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Silke Voigt is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses a range of topics principally related to geology, paleoclimatology, and stratigraphy.

The scientist's work covers several main fields and subfields of study, including:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Paleontology
  • Geophysics
  • Oceanography
  • Earth-Surface Processes

Main research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Silke Voigt has contributed to multiple publications, frequently collaborating with researchers such as Jacek Raddatz, Ireneusz Walaszczyk, Ian Jarvis, Martin A. Pearce, and Jorit F. Kniest.

Notable publication venues in which Silke Voigt has authored or coauthored papers include:

  • Episodes
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

Recent representative papers authored or coauthored by Silke Voigt include:

  • "Dawn and dusk of Late Cretaceous basin inversion in central Europe," 2021, Solid Earth
  • "Insolation and Greenhouse Gas Forcing of the South American Monsoon System Across Three Glacial-Interglacial Cycles," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Coniacian Stage (Salzgitter-Salder, Germany) and its auxiliary sections (Słupia Nadbrzeżna, central Poland; Střeleč, Czech Republic; and El Rosario, NE Mexico)," 2021, Episodes
  • "The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Campanian Stage at Bottaccione (Gubbio, Italy) and its Auxiliary Sections: Seaford Head (UK), Bocieniec (Poland), Postalm (Austria), Smoky Hill, Kansas (U.S.A), Tepayac (Mexico)," 2023, Episodes
  • "Palynology and calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Turonian - Coniacian boundary: The proposed boundary stratotype at Salzgitter-Salder, Germany and its correlation in NW Europe," 2021, Cretaceous Research

Best Publications

  • Alternative global Cretaceous paleogeography

    William W. Hay;Robert M. DeConto;Christopher N. Wold;Kevin M. Wilson

  • Calcium isotope record of Phanerozoic oceans: Implications for chemical evolution of seawater and its causative mechanisms

    Juraj Farkaš;Florian Böhm;Klaus Wallmann;John Blenkinsop

  • Marine 187Os/188Os isotope stratigraphy reveals the interaction of volcanism and ocean circulation during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

    Alice D.C. Du Vivier;David Selby;Bradley B. Sageman;Ian Jarvis

  • The Cenomanian - Turonian of the Wunstorf section - (North Germany): global stratigraphic reference section and new orbital time scale for Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

    Silke Voigt;Jochen Erbacher;Jörg Mutterlose;Wolfgang Weiss

  • Global correlation of Upper Campanian- Maastrichtian successions using carbon-isotope stratigraphy: development of a new Maastrichtian timescale

    Silke Voigt;Andrew S. Gale;Claudia Jung;Hugh C. Jenkyns

  • Sea-level change, carbon cycling and palaeoclimate during the Late Cenomanian of northwest Europe; an integrated palaeoenvironmental analysis

    Silke Voigt;Andrew S. Gale;Thomas Voigt

  • Midlatitude shelf seas in the Cenomanian‐Turonian greenhouse world: Temperature evolution and North Atlantic circulation

    Silke Voigt;Andrew S. Gale;Andrew S. Gale;Sascha Flögel

  • Late Cretaceous carbon isotope stratigraphy in Europe: Correlation and relations with sea level and sediment stability

    S. Voigt;H. Hilbrecht

  • Eustatic sea level record for the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) – extension to the Western Interior Basin, USA

    Andrew S. Gale;Silke Voigt;Bradley B. Sageman;William J. Kennedy

  • Stratigraphy of the Upper Cenomanian–Lower Turonian Chalk succession at Eastbourne, Sussex, UK: ammonites, inoceramid bivalves and stable carbon isotopes

    Andrew S. Gale;Andrew S. Gale;W. James Kennedy;Silke Voigt;Ireneusz Walaszczyk

  • Late Cenomanian to Middle Turonian high-resolution carbon isotope stratigraphy: New data from the Münsterland Cretaceous Basin, Germany

    Silke Voigt;Aissa Aurag;Florian Leis;Ulrich Kaplan

  • Campanian – Maastrichtian carbon isotope stratigraphy: shelf-ocean correlation between the European shelf sea and the tropical Pacific Ocean

    Silke Voigt;Oliver Friedrich;Richard D. Norris;Joachim Schönfeld

  • Cenomanian palaeotemperatures derived from the oxygen isotopic composition of brachiopods and belemnites: evaluation of Cretaceous palaeotemperature proxies

    S. Voigt;M. Wilmsen;R. N. Mortimore;T. Voigt

  • Cenomanian–Turonian composite δ13C curve for Western and Central Europe: the role of organic and inorganic carbon fluxes

    Silke Voigt

  • The Upper Turonian of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic) exemplified by the Úpohlavy working quarry: integrated stratigraphy and palaeoceanography of a gateway to the Tethys

    Frank Wiese;Stanislav Čech;Boris Ekrt;Martin Košt'ák

  • The Salzgitter-Salder Quarry (Lower Saxony, Germany) and Słupia Nadbrzeżna river cliff section (central Poland): a proposed candidate composite Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Coniacian Stage (Upper Cretaceous)

    Ireneusz Walaszczyk;Christopher J. Wood;Jackie A. Lees;Danuta Peryt

  • Evidence for Late Cretaceous (Late Turonian) climate cooling from oxygen-isotope variations and palaeobiogeographic changes in Western and Central Europe

    S. Voigt;F. Wiese

  • Palaeoenvironments of the late Triassic Rhaetian Sea: Implications from oxygen and strontium isotopes of hybodont shark teeth

    Jan Fischer;Silke Voigt;Matthias Franz;Jörg W. Schneider

  • Simulating the biogeochemical effects of volcanic CO2 degassing on the oxygen-state of the deep ocean during the Cenomanian/Turonian Anoxic Event (OAE2)

    S. Flögel;K. Wallmann;C.J. Poulsen;J. Zhou

  • Astronomical calibration and global correlation of the Santonian (Cretaceous) based on the marine carbon isotope record

    N. Thibault;I. Jarvis;S. Voigt;A. S. Gale

  • Tectonically restricted deep-ocean circulation at the end of the Cretaceous greenhouse

    Silke Voigt;Claudia Jung;Oliver Friedrich;Martin Frank

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew S. Gale
Andrew S. Gale University of Portsmouth
Martin Frank
Martin Frank GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Axel Gerdes
Axel Gerdes Goethe University Frankfurt
Joachim Schönfeld
Joachim Schönfeld GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Erwin Appel
Erwin Appel University of Tübingen
Thomas Westerhold
Thomas Westerhold University of Bremen
Hugh C. Jenkyns
Hugh C. Jenkyns University of Oxford
Klaus Wallmann
Klaus Wallmann GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Christopher J. Poulsen
Christopher J. Poulsen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jörg Pross
Jörg Pross Heidelberg University

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