matenco, L., Krstekani膰, N., Male拧, M., Stojadinovi膰, U., Tolji膰, M., Willingshofer, E., & Trivi膰, B. (2025). Crustal response to slab tearing and detachment: Inferences from the kinematics of the Dinarides-Hellenides transition. Global and Planetary Change, 252, Article 104837.
Sternai, P., Pilia, S., Ghelichkhan, S., Bouilhol, P., Menant, A., Davies, D. R., Ostorero, L., Vaes, B., Esposito, R., Garzanti, E., Cloetingh, S., & Gerya, T. (2025). Raising the Roof of the World: Intra-Crustal Asian Mantle Supports the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen. Tectonics, 44(9), Article e2025TC009057.
tectonophysics
2025
Sgroi, T., Barberi, G., Gasperini, L., Govers, R., Nijholt, N., Lo Mauro, G., Ligi, M., Artoni, A., Torelli, L., & Polonia, A. (2025). Structural development and seismogenesis in the Messina Straits revealed by stress/strain pattern above the edge of the Calabrian slab (Central Mediterranean). Tectonophysics, 915, 1-19. Article 230920. Advance online publication.
Amarathunga, U., Brocks, J. J., Meijer, P. T., Hope, J. M., Zachariasse, W.-J., Hennekam, R., van der Hoeven, I., Roehl, U., Rule, S., Troitzsch, U., Haberle, S., Sluijs, A., Grant, K. M., Krijgsman, W., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Hogg, A. M., Reichart, G.-J., Roberts, A. P., & Rohling, E. J. (2025). Transient oxygenation of the Mediterranean after the Zanclean megaflood. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(34), Article e2505429122.
Govers, R., Herman, M. W., van de Wiel, L., & Nijholt, N. (2025). Probabilistic Assessment of the Causes of Active Deformation in Greece, Western Anatolia, and the Balkans Using Finite Element Models. Tectonics, 44(8), Article e2024TC008658.
Marsman, C. P., Vossepoel, F. C., D鈥橝cquisto, M., van Dinther, Y., van de Wiel, L., & Govers, R. (2025). Unraveling Processes and Rheology of the Tohoku Earthquake Cycle Using Bayesian Inference. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(5), 1-36. Article e2024JB029665.
Ebner, R. M., & Meijer, P. T. (2025). A question of time and space: a model approach to the synchronous precipitation of gypsum and halite during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Climate of the Past, 21(3), 705-718.
geochemistry
2025
Kumar, K., Dhasmana, A., de Leeuw, N. H., Adam, J., & Mishra, A. K. (2025). CO2 activation on metal- and non-metal-doped goldene sheets: A DFT study. Applied Surface Science, 714, Article 164509.
Zhang, Y., Wu, J., Colin, C., Gao, G., Huang, H., Gutjahr, M., Wu, Q., Liu, Z., Pahnke, K., & de Lange, G. J. (2025). Circulation changes in the Mediterranean Sea over the last 30,000 years 鈥 Constraints from deep-water Nd isotopes. Global and Planetary Change, 255, Article 105086.
M眉nch, M. A. (2025). Sediment iron and phosphorus dynamics in shallow peat freshwater bodies after iron amendment. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Utrecht 木瓜福利影视.
Sweere, T., Archer, C., Fleischmann, S., Scholz, F., Kraal, P., & Vance, D. (2025). Ni isotope cycling in sediments of highly productive upwelling systems. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 668, Article 119549.
HosseinpourRokni, M., Zeighami, N., Kowsari, E., Pourfath, M., Tafreshi, S. S., de Leeuw, N. H., & Faramarz, M. A. (2025). Submolecular insights into the adsorption mechanism of imidazolium-based corrosion inhibitors: A novel quantum parameter for predicting inhibition superiority. Applied Surface Science, 706, Article 163569.
environmental hydrogeology
2026
Bai, X., Samari-Kermani, M., Smit, E. K., Schijven, J., Raoof, A., Muyzer, G., & Dinkla, I. J. T. (2026). Consistency and challenges in replicating slow sand filtration for drinking water production across Mini- and Midi-scales. Water Research, 288(Part A), Article 124596.
2025
Mohammadi, M., Ahmadipour, H., Moradian, A., Brunelli, D., & Derakhshani, R. (2025). Multistage petrogenesis and suprasubduction metasomatism of orthopyroxenites in the Ab-Bid ultramafic complex (Iran): Insights from open-system mantle melting. Lithos, 512-513, Article 108163.
Ghorbani, A., Babaeian, E., Sadeghi, M., Durner, W., Jones, S. B., & van Genuchten, M. T. (2025). An improved van Genuchten soil water characteristic model to account for surface adsorptive forces. Journal of Hydrology, 661, Article 133692.
Yan, L., M眉ller, J. C., van Noorden, T. L., Weigand, B., & Raoof, A. (2025). Wettability-driven pore-filling instabilities: Microfluidic and numerical insights. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 696, Article 137884.
Schr枚er, L., Balcaen, T., Folens, K., Boon, N., De Kock, T., Samari-Kermani, M., Kerckhofs, G., & Cnudde, V. (2025). Contrast-Enhanced micro-computed tomography for 3D imaging of biofilms in opaque materials: Insights from water treatment plant sand filters. Water Research, 285, Article 124152.
marine palynology & paleoceanography
2025
Mleczko, M. M., Kusin, K., Hollaar, T. P., Harrison, M. E., Nomeritae, N., Nasir, D., Veen, F. J. F. V., Imron, M. A., Jovani-Sancho, A. J., Evans, C. D., Jaya, A., & Anderson, K. (2025). Tropical peatland hydrological dynamics affect the efficacy of C-band Small BAseline Subset InSAR approaches. Remote Sensing of Environment, 331, 1-24. Article 115009.
Garc铆a-Moreiras, I., Amorim, A., Pospelova, V., Zonneveld, K., Anderson, D. M., Beedessee, G., Dale, A., Dale, B., David, O., de Vernal, A., Fatourou, E., Folie-Boivin, E., Helenes, J., Garc铆a-Portela, M., Gu, F., Gu, H., Irat莽abal, V., Janou拧kovec, J., Limoges, A., ... Mertens, K. N. (2025). Progress, challenges and future directions in marine organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst research: New insights from an international workshop. Marine Micropaleontology, 201, Article 102502.
Kent, M. S., Hollaar, T. P., Meredith, W., Nowak, H., Jardine, P. E., Fraser, W. T., van de Schootbrugge, B., & Lomax, B. H. (2025). Simulated charcoalification of Lycopodium spores: The usefulness of spore colour and chemistry for understanding the fossil record. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 343, Article 105405.
Brinkhuis, H., Fioroni, C., & Kaya, M. Y. (2025). There and back again; on dinoflagellate cyst index events of the Eocene - Oligocene Transition in the (Para)Tethyan Realm. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 343, Article 105414.
Sangiorgi, F., Wubben, E., Hou, S., & Brinkhuis, H. (2025). Dating 鈥榋ebra鈥: A subaerial to ultra-shallow marine Lomonosov Ridge at the end of the Oligocene? Marine Geology, 489, Article 107618.
organic geochemistry
2025
Sinninghe Damst茅, J. S., Villanueva, L., & Pukall, R. (2025). A chemotaxonomic and phylogenomic re-evaluation of the genus Alicyclobacillus: A proposal for reclassification of about half of the species into the new genus, Paenalicyclobacillus gen. nov., with an emended description of the genus Alicyclobacillus, and recognition that the names Alicyclobacillus tengchongensis and Alicyclobacillus montanus are later heterotypic synonyms of Alicyclobacillus tolerans. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 48(6).
Peterse, F., Nierop, K. G. J., Bale, N. J., Feakins, S. J., & Chen, C.-M. (2025). Occurrence of tetraester and mixed ether/ester-bound iso-diabolic acid membrane-spanning lipids in acidic, high-elevation mineral soils. Organic Geochemistry, 207, Article 105013.
Ruan, Y., Mohtadi, M., Dupont, L. M., Hebbeln, D., van der Kaars, S., Chen, W., Hopmans, E. C., Schouten, S., Prange, M., Hefter, J., Mollenhauer, G., & Schefu脽, E. (2025). Late Holocene Human Impact on Tropical Soil Erosion in the Maritime Continent. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(15), Article e2025GL114695.
Varma, D., Yedema, Y. W., Peterse, F., Reichart, G. J., Sinninghe Damst茅, J. S., & Schouten, S. (2025). Impact of terrestrial organic matter input on distributions of hydroxylated isoprenoidal GDGTs in marine sediments: Implications for OH-isoGDGT-based temperature proxies. Organic Geochemistry, 206, Article 105010.
Bale, N. J., Fujimura, H., Pjevac, P., Koenen, M., Ikeda, H., Itagaki, S., Yamamoto, Y., Palmetzhofer, J., Sedlacek, C. J., Palabikyan, H., Sinninghe Damst茅, J. S., Wagner, M., Shiigi, H., & Daims, H. (2025). Unusual Plastoquinones in Non-Phototrophic Nitrifying Bacteria. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 17(4), Article e70174.
(comparative) sedimentology
2025
Adema, P. H., Eggenhuisen, J. T., Jacinto, R. S., Lagunova, N., Alwadhakhi, A. I., van der Woning, R., & Miramontes, E. (2025). Submarine channel shape controls combined turbidity current鈥揷ontour current flow. Marine Geology, 490, Article 107646.
Plint, A. G., Gr枚cke, D. R., Selby, D., Walaszczyk, I., Kamo, S. L., Jarvis, I., Trabucho-Alexandre, J., Flynn, J., Longstaffe, F. J., Marion, K. P., Varban, B. L., Du Vivier, A. D. C., & Uli膷n媒, D. (2025). The Cenomanian鈥揟uronian boundary interval in the Western Canada Foreland Basin: Stratigraphy, geochemistry, geochronology and sea-level changes recorded in expanded and condensed clastic successions. Depositional Record. Advance online publication.
Jarvis, I., Atar, E., Gr枚cke, D. R., & Trabucho-Alexandre, J. P. (2025). Do REEs in mudstones record bottom-water redox? The Pliensbachian鈥揟oarcian record (Lower Jurassic) and T-OAE in the Cleveland Basin, England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 136(4), Article 101114.
Postma, G. (2025). Deepwater Geoscience: 1st Bouma Special Publication. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 95(2), 361-366.
Pierce, C., Flowerdew, M., Szulc, A., Paterson, N., Schneider, S., Pointon, M., Shiers, M., Trabucho Alexandre, J., Heinhuis, Y., Toro, B., Hodgetts, D., Burnham, B., Curtis, M., & Vincent, S. (2025). A multiproxy-multiscale mudrock catalogue from the Cleveland Basin, UK - analogue analyses to aid GCS seal assessments. In 1st EAGE Workshop on the Triassic and Jurassic Plays in Northwest Europe (pp. 1-4). (1st EAGE Workshop on the Triassic and Jurassic Plays in Northwest Europe). European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers.
stratigraphy & paleontology
2025
Manceau, R., Mojtahid, M., Fentimen, R., Rohling, E., de Garidel-Thoron, T., Chaabane, S., & Marino, G. (2025). Insights into the spatial and vertical distribution of extant planktonic foraminifera in the Bay of Bengal. Marine Micropaleontology, 201, Article 102518.
Stratmann, T., Simon-Lled贸, E., van der Meer, M. T. J., Christodoulou, M., Rossel, S., & Cola莽o, A. (2025). Trophic ecology of Ophiuroidea and Asteroidea in the Clarion-Clipperton-Fracture Zone (Central Pacific). Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 225, Article 104598.
Hidding, J., Jarochowska, E., Hohmann, N., Liu, X., Burgess, P., & Spreeuw, H. (2025). CarboKitten.jl 鈥 an open source toolkit for carbonate stratigraphic modeling. (pp. 1-28). EGU.
Waajen-Labee, I., Plets, R., Cartelle, V., Cuperus, M., Donders, T., van Heteren, S., Mestdagh, T., Wagner-Cremer, F., Wallinga, J., Wesselingh, F., & Busschers, F. (2025). Sedimentary architecture of the Brown Bank Formation (Dutch sector of the North Sea) reveals consecutive shallow marine depositional phases during the MIS 5-4 transition. Quaternary Science Reviews, 365, Article 109442.
van Bakel, B. W. M., & Oss贸, 脌. (2025). A new 鈥楽outhern Giant Crab鈥 from a miocene continental slope palaeoenvironment at Taranaki, North Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 68(4), 628-639.