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Klaus Wemmer publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Klaus Wemmer sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Klaus Wemmer D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Klaus Wemmer sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Klaus Wemmer is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and focuses their research within Earth and Planetary Sciences, producing significant work across related subfields such as Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, and Paleontology. Their involvement in the scientific community includes contributions that also intersect with Computer Science, especially in topics related to Artificial Intelligence.

The main areas of Klaus Wemmer's research include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials

Wemmer has frequently published in several academic venues, including:

  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Journal of the Geological Society
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Journal of Structural Geology

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Klaus Wemmer include:

  • From widespread faulting to localised rifting: Evidence from K-Ar fault gouge dates from the Norwegian North Sea rift shoulder (2021, Basin Research)
  • Dating recurrent shear zone activity and the transition from ductile to brittle deformation: White mica geochronology applied to the Neoproterozoic Dom Feliciano Belt in South Brazil (2020, Journal of Structural Geology)
  • Archean to early Neoproterozoic crustal growth of the southern South American Platform and its wide-reaching "African" origins (2022, Precambrian Research)
  • Potential, premises, and pitfalls of interpreting illite argon dates - A case study from the German Variscides (2022, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Provenance of metasedimentary rocks of the western Dom Feliciano Belt in Uruguay: Insights from U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology, Hf and Nd model ages, and geochemical data (2021, Journal of South American Earth Sciences)

Collaborations feature prominently in Wemmer's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Mathias Hueck
  • Sebastián Oriolo
  • Pedro Oyhantçabal
  • Siegfried Siegesmund
  • Miguel Ângelo Stipp Basei

Best Publications

  • The Río de la Plata Craton: a review of units, boundaries, ages and isotopic signature

    Pedro Oyhantçabal;Siegfried Siegesmund;Klaus Wemmer

  • New Age Constraints on the Metamorphic Evolution of the High‐Pressure/Low‐Temperature Belt in the Western Tianshan Mountains, NW China

    R. Klemd;M. Bröcker;B. R. Hacker;J. Gao

  • Proterozoic–Paleozoic development of the basement of the Central Andes (18–26°S) — a mobile belt of the South American craton

    F. Lucassen;R. Becchio;R. Becchio;H.G. Wilke;G. Franz

  • Post-collisional transition from calc-alkaline to alkaline magmatism during transcurrent deformation in the southernmost Dom Feliciano Belt (Braziliano-Pan-African, Uruguay)

    Pedro Oyhantçabal;Siegfried Siegesmund;Klaus Wemmer;Robert Frei

  • Geochronological constraints on the evolution of the southern Dom Feliciano Belt (Uruguay)

    Pedro Oyhantçabal;Siegfried Siegesmund;Klaus Wemmer;Sergey Presnyakov

  • La Pacana caldera, N. Chile: a re-evaluation of the stratigraphy and volcanology of one of the world's largest resurgent calderas

    J.M Lindsay;S de Silva;R Trumbull;R Emmermann

  • Contemporaneous assembly of Western Gondwana and final Rodinia break-up: Implications for the supercontinent cycle

    Sebastián Oriolo;Pedro Oyhantçabal;Klaus Wemmer;Siegfried Siegesmund

  • Accretion of first Gondwana-derived terranes at the margin of Baltica

    Z. Belka;P. Valverde-Vaquero;P. Valverde-Vaquero;W. Dörr;H. Ahrendt

  • Thermal and Tectonic History of the Ordos Basin, China: Evidence from Apatite Fission Track Analysis, Vitrinite Reflectance, and K-Ar Dating

    Meng-Wei Zhao;Hans-Jurgen Behr;Hans Ahrendt;Klaus Wemmer

  • Ordovician metamorphism and plutonism in the Sierra de Quilmes metamorphic complex: Implications for the tectonic setting of the northern Sierras Pampeanas (NW Argentina)

    S.H Büttner;S.H Büttner;J Glodny;F Lucassen;K Wemmer

  • Geochronology of shear zones – A review

    Sebastián Oriolo;Klaus Wemmer;Pedro Oyhantçabal;Haakon Fossen

  • Origin of illite in the lower Paleozoic of the Illinois basin: Evidence for brine migrations

    Georg H. Grathoff;Duane M. Moore;Richard L. Hay;Klaus Wemmer

  • Neoproterozoic to Early Palaeozoic events in the Sierra de San Luis: implications for the Famatinian geodynamics in the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas (Argentina)

    André Steenken;Siegfried Siegesmund;Mónica G. López de Luchi;Robert Frei

  • Post‐Variscan thermal and tectonic evolution of the KTB site and its surroundings

    G. A. Wagner;D. A. Coyle;J. Duyster;F. Henjes-Kunst

  • The Baltica-Gondwana suture in central Europe: evidence from K-Ar ages of detrital muscovites and biogeographical data

    Z. Belka;H. Ahrendt;W. Franke;K. Wemmer

  • Provenance of the late Proterozoic to early Cambrian metaclastic sediments of the Sierra de San Luis (Eastern Sierras Pampeanas) and Cordillera Oriental, Argentina

    Malte Drobe;Mónica G. López de Luchi;André Steenken;Robert Frei

  • Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic data on the Birimian of the Kedougou-Kenieba Inlier (Eastern Senegal): Implications on the Palaeoproterozoic evolution of the West African Craton

    Sabine Pawlig;Mamadou Gueye;Ralf Klischies;Stefan Schwarz

  • U/Pb and Sm/Nd dating on ophiolitic rocks of the Song Ma suture zone (northern Vietnam): Evidence for upper paleozoic paleotethyan lithospheric remnants

    Nguyễn V. Vượng;Bent T. Hansen;Klaus Wemmer;Claude Lepvrier

  • Time constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas (Central Argentina)

    Siegfried Siegesmund;Andre Steenken;Roberto D. Martino;Klaus Wemmer

  • Major shear zones of southern Brazil and Uruguay: escape tectonics in the eastern border of Rio de La plata and Paranapanema cratons during the Western Gondwana amalgamation

    C. R. Passarelli;M. A. S. Basei;K. Wemmer;O. Siga

  • Structural Inheritance and Rapid Rift-Length Establishment in a Multiphase Rift: The East Greenland Rift System and its Caledonian Orogenic Ancestry

    Atle Rotevatn;Thomas Berg Kristensen;Anna Katharina Ksienzyk;Klaus Wemmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Siegfried Siegesmund
Siegfried Siegesmund University of Göttingen
István Dunkl
István Dunkl University of Göttingen
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei Universidade de São Paulo
Paul W. Layer
Paul W. Layer University of Alaska Fairbanks
Robert Frei
Robert Frei University of Copenhagen
Haakon Fossen
Haakon Fossen University of Bergen
Gerhard Franz
Gerhard Franz Technical University of Berlin
Susanne Schmidt
Susanne Schmidt University of Bonn
Hilmar von Eynatten
Hilmar von Eynatten University of Göttingen
Dirk Frei
Dirk Frei University of the Western Cape

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