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André W. Droxler

André W. Droxler

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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
4877
World Ranking
7240
National Ranking
2500

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

André W. Droxler is affiliated with Rice University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of engineering and earth and planetary sciences. Their research spans a range of subfields, notably ocean engineering, environmental chemistry, atmospheric science, geophysics, and paleontology.

The scientist has published work focusing on several main topics, including reservoir engineering and simulation methods, drilling and well engineering, methane hydrates and related phenomena, geology and paleoclimatology research, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, as well as hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis.

Frequent co-authors in Droxler's research include Peter K. Swart, Dick Kroon, Peter J. Davies, Judith A. McKenzie, and Amanda A. Palmer-Julson.

They have published in various venues, with a notable number of publications recorded in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, SSRN Electronic Journal, and the Annual Review of Marine Science.

Recent papers authored by André W. Droxler include:

  • The Origin of Modern Atolls: Challenging Darwin's Deeply Ingrained Theory (2020), Annual Review of Marine Science
  • Terraces, reefs, and valleys along the Brazil northeast outer shelf: deglacial sea-level archives? (2020), Geo-Marine Letters
  • Implications for controls on Upper Cambrian microbial build-ups across multiple-scales, Mason County, Central Texas, USA (2020), Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Anomalous widespread arid events in Asia over the past 550,000 years (2023), PNAS Nexus
  • Controls on microbial and oolitic carbonate sedimentation and stratigraphic cyclicity within a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic system: Upper Cambrian Wilberns Formation, Llano Uplift, Mason County, Texas, USA (2020), The Depositional Record

André W. Droxler has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Highstand Shedding of Carbonate Platforms

    Wolfgang Schlager;John J. G. Reijmer;Andre Droxler

  • Glacial versus interglacial sedimentation rates and turbidite frequency in the Bahamas

    Andre W. Droxler;Wolfgang Schlager

  • Neritic and pelagic carbonate sedimentation in the marine environment: ignorance is not bliss

    J. D. Milliman;A. W. Droxler

  • Neritic and pelagic carbonate sedimentation in the marine environment: ignorance is not bliss

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  • Bundled turbidite deposition in the central Pandora Trough (Gulf of Papua) since Last Glacial Maximum: Linking sediment nature and accumulation to sea level fluctuations at millennial timescale

    Stéphan J. Jorry;André W. Droxler;Gianni Mallarino;Gerald R. Dickens

  • Quaternary aragonite cycles and oxygen-isotope record in Bahamian carbonate ooze

    A. W. Droxler;W. Schlager;C. C. Whallon

  • Earth's Climate and Orbital Eccentricity: The Marine Isotope Stage 11 Question

    André W. Droxler

  • Monsoon-induced partial carbonate platform drowning (Maldives, Indian Ocean)

    Christian Betzler;Christian Hübscher;Sebastian Lindhorst;John J.G. Reijmer

  • High Production and Highstand Shedding from Deeply Submerged Carbonate Banks, Northern Nicaragua Rise

    Karen S. Glaser;Andre W. Droxler

  • Sea‐level and ocean‐current control on carbonate‐platform growth, Maldives, Indian Ocean

    Christian Betzler;Jörn Fürstenau;Thomas Lüdmann;Christian Hübscher

  • Unique and exceptionally long interglacial marine isotope stage 11: Window into Earth warm future climate

    André W. Droxler;Richard B. Alley;William R. Howard;Richard Z. Poore

  • Marine Isotope Stage 11 (MIS 11): new insights for a warm future

    André W Droxler;John W Farrell

  • The Caribbean carbonate crash at the middle to late Miocene transition : linkage to the establishment of the modern global ocean conveyor

    J. M. Roth;A. W. Droxler;K. Kameo

  • Metastable CaCO3 dissolution at intermediate water depths of the Caribbean and western North Atlantic: Implications for intermediate water circulation during the past 200,000 years

    Geoffrey A. Haddad;André W. Droxler

  • Oxygen Isotope Synthesis: A Cretaceous Ice-House?

    Vitor S. Abreu;Jan Hardenbol;Geoffrey A. Haddad;Gerald R. Baum

  • Controls on Carbonate Mineral Accumulation in Bahamian Basins and Adjacent Atlantic Ocean Sediments

    Andre W. Droxler;John W. Morse;William A. Kornicker

  • Evolution of the Northern Nicaragua Rise during the Oligocene–Miocene: Drowning by environmental factors

    Maria Mutti;André W. Droxler;Andrew D. Cunningham

  • Caribbean Constraints on Circulation between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans over the Past 40 Million Years

    A. W. Droxler;K. C. Burke;A. D. Cunningham;A. C. Hine

  • Site 632: Pliocene-Pleistocene sedimentation cycles in a Bahamian basin

    John J. G. Reymer;Wolfgang Schlager;Andre W. Droxler

  • Sea level influence on the nature and timing of a minibasin sedimentary fill (northwestern slope of the Gulf of Mexico)

    Gianni Mallarino;Rick T. Beaubouef;André W. Droxler;Vitor Abreu

  • Late Quaternary Shift of Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Environments Induced by Glacial Eustatic Sea-Level Fluctuations in Belize

    C. Elmer Ferro;André W. Droxler;John B. Anderson;David Mucciarone

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel J. Bentley
Samuel J. Bentley Louisiana State University
Larry C. Peterson
Larry C. Peterson University of Miami
Gerald R. Dickens
Gerald R. Dickens Trinity College Dublin
Bradley N. Opdyke
Bradley N. Opdyke Australian National University
Daniel J. Lehrmann
Daniel J. Lehrmann Trinity University
Stéphan J. Jorry
Stéphan J. Jorry French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Paul M. Harris
Paul M. Harris University of Miami
Luc Beaufort
Luc Beaufort Aix-Marseille University
Dick Kroon
Dick Kroon University of Edinburgh
Wolfgang Schlager
Wolfgang Schlager Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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