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Hemmo A. Abels is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Paleontology, and Geology.

The core topics of their work include geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, isotope analysis in ecology, hydrology and sediment transport processes, geological studies and exploration, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Hemmo A. Abels has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Sedimentology
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Basin Research

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Carbon isotope and mammal recovery from extreme greenhouse warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in astronomically-calibrated fluvial strata, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA (2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • Evaluating alluvial stratigraphic response to cyclic and non-cyclic upstream forcing through process-based alluvial architecture modelling (2020, Basin Research)
  • Identifying eolian dust in the geological record (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Astronomical forcing of meter-scale organic-rich mudstone-limestone cyclicity in the Eocene Dongying sag, China: Implications for shale reservoir exploration (2022, AAPG Bulletin)
  • Loess-Like Dust Appearance at 40 Ma in Central China (2021, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Allard W. Martinius
  • Philip D. Gingerich
  • Youwei Wang
  • Timothy F. Baars
  • J.E.A. Storms

Best Publications

  • Tibetan plateau aridification linked to global cooling at the Eocene–Oligocene transition

    Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Wout Krijgsman;Cor G. Langereis;Hemmo A. Abels

  • Asian monsoons in a late Eocene greenhouse world

    A. Licht;A. Licht;A. Licht;M. van Cappelle;M. van Cappelle;H. A. Abels;H. A. Abels;J.-B. Ladant

  • Aridification in continental Asia after the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO)

    Roderic E. Bosboom;Hemmo A. Abels;Carina Hoorn;Bas C.J. van den Berg

  • Step-wise change of Asian interior climate preceding the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT)

    Hemmo A. Abels;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guoqiao Xiao;Roderic Bosboom

  • Long-period orbital control on middle Miocene global cooling: Integrated stratigraphy and astronomical tuning of the Blue Clay Formation on Malta

    H. A. Abels;F. J. Hilgen;W. Krijgsman;R. W. Kruk

  • Astronomical constraints on the duration of the early Jurassic Hettangian stage and recovery rates following the end-Triassic mass extinction (St Audrie's Bay/East Quantoxhead, UK)

    M. Ruhl;M.H.L. Deenen;H.A. Abels;N.R. Bonis

  • A late Eocene palynological record of climate change and Tibetan Plateau uplift (Xining Basin, China)

    Carina Hoorn;Julia Straathof;Hemmo A. Abels;Yadong Xu

  • Evidence for northeastern Tibetan Plateau uplift between 25 and 20 Ma in the sedimentary archive of the Xining Basin, Northwestern China

    Guoqiao Xiao;Guoqiao Xiao;Zhengtang Guo;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Houyuan Lu

  • Stratigraphic continuity and fragmentary sedimentation: the success of cyclostratigraphy as part of integrated stratigraphy

    Frederik J. Hilgen;Linda A. Hinnov;Hayfaa Abdul Aziz;Hemmo A. Abels

  • CO2 drawdown following the middle Miocene expansion of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

    Marcus Peter Badger;Caroline Helen Lear;Richard D. Pancost;Gavin L. Foster

  • Grain-size characterization of reworked fine-grained aeolian deposits

    Jef Vandenberghe;Youbin Sun;Xianyan Wang;Hemmo Abels

  • Terrestrial carbon isotope excursions and biotic change during Palaeogene hyperthermals

    Hemmo A. Abels;William C. Clyde;Philip D. Gingerich;Frederik J. Hilgen

  • Asian aridification linked to the first step of the Eocene-Oligocene climate Transition (EOT) in obliquity-dominated terrestrial records (Xining Basin, China)

    Guoqiao Xiao (肖国桥);Guoqiao Xiao (肖国桥);Hemmo A. Abels;Zhengquan Yao (姚政权);Guillaume Dupont-Nivet

  • Precession‐scale cyclicity in the fluvial lower Eocene Willwood Formation of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming (USA)

    Hemmo A. Abels;Mary J. Kraus;Philip D. Gingerich

  • Resilience of the Asian atmospheric circulation shown by Paleogene dust provenance

    Alexis Licht;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Alex Pullen;Paul Kapp

  • The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Serravallian Stage (Middle Miocene)

    F. J. Hilgen;H. A. Abels;S. Iaccarino;W. Krijgsman

  • Central Asian moisture modulated by proto-Paratethys Sea incursions since the early Eocene

    Niels Meijer;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Hemmo A. Abels;Mustafa Y. Kaya

  • Long-period eccentricity control on sedimentary sequences in the continental Madrid Basin (middle Miocene, Spain)

    Hemmo A. Abels;Hayfaa Abdul Aziz;Wout Krijgsman;Sander J.B. Smeets

  • Continued obliquity pacing of East Asian summer precipitation after the mid-Pleistocene transition

    Tao Li;Fei Liu;Hemmo A. Abels;Chen Feng You

  • Reconstructing geographical boundary conditions for palaeoclimate modelling during the Cenozoic

    Michiel Baatsen;Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen;Anna S. von der Heydt;Henk A. Dijkstra

Frequent Co-Authors

Guillaume Dupont-Nivet
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet University of Rennes
Wout Krijgsman
Wout Krijgsman Utrecht University
Frederik J Hilgen
Frederik J Hilgen Utrecht University
Klaudia F. Kuiper
Klaudia F. Kuiper Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Philip D. Gingerich
Philip D. Gingerich University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lucas Joost Lourens
Lucas Joost Lourens Utrecht University
Caroline H. Lear
Caroline H. Lear Cardiff University
Frank P. Wesselingh
Frank P. Wesselingh Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Carina Hoorn
Carina Hoorn University of Amsterdam
Marius Stoica
Marius Stoica University of Bucharest

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