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Peter van der Beek

Peter van der Beek

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Earth Science

D-Index
60
Citations
9236
World Ranking
1970
National Ranking
130

Overview

Peter van der Beek is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and conducts research primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Geology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geological Formations and Processes
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Landslides and Related Hazards
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis

Peter van der Beek's recent papers include:

  • Southwestward growth of plateau surfaces in eastern Tibet, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Early onset and late acceleration of rapid exhumation in the Namche Barwa syntaxis, eastern Himalaya, 2020, Geology
  • Growth of Collisional Orogens From Small and Cold to Large and Hot-Inferences From Geodynamic Models, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Short communication: age2exhume - a MATLAB/Python script to calculate steady-state vertical exhumation rates from thermochronometric ages and application to the Himalaya, 2023, Geochronology
  • Post-orogenic exhumation in the western Pyrenees: evidence for extension driven by pre-orogenic inheritance, 2020, Journal of the Geological Society

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Cody Colleps
  • Edward R. Sobel
  • Matthias Bernet
  • Taylor Schildgen
  • Claudio Faccenna

Peter van der Beek has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Geology
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Solid Earth

Their research often intersects geophysical and geological approaches to understanding tectonic and surface processes, contributing computational tools such as MATLAB/Python scripts for analyzing exhumation rates. This integration of modeling, data analysis, and field studies supports insights into mountain building, erosion, and associated geological hazards.

Best Publications

  • Quantitative Thermochronology: Numerical Methods for the Interpretation of Thermochronological Data

    Jean Braun;Peter van der Beek;Geoffrey Batt

  • Quantifying rates of landscape evolution and tectonic processes by thermochronology and numerical modeling of crustal heat transport using PECUBE

    Jean Braun;Peter van der Beek;Pierre Valla;Pierre Valla;Xavier Robert

  • Estimation of current plate motions in Papua New Guinea from Global Positioning System observations

    Paul Tregoning;Kurt Lambeck;Art Stolz;Peter Morgan

  • Significant increase in relief of the European Alps during mid-Pleistocene glaciations

    Pierre G. Valla;David L. Shuster;David L. Shuster;Peter A. van der Beek

  • Miocene to Recent exhumation of the central Himalaya determined from combined detrital zircon fission‐track and U/Pb analysis of Siwalik sediments, western Nepal

    Matthias Bernet;Peter van der Beek;Raphaël Pik;Pascale Huyghe

  • Meso-Cenozoic morphotectonic evolution of southern Norway: Neogene domal uplift inferred from apatite fission track thermochronology

    Max Rohrman;Peter van der Beek;Paul Andriessen;Sierd Cloetingh

  • Mechanisms of extensional basin formation and vertical motions at rift flanks: Constraints from tectonic modelling and fission-track thermochronology

    Peter van der Beek;Sierd Cloetingh;Paul Andriessen

  • Late Miocene – Recent exhumation of the central Himalaya and recycling in the foreland basin assessed by apatite fission-track thermochronology of Siwalik sediments, Nepal

    Pieter van der Beek;Xavier Robert;Jean-Louis Mugnier;Matthias Bernet

  • Frost-cracking control on catchment denudation rates: Insights from in situ produced 10Be concentrations in stream sediments (Ecrins-Pelvoux massif, French Western Alps)

    Romain Delunel;Peter A. van der Beek;Julien Carcaillet;Didier L. Bourlès

  • Cenozoic postrift domal uplift of North Atlantic margins: An asthenospheric diapirism model

    Max Rohrman;Peter van der Beek

  • Control of detachment geometry on lateral variations in exhumation rates in the Himalaya: Insights from low‐temperature thermochronology and numerical modeling

    Xavier Robert;Xavier Robert;Peter van der Beek;Jean Braun;Claire Perry;Claire Perry

  • Eocene Tibetan plateau remnants preserved in the northwest Himalaya

    Peter van der Beek;Jérémie Van Melle;Stéphane Guillot;Arnaud Pêcher

  • Numerical modelling of landscape evolution on geological time-scales: a parameter analysis and comparison with the south-eastern highlands of Australia

    Peter Van Der Beek;Jean Braun

  • Growth and lateral propagation of fault‐related folds in the Siwaliks of western Nepal: Rates, mechanisms, and geomorphic signature

    Bénédicte Champel;Peter van der Beek;Jean-Louis Mugnier;Pascale Leturmy;Pascale Leturmy

  • Exhumation history of the West Kunlun Mountains, northwestern Tibet: Evidence for a long-lived, rejuvenated orogen

    Kai Cao;Guo-Can Wang;Matthias Bernet;Peter van der Beek

  • Cenozoic thermo-tectonic evolution of the northeastern Pamir revealed by zircon and apatite fission-track thermochronology

    Kai Cao;Guo-Can Wang;Peter van der Beek;Matthias Bernet

  • Cooling history of the Gongga batholith: Implications for the Xianshuihe Fault and Miocene kinematics of SE Tibet

    Yuan-Ze Zhang;Anne Replumaz;Philippe Hervé Leloup;Guo-Can Wang

  • Syntectonic sedimentation effects on the growth of fold-and-thrust belts

    Charlotte Fillon;Charlotte Fillon;Ritske S. Huismans;Peter van der Beek

  • The kinematics of the Zagros Mountains (Iran)

    D. Hatzfeld;C. Authemayou;C. Authemayou;C. Authemayou;P. van der Beek;O. Bellier

  • Denudation history of the Malawi and Rukwa Rift flanks (East African Rift System) from apatite fission track thermochronology

    Peter Van der Beek;Evelyne Mbede;Paul Andriessen;Damien Delvaux

  • Chemical influence on α-recoil damage annealing in apatite: Implications for (U-Th)/He dating

    Cécile Gautheron;Jocelyn Barbarand;Richard A. Ketcham;Laurent Tassan-Got

  • Evolution of passive margin escarpments: What can we learn from low-temperature thermochronology?

    Jean Braun;Jean Braun;Peter van der Beek

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Braun
Jean Braun University of Potsdam
Pascale Huyghe
Pascale Huyghe Grenoble Alpes University
Matthias Bernet
Matthias Bernet Grenoble Alpes University
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet University of Rennes
Ritske S. Huismans
Ritske S. Huismans University of Bergen
Cécile Gautheron
Cécile Gautheron University of Paris-Saclay
Julien Carcaillet
Julien Carcaillet Institut des Sciences de la Terre
David L. Shuster
David L. Shuster University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Louis Mugnier
Jean-Louis Mugnier Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Frédéric Herman
Frédéric Herman University of Lausanne

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