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Overview

Ralf Hetzel is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany and works primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research covers a variety of subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Mechanics of Materials. The focus spans multiple topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, High-pressure geophysics and materials, and the exploration of Geological Formations and Processes, as well as Astro and Planetary Science.

The scientist has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Megathrust shear force controls mountain height at convergent plate margins" (2020, Nature)
  • "Existence of a continental-scale river system in eastern Tibet during the late Cretaceous-early Palaeogene" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Fast cooling of normal-fault footwalls: Rapid fault slip or thermal relaxation?" (2020, Geology)
  • "Slip Rate of the Danghe Nan Shan Thrust Fault from 10Be Exposure Dating of Folded River Terraces: Implications for the Strain Distribution in Northern Tibet" (2021, Tectonics)
  • "New constraints on the exhumation history of the western Tauern Window (European Alps) from thermochronology, thermokinematic modeling, and topographic analysis" (2021, International Journal of Earth Sciences)

Ralf Hetzel frequently collaborates with several co-authors, among whom are Reinhard Wolff, Andrea Hampel, István Dunkl, Aneta A. Anczkiewicz, and Kyra Hölzer. These collaborations are present across numerous projects and publications.

The scientist's work often appears in specific scientific venues including:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Tectonics
  • International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Miocene NNE-directed extensional unroofing in the Menderes Massif, southwestern Turkey

    R Hetzel;U Ring;Cüneyt Akal;M Troesch

  • An active bivergent rolling-hinge detachment system: Central Menderes metamorphic core complex in western Turkey

    Klaus Gessner;Uwe Ring;Christopher Johnson;Ralf Hetzel

  • Bivergent extension in orogenic belts: The Menderes massif (southwestern Turkey)

    Ralf Hetzel;Cees W. Passchier;Uwe Ring;Özcan O. Dora

  • Tectonic denudation of a Late Cretaceous-Tertiary collisional belt: regionally symmetric cooling patterns and their relation to extensional faults in the Anatolide belt of western Turkey

    Uwe Ring;Christopher Johnson;Ralf Hetzel;Klaus Gessner

  • Intrusion age of Pan-African augen gneisses in the southern Menderes Massif and the age of cooling after Alpine ductile extensional deformation

    R. Hetzel;T. Reischmann

  • Low slip rates and long-term preservation of geomorphic features in Central Asia

    Ralf Hetzel;Samuel Niedermann;Mingxin Tao;Peter W. Kubik

  • Slip rate variations on normal faults during glacial–interglacial changes in surface loads

    Ralf Hetzel;Ralf Hetzel;Andrea Hampel

  • Peneplain formation in southern Tibet predates the India-Asia collision and plateau uplift

    R. Hetzel;I. Dunkl;V. Haider;M. Strobl

  • Late Pleistocene/Holocene slip rate of the Zhangye thrust (Qilian Shan, China) and implications for the active growth of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Ralf Hetzel;Ralf Hetzel;Mingxin Tao;Stephen Stokes;Samuel Niedermann

  • Arc–continent collision in the Southern Urals

    D. Brown;P. Spadea;V. Puchkov;J. Alvarez-Marron

  • Geology of the Bozdag area, central Menderes massif, SW Turkey: Pan-African basement and Alpine deformation

    R. Hetzel;R. L. Romer;O. Candan;C. W. Passchier

  • Origin, structure and exposure history of a wave-cut platform more than 1 Ma in age at the coast of northern Spain: A multiple cosmogenic nuclide approach

    Joaquina Alvarez-Marrón;R. Hetzel;S. Niedermann;Rosa Menéndez

  • Active faulting, mountain growth, and erosion at the margins of the Tibetan Plateau constrained by in situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides

    Ralf Hetzel

  • Precise U–Pb ages of syn-extensional Miocene intrusions in the central Menderes Massif, western Turkey

    Johannes Glodny;Ralf Hetzel

  • Deciphering the rate of mountain growth during topographic presteady state: An example from the NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau

    Luigi Palumbo;Ralf Hetzel;Mingxin Tao;Xiaobin Li

  • The tectono-metamorphic evolution of gneiss complexes in the Middle Urals, Russia: a reappraisal

    H.P. Echtler;K.S. Ivanov;Y.L. Ronkin;L.A. Karsten

  • Dilution of 10Be in detrital quartz by earthquake-induced landslides: Implications for determining denudation rates and potential to provide insights into landslide sediment dynamics

    A. Joshua West;Ralf Hetzel;Gen Li;Zhangdong Jin

  • Implications of the fault scaling law for the growth of topography: mountain ranges in the broken foreland of north‐east Tibet

    Ralf Hetzel;Mingxin Tao;Samuel Niedermann;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Response of normal faults to glacial‐interglacial fluctuations of ice and water masses on Earth's surface

    Andrea Hampel;Ralf Hetzel

  • Holocene loess sedimentation along the Qilian Shan (China): significance for understanding the processes and timing of loess deposition

    Yvonne Küster;Ralf Hetzel;Matthias Krbetschek;Mingxin Tao

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter W. Kubik
Peter W. Kubik ETH Zurich
István Dunkl
István Dunkl University of Göttingen
Lin Ding
Lin Ding Chinese Academy of Sciences
Samuel Niedermann
Samuel Niedermann Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Uwe Ring
Uwe Ring Stockholm University
Cees W. Passchier
Cees W. Passchier Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Marcus Christl
Marcus Christl ETH Zurich
Victor A. Ramos
Victor A. Ramos University of Buenos Aires
Axel Gerdes
Axel Gerdes Goethe University Frankfurt
Harald Strauss
Harald Strauss University of Münster

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