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Sascha Brune is a researcher affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Germany. Their scientific work primarily spans the broad domain of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Geology, Mechanics of Materials, and Oceanography.

Their research covers several interconnected topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological formations and processes, geological and geophysical studies, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and seismic imaging and inversion techniques.

Among the frequent venues where Sascha Brune publishes are Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Solid Earth, Tectonics, Geophysical Research Letters, and the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth.

Significant recent publications by Sascha Brune include:

  • Geodynamics of continental rift initiation and evolution, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Sascha Brune collaborates often with several researchers, including Anne Glerum, Derek Keir, Giacomo Corti, Derek Neuharth, and Ameha Muluneh. These coauthor relationships reflect interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches across tectonics, geodynamics, and geophysical modeling research.

Their 2023 paper on the geodynamics of continental rift initiation and evolution was published in a high-impact review journal, highlighting research into the mechanisms controlling continental rifting processes. Other notable works relate to rift and basin dynamics, fault network evolution, and continental microplate formation, often combining numerical modeling with geological data.

Best Publications

  • WINDII, the wind imaging interferometer on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite

    G. G. Shepherd;G. Thuillier;W. A. Gault;B. H. Solheim

  • Rift migration explains continental margin asymmetry and crustal hyper-extension

    Sascha Brune;Christian Heine;Marta Pérez-Gussinyé;Stephan V. Sobolev

  • Potential links between continental rifting, CO 2 degassing and climate change through time

    Sascha Brune;Simon E. Williams;R. Dietmar Müller

  • Abrupt plate accelerations shape rifted continental margins

    Sascha Brune;Sascha Brune;Simon E. Williams;Nathaniel P. Butterworth;R. Dietmar Müller

  • Rifted margin architecture and crustal rheology: Reviewing Iberia-Newfoundland, Central South Atlantic, and South China Sea

    Sascha Brune;Christian Heine;Christian Heine;Peter D. Clift;Marta Pérez-Gussinyé

  • Evolution of stress and fault patterns in oblique rift systems: 3‐D numerical lithospheric‐scale experiments from rift to breakup

    Sascha Brune

  • Modeling suggests that oblique extension facilitates rifting and continental break-up

    Sascha Brune;Anton A. Popov;Stephan V. Sobolev

  • Geodynamics of continental rift initiation and evolution

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  • Controls of inherited lithospheric heterogeneity on rift linkage: Numerical and analog models of interaction between the Kenyan and Ethiopian rifts across the Turkana depression

    Sascha Brune;Giacomo Corti;Giorgio Ranalli

  • Kinematics and extent of the Piemont–Liguria Basin – implications for subduction processes in the Alps

    Eline Le Breton;Sascha Brune;Kamil Ustaszewski;Sabin Zahirovic

  • Oblique rifting of the Equatorial Atlantic: Why there is no Saharan Atlantic Ocean

    Christian Heine;Sascha Brune

  • Climate changes control offshore crustal structure at South China Sea continental margin

    Peter D. Clift;Sascha Brune;Sascha Brune;Javier Quinteros

  • Oblique rifting: the rule, not the exception

    Sascha Brune;Simon E. Williams;R. Dietmar Müller

  • Rift and plate boundary evolution across two supercontinent cycles

    Andrew S. Merdith;Simon E. Williams;Sascha Brune;Alan S. Collins

  • The rift to break-up evolution of the Gulf of Aden: Insights from 3D numerical lithospheric-scale modelling

    Sascha Brune;Julia Autin

  • Evolution of Rift Systems and Their Fault Networks in Response to Surface Processes

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  • Aborted propagation of the Ethiopian rift caused by linkage with the Kenyan rift.

    Giacomo Corti;Raffaello Cioni;Zara Franceschini;Federico Sani

  • Linking rift propagation barriers to excess magmatism at volcanic rifted margins

    Hannes Koopmann;Hannes Koopmann;Sascha Brune;Dieter Franke;Sonja Breuer

  • Formation of Continental Microplates Through Rift Linkage: Numerical Modeling and Its Application to the Flemish Cap and Sao Paulo Plateau

    Derek Neuharth;Sascha Brune;Anne C Glerum;Christian Heine

  • Deep carbon cycling over the past 200 million years: a review of fluxes in different tectonic settings

    Kevin Wong;Kevin Wong;Emily Mason;Sascha Brune;Madison East

  • Development of 3-D Rift Heterogeneity Through Fault Network Evolution

    John B. Naliboff;John B. Naliboff;Anne Glerum;Sascha Brune;G. Péron-Pinvidic

  • Victoria continental microplate dynamics controlled by the lithospheric strength distribution of the East African Rift.

    Anne Glerum;Sascha Brune;D. Sarah Stamps;Manfred R. Strecker

  • The Thermo-Mechanical Impact of Plume Arrival on Continental Break-Up

    S. Brune;S. V. Sobolev;A. A. Popov

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan V. Sobolev
Stephan V. Sobolev University of Potsdam
Simon Williams
Simon Williams University of Sydney
R. Dietmar Müller
R. Dietmar Müller University of Sydney
Giacomo Corti
Giacomo Corti National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Christian Berndt
Christian Berndt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Manfred R. Strecker
Manfred R. Strecker University of Potsdam
Taras Gerya
Taras Gerya ETH Zurich
Andrey Babeyko
Andrey Babeyko Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Derek Keir
Derek Keir University of Florence
Sabin Zahirovic
Sabin Zahirovic University of Sydney

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