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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Jonas Kley is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and has a research focus primarily situated within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly contributions extend significantly into subfields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Mechanics of Materials, Paleontology, and Geology.

The core themes of their research encompass Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Kley's recent publications include studies such as:

  • "Dawn and dusk of Late Cretaceous basin inversion in central Europe" (2021, Solid Earth)
  • "Late Cretaceous to Paleogene exhumation in central Europe - localized inversion vs. large-scale domal uplift" (2021, Solid Earth)
  • "The Carboniferous Arc of the North Pamir" (2021, Lithosphere)
  • "Impact of Late Cretaceous inversion and Cenozoic extension on salt structure growth in the Baltic sector of the North German Basin" (2021, Basin Research)
  • "Thermo-Kinematic Evolution of the Eastern European Alps Along the TRANSALP Transect" (2023, Tectonics)

Frequent co-authors who collaborate with Kley include Heinz-Gerd Röhling, Johannes Rembe, Edward R. Sobel, Renjie Zhou, and Bernd Leiss, reflecting ongoing partnerships in various aspects of geoscience research.

The venues in which Kley has frequently published are:

  • Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften
  • Solid Earth
  • Tectonics
  • Lithosphere
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recognition of Kley's professional standing includes being named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. This designation indicates a level of peer acknowledgment within the geosciences community.

Best Publications

  • Deformation of the Central Andean Upper Plate System — Facts, Fiction, and Constraints for Plateau Models

    Onno Oncken;David Hindle;Jonas Kley;Kirsten Elger

  • Along-strike segmentation of the Andean foreland: causes and consequences

    J. Kley;C.R. Monaldi;J.A. Salfity

  • Deformation of the Central Andean Upper Plate System –Facts, Fiction, and Constraints for Plateau Models

    Onno Oncken;David Hindle;Jonas Kley;Kirsten Elger

  • Tectonic shortening and crustal thickness in the Central Andes: How good is the correlation?

    Jonas Kley;César R. Monaldi

  • Late Cretaceous intraplate thrusting in central Europe: Effect of Africa-Iberia-Europe convergence, not Alpine collision

    Jonas Kley;Thomas Voigt

  • Transition from basement‐involved to thin‐skinned thrusting in the Cordillera Oriental of southern Bolivia

    Jonas Kley

  • Tectonic inversion in the Santa Barbara System of the central Andean foreland thrust belt, northwestern Argentina

    Jonas Kley;Jonas Kley;César R. Monaldi

  • Seismic and field evidence for selective inversion of Cretaceous normal faults, Salta rift, northwest Argentina

    Jonas Kley;Eduardo Antonio Rossello;Cesar Ruben Monaldi;Bjórn Habighorst

  • Pre-Andean and Andean-age deformation in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Bolivia

    J. Kley;J. Müller;S. Tawackoli;V. Jacobshagen

  • Geologic and geometric constraints on a kinematic model of the Bolivian orocline

    J Kley

  • Structure and Cenozoic kinematics of the Eastern Cordillera, southern Bolivia (21°S)

    Joachim P. Müller;Jonas Kley;Jonas Kley;Volker Jacobshagen

  • Unsteady evolution of the Bolivian Subandean thrust belt: The role of enhanced erosion and clastic wedge progradation

    Cornelius E. Uba;Jonas Kley;Manfred R. Strecker;Axel K. Schmitt

  • The role of inherited extensional fault segmentation and linkage in contractional orogenesis: a reconstruction of Lower Cretaceous inverted rift basins in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia

    Andrés Mora;Tatiana Gaona;Jonas Kley;Diana Montoya

  • Consistency of Geologic and Geodetic Displacements During Andean Orogenesis

    David Hindle;Jonas Kley;Eryn Klosko;Seth A Stein

  • Salt diapirism driven by differential loading — Some insights from analogue modelling

    Michael Warsitzka;Jonas Kley;Nina Kukowski

  • Crustal balance and crustal flux from shortening estimates in the Central Andes

    David Hindle;Jonas Kley;Onno Oncken;Stephan Sobolev

  • Preserved extensional structures in an inverted Cretaceous rift basin, northwestern Argentina: Outcrop examples and implications for fault reactivation

    Cesar Ruben Monaldi;Jose Antonio Salfity;Jonas Kley

  • Basement-involved blind thrusting in the eastern Cordillera Oriental, southern Bolivia: evidence from cross-sectional balancing, gravimetric and magnetotelluric data

    Jonas Kley;Alfredo H. Gangui;Detlef Krüger

  • Insights from North America's failed Midcontinent Rift into the evolution of continental rifts and passive continental margins

    Seth Stein;Carol A. Stein;Reece Elling;Jonas Kley

  • Maximum depositional age of the Neoproterozoic Jacobsville Sandstone, Michigan: Implications for the evolution of the Midcontinent Rift

    David H. Malone;Carol A. Stein;John P. Craddock;Jonas Kley

  • North America’s Midcontinent Rift: When rift met LIP

    Carol A. Stein;Jonas Kley;Seth Stein;David Hindle

  • Timing and spatial patterns of Cretaceous and Cenozoic inversion in the Southern Permian Basin

    Jonas Kley

Frequent Co-Authors

Seth Stein
Seth Stein Northwestern University
Edward R. Sobel
Edward R. Sobel University of Potsdam
Carol A. Stein
Carol A. Stein University of Illinois at Chicago
István Dunkl
István Dunkl University of Göttingen
Hilmar von Eynatten
Hilmar von Eynatten University of Göttingen
G. Randy Keller
G. Randy Keller University of Oklahoma
Timothy H. Dixon
Timothy H. Dixon University of South Florida
Todd A. Ehlers
Todd A. Ehlers University of Glasgow
Manfred R. Strecker
Manfred R. Strecker University of Potsdam
Dieter Franke
Dieter Franke Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources

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