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2016
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Link between cyclic eustatic sea-level change and continental weathering:
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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
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2014
Lüning, S. & Kuss, J. (2014): Petroleum geology
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from Galala, Egypt: Taxonomy and paleobiogeographic implications, Journal
of Foraminiferal Research. 44: 203-229 PDF
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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
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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
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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
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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
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to a temperate, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate ramp (Vøringen Member,
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cassiduline foraminifera (Cassidinidae fam.nov., Miscellanacea) from Egypt
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a southern Tethyan carbonate platform. Palaegeography, Palaeoclimatology,
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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
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and evolution of facies patterns in the Upper Barremian–Albian Levant
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of the Tunisian carbonate platform margin during the Late Aptian.- Sedimentology
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platform, Jordan.- In: (Homberg & Bachmann, Eds.: Evolution of the
Levant Margin and Western Arabia Platform since the Mesozoic) Geological
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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
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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
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Facies 55: 291-324. PDF
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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
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Aptian (Lower Cretaceous biostratigraphy and cephalopods from north central
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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
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Wendler, I., Wendler, J., Neuhuber, S. and Wagreich, M. (2009):
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to Middle Turonian marine red bed formation (Austrian Eastern Alps), SEPM
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Wendler, J., Wendler, I. and Kuss, J. (2009). Early Turonian
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2008
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biostratigraphy, and geochemistry of the hemipelagic Barremian-Aptian
in north-central Tunisia: Influence of the OAE 1a on the southern Tethys
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Kuss, J. Boukhary, M.A., (2008): A new upper Oligocene
marine record from northern Sinai (Egypt) and its paleogeographic context.-
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Scheibner, C., Speijer, R.P. (2008): Decline of coral
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2007
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Scheibner, C., Rasser, M., Mutti, M. (2007): The Campo
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carbonate assemblages across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary, Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 248: 145-168. PDF
2006
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stratigraphy and second-order sea-level change, Cretaceous Research, 27,
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southern Tethys (Dababiya, Egypt), Marine Micropaleontology 60, 89-111.
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depositional cycles of the Morondava Basin along the early continental
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Guasti, E., Speijer, R. P., Brinkhuis, H., Steurbaut E., Smit,
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2005
Guasti, E. , Kouwenhoven, T.J., Brinkhuis, H. and Speijer, R.P.
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Tethyan margin (El Kef, Tunisia). Marine Micropaleontology, 55, 1-17.
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and paleoclimatic control on the evolution of platform ecosystems, Geology
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2004
Bauer, J., Steuber, T., Kuss, J. & Heimhofer, U. (2004):
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Schulze, F., Marzouk, A.M., Bassiouni, M.A., Kuss, J. (2004):
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Scheibner, C., Kuss, J. & Marzouk A.M. (2000):
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Schnack, K (2000): Biostratigraphie und fazielle Entwicklung
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for low- to middle-latitude successions and correlations. Journal of the
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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
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NE Chad): Does the source rock barrier fall? Marine and Petroleum Geology,
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1998
Bachmann, M. & Kuss, J. (1998): The Middle Cretaceous
carbonate ramp of the northern Sinai: sequence stratigraphy and facies
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nummulitids from lower Eocene limestones of Egypt (Monastery of St. Paul,
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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
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Lüning, S., Kuss, J., Bachmann, M., Morsi, A.M. & Marzouk,
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– Early Tertiary pre- to syndeformational deposition at the Areif
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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.
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in monotonous hemipelagites. Journal of Foraminiferal research 28, 19-39.
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Speijer, R.P. & Schmitz, B. (1998): A benthic foraminiferal
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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.
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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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Bachmann, M., Bandel, K, Kuss, J. & Willems, H. (1996):
Sedimentary processes and intertethyal comparisons of two Early/Late Cretaceous
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aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen Nr 81,
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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
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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,
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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,
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