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Kaj Hoernle is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on geophysics, astronomy and astrophysics, environmental chemistry, atmospheric science, and geology.

Hoernle's work encompasses several key topics, including geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, methane hydrates and related phenomena, high-pressure geophysics and materials, astro and planetary science, geology and paleoclimatology research, and geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies.

Their frequent co-authors include Stephan Homrighausen, William W. Sager, Tobias W. Höfig, Sriharsha Thoram, and Rajneesh Bhutani.

Publications by Hoernle have appeared repeatedly in several venues, including Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Chemical Geology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and Goldschmidt Abstracts.

Recent significant papers include:

  • Paired EMI-HIMU hotspots in the South Atlantic-Starting plume heads trigger compositionally distinct secondary plumes?, 2020, Science Advances
  • Decoupled Zn-Sr-Nd isotopic composition of continental intraplate basalts caused by two-stage melting process, 2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Geochemistry of Etendeka magmatism: Spatial heterogeneity in the Tristan-Gough plume head, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • The Middle-Late Cretaceous Zagros ophiolites, Iran: Linking of a 3000 km swath of subduction initiation fore-arc lithosphere from Troodos, Cyprus to Oman, 2021, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • High 3He/4He in central Panama reveals a distal connection to the Galápagos plume, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Hoernle has also contributed to scientific prospectuses and expedition reports published by organizations such as Scientific Prospectus and the International Ocean Discovery Program. Examples include expedition documents related to Walvis Ridge Hotspot research between 2020 and 2023.

Best Publications

  • Deep roots of the Messinian salinity crisis

    Svend Duggen;Svend Duggen;Kaj Hoernle;Paul van den Bogaard;Lars Rüpke

  • Post-Collisional Transition from Subduction- to Intraplate-type Magmatism in the Westernmost Mediterranean: Evidence for Continental-Edge Delamination of Subcontinental Lithosphere

    S. Duggen;K. Hoernle;P. Van Den Bogaard;D. Garbe-Schönberg

  • Geochemistry of oceanic carbonatites compared with continental carbonatites: mantle recycling of oceanic crustal carbonate

    Kaj Hoernle;George Tilton;Mike J. Le Bas;Svend Duggen

  • Seismic and geochemical evidence for large-scale mantle upwelling beneath the eastern Atlantic and western and central Europe

    Kaj Hoernle;Yu-Shen Zhang;David Graham

  • Constraints on mantle melting and composition and nature of slab components in volcanic arcs from volatiles (H 2 O, S, Cl, F) and trace elements in melt inclusions from the Kamchatka Arc

    Maxim Portnyagin;Kaj Hoernle;Pavel Plechov;Nikita Mironov

  • Sr‐Nd‐Pb composition of Mesozoic Pacific oceanic crust (Site 1149 and 801, ODP Leg 185): Implications for alteration of ocean crust and the input into the Izu‐Bonin‐Mariana subduction system

    Folkmar Hauff;Kaj Hoernle;Angelika Schmidt

  • Magmatic evolution of the Alboran region: The role of subduction in forming the western Mediterranean and causing the Messinian Salinity Crisis

    Svend Duggen;Kaj Hoernle;Paul van den Bogaard;Chris Harris

  • Hikurangi Plateau: Crustal structure, rifted formation, and Gondwana subduction history

    Bryan Davy;Kaj Hoernle;Reinhard Werner

  • Oxygen isotope evidence for slab melting in modern and ancient subduction zones

    I. N. Bindeman;I. N. Bindeman;J. M. Eiler;G. M. Yogodzinski;Y. Tatsumi

  • 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

  • Missing history (16–71 Ma) of the Galápagos hotspot: Implications for the tectonic and biological evolution of the Americas

    Kaj Hoernle;Paul van den Bogaard;Reinhard Werner;Britta Lissinna

  • Age and geochemistry of basaltic complexes in western Costa Rica: Contributions to the geotectonic evolution of Central America

    Folkmar Hauff;Kaj Hoernle;Paul van den Bogaard;Guillermo Alvarado

  • Arc-parallel flow in the mantle wedge beneath Costa Rica and Nicaragua

    Kaj Hoernle;David L. Abt;Karen M. Fischer;Holly Nichols

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

    Kaj Hoernle;George Tilton;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

  • Constraining the Jurassic extent of Greater India: Tectonic evolution of the West Australian margin

    Ana D. Gibbons;Udo Barckhausen;Paul van den Bogaard;Kaj Hoernle

  • Cenozoic intraplate volcanism on New Zealand: Upwelling induced by lithospheric removal

    K. Hoernle;J.D.L. White;P. van den Bogaard;F. Hauff

  • New 40Ar / 39Ar age and geochemical data from seamounts in the Canary and Madeira volcanic provinces: Support for the mantle plume hypothesis

    Jörg Geldmacher;Kaj Hoernle;Paul van den Bogaard;Svend Duggen

  • Drowned 14-m.y.-old Galápagos archipelago off the coast of Costa Rica: Implications for tectonic and evolutionary models

    Reinhard Werner;Kaj Hoernle;Paul van den Bogaard;Cesar Ranero

  • 70 m.y. history (139–69 Ma) for the Caribbean large igneous province

    Kaj Hoernle;Folkmar Hauff;Paul van den Bogaard

  • Combined Trace Element and Pb-Nd–Sr-O Isotope Evidence for Recycled Oceanic Crust (Upper and Lower) in the Iceland Mantle Plume

    Kaj Hoernle;Folkmar Hauff;Jens Fiebig

  • Existence of complex spatial zonation in the Galápagos plume

    Kaj Hoernle;Reinhard Werner;Jason Phipps Morgan;Dieter Garbe-Schönberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Folkmar Hauff
Folkmar Hauff GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Paul van den Bogaard
Paul van den Bogaard GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Maxim Portnyagin
Maxim Portnyagin GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Andreas Klügel
Andreas Klügel University of Bremen
Nick Mortimer
Nick Mortimer GNS Science
Ilya N. Bindeman
Ilya N. Bindeman University of Oregon
Alexander V. Sobolev
Alexander V. Sobolev Grenoble Alpes University
Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben
Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Simon Turner
Simon Turner Macquarie University

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