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Karl Stattegger

Karl Stattegger

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Earth Science

D-Index
40
Citations
7835
World Ranking
5721
National Ranking
412

Overview

Karl Stattegger is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their body of work includes a significant focus on Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography, complemented by studies within Ecology and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research spans diverse topics related to geological and environmental dynamics. Key areas include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Marine and environmental studies

Stattegger has published in multiple scientific journals, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • Ocean & Coastal Management
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Marine Geology
  • CATENA

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "A Holocene relative sea-level database for the Baltic Sea" (2021), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Evaluation of decadal shoreline changes along the Parnaíba Delta (NE Brazil) using satellite images and statistical methods" (2021), published in Ocean & Coastal Management
  • "Sediment distribution and provenance on the continental shelf off the Mekong River, SE Vietnam: Insights from heavy mineral analysis" (2020), published in Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • "Controls on coastal flooding in the southern Baltic Sea revealed from the late Holocene sedimentary records" (2022), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Depositional sequences of the Mekong river delta and adjacent shelf over the past 140 kyr, southern Vietnam" (2020), published in Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

The scientist collaborates regularly with several other researchers, including:

  • Karolina Leszczyńska
  • Damian Moskalewicz
  • Helenice Vital
  • Witold Szczuciński
  • André Giskard Aquino da Silva

Best Publications

  • Rapid flooding of the sunda shelf: A late-glacial sea-level record

    Till Hanebuth;Karl Stattegger;Pieter M. Grootes

  • Spectrum: spectral analysis of unevenly spaced paleoclimatic time series

    Michael Schulz;Karl Stattegger

  • Source-to-sink transport processes of fluvial sediments in the South China Sea

    Zhifei Liu;Yulong Zhao;Christophe Colin;Karl Stattegger

  • A unique geochemical record at the Permian/Triassic boundary

    William T. Holser;Hans-Peter Schönlaub;Moses Attrep;Klaus Boeckelmann

  • Synchronous tropical South China Sea SST change and Greenland warming during deglaciation.

    M. Kienast;Stephan Steinke;K. Stattegger;S. E. Calvert

  • Termination of the Last Glacial Maximum sea-level lowstand: The Sunda-Shelf data revisited

    Till J J Hanebuth;Karl Stattegger;A Bojanowski

  • Fundamental Modes and Abrupt Changes in North Atlantic Circulation and Climate over the last 60 ky - Concepts, Reconstruction and Numerical Modeling

    Michael Sarnthein;Karl Stattegger;Derek Dreger;Helmut Erlenkeuser

  • Major and trace elements of stream sediments from the lowermost Amazon River

    Helenice Vital;Karl Stattegger

  • Exploring the structure of the mid-Pleistocene revolution with advanced methods of time-series analysis

    M. Mudelsee;Karl Stattegger

  • Infilling and flooding of the Mekong River incised valley during deglacial sea-level rise

    Rik Tjallingii;Karl Stattegger;Andreas Wetzel;Phung Van Phach

  • Holocene sea-level history: Evidence from coastal sediments of the northern Rio Grande do Norte coast, NE Brazil

    Luciano Henrique de Oliveira Caldas;Karl Stattegger;Helenice Vital

  • Composition and Trace-Element Geochemistry of Detrital Clay and Heavy-Mineral Suites of the Lowermost Amazon River: A Provenance Study

    Helenice Vital;Karl Stattegger;Carl-Dieter Garbe-Schoenberg

  • Vegetation on the Sunda Shelf, South China Sea, during the Last Glacial Maximum

    XiaoMei Wang;XiangJun Sun;XiangJun Sun;PinXian Wang;Karl Stattegger

  • Deglacial and Holocene evolution of the Vietnam shelf: stratigraphy, sediments and sea-level change

    A. Schimanski;K. Stattegger

  • Clay mineral sedimentation in high northern latitude deep-sea basins since the Middle Miocene (ODP Leg 151, NAAG)

    A. Winkler;T. C. W. Wolf-Welling;Karl Stattegger;Jörn Thiede

  • Mid to late Holocene sea-level reconstruction of Southeast Vietnam using beachrock and beach-ridge deposits

    Karl Stattegger;Rik Tjallingii;Yoshiki Saito;Maximiliano Michelli

  • Sea level induced variations in clay mineral composition in the southwestern South China Sea over the past 17,000 yr

    Stephan Steinke;Till J.J. Hanebuth;Christoph Vogt;Karl Stattegger

  • North Atlantic ocean circulation during the last glacial maximum and subsequent meltwater event: A numerical model

    D. Seidov;M. Sarnthein;Karl Stattegger;R. Prien

  • Depositional sequences on a late Pleistocene-Holocene tropical siliciclastic shelf (Sunda Shelf, southeast Asia)

    T.J.J Hanebuth;T.J.J Hanebuth;K Stattegger

  • A High-Resolution Sea-Surface Temperature Record from the Tropical South China Sea (16,500–3000 yr B.P.)

    Stephan Steinke;Markus Kienast;Uwe Pflaumann;Mara Weinelt

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Steinke
Stephan Steinke Xiamen University
Markus Kienast
Markus Kienast Dalhousie University
Uwe Pflaumann
Uwe Pflaumann Kiel University
Till J J Hanebuth
Till J J Hanebuth Coastal Carolina University
Andreas Wetzel
Andreas Wetzel University of Basel
Wolfgang Kuhnt
Wolfgang Kuhnt Kiel University
Witold Szczuciński
Witold Szczuciński Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Zhifei Liu
Zhifei Liu Tongji University
Rik Tjallingii
Rik Tjallingii Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Manfred Mudelsee
Manfred Mudelsee University of Potsdam

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