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2016

Wendler, J. E., Wendler, I., Vogt, C., Kuss, J. (2016): Link between cyclic eustatic sea-level change and continental weathering: Evidence for aquifer-eustasy in the Cretaceous, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 441, 430–437. PDF

2015

Scheibner, C., Blomeier, D., Forke, H., Gesierich, K. (2015) From terrestrial to shallow-marine depositional environments: reconstruction of the depositional environments during the Late Carboniferous transgression of the Lomfjorden Trough in NE Spitsbergen (Malte Brunfjellet Formation) Norwegian Journal of Geology Vol 95: 127-152 PDF

2014

Lüning, S. & Kuss, J. (2014): Petroleum geology of Jordan. – In: Marlow, L. & Kendall, C. and Yose, L. (Eds.) Petroleum systems of the Tethyan Margin, AAPG Mem. 106, p. 217-239. PDF

Özcan, E., Scheibner, C., Boukhalfa, K., (2014): Orthophragminids (foraminiferida) across the Paeleocene/Eocene transition from Galala, Egypt: Taxonomy and paleobiogeographic implications, Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 44: 203-229 PDF

Wendler, J.E. & Meyers, S.R., Wendler, I., Kuss, J. (2014): A milllion-year-scale astronomical control on Late Cretaceous sea-level. Newsletter of Stratigraphy. PDF

2013

Blomeier, D., Carmohn, A., Forke, H., Scheibner, C. (2013): Facies analysis and depositional environments of a storm-dominated, temperate to cold, mixed siliceous-carbonate ramp: the Permian Kapp Starostin Formation in NE Svalbard, Norwegian Journal of Geology 93: 75-93 PDF

Ghanem, H. & Kuss, J. (2013). Stratigraphic control of the Aptian-Early Turonian sequences of the Levant Platform (Northwest Syria - Coastal Range) - GeoArabia 18: 85-132 PDF

Höntzsch, S., Scheibner, C., Brock, J.P., Kuss, J. (2013) Circum-Tethyan carbonate platform evolution during the Palaeogene: the Prebetic platform as test for climatically-controlled facies shifts, Turkish Journal of Geology 22: 891-918. PDF

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2012

Bey, S., Kuss, J., Premoli Silva, I., Negra, M. H., Gardin, S. (2012): Fault-controlled stratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous Abiod Formation at Ain Medheker (Northeast Tunisia).- Cretaceous Research 34: 10-25 PDF

Ghanem, H. Mouty, M. Kuss, J. (2012): Biostratigraphy and Carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the uppermost Aptian to Late Cenomanian strata of the Southern Palmyrids, Geoarabia 17: 155-184 PDF

Scheibner, C., Hartkopf-Fröder, C., Blomeier, D., Forke, H., (2012) The Lower Carboniferous in NE Spitsbergen and a re-evaluation of the Billefjorden Group, Z. dt. Ges. Geowiss. 163: 293-308

Speijer, R.P., Scheibner, C., Stassen, P., Morsi, A.M.M. (2012): Response of marine ecosystems to deep time global warming: a synthesis of biotic patterns across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 105: 6-16 PDF

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2011

Blomeier, D., Carmohn, A., Scheibner, C., Forke, H. (2011): Environmental change in the Permian of Spitsbergen: From a warm-water carbonate platform (Templet and Sørfonna members, Gipshuken Formation) to a temperate, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate ramp (Vøringen Member, Kapp Starostin Formation). Facies 57: 493-523 PDF

Boukhary, M., Scheibner, C. (2011): New Paleocene large cassiduline foraminifera (Cassidinidae fam.nov., Miscellanacea) from Egypt and its phylogeny. Historical Biology 23: 349-366

Höntzsch, S., Scheibner, C., Guasti, E., Kuss, H.J., Marzouk, A., Rasser, M.W. (2011) Increasing restriction of the Egyptian shelf during the Early Eocene? – New insights from a southern Tethyan carbonate platform. Palaegeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 302: 349-366. PDF

Höntzsch, S., Scheibner, C., Kuss, H.J., Marzouk, A.M., Rasser, M.W. (2011) Tectonically driven carbonate ramp evolution at the southern Tethyan shelf: the Lower Eocene succession of the Galala Mountains, Egypt. Facies 57: 51-72. PDF

Maletz, J., Egenhoff, S., Böhme, M., Asch, R., Borowski, K., Höntzsch, S., Kirsch, M. & Werner, M. 2011. A tale of both sides of Iapetus - Upper Darriwilian (Ordovician) graptolite faunal dynamics on the edges of two continents. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 48, 841-859. Doi: 10.1139/E10-105.

Schulte, P., Scheibner, C., Speijer, R.P. (2011): Fluvial discharge and sea-level changes controlling black shale deposition during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Dababiya Quarry Section, Egypt. Chemical Geology 285: 167-183. PDF

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2010

Abd El-Naby A.,Ghanem H., Boukhary M., Abd El-Aal M., Lüning S., and  Kuss J.,  (2010): Stratigraphy Interpretation of structurally controlled Deposition: Middle Miocene Kareem Formation, Southwestern Gulf of Suez, Egypt.  GeoArabia 15: 129-150 PDF

Bachmann, M., Kuss, J., Lehmann, J. (2010): Controls and evolution of facies patterns in the Upper Barremian–Albian Levant Platform in North Sinai and North Israel.- In: Homberg & Bachmann (Eds.) Evolution of the Levant Margin and Western Arabia Platform since the Mesozoic) Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 341, 99–131. PDF

Heldt., M., Lehmann, J., Bachmann, M., Negra, H., Kuss, J. (2010): Increased terrigenous influx but no drowning: palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Tunisian carbonate platform margin during the Late Aptian.- Sedimentology 57, 695-719. PDF

HOMBERG, C., BACHMANN, M., Evolution of the Levant Margin and Western Arabia Platform since the Mesozoic Geological Society, London, Special Publications Vol. 341, Link

Morsi, A-M.M. and Wendler, J., (2010). Ostracode record from the middle Cenomanian – early Turonian of Central Jordan: Taxonomy and palaeoecology related to Oceanic Anoxic Event 2. Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 341, 187-210. PDF

Wendler, J., Lehmann, J., Kuss, J. (2010): Orbital time scale, intra-platform basin correlation, carbon isotope stratigraphy and sea-level history of the Cenomanian–Turonian Eastern Levant platform, Jordan.- In: (Homberg & Bachmann, Eds.: Evolution of the Levant Margin and Western Arabia Platform since the Mesozoic) Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 341, 171-186. PDF

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2009

Abd El-Naby, A., Abd El-Aal, M., Kuss. J., Boukhary, M., Lashin, A. (2009): Structural and basin evolution in Miocene time, southwestern Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und
Paläontologie – Abhandlungen, 251: 331-353.

Boukhary, M., Scheibner, C. (2009): On the Origin of Nummulites: Urnummulites schaubi n.gen. n.sp. from the Late Paleocene of Egypt. Micropalaeontology 55: 413-420. PDF

Blomeier, D., Scheibner, C., Forke, H. (2009): Facies arrangement and cyclostratigraphic architecture of a shallow-marine, warm-water carbonate platform: The Late Carboniferous Ny Friesland Platform in eastern Spitsbergen (Pyefjellet Beds, Wordiekammen Formation, Gipsdalen Group). Facies 55: 291-324. PDF

Morsi, A.M.M., Scheibner, C. (2009): Paleocene – Lower Eocene ostracods from the Southern Galala Plateau area (Eastern Desert, Egypt): impacts of tectonics and platform evolution on ostracode distribution, Revue de Micropaleontology 52: 149-192 PDF

Hoentzsch, S., Scheibner, C., Marzouk, A.M., Rasser, M.W. and Kuss, H.J., (2009): Multiple Early Eocene thermal maxima at low latitude platform carbonates - The Eocene succession of the Galala Mountains, Egypt. In: E.M. Crouch, C.P. Strong and C.J. Hollis (Editors), Climatic and biotic events of the Paleogene (CBEP 2009), extended abstracts from an international conference in Wellington, New Zealand, 12-15 January 2009. GNS Science Miscellaneous Series 18, pp. 70-74.

Lehmann, J., Heldt, M., Bachmann, M., Negra, M.E.H (2009): Aptian (Lower Cretaceous biostratigraphy and cephalopods from north central Tunisia, Cretaceous Research 30: 895-910 PDF

Scheibner, C., Speijer R.P. (2009): Recalibration of shallow-bentic zonations across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: Evidences from Egypt, Geologica Acta 7:195-214. PDF

Sepúlveda, J., Wendler, J., Leider, A., Kuss, J., Summons, R., Hinrichs, K.-U. (2009): Molecular-isotopic evidence of marine productivity changes across the C/T boundary in the Levant platform (Central Jordan). Organic Geochemistry 40, 553-586.

Wendler, I., Wendler, J., Neuhuber, S. and Wagreich, M. (2009): Productivity fluctuations and orbital cyclicity during onset of Early to Middle Turonian marine red bed formation (Austrian Eastern Alps), SEPM Special Publication 91, 209-221.


Wendler, J., Wendler, I. and Kuss, J. (2009). Early Turonian shallow marine red beds on the Levant carbonate platform (Jordan), Southern Tethys. SEPM Special Publication 91, 179-187.

Wendler, I., Wendler, J., Gräfe, K.-U., Willems, H., Lehmann, J., (2009): Turonian to Santonian carbon isotopes from the Tethys Himalaya, South Tibet. Cretaceous Research 30, 961-979; doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2009.02.010

2008

Boukhary, M.A., Kuss, J. M. Abdelraouf (2008): Chattian Larger Foraminifera, northern Sinai, Egypt, and paleogeographic interpretations. Stratigraphy 5: 179-192. PDF

Heldt, M., Bachmann, M., Lehmann, J. (2008): Microfacies, biostratigraphy, and geochemistry of the hemipelagic Barremian-Aptian in north-central Tunisia: Influence of the OAE 1a on the southern Tethys margin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 261: 246-260. PDF

Kuss, J. Boukhary, M.A., (2008): A new upper Oligocene marine record from northern Sinai (Egypt) and its paleogeographic context.- Geoarabia 13/1, 59-84. PDF

Scheibner, C., Speijer, R.P. (2008): Decline of coral reefs during late Paleocene to early Eocene global warming. eEarth, 3: 19-26 PDF

Scheibner, C., Speijer, R.P. (2008): Late Paleocene–early Eocene Tethyan carbonate platform evolution — A response to long- and short-term paleoclimatic change. Earth-Science Reviews, 90: 71-102. PDF

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2007

Guasti, E. and Speijer, R.P. (2007): Guasti, E. and Speijer, R.P., 2007. The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in Egypt and Jordan: An overview of the planktic foraminiferal record. In: S. Monechi, R. Coccioni and M.R. Rampino (Editors), Large ecosystems perturbations: causes and consequences. Geological Society of America Special Paper 424: 53-67.

Scheibner, C., Rasser, M., Mutti, M. (2007): The Campo section (Pyrenees, Spain) revisited: Implications for changing benthic carbonate assemblages across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 248: 145-168. PDF

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2006

Bachmann, M., Hirsch, F. (2006.): Lower Cretaceous carbonate platform of the Eastern Levant (Galilee and the Golan Heights): stratigraphy and second-order sea-level change, Cretaceous Research, 27, 487 - 512. PDF

Ernst, S.R., Guasti, E., Dupuis, C., Speijer, R. P. (2006): The impact of Paleocene Eocene thermal maximum on foraminifera in the southern Tethys (Dababiya, Egypt), Marine Micropaleontology 60, 89-111.

Fello, N., Lüning, S., Storch, P., Redfern, J. (2006): Identification of early Llandovery (Silurian) anoxic palaeo-depressions at the western margin of the Murzuq Basin (southwest Libya), based on gamma-ray spectrometry in surface exposures. GeoArabia 11 (3): 101-118.

Geiger M., Schweigert G. (2006.): Toarcian-Kimmeridgian depositional cycles of the Morondava Basin along the early continental margin of Madagascar. Facies, 52, 85-112. PDF

Guasti, E., Speijer, R. P., Brinkhuis, H., Steurbaut E., Smit, J. (2006): Paleoenvironmental change at the Danian-Selandian transition in Tunisia: planktic foraminifera, calcareous nannofossils and organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts records, Marine Micropaleontology 59, 210-229.

Lüning, S., Loydell, D. K., Storch, P., Shahin, Y., Craig, J., (2006): Origin, sequence stratigraphy and depositional environment of an upper Ordovician (Hirnantian) deglacial black shale, Jordan - Discussion. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 230: 352-355.

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2005

Guasti, E. , Kouwenhoven, T.J., Brinkhuis, H. and Speijer, R.P. (2005): Paleocene sea-level and productivity changes at the southern Tethyan margin (El Kef, Tunisia). Marine Micropaleontology, 55, 1-17. PDF

Lehmann, J., Wendler, I., Wendler, J., Willems, H., Hu, X. (2005). First Ammonite and Inoceramid data from the Upper Cretaceous of the Tingri section in SE-Tibet: Biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental implications. Earth Science Frontiers 12 (2), 105-112.

Lüning, S., Y. M. Shahin, D. Loydell, H. T. Al-Rabi, A. Masri, B. Tarawneh, S. Kolonic (2005): Anatomy of a world-class source rock: Distribution and depositional model of Silurian organic-rich shales in Jordan and implications for hydrocarbon potential. AAPG Bull. 89: 1397-1427.

Rasser, M.W, Scheibner, C., Mutti, M. (2005): A paleoenvironmental standard section for Lower Ilerdian tropical carbonate factories (Pyrenees, Spain; Corbieres, France), Facies 51, 217-232. PDF

Scheibner, C. Speijer, R. P., Marzouk, A. M. (2005): Larger foraminiferal turnover during the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum and paleoclimatic control on the evolution of platform ecosystems, Geology 33: 493-496. PDF

Schulze, F., Kuss, J., Marzouk, A. (2005): Platform cofiguration, microfacies and cyclicities of the upper Albian to Turonian of west-central Jordan. Facies, 50, 505-527. PDF

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2004

Bauer, J., Steuber, T., Kuss, J. & Heimhofer, U. (2004): Distribution of shallow-water benthics: The Cenomanian – Turonian carbonate platform sequences of Sinai, Egypt. Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Rudists. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 247, 207-231.

Bison, K., Wendler, J., Versteegh, G.J.M., Willems, H. (2004). Tetratropis terrina sp. nov., a new calcareous dinoflagellate cyst from the Upper Campanian polyplocom zone of Lägerdorf (NW Germany). Journal of Micropalaeontoloy 23, 127-132.

Galeotti, S., Kaminski, M.A., Coccioni, R. & Speijer, R.P. (2004): High resolution Deep-Water Agglutinated Foraminiferal record across the Paleocene/Eocene transition in the Contessa Road Section (central Italy). In: Bubik, M. and Kaminski, M.A. (Eds), Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication, 8, 83-103.

Geiger M., Clark D.N., Mette W. (2004): Reappraisal of the timing of the break-up of Gondwana based on sedimentological and seismic evidence from the Morondava Basin, SW Madagascar. J Afr Earth Sci 38:363-381

Guasti, E. , Iaccarino, S. and Kouwenhoven, T., (2004): Middle Miocene Paleoceanography of the western Equatorial Atlantic Ocean (Leg 154, Site 926): evidence from benthic foraminifera. In: Coccioni, R., Galeotti, S., and Lirer, F., (eds), Proceedings of the First Italian Meeting on Environmental Micropaleontology. Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication 9, 49-62, 2004.

Flügel, E., Thiedig, F., Dolenz, H., Kuss, J. (2004): Herkunftsbestimmung des frühzeitlichen Mosaikmaterials im Bereich des Repräsentantenhauses und in den Unteren A/A Bauten am Magdalensberg, Kärnten. Rudofinum, Jb. Landesmus. Kärnten

Lüning, S. (2004): Phanerozoic of North Africa. In: R. C. Selley, L. R. M.Cocks, I. R. Plimer (eds), Encyclopedia of Geology, Academic Press.

Lüning, S., F. Schulze, A. M. Marzouk, J. Kuss, A. Gharaibeh, S. Kolonic (2004): Uranium-enriched horizons refine stratigraphic framework in Cenomanian-Turonian organic-rich strata in central Jordan and northern Tunisia. Z. Dt. Geol. Ges. 155: 49-60.

Lüning, S., J. Wendt, Z. Belka, B. Kaufmann (2004): Temporal-spatial reconstruction of the early Frasnian anoxia in NW Africa: New field data from the Ahnet Basin (Algeria). Sedimentary Geology. 163: 237-256.

Lüning, S., S. Kolonic, E. M. Belhadj, Z. Belhadj, L. Cota, G. Baric, T. Wagner (2004): Integrated depositional model for the Cenomanian-Turonian organic-rich strata in North Africa. Earth-Science Reviews 64: 51-117.

Mette W, Geiger M (2004): Bajocian and Bathonian ostracods and depositional environments in Madagascar (Morondava basin and southern Majunga Basin). In: Beringeria 34, pp 37-56

Mette W, Geiger M (2004): Middle Oxfordian to early Kimmeridgian ostracoda and depositional environments of south-west Madagascar. In: Beringeria 34, pp 89-115

Mette W, Geiger M (2004): Taxonomy and palaeoenvironments of Callovian ostracoda from the Morondava Basin (south-west Madagascar). In: Beringeria 34, pp 57-87

Schulze, F., Marzouk, A.M., Bassiouni, M.A., Kuss, J. (2004): The late Albian-Turonian carbonate platform succession of west-central Jordan: stratigraphy and crises.- Cretaceous Research, 25, 709-737.

Wendler, J., Willems, H. (2004). Pithonelloid wall crystallite orientation of the Upper Cretaceous calcareous dinoflagellate cyst genus Tetratropis. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 129, 133-140.

Wendler, J. (2004). External forcing of the geomagnetic field? – Implications for the cosmic ray flux – climate – variability. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 66, 1195-1203.

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2003


Bachmann, M., Bassiouni, M.A.A., Kuss, J. (2003):
Timing of mid-Cretaceous carbonate platform depositional cycles, northern Sinai, Egypt. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 200, 131-162.

Bauer, J., Kuss, J. & Steuber, T. (2003): Sequence architecture and carbonate platform configuration (late Cenomanian –Santonian), Sinai, Egypt. Sedimentology 50, 1–28.

Dupuis, C., Aubry, M-P., Steurbaut, E., Berggren, W.A., Ouda, K. Maginoncalda, R., Cramer, B.S., Kent, D.V., Speijer, R.P., & Heilmann-Clausen, C. (2003): The Dababiya Quarry Section: Lithostratigraphy, clay mineralogy, geochemistry and paleontology. In: Ouda, K. and Aubry, M-P (Eds), Paleocene-Eocene stratigraphy of the Upper Nile Basin: I Stratigraphy. Micropaleontology, 49 (Supplement 1), 41-59.

Galeotti, S., Kaminski, M.A., Coccioni, R. & Speijer, R.P. (200X): High resolution Deep Water Agglutinated Foraminiferal record across the Paleocene/Eocene transition in the Contessa Road Section (central Italy). In: Bubik, M. & Kaminski, M.A. (Eds), Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, Grzybowski Foundation Special Publications, in press.

Kuss, J., Bassiouni, A., Bauer, J., Bachmann, M., Marzouk, A., Scheibner, C., Schulze, F. (2003): Cretaceous-Paleogene sequence stratigraphy of the Levant Platform (Egypt, Sinai, Jordan), in Gili et al. North African Cretaceous Carbonate platform systems, Nato Series:171-187

Lüning, S., R. Archer, J. Craig, D. K. Loydell (2003): The Lower Silurian 'Hot Shales' and 'Double Hot Shales' in North Africa and Arabia. In: Salem, M. J., Oun, K. M., Seddiq, H. M. (eds), The Geology of Northwest Libya (Ghadamis, Jifarah, Tarabulus and Sabratah Basins), Vol. 3, 91-105, Earth Science Society of Libya, Tripoli.

Lüning, S., Adamson, K., Craig, J. (2003): Frasnian 'Hot Shales' in North Africa: Regional Distribution and Depositional Model. In: Arthur, T. J., Macgregor, D. S., Cameron, N. (Eds.), Petroleum Geology of Africa: New Themes and developing technologies, Geol. Soc. (London) Sp. Publ. 207: 165-184.

Lüning, S., S. Kolonic (2003): Uranium spectral gamma-ray response as a proxy for organic richness in black shales: Applicability and limitations. J. Petroleum Geology 26: 153-174.

Lüning, S., S. Kolonic, D. Loydell, J. Craig (2003): Reconstruction of the original organic richness in weathered Silurian shale outcrops (Murzuq and Kufra basins, southern Libya). GeoArabia 8: 299-308.

Mai, H., Speijer, R.P., Schulte, P. (2003): Index calcareous nannofossils (coccoliths) of the lowermost Paleocene originated in the late Maastrichtian. Micropaleontology, 49, 189-195.

Marzouk, A. M., Scheibner, C. (2003): Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography of the late Cretaceous-Paleogene of the Galala Mountains, Eastern Desert, Egypt. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 244: 11-35

Morsi, A.M. & Bauer, J. (2003): Cenomanian ostracode faunas from Sinai peninsula, Egypt. Revue de Paléobiologie, in press.

Morsi, A.M. & Speijer, R.P. (2003): High-resolution ostracode records of the Paleocene-/Eocene transition in the South Eastern Desert of Egypt - taxonomy, biostratigraphy, paleoecology and paleobiogeography. Senckenbergiana lethaea, 83, 61-93.

Scheibner, C., Reijmer, J. J. G, Marzouk, A. M., Speijer, R. P. and Kuss ,J. (2003): From platform to basin: The evolution of a Paleocene carbonate margin (Eastern Desert, Egypt). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 92:624-640 PDF

Scheibner, C., Kuss, J., Speijer, J.P. (2003): Stratigraphic modelling of Maastrichtian to Paleocene carbonate platform-to-basin sediments, Eastern Desert, Egypt. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 200: 163-185 PDF

Schulze, F., Lewy, Z., Kuss, J. & Gharaibeh, A. (2003): Cenomanian-Turonian carbonate platform deposits in west central Jordan. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 92, 641-660. PDF

Speijer, R.P. (2003): Systematics and paleoecology of the foraminifer Neoeponides duwi (Nakkady) from the Paleocene of Egypt. Micropaleontology, 49, 146-150.

Speijer, R.P. (2003): Danian-Selandian sea-level change and biotic excursion on the southern Tethyan margin (Egypt). In: Wing, S.L., Gingerich, P.D., Schmitz, B. & Thomas, E. (Eds): Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene, GSA Special Paper 369, 275-290.

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2002


Bauer, J. (2002): Late Cenomanian - Santonian carbonate platform evolution of Sinai (Egypt): Stratigraphy, Facies, and sequence architecture. Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen, Nr. 191, 173 pp. (Ph.D. Thesis, Bremen University).

Bauer, J., Kuss, J. & Steuber, T. (2002): Platform Environments, Microfacies and Systems Tracts of the Upper Cenomanian – Lower Santonian of Sinai, Egypt. Facies, 47, 1-26.

Seilacher, A., S. Lüning, M. A. Martin, E. Klitzsch, A. Khoja & J.Craig (2002): Ichnostratigraphic correlation of Palaeozoic clastics in the Kufra Basin (SE Libya). Lethaia 35: 257-262.

Speijer, R.P., Morsi, A.M. (2002): Ostracode turnover and sea-level changes associated with the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Geology, 30, 23-26.

Speijer, R.P., Wagner, T. (2002): Sea-level changes and black shales associated with the late Paleocene thermal maximum (LPTM); organic-geochemical and micropaleontologic evidence from the southern Tethyan margin (Egypt-Israel). In: Koeberl, C. & MacLeod, K.G. (Eds): Catastrophic Events & Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond, GSA Special Paper 356, 533-549.

Steuber, T., Bachmann, M. (2002): Upper Aptian - Albian rudist bivalves from Northern Sinai, Egypt. Palaeontolgy, 45, 725-749.

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2001


Bauer, J., Marzouk, A.M., Steuber, T., & J. Kuss, J. (2001): Lithostratigraphy and biostrati-graphy of the Cenomanian – Santonian strata of Sinai, Egypt. Cretaceous Research, 22, 497-526.

Scheibner, C. (2001): Architecture of a carbonate platform-to-basin transition on a structural high (Campanian-early Eocene, Eastern Desert, Egypt) - classical and modelling approaches combined. Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen, Nr. 186, 174 pp. (Ph.D. Thesis, Bremen University).

Scheibner, C., Marzouk, A. M., Kuss, J. (2001): Shelf architectures of an isolated Late Cretaceous carbonate platform margin, Galala Mountains (Eastern Desert, Egypt). Sedimentary Geology, 145, 23-43. PDF

Scheibner, C., Marzouk, A. M., Kuss, J. (2001): Maastrichtian-Early Eocene lithostratigraphy and Palaeogeography of the N Gulf of Suez Region, Egypt, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 32, 223-255. PDF

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2000


Bangert, B., Stollhofen, H., Geiger, M &Lorenz, V. (2000): Fossil Record and high-resolution tephrostratigraphy of Carboniferous glaciomarine mudstones, Dwyka Group, southern Namibia, Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia, 12, 235-245

Bauer, J. (2000): Biosedimentäre Prozesse während Obercenoman – Coniac auf dem karbonatischen Schelf des südlichen Tethysrandes der Sinai-Halbinsel.  In: Willems, H. et al. (Eds): Abschlußbericht des Graduiertenkollegs Stoff-Flüsse in marinen Geosystemen. Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen, 106, 22-28.

Galeotti, S., Angori, E., Coccioni, R., Ferrari, G., Galbrun, B., Monechi, S., Premoli-Silva, I., Speijer, R.P. & Turi, B. (2000): Integrated stratigraphy across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary in the Contessa Road section, Gubbio (central Italy). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 171, 355-365.

Monechi, S., Angori, E. & Speijer, R.P. (2000): Upper Paleocene biostratigraphy in the Mediterranean region: zonal markers, diachronism, and preservational problems. In: B. Schmitz et al. (Eds): Early Paleogene Warm Climates and Biosphere Dynamics, GFF, 122, 108-110.

Kuss, J. (2000): Sedimentbecken in Ägypten. Forschung, 3/2000, 32-34.

Kuss, J., Scheibner C. & Gietl, R. (2000): Carbonate platform to basin transition along an Upper Cretaceous to Lower Tertiary Syrian Arc Uplift, Galala Plateaus, Eastern Desert, Egypt. GeoArabia, 5, 405-424. PDF

Kuss, J., Westerhold, T, Groß, U., Bauer, J. & Lüning, S (2000): Mapping of Late Cretaceous stratigraphic sequences along a Syrian Arc uplift – Examples from the Areif el Naqa, Eastern Sinai. Middle East Research Center, Ain Shams University., Earth Science Series, 14, 171-191.

Lüning, S., Craig, J., Loydell, D.K., Storch, P. & Fitches, B. (2000): Lower Silurian ‘Hot Shales’ in North Africa and Arabia: Regional Distribution and Depositional Model. Earth Science Reviews, 49, 121-200. (Abstract)

Lüning, S., Loydell, D.K., Sutcliffe, O., Ait Salem, A., Zanella, E., Craig, J. & Harper, D.A.T. (2000): Silurian - lower Devonian black shales in Morocco: Which are the organically richest horizons? Journal of Petroleum Geology, 23, 293-311.

Lüning, S., Craig, J., Fitches, W.R., Gammudi, A., Mayouf, J., Busrewil, A., El Dieb, M. & Loydell, D.K. (2000): Petroleum source and reservoir rock re-evaluation in the Kufra Basin (SE Libya, NE Chad, NW Sudan). In: Sola, M.A. & Worsley, D. (Eds): Geological Exploration in Murzuq Basin. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 151-173.

Lüning, S., Bosence, D, Gräfe, K.-U., Luciani, V. & Craig, J. (2000): Discovery of marine Late Cretaceous carbonates and evaporites in the Kufra Basin (Libya) redefines the southern limit of the Late Cretaceous transgression. Cretaceous Research , 21, 721-731.

Scheibner, C. (2000): Sedimentary budgets and quantification in marine successions on the northern margin of the African plate (Maastrichtian-lower Eocene). In: Willems, H. et al. (Eds): Abschlußbericht des Graduiertenkollegs Stoff-Flüsse in marinen Geosystemen. Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen, 160, 220-227.

Scheibner, C., Kuss, J. & Marzouk A.M. (2000): Slope sediments of a Paleocene ramp-to-basin transition in NE-Egypt. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 88, 708-724. PDF

Schnack, K (2000): Biostratigraphie und fazielle Entwicklung in der Oberkreide und im Alttertiär im Bereich der Kharga Schwelle, Westliche Wüste, SW Ägypten. Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen Nr 151, 142 pp. (Ph.D. Thesis, Bremen University).

Speijer, R.P. (2000): The late Paleocene event and a potential precursor compared: First results from Egypt. In: B. Schmitz et al. (Eds): Early Paleogene Warm Climates and Biosphere Dynamics, GFF, 122, 150-151.

Speijer, R.P. & Schmitz, B. (2000): A synthesis of biotic and stratigraphic data from the Middle East on late Paleocene global change. In: B. Schmitz et al. (Eds): Early Paleogene Warm Climates and Biosphere Dynamics, GFF, 122, 152-153.

Speijer, R.P., Schmitz, B. & Luger, P. (2000): Stratigraphy of late Palaeocene events in the Middle East: implications for low- to middle-latitude successions and correlations. Journal of the Geological Society of London 157, 36-46.

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1999


Kim, J., Wagner, T., Bachmann, M. & Kuss, J. (1999): Organic facies and thermal maturity of Late Aptian to Early Cenomanian shelf deposits, Northern Sinai (Egypt). International Journal of Coal Geology 39, 251-278.

Luger, P. (1999): A taxonomical note on the genera and species related to Uroleberis Triebel 1958, with Uroleberis (Somalileberis) n.subg. and Saudileberis n.g. Neues jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 211, 151-170.

Lüning, S., J. Craig, W. R. Fitches, A. Gamudi, J. Mayouf, A. Busrewil, M. El Dieb, D. Loydell & D. McIlroy (1999): Re-evaluation of the petroleum potential of the Kufra Basin (SE Libya, NE Chad): Does the source rock barrier fall? Marine and Petroleum Geology, 16: 693-718.

Scheibner, C. & Reijmer, J.J.G (1999): Facies patterns within a Lower Jurassic upper slope to inner platform transect (Jbel Bou Dahar, Morocco). Facies, 41, 55-80.

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1998


Bachmann, M. & Kuss, J. (1998): The Middle Cretaceous carbonate ramp of the northern Sinai: sequence stratigraphy and facies distribution. In: V.P. Wright & T.P. Burchette (Ed.): Carbonate Ramps. Geological Society Special Publication 149, 253-280.

Boukhary, M., Kulbrok, F. & Kuss, J. (1998): New nummulitids from lower Eocene limestones of Egypt (Monastery of St. Paul, Eastern Desert). Micropaleontology 44, 99-108. PDF

Gietl, R. (1998): Biostratigraphie und Sedimentationsmuster einer nordostägyptischen Karbonatrampe unter Berücksichtigung der Alveolinen-Faunen. Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen Nr 112, 135 pp. (Ph.D. Thesis, Bremen University).

Jorissen, F.J. & Speijer, R.P. (1998): Book Review: Deep-sea benthic foraminifera from Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary strata in the South Atlantic - taxonomy and paleoecology. By J.G.V. Widmark in Fossils and Strata, No. 43. Earth-Science Reviews 43, 59-60.

Kunow, R., Bauer, J., Bachmann, M. & Kuss, J. (1998): Verteilungsmuster benthischer Foraminiferen und Tonmineralassoziationen im Oberapt des Sinai. In: J. Kuss (ed.), Afrikas Klimageschichte unter geowissenschaftlichen Aspekten. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I, 1997, 353-371.

Kuss, J. (Ed.) (1998): Afrikas Klimageschichte unter geowissenschaftlichen Aspekten. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I, 1997 (1/2), 381 pp.

Lüning, S., Kuss, J., Bachmann, M., Morsi, A.M. & Marzouk, A.M. (1998): Sedimentary response to basin inversion: Mid Cretaceous – Early Tertiary pre- to syndeformational deposition at the Areif El Naqa Anticline (Sinai, Egypt). Facies 38, 103-136.

Lüning, S., Marzouk, A.M. & Kuss, J. (1998): Latest Maastrichtian high frequency litho- and ecocycles from the hemipelagic deposits of eastern Sinai, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences 27, 373-395.

Lüning, S., Marzouk, A.M., Morsi, A.M. & J Kuss, J. (1998): Sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous of central-east Sinai, Egypt. Cretaceous Research 19, 153-196.

Lüning, S., Marzouk, A.M. & Kuss, J. (1998): The Paleocene of central east Sinai, Egypt: ‘sequence stratigraphy’ in monotonous hemipelagites. Journal of Foraminiferal research 28, 19-39.

Marzouk, A.M. & Lüning, S. (1998): Comparative biostratigraphy of calcareous nannofossils and planktonic foraminifera in the Paleocene of Eastern Sinai, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 207, 77-105.

Schnack, K. & Luger, P. (1998): Fazies und strukturelle Entwicklung des Maastrichts und Paleozäns im Bereich der Kharga-Schwelle und angrenzender Gebiete (westliche Wüste, SW-Ägypten). In: J. Kuss (Ed.), Afrikas Klimageschichte unter geowissenschaftlichen Aspekten. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I, 1997, 311 - 351.

Speijer, R.P. (1998): Stratigraphie und globale Veränderungen im Paleozän/Eozän Grenzbereich: Perspektiven aus dem Mittleren Osten. In: J. Kuss (Ed.), Afrikas Klimageschichte unter geowissenschaftlichen Aspekten. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I, 1997, 209-231.

Speijer, R.P. & Schmitz, B. (1998): A benthic foraminiferal record of Paleocene sea level and trophic/redox conditions at Gebel Aweina, Egypt. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 137, 79-101.

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1997


Geyer, O., Kuss, J. & Bachmann, M. (1997): On some Albian Ammonites from the Northeastern Sinai (Egypt). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 71, 221-229.

Kouwenhoven, T.J., Speijer, R.P., van Oosterhout, C.W.M. & van der Zwaan, G.J. (1997): Benthic foraminiferal assemblages between two major extinction events: The Paleocene El Kef section, Tunisia. Marine Micropaleontology 29, 105-127.

Lüning, S., (1997): Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary sequence stratigrahpy, paleoecology and geodynamics of eastern Sinai, Egypt. Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen Nr. 98, 218 pp. (Ph.D. Thesis, Bremen University).

Luger, P., El-Beshtawy, M. & Mai, H. (1997): Maastrichtian planktonic foraminiferal biozonation and K/T boundary in central Egypt. Revista Espanola de Micropaleontologia 30, 37-49.

Schmitz, B., Asaro, F., Molina, E., Monechi, S., von Salis, K. & Speijer, R.P. (1997): High-resolution iridium, d13C, d18O, foraminifera and nannofossil profiles across the latest Paleocene benthic extinction event at Zumaya, Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 133, 49-68.

Schmitz, B., Charisi, S.D., Thompson, E.I. & Speijer, R.P. (1997): Barium, SiO2 (excess), and P2O5 as proxies of biological productivity in the Middle East during the Palaeocene and the latest Palaeocene benthic extinction event. Terra Nova 9, 95-99.

Speijer, R.P. & Samir, A.M. (1997): Globanomalina luxorensis, a Tethyan biostratigraphic marker of latest Paleocene global events. Micropaleontology 43, 49-60.

Speijer, R.P., Schmitz, B. & van der Zwaan, G.J. (1997): Benthic foraminiferal extinction and repopulation in response to latest Paleocene Tethyan anoxia. Geology 25, 683-686.

Widmark, J.G.V. & Speijer, R.P. (1997): Benthic foraminiferal faunas and trophic regimes at the terminal Cretaceous Tethyan seafloor. Palaios 12, 352-369. (Abstract)

Widmark, J.G.V. & Speijer, R.P. (1997): Benthic foraminiferal ecomarker species of the terminal Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian) deep-sea Tethys. Marine Micropaleontology 31, 135-155.

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1996


Bachmann, M., Bandel, K, Kuss, J. & Willems, H. (1996): Sedimentary processes and intertethyal comparisons of two Early/Late Cretaceous carbonate ramp systems (NE-Africa and Spain). In: J. Reitner, F. Neuweiler & F. Gunkel, (Eds), Global and Regional Controls on Biogenic Sedimentation. II. Cretaceous Sedimentation. Göttinger Arbeiten für Geologie und Paläontologie Sonderband 3, 151-163.

Bassiouni, M.A.A. & Luger, P. (1996): Middle Eocene Ostracoda from Northern Somalia. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg Nr 192, 139 pp.

Kulbrok, F. (1996): Biostratigraphie, Fazies und Sequenzstratigraphie einer Karbonatrampe in den Schichten der Oberkreide und des Alttertiärs nordost-Ägyptens (Eastern Desert, N'Golf von Suez, Sinai). Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen Nr 81, 311 pp. (Ph.D. Thesis, Bremen University).

Kuss, J. & Bachmann, M. (1996): Cretaceous paleogeography of the Sinai Peninsula and neighbouring areas. Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II, Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes 322, 915-933.

Luger, P., Wilke, H.G. & Wunderlich, H. (1996): On the occurrence of calpionellids in the basal conglomerate of the Tisje Formation in Northern Somalia. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Geology of the Arab World, Cairo 1994, 409-416.

Schmitz, B. & Speijer, R.P. (1996): Stable isotope (d18O, d13C) records across the Cretaceous/Tertiary transition at Geulhemmerberg, South Netherlands. In: H. Brinkhuis & J. Smit (Eds), The Cretaceous/Tertiary Transition in the Geulhemmerberg, Limburg, The Netherlands. Geologie en Mijnbouw 75, 245-253.

Schmitz, B., Speijer, R.P. & Aubry, M.-P. (1996): Latest Paleocene benthic extinction event on the southern Tethyan shelf (Egypt): Foraminiferal stable isotopic (d13C, d18O) records. Geology 24, 347-350.

Speijer, R.P. & van der Zwaan, G.J. (1996): Extinction and survivorship of southern Tethyan benthic foraminifera across the Cretaceous/Palaeogene boundary. In: M.B. Hart (Ed.), Biotic Recovery from Mass Extinction Events. Geological Society Special Publication 102, 343-371.

Speijer, R.P., van der Zwaan, G.J. & Schmitz, B. (1996): The impact of Paleocene/Eocene boundary events on middle neritic benthic foraminiferal assemblages from Egypt. Marine Micropaleontology 28, 99-132.

Speijer, R.P., Schmitz, B., Aubry, M.-P. & Charisi, S.D. (1996): The latest Paleocene benthic extinction event: Punctuated turnover in outer neritic benthic foraminiferal faunas from Gebel Aweina, Egypt. In: M.-P. Aubry & C. Benjamini (Eds), Paleocene/Eocene Boundary Events in Space and Time. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 44, 207-222 (for 1995).

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