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Wilckens, Henriette, Schwenk T., Lüdmann T., Betzler C., Zhang W., Chen J., Hernández-Molina J., Lefebvre A., Cattaneo A., Spiess V., Kasten S., Miramontes E. (2023) Factors controlling the morphology and internal sediment architecture f moats and their associated drifts. Sedimentology, https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13093.
Warnke, F., Schwenk, T., Miramontes, E., Spiess, V., Wenau, S., Bozzano, G., Baqués, M., Kasten, S. (2023) Evolution of complex giant seafloor depressions at the northern Argentine continental margin (SW Atlantic Ocean) under the influence of a dynamic bottom current regime. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1117013.
Wenau, Stefan, Spiess V., Zabel M. (2021) Giant Seafloor Depressions caused by Slope Failures and Bottom Currents on the Namibia Continental Margin. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 22, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC00954.
Wilckens, Henriette, Miramontes E., Schwenk T., Artana C., Zhang W., Piola A., Baques M., Provost C., Hernández-Molina J., Felgendreher M., Spiess V., Kasten S. (2021) The erosive power of the Malvinas Current: Influence of bottom currents on morpho-sedimentary features along the northern Argentine margin (SW Atlantic Ocean). Marine Geology, 439, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106539.
Wenau, Stefan, Preu, B., Spiess, V. (2020) Geological development of the Limpopo Shelf (southern Mozambique) during the last sealevel cycle. Geo-Mar Lett 40, 363–377, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-020-00648-6.
Bozzano, Graziella, Cerredo ME., Remesal M., Steinmann L., Hanebuth T., Schwenk T., Baqués M., Hebbeln D., Spoltore D., Silvestri O., Acevedo RD., Spiess V., Violante RA., Kasten S. (2020) Dropstones in the Mar del Plata Canyon Area (SW Atlantic): Evidence for Provenance, Transport, Distribution, and Oceanographic Implications. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009333.
Steinmann, Lena, Baques M., Wenau S., Schwenk T., Spiess V., Piola AR., Bozzano G., Violante R., Kasten S. (2020) Discovery of a giant cold-water coral mound province along the northern Argentine margin and its link to the regional Contourite Depositional System and oceanographic setting. Marine Geology, 427, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2020.10622.Ercilla, Gemma, Schwenk T., Bozzano G., Spiess V., Violante R., Estrada F., Ianniccheri F., Spoltore D., Alonso B. (2019) Cenozoic sedimentary history of the northern Argentine continental slope, off Bahia Blanca, the location of the Ewing Terrace: Palaeogeodynamic and palaeoceanographic implications. Marine Geology 417, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.106028.
Warratz, Grit, Schwenk, T., Voigt, I., Bozzano, G., Henrich, R., Violante, R., and Lantzsch, H. (2019) Interaction of a deep-sea current with a blind submarine canyon (Mar del Plata Canyon, Argentina): Marine Geology, 417, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.106002. (PDF)
Petrovic, Alex, Lantzsch, H., Schwenk, T., Marquardt, J., Titschack, J., and Hanebuth, T. J. J. (2019) Post-LGM upward shift of the Mediterranean Outflow Water recorded in a contourite drift off NW Spain: Marine Geology, 407, 334-349, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2018.11.015. (PDF)
Tamborrino, Leonardo , Wienberg, C., Titschack, J., Wintersteller, P., Mienis, F., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Freiwald, A., Orejas, C., Dullo, W-C., Haberkern, J., Hebbeln, D. (2019) Mid-Holocene extinction of cold-water corals on the Namibian shelf steered by the Benguela oxygen minimum zone. Geology, 47, 1185–1188, https://doi.org/10.1130/G46672.1.
Portilho-Ramos, R. C., Cruz APS., Barbosa CF., Rathburn AE., Mulitza S., Venancio IM., Schwenk T., Ruhlemann C., Vidal L., Chiessi CM., Silveira CS. (2018) Methane release from the southern Brazilian margin during the last glacial: Scientific Reports, v. 8, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-24420-0.
Urlaub Morelia, Geersen J., Krastel S., Schwenk T. (2018) Diatom ooze: Crucial for the generation of submarine mega-slides? Geology, 46, 4, 331-334, https://doi.org/10.1130/G39892.1. (PDF)
Lantzsch, Hendrik, Hanebuth, TJJ., Horry J., Grave M., Rebesco M., Schwenk T. (2017) Deglacial to Holocene history of ice-sheet retreat and bottom current strength on the western Barents Sea shelf. Quaternary Science Reviews, 173, 40-57, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.016.
Özmaral, Asli (2017) Climatically controlled sedimentary processes on continental shelves. Dissertation, xx. pp.. https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/bitstream/elib/1355/1/00106314-1.pdf.
Haberkern, Julia (2017) Contouritic depositional systems influenced by complex seafloor topography. Late Cenozoic seismoacoustic reconstructions from the Galicia and Angola Continental Margins. Dissertation, xx. pp.. https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/bitstream/elib/1378/1/00106386-1.pdf.
Hernandez-Molina, Javier., Wahlin A., Bruno M., Ercilla G., Llave E., Serra N., Roson G., Puig P., Rebesco M., Van Rooij D., Roque D., Gonzalez-Pola C., Sanchez F., Gomez M., Preu B., Schwenk T., Hanebuth, TJJ., Leal RFS., Garcia-Lafuente J., Brackenridge RE., Juan C., Stow DA.., Sanchez-Gonzalez, JM. (2016) Oceanographic processes and morphosedimentary products along the Iberian margins: A new multidisciplinary approach. Marine Geology, 378, 127-156, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2015.12.008.
Rebesco, Michele, Özmaral A., Urgeles R., Accettella D., Lucchi RG., Rüther D., Winsborrow M., Llopart J., Caburlotto A., Lantzsch H., Hanebuth TJJ (2016) Evolution of a high-latitude sediment drift inside a glacially-carved trough based on high-resolution seismic stratigraphy (Kveithola, NW Barents Sea). Quaternary Science Reviews, 147, 178-193, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.02.007.
Hanebuth, Till J. J., Zhang, W., Hofmann, A. L., Lowemark, L. A., Schwenk, T. (2015) Oceanic density fronts steering bottom-current induced sedimentation deduced from a 50 ka contourite-drift record and numerical modeling (off NW Spain). Quaternary Science Reviews, 112, 207-225, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.01.027.
Palamenghi, Luisa, Keil H., Spiess V. (2015) Sequence stratigraphic framework of a mixed turbidite-contourite depositional system along the NW slope of the South China Sea. Geo-Marine Letters 35 (1), 69-75, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-014-0385-z.
Oberle, Franz K., Hanebuth TJJ., Baasch B., Schwenk T. (2014) Volumetric budget calculation of sediment and carbon storage and export for a late Holocene mid-shelf mudbelt system (NW Iberia). Continental Shelf Research, 76, 12-24, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2013.12.012.
Lantzsch, Hendrik, Hanebuth TJJ., Chiessi CM., Schwenk T., Violante RA. (2014) The high-supply, current-dominated continental margin of southeastern South America during the late Quaternary. Quaternary Research, 81, 2, 339-354, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2014.01.003.
Preu, Benedict, Hernandez-Molina FJ., Violante R., Piola AR. Paterlini CM., Schwenk T., Vogt I., Krastel S., Spiess V. (2013) Morphosedimentary and hydrographic features of the northern Argentine margin: The interplay between erosive, depositional and gravitational processes and its conceptual implications. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 75, 157–174, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2012.12.013.
Voigt, Ines, Henrich R., Preu B., Piola AR., Hanebuth TJJ., Schwenk T., Chiessi, CM. (2013) A submarine canyon as a climate archive - Interaction of the Antarctic Intermediate Water with the Mar del Plata Canyon (Southwest Atlantic). Marine Geology, v. 341, p. 46-57, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2013.05.002.
Preu, Benedict, Schwenk T., Hernandez-Molina FJ., Violante R., Paterlini M., Krastel S., Tomasini J. Spiess V. (2012) Sedimentary growth pattern on the northern Argentine slope: the impact of North Atlantic Deep Water on southern hemishpere slope architecture. Marine Geology, 329–331, 113–125, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2012.09.009.
Preu, Benedict (2012) High-resolution seismo-acoustic studies of alongslope and downslope sediment transport processes shaping depositional patterns at continental margins. Dissertation, xx pp.. https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/bitstream/elib/299/1/00102584-1.pdf.
Preu, Benedict, Spiess V., Schwenk T., Schneider RR. (2011). Evidence for current-controlled sedimentation along the southern Mozambique continental margin since Early Miocene times. Geo-Marine Letters 31 (5-6), 427-435, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-011-0238-y.
Krastel, Sebastian, Wefer G., Hanebuth,TJJ., Antobreh, AA., Freudenthal T., Preu B., Schwenk T., Strasser M., Violante R., Winkelmann D., and Party, M. S. S. (2011) Sediment dynamics and geohazards off Uruguay and the de la Plata River region (northern Argentina and Uruguay). Geo-Marine Letters, 31, 4, 271-283, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-011-0232-4.
Violante, Roberto A., Paterlini CM., Costa IP., Hernández-Molina FJ., Segovia LM, Cavallotto JL., Marcolini S., Bozzano G., Laprida C., Garcia Chapori N., Bickert T., Spiess V. (2010) Sismoestratigrafia y evolución geomorfológica del talud continental adyacente al litoral del este bonaerense, Argentina. Latin American journal of sedimentology and basin analysis 17 (1), 33-62, https://lajsba.sedimentologia.org.ar/index.php/lajsba/article/view/176.
Nizou, J., Hanebuth, TJJ., Heslop D., Schwenk T., Palamenghi L., Stuut JB., Henrich R. (2010) The Senegal River mud belt: A high-resolution archive of paleoclimatic change and coastal evolution. Marine Geology, 278, 1-4, 150-164, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2010.10.002.
Antobreh, Andrew A., Krastel S. (2006) Morphology, seismic characteristics and development of Cap Timiris Canyon, offshore Mauritania: a newly discovered canyon preserved off a major arid climatic region. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 23, 37-59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2005.06.003.
von Lom-Keil, Hanno, Spiess V., Hopfauf V. (2002) Fine-grained sediment waves on the western flank of the Zapiola Drift, Argentine Basin: evidence for variations in Late Quarternary bottom flow activity, Marine Geology, 192, 239-258, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00557-1.
Hopfauf, Vladimier, Spiess V. (2001) A three-dimensional theory for the development and migration of deep sea sedimentary waves, Deep Sea Research Part I : Oceanographic Research, 48, 2497-2519, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0637(01)00026-7.
von Lom-Keil, Hanno (2001) Sedimentary waves on the Namibian continental margin and in the Argentine Basin - Bottom flow reconstructions based on high resolution echosounder data. Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Berichte, 181, 126 pp.. https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/bitstream/elib/3846/1/00010309.pdf
Völker, David (1998), Untersuchungen an strömungsbeeinflußten Sedimentationsmustern im Südozean - Interpretation sedimentechographischer Daten und numerische Modellierung. Dissertation vorgelegt am FB Geowissenschaften, Univ. Bremen, 153 S. https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/bitstream/elib/3785/1/00010235.pdf.
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