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Overview

Hans-Ulrich Schmincke was affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research contributed to multiple fields, primarily focusing on engineering and earth and planetary sciences, with notable work in ocean engineering and atmospheric science as subfields.

Their publication record included studies in geophysics and paleontology, with main topics covering drilling and well engineering, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, oil and gas production techniques, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological and geochemical analysis, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, and tree-ring climate responses.

Frequent collaborators included Pierre Cambon, Brian T. R. Lewis, Paul T. Robinson, R.N. Benson, and Grant Blackinton. These partnerships resulted in multiple joint publications across various thematic areas.

Schmincke's work appeared regularly in several scientific venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geothermics
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Quaternary International

Among recent papers, notable publications included:

  • "Pleistocene dynamics of dust accumulation and soil formation in the southern Caspian Lowlands - New insights from the loess-paleosol sequence at Neka-Abelou, northern Iran," 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Towards a dendrochronologically refined date of the Laacher See eruption around 13,000 years ago," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "3D electrical resistivity of Gran Canaria island using magnetotelluric data," 2020, Geothermics
  • "Boundary conditions for damming of a large river by fallout during the 12,900 BP Plinian Laacher See Eruption (Germany). Syn-eruptive Rhine damming II," 2020, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • "Obsidian hydration dating helps understand pre-hispanic land use on the volcanic island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain," 2023, Quaternary International

Best Publications

  • Geochemical Fluxes During Seafloor Alteration of the Basaltic Upper Oceanic Crust: DSDP Sites 417 and 418

    Hubert Staudigel;Terry Plank;Bill White;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

  • The annual volcanic gas input into the atmosphere, in particular into the stratosphere: a global data set for the past 100 years

    Martina M. Halmer;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke;H.-F. Graf

  • Laacher See Tephra: A widespread isochronous late Quaternary tephra layer in central and northern Europe

    Paul v.d. Bogaard;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

  • The Pliocene seamount series of La Palma/Canary Islands

    Hubert Staudigel;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

  • Palagonite - a review

    Nicole A. Stroncik;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

  • Volcanic and Chemical Evolution of the Canary Islands

    Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

  • The role of partial melting in the 15 Ma geochemical evolution of Gran Canaria: a blob model for the Canary hotspot

    Kaj Hoernle;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

  • Isotopic and trace element composition of volcanic glasses from the Akaki Canyon, Cyprus: implications for the origin of the Troodos ophiolite

    M. Rautenschlein;M. Rautenschlein;G.A. Jenner;G.A. Jenner;J. Hertogen;A.W. Hofmann

  • Antidune and chute and pool structures in the base surge deposits of the Laacher See area, Germany

    Hans-Ulrich Schmincke;Richard V. Fisher;Aaron C. Waters

  • Volcanic glass compositions of the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus

    Paul T. Robinson;William G. Melson;Tim O'Hearn;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

  • Polybaric differentiation of alkali basaltic magmas: evidence from green-core clinopyroxenes (Eifel, FRG)

    Antje Duda;Antje Duda;Hans Ulrich Schmincke

  • SrNdPb isotopic evolution of Gran Canaria: Evidence for shallow enriched mantle beneath the Canary Islands

    Kaj Hoernle;George Tilton;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

  • Cretaceous ocean crust at DSDP Sites 417 and 418: Carbon uptake from weathering versus loss by magmatic outgassing

    Hubert Staudigel;Stanley R Hart;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke;Brian M Smith

  • Geochronology of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands: Age of Shield Building Volcanism and Other Magmatic Phases

    I. McDougall;H. U. Schmincke

  • Volatile emission during the eruption of Baitoushan Volcano (China/North Korea) ca. 969 AD

    Susanne Horn;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

  • Submarine landslides around the Canary Islands

    Sebastian Krastel;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke;Colin L. Jacobs;Roland Rihm

  • Models for the origin of accretionary lapilli

    Rolf Schumacher;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

  • Trace element abundances and mineral/melt distribution coefficients in phonolites from the Laacher See volcano (Germany)

    G. Wörrier;J. M. Beusen;N. Duchateau;R. Gijbels

  • Os Isotope Systematics in the Canary Islands and Madeira: Lithospheric Contamination and Mantle Plume Signatures

    E. Widom;K. A. Hoernle;S. B. Shirey;H.-U. Schmincke

  • The Geology of the Canary Islands

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  • The 40Ar/39Ar age dating of the Madeira Archipelago and hotspot track (eastern North Atlantic)

    Jörg Geldmacher;Paul van den Bogaard;Kaj Hoernle;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

Frequent Co-Authors

Armin Freundt
Armin Freundt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Philip Pe Weaver
Philip Pe Weaver National Oceanography Centre
Steffen Kutterolf
Steffen Kutterolf Kiel University
Kaj Hoernle
Kaj Hoernle GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Thor H. Hansteen
Thor H. Hansteen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Sebastian Krastel
Sebastian Krastel Kiel University
Valentin R. Troll
Valentin R. Troll Uppsala University
Paul van den Bogaard
Paul van den Bogaard GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Guillermo E. Alvarado
Guillermo E. Alvarado University of Costa Rica
Andreas Klügel
Andreas Klügel University of Bremen

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