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Daniel Koehn is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular contributions in geophysics, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, and mechanical engineering.

Their work encompasses several main topics within Earth Sciences including:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Seismic imaging and inversion techniques

Koehn has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Geological Magazine
  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geofluids

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Stylolites and stylolite networks as primary controls on the geometry and distribution of carbonate diagenetic alterations, 2021, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • A review of natural hydrofractures in rocks, 2022, Geological Magazine
  • Regional-scale paleofluid system across the Tuscan Nappe-Umbria-Marche Apennine Ridge (northern Apennines) as revealed by mesostructural and isotopic analyses of stylolite-vein networks, 2020, Solid Earth
  • Vertical stress history and paleoburial in foreland basins unravelled by stylolite roughness paleopiezometry: Insights from bedding-parallel stylolites in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA, 2020, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Paleogene initiation of the Western Branch of the East African Rift: The uplift history of the Rwenzori Mountains, Western Uganda, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Nicolas Beaudoin
  • Enrique Gómez-Rivas
  • Paul D. Bons
  • Ulrich Kelka
  • Renaud Toussaint

Best Publications

  • Development of crystal morphology during unitaxial growth in a progressively widening vein : II. Numerical simulations of the evolution of antitaxial fibrous veins

    C. Hilgers;Daniel Koehn;P.D. Bons;P.D. Bons;J.L. Urai

  • Stylolites: A review

    Renaud Toussaint;Renaud Toussaint;Einat Aharonov;Daniel Koehn;Jean-Pierre Gratier

  • Growth of stylolite teeth patterns depending on normal stress and finite compaction

    Daniel Koehn;François Renard;François Renard;Renaud Toussaint;Cees W. Passchier

  • A new stylolite classification scheme to estimate compaction and local permeability variations

    D. Koehn;M.P. Rood;N. Beaudoin;P. Chung

  • Stress sensitivity of stylolite morphology

    Marcus Ebner;Daniel Koehn;Renaud Toussaint;François Renard;François Renard

  • Fluid-triggered earthquake swarms in the Rwenzori region, East African Rift—Evidence for rift initiation

    Michael Lindenfeld;Georg Rümpker;Klemens Link;Daniel Koehn

  • Continuous cratonic crust between the Congo and Tanzania blocks in western Uganda

    Klemens Link;Daniel Koehn;Matthias G. Barth;John V. Tiberindwa

  • Rift nucleation, rift propagation and the creation of basement micro-plates within active rifts

    Daniel Koehn;Kevin Aanyu;Samuel H Haines;T Sachau

  • Stylolite interfaces and surrounding matrix material: Nature and role of heterogeneities in roughness and microstructural development

    Marcus Ebner;Sandra Piazolo;Francois Renard;Francois Renard;Daniel Koehn

  • Shear sense indicators in striped bedding-veins

    Daniel Koehn;Cees W Passchier

  • U-Pb dating of calcite veins reveals complex stress evolution and thrust sequence in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA

    Nicolas Beaudoin;Olivier Lacombe;Nick M.W. Roberts;Daniel Koehn

  • The influence of rock heterogeneity on the scaling properties of simulated and natural stylolites

    Marcus Ebner;Daniel Koehn;Renaud Toussaint;François Renard

  • Activation of stylolites as conduits for overpressured fluid flow in dolomitized platform carbonates

    J. D. Martín-Martín;E. Gomez-Rivas;D. Gómez-Gras;A. Travé

  • Numerical simulation of fibre growth in antitaxial strain fringes

    Daniel Koehn;Chris Hilgers;Paul D. Bons;Cees W. Passchier

  • Fingerprinting stress: Stylolite and calcite twinning paleopiezometry revealing the complexity of progressive stress patterns during folding—The case of the Monte Nero anticline in the Apennines, Italy

    Nicolas Beaudoin;Daniel Koehn;Olivier Lacombe;Alexandre Lecouty

  • Modelling of stylolite geometries and stress scaling

    Daniel Koehn;Marcus Ebner;Francois Renard;Francois Renard;Renaud Toussaint

  • Asymmetric continental deformation during South Atlantic rifting along southern Brazil and Namibia

    Eric Salomon;Cees Passchier;Daniel Koehn

  • Influence of pre-existing fabrics on fault kinematics and rift geometry of interacting segments: Analogue models based on the Albertine Rift (Uganda), Western Branch-East African Rift System

    K. Aanyu;K. Aanyu;D. Koehn

  • THE JABAL AKHDAR DOME IN THE OMAN MOUNTAINS: EVOLUTION OF A DYNAMIC FRACTURE SYSTEM

    E. Gomez-Rivas;E. Gomez-Rivas;P. D. Bons;D. Koehn;J. L. Urai

  • Zebra rocks: compaction waves create ore deposits

    Ulrich Kelka;Manolis Veveakis;Daniel Koehn;Nicolas Beaudoin

  • Brittle reactivation of ductile shear zones in NW Namibia in relation to South Atlantic rifting

    Eric Salomon;Daniel Koehn;Cees Passchier

  • Fabric attractors in general triclinic flow systems and their application to high strain shear zones: A dynamical system approach

    David Iacopini;Cees Passchier;Daniel Koehn;Rodolfo Carosi

  • Anisotropic scaling of tectonic stylolites: A fossilized signature of the stress field?

    Marcus Ebner;Marcus Ebner;Renaud Toussaint;Renaud Toussaint;Jean Schmittbuhl;Jean Schmittbuhl;Daniel Koehn

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. Bons
Paul D. Bons University of Tübingen
Cees W. Passchier
Cees W. Passchier Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
François Renard
François Renard University of Oslo
Sandra Piazolo
Sandra Piazolo University of Leeds
Jean Schmittbuhl
Jean Schmittbuhl University of Strasbourg
Olivier Lacombe
Olivier Lacombe Sorbonne University
Einat Aharonov
Einat Aharonov Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Andrea Billi
Andrea Billi National Research Council (CNR)
Patrick Baud
Patrick Baud University of Strasbourg
János Urai
János Urai RWTH Aachen University

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