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Siegfried Siegesmund

Siegfried Siegesmund

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Earth Science

D-Index
66
Citations
12378
World Ranking
1357
National Ranking
86

Overview

Siegfried Siegesmund is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions across several subfields including Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Civil and Structural Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Conservation.

Their research topics cover a range of areas linked to geology and materials science, including Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Building materials and conservation, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Conservation Techniques and Studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, and Concrete and Cement Materials Research.

Siegfried Siegesmund has authored multiple recent papers. Selected works include:

  • "Early Paleozoic accretionary orogens along the Western Gondwana margin," 2020, published in Geoscience Frontiers
  • "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, published in Journal of Structural Geology
  • "Petrophysical properties of limestones: influence on behaviour under different environmental conditions and applications," 2021, published in Environmental Earth Sciences
  • "Archean to early Neoproterozoic crustal growth of the southern South American Platform and its wide-reaching "African" origins," 2022, published in Precambrian Research
  • "The birth of the Alps: Ediacaran to Paleozoic accretionary processes and crustal growth along the northern Gondwana margin," 2021, published in International Journal of Earth Sciences

The venues where Siegfried Siegesmund frequently publishes include:

  • Environmental Earth Sciences
  • International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Geoscience Frontiers
  • Journal of Structural Geology

Collaborations are a prominent part of their work, with frequent coauthors including Sebastián Oriolo, Mathias Hueck, Klaus Wemmer, Miguel Ângelo Stipp Basei, and Pedro Oyhantçabal.

Best Publications

  • Physical weathering of marbles caused by anisotropic thermal expansion

    S. Siegesmund;K. Ullemeyer;T. Weiss;E. K. Tschegg

  • Stone in architecture : properties, durability

    Siegfried Siegesmund;Rolf Snethlage

  • Natural Stone, Weathering Phenomena, Conservation Strategies and Case Studies

    S. Siegesmund;T. Weiss;A. Vollbrecht

  • Physical weathering of building stones induced by freeze–thaw action: a laboratory long-term study

    J. Ruedrich;D. Kirchner;S. Siegesmund

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

    Pedro Oyhantçabal;Siegfried Siegesmund;Klaus Wemmer

  • Salt and ice crystallisation in porous sandstones

    Joerg Ruedrich;Siegfried Siegesmund

  • Physical and Mechanical Properties of Rocks

    Siegfried Siegesmund;Helmut Dürrast

  • Moisture expansion as a deterioration factor for sandstone used in buildings

    Joerg Ruedrich;Tobias Bartelsen;Reiner Dohrmann;Siegfried Siegesmund

  • Stone in Architecture

    Siegfried Siegesmund;Rolf Snethlage

  • Seismic Velocities and Anisotropy of the Lower Continental Crust: A Review

    T. Weiss;S. Siegesmund;W. Rabbel;T. Bohlen

  • N2-BET specific surface area of bentonites

    S. Kaufhold;R. Dohrmann;M. Klinkenberg;S. Siegesmund

  • 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

  • Natural stone, weathering phenomena, conservation strategies and case studies: introduction

    Siegfried Siegesmund;Thomas Weiss;Axel Vollbrecht

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

    Sebastián Oriolo;Pedro Oyhantçabal;Klaus Wemmer;Siegfried Siegesmund

  • Insolation weathering and hygric dilatation: two competitive factors in stone degradation

    T. Weiss;S. Siegesmund;D. Kirchner;J. Sippel

  • The combined effect of moisture and temperature on the anomalous expansion behaviour of marble

    A. Koch;S. Siegesmund

  • Anisotropy of Vp and Vs in an amphibolite of the deeper crust and its relationship to the mineralogical, microstructural and textural characteristics of the rock

    S Siegesmund;T Takeshita;H Kern

  • Characterization of granite matrix porosity and pore-space geometry by in situ and laboratory methods

    M. Schild;S. Siegesmund;A. Vollbrecht;Martin Mazurek

  • 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

  • Geology of Southwest Gondwana

    Siegfried Siegesmund;Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei;Pedro Oyhantçabal;Sebastian Oriolo

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Wemmer
Klaus Wemmer University of Göttingen
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei Universidade de São Paulo
Reiner Dohrmann
Reiner Dohrmann Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
István Dunkl
István Dunkl University of Göttingen
Ákos Török
Ákos Török Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Paul W. Layer
Paul W. Layer University of Alaska Fairbanks
Robert J. Thomas
Robert J. Thomas Council for Geoscience
Robert Frei
Robert Frei University of Copenhagen
Hartmut Kern
Hartmut Kern Kiel University
Stephan Kaufhold
Stephan Kaufhold Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources

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