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Daniel Paul Le Heron

Daniel Paul Le Heron

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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
3927
World Ranking
7386
National Ranking
37

Overview

Daniel Paul Le Heron is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria and has a research focus primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work has contributed extensively to fields such as Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, Geophysics, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research covers a range of main topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Cryospheric studies and observations, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Le Heron's frequent collaborators include Christoph Kettler, Pierre Dietrich, Thomas Matthew Vandyk, Neil Griffis, and Isabel P. Montañez.

The primary venues where their research appears include:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Sedimentary Geology
  • Sedimentology
  • Geology
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • Bedforms and sedimentary structures related to supercritical flows in glacigenic settings (2020, Sedimentology)
  • High-latitude ice and climate control on sediment supply across SW Gondwana during the late Carboniferous and early Permian (2021, Geological Society of America Bulletin)
  • Fjord network in Namibia: A snapshot into the dynamics of the late Paleozoic glaciation (2021, Geology)
  • A Carboniferous apex for the late Paleozoic icehouse (2023, Geological Society London Special Publications)
  • Subglacial bedforms and landscapes formed by an ice sheet of Ediacaran-Cambrian age in west Henan, North China (2020, Precambrian Research)

Best Publications

  • Neoproterozoic iron formation: An evaluation of its temporal, environmental and tectonic significance

    Grant M. Cox;Galen P. Halverson;William G. Minarik;Daniel P. Le Heron

  • The Late Ordovician glacial sedimentary system of the North Gondwana platform

    Jean‐Francois Ghienne;Daniel Paul Le Heron;Julien Moreau;Michael Denis

  • Ancient glaciations and hydrocarbon accumulations in North Africa and the Middle East

    Daniel Paul Le Heron;Jonathan Craig;James L. Etienne

  • First-order reconstructions of a Late Ordovician Saharan ice sheet

    D.P. Le Heron;J. Craig

  • The palaeobiology and geochemistry of Precambrian hydrocarbon source rocks

    J. Craig;U. Biffi;R.F. Galimberti;K.A.R. Ghori

  • The origins of glacially related soft-sediment deformation structures in Upper Ordovician glaciogenic rocks: implication for ice-sheet dynamics

    D.P. Le Heron;O.E. Sutcliffe;R.J. Whittington;J. Craig

  • Sedimentary architecture of Upper Ordovician tunnel valleys, Gargaf Arch, Libya: Implications for the genesis of a hydrocarbon reservoir

    Daniel Le Heron;Owen Sutcliffe;Khalid Bourgig;Jonathan Craig

  • Sedimentological perspectives on climatic, atmospheric and environmental change in the Neoproterozoic Era

    Guy H. Spence;Daniel P. Le Heron;Ian J. Fairchild

  • Maximum extent of ice sheets in Morocco during the Late Ordovician glaciation

    Daniel Paul Le Heron;Daniel Paul Le Heron;Jean-François Ghienne;Mohamed El Houicha;Yahya Khoukhi

  • A complex subglacial clastic dyke swarm, Sólheimajökull, southern Iceland

    Daniel Paul Le Heron;James L. Etienne

  • 440 Ma ice stream in North Africa

    Julien Moreau;Jean-François Ghienne;Daniel Paul Le Heron;Jean-Loup Rubino

  • Glaciation and deglaciation of the Libyan Desert: The Late Ordovician record

    D.P. Le Heron;H.A. Armstrong;C. Wilson;J.P. Howard

  • Calculating ice volumes and ice flux to constrain the dimensions of a 440 Ma North African ice sheet

    Daniel Paul Le Heron;Julian A. Dowdeswell

  • A model for Cryogenian iron formation

    Grant M. Cox;Galen P. Halverson;André Poirier;Daniel Le Heron

  • Late Ordovician glacial record of the Anti-Atlas, Morocco

    Daniel Paul Le Heron

  • The significance of ice-rafted debris in Sturtian glacial successions

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  • An interglacial on snowball Earth? Dynamic ice behaviour revealed in the Chuos Formation, Namibia

    Daniel P. Le Heron;Marie E. Busfield;Fred Kamona

  • Late Ordovician glaciogenic reservoir heterogeneity: An example from the Murzuq Basin, Libya

    Daniel Paul Le Heron;Jonathan Craig;Owen E. Sutcliffe;Robert Whittington

  • Bedforms and sedimentary structures related to supercritical flows in glacigenic settings

    Jörg Lang;Daniel P. Le Heron;Jan H. Van den Berg;Jutta Winsemann

  • Microbial Carbonates in Space and Time: Implications for Global Exploration and Production

    Dan W. J. Bosence;K. A. Gibbons;D. P. Le Heron;W. A. Morgan

  • Sea ice−free conditions during the Sturtian glaciation (early Cryogenian), South Australia

    D. P. Le Heron;G. Cox;A. Trundley;A. Collins

  • Two Cryogenian glacial successions compared: Aspects of the Sturt and Elatina sediment records of South Australia

    Daniel Paul Le Heron;Grant Cox;Anita Trundley;Alan S. Collins

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabel P. Montañez
Isabel P. Montañez University of California, Davis
Jonathan Craig
Jonathan Craig Eni (Italy)
Alan S. Collins
Alan S. Collins University of Adelaide
Grant M. Cox
Grant M. Cox University of Adelaide
Jean-François Ghienne
Jean-François Ghienne University of Strasbourg
Galen P. Halverson
Galen P. Halverson McGill University
Ian J. Fairchild
Ian J. Fairchild University of Birmingham
Justin V. Strauss
Justin V. Strauss Dartmouth College
Florentin Paris
Florentin Paris University of Rennes
Andrew C. Morton
Andrew C. Morton University of Cambridge

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