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Overview

Guido Schreurs is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has a research focus primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering. Their research spans several subfields including Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, Earth-Surface Processes, Mechanical Engineering, and Anthropology.

Their work often centers on topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological formations and processes, drilling and well engineering, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, and geotechnical and geomechanical engineering.

Frequent coauthors include Frank Zwaan, Timothy Schmid, Pauline Chenin, Duncan Erratt, and Giänreto Manatschal. Publication venues where Schreurs's research has appeared commonly include Solid Earth, Tectonophysics, Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern), Basin Research, and Journal of Structural Geology.

Their recent papers cover a variety of topics related to tectonics, rifting, and structural geology. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Rift segment interaction in orthogonal and rotational extension experiments: Implications for the large-scale development of rift systems" (2020, Journal of Structural Geology)
  • "Competition between 3D structural inheritance and kinematics during rifting: Insights from analogue models" (2021, Basin Research)
  • "Analogue modelling of basin inversion: a review and future perspectives" (2022, Solid Earth)
  • "Complex rift patterns, a result of interacting crustal and mantle weaknesses, or multiphase rifting? Insights from analogue models" (2021, Solid Earth)
  • "Pre-existing Basement Faults Controlling Deformation in the Jura Mountains Fold-and-Thrust Belt: Insights from Analogue Models" (2021, Tectonophysics)

Best Publications

  • Analogue modelling of intraplate strike-slip tectonics: A review and new experimental results

    Tim P. Dooley;Guido Schreurs

  • The numerical sandbox: Comparison of model results for a shortening and an extension experiment

    Susanne J. H. Buiter;Andrey Yu. Babeyko;Susan Ellis;Taras V. Gerya

  • Mechanical behaviour of granular materials used in analogue modelling: insights from grain characterisation, ring-shear tests and analogue experiments

    Marion Panien;Guido Schreurs;Adrian Pfiffner

  • Analogue benchmarks of shortening and extension experiments

    Guido Schreurs;Susanne J.H. Buiter;David Boutelier;Giacomo Corti

  • Analogue modelling of faulting in zones of continental transpression and transtension

    Guido Schreurs;Bernard Colletta

  • Sandbox experiments on basin inversion: testing the influence of basin orientation and basin fill

    Marion Panien;Guido Schreurs;Adrian Pfiffner

  • Experiments on strike-slip faulting and block rotation

    Guido Schreurs

  • Comparisons between analogue and numerical models of thrust wedge development

    S. Ellis;Guido Schreurs;Marion Panien

  • Properties of granular analogue model materials: A community wide survey

    M. Klinkmüller;Guido Schreurs;M. Rosenau;H. Kemnitz

  • Insights into the effects of oblique extension on continental rift interaction from 3D analogue and numerical models

    Frank Zwaan;Guido Schreurs;John Naliboff;Susanne J.H. Buiter

  • The significance of the Schams nappes for the reconstruction of the paleotectonic and orogenic evolution of the Penninic zone along the NFP-20 East traverse (Grisons, eastern Switzerland)

    S. M. Schmid;P. Rück;G. Schreurs

  • How oblique extension and structural inheritance influence rift segment interaction: Insights from 4D analog models

    Frank Zwaan;Guido Schreurs

  • Benchmarking numerical models of brittle thrust wedges

    Susanne J. H. Buiter;Guido Schreurs;Markus Albertz;Taras V. Gerya

  • Fault development and interaction in distributed strike-slip shear zones: an experimental approach

    Guido Schreurs

  • Late Palaeozoic to Neogene geodynamic evolution of the northeastern Oman margin

    Adrian Immenhauser;Adrian Immenhauser;Guido Schreurs;Edwin Gnos;Heiko W. Oterdoom

  • Rapid Evolution of Subduction-Related Continental Intraarc Rifts: The Taupo Rift, New Zealand

    P. Villamor;K. R. Berryman;S. M. Ellis;G. Schreurs

  • Quantitative 3D strain analysis in analogue experiments simulating tectonic deformation: Integration of X-ray computed tomography and digital volume correlation techniques

    J. Adam;M. Klinkmüller;G. Schreurs;B. Wieneke

  • Rheological benchmark of silicone oils used for analog modeling of short- and long-term lithospheric deformation

    Michael Rudolf;David Boutelier;Matthias Rosenau;Guido Schreurs

  • An insight into the breakup of Gondwana: Identifying events through low‐temperature thermochronology from the basement rocks of Madagascar

    Diane Seward;D. Grujic;Guido Schreurs

  • West-northwest directed obduction of the Batain Group on the eastern Oman continental margin at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

    Guido Schreurs;Adrian Immenhauser

  • ANALOGUE AND NUMERICAL MODELLING OF CRUSTAL-SCALE PROCESSES

    S. J. H. Buiter;G. Schreurs

  • Benchmarking analogue models of brittle thrust wedges

    Guido Schreurs;Susanne J.H. Buiter;Jennifer Boutelier;Caroline Burberry

  • Effects of sedimentation on rift segment evolution and rift interaction in orthogonal and oblique extensional settings: Insights from analogue models analysed with 4D X-ray computed tomography and digital volume correlation techniques

    Frank Zwaan;Guido Schreurs;Jürgen Adam

Frequent Co-Authors

Susanne J. H. Buiter
Susanne J. H. Buiter Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Edwin Gnos
Edwin Gnos Natural History Museum of Geneva
Susan Ellis
Susan Ellis GNS Science
Alfons Berger
Alfons Berger University of Bern
Alexander R. Cruden
Alexander R. Cruden Monash University
Hemin Koyi
Hemin Koyi Uppsala University
Diane Seward
Diane Seward Victoria University of Wellington
Pilar Villamor
Pilar Villamor GNS Science
George E. Hilley
George E. Hilley Stanford University
Roy W. Schlische
Roy W. Schlische Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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