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Per Terje Osmundsen is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with an emphasis on Geophysics, Geology, Mechanics of Materials, and Earth-Surface Processes. The main topics addressed in their work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Geological Studies and Exploration, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and Geological formations and processes.

Their publication record includes recent papers such as:

  • From orogeny to rifting: insights from the Norwegian 'reactivation phase', 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Segmentation of the Caledonian orogenic infrastructure and exhumation of the Western Gneiss Region during transtensional collapse, 2020, Journal of the Geological Society
  • Rifting of Collapsed Orogens: Successive Incision of Continental Crust in the Proximal Margin Offshore Norway, 2020, Tectonics
  • From Caledonian Collapse to North Sea Rift: The Extended History of a Metamorphic Core Complex, 2020, Tectonics
  • The proximal domain of the Mid-Norwegian rifted margin: The Trøndelag Platform revisited, 2020, Tectonophysics

Osmundsen frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Notable coauthors include Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic, Johannes Wiest, Haakon Fossen, Halvor Bunkholt, and Julie Linnéa Sehested Gresseth.

Their work is commonly published in journals such as Tectonics, Scientific Reports, Journal of the Geological Society, Tectonophysics, and Basin Research, reflecting their focus on geological and tectonic processes.

Best Publications

  • Structural comparison of archetypal Atlantic rifted margins: A review of observations and concepts

    Gwenn Peron-Pinvidic;Gianreto Manatschal;Per Terje Osmundsen

  • Greenland – Norway separation: A geodynamic model for the North Atlantic

    Jon Mosar;Elizabeth A. Eide;Per Terje Osmundsen;Anna Sommaruga

  • Styles of extension offshore mid‐Norway and implications for mechanisms of crustal thinning at passive margins

    P. T. Osmundsen;J. Ebbing

  • The middle Devonian basins of western Norway: sedimentary response to large-scale transtensional tectonics?

    P.T. Osmundsen;T.B. Andersen

  • TOPO-EUROPE: the geoscience of coupled deep earth-surface processes

    S. A. P. L. Cloetingh;P. A. Ziegler;P. J. A. Bogaard;P. A. M. Andriessen

  • Devonian, orogen-parallel, opposed extension in the Central Norwegian Caledonides

    Alvar Braathen;Øystein Nordgulen;Per-Terje Osmundsen;Torgeir B. Andersen

  • Deep crustal fabrics and a model for the extensional collapse of the southwest Norwegian Caledonides

    Torgeir B Andersen;Per Terje Osmundsen;Laurent Jolivet

  • Evidence for hyperextension along the pre-Caledonian margin of Baltica

    Torgeir B. Andersen;Fernando Corfu;Loic Labrousse;Per-Terje Osmundsen

  • Complex fault interaction controls continental rifting

    John B. Naliboff;Susanne J. H. Buiter;Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic;Per Terje Osmundsen;Per Terje Osmundsen

  • Dynamic development of fault rocks in a crustal-scale detachment: An example from western Norway

    Alvar Braathen;Per Terje Osmundsen;Roy H. Gabrielsen

  • Caledonian compressional and late-orogenic extensional deformation in the Staveneset area, Sunnfjord, Western Norway

    Per Terje Osmundsen;Torgeir B. Andersen

  • Permian and Mesozoic extensional faulting within the Caledonides of central south Norway

    Torgeir B. Andersen;Trond H. Torsvik;Elisabeth A. Eide;Per Terje Osmundsen

  • Crustal taper and topography at passive continental margins

    Per Terje Osmundsen;T. F. Redfield

  • The role of fault reactivation and growth in the uplift of western Fennoscandia

    T.F. Redfield;P.T. Osmundsen;B.W.H. Hendriks

  • Late Mesozoic to Early Cenozoic components of vertical separation across the More-Trondelag Fault Complex, Norway

    T.F. Redfield;A. Braathen;R.H. Gabrielsen;P.T. Osmundsen

  • Crustal‐Scale Fault Interaction at Rifted Margins and the Formation of Domain‐Bounding Breakaway Complexes: Insights From Offshore Norway

    P. T. Osmundsen;G. Péron-Pinvidic

  • Kinematics of the Høybakken detachment zone and the Møre-Trøndelag Fault Complex, central Norway

    Per T. Osmundsen;E. A. Eide;N. E. Haabesland;D. Roberts

  • The Devonian Nesna shear zone and adjacent gneiss-cored culminations, North–Central Norwegian Caledonides

    P.T. Osmundsen;A. Braathen;Ø. Nordgulen;D. Roberts

  • Architecture of the distal and outer domains of the Mid-Norwegian rifted margin: Insights from the Rån-Gjallar ridges system

    Gwenn Peron-Pinvidic;Per Terje Osmundsen

  • A study of basement structures and onshore-offshore correlations in Central Norway

    Jan Reidar Skilbrei;Odleiv Olesen;Per Terje Osmundsen;Ola Kihle

  • The Keisarhjelmen detachment records Silurian-Devonian extensional collapse in Northern Svalbard

    Alvar Braathen;Per Terje Osmundsen;Harmon Maher;Morgan Ganerød

  • Active normal fault control on landscape and rock-slope failure in northern Norway

    P.T. Osmundsen;I. Henderson;T.R. Lauknes;Y. Larsen

  • The Mid Norwegian - NE Greenland conjugate margins: Rifting evolution, margin segmentation, and breakup

    Gwenn Peron-Pinvidic;Per Terje Osmundsen

  • The long-term topographic response of a continent adjacent to a hyperextended margin: A case study from Scandinavia

    T.F. Redfield;P.T. Osmundsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Alvar Braathen
Alvar Braathen University of Oslo
Torgeir B. Andersen
Torgeir B. Andersen University of Oslo
Jörg Ebbing
Jörg Ebbing Kiel University
Haakon Fossen
Haakon Fossen University of Bergen
Jan Inge Faleide
Jan Inge Faleide University of Oslo
Trond H. Torsvik
Trond H. Torsvik University of Oslo
Susanne J. H. Buiter
Susanne J. H. Buiter Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Odleiv Olesen
Odleiv Olesen Norwegian Geological Survey
Snorre Olaussen
Snorre Olaussen University Centre in Svalbard
Mark A. Kendrick
Mark A. Kendrick Australian National University

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