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Ulrich Heimhofer

Ulrich Heimhofer

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Earth Science

D-Index
31
Citations
3083
World Ranking
9005
National Ranking
648

Overview

Ulrich Heimhofer is affiliated with the University of Hannover in Germany and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on paleontology and geoscience disciplines. Their research work spans multiple subfields including Paleontology, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Mechanics of Materials, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics in Heimhofer's research include:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis

Heimhofer has contributed to several academic publications, many of which appear frequently in the following venues:

  • Cretaceous Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • Lethaia
  • Gondwana Research
  • International Journal of Coal Geology

Their recent papers cover a range of topics related to paleoclimatology and geochemical analysis. Notable publications include:

  • "Fossil-Bearing Concretions of the Araripe Basin Accumulated During Oceanic Anoxic Event 1b" (2023), Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • "Geochemical expression of sequence stratigraphic surfaces: A case from Upper Cretaceous shallow-water carbonates of southeastern Neo-Tethys margin, SW Iran" (2022), Cretaceous Research
  • "Early Cretaceous sea surface temperature evolution in subtropical shallow seas" (2021), Scientific Reports
  • "Improving the detection of shell alteration: Implications for sclerochronology" (2020), Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • "Radiolitid rudists: an underestimated archive for Cretaceous climate reconstruction?" (2022), Lethaia

Frequent collaborators associated with Heimhofer's research include:

  • Stefan Huck
  • Niels J. de Winter
  • Philippe Claeys
  • Katharina Schmitt
  • Alexis Godet

Ulrich Heimhofer's body of work collectively addresses key aspects of fossil stratigraphy, paleoclimatic reconstruction, and geological processes, leveraging interdisciplinary approaches across geochemistry, sedimentology, and paleontology. This multidisciplinary framework supports investigations into both ancient environmental conditions and sequences relevant to hydrocarbon exploration.

Best Publications

  • Early Cretaceous angiosperm pollen from a low-latitude succession (Araripe Basin, NE Brazil).

    Ulrich Heimhofer;Peter-A. Hochuli

  • New records of Early Cretaceous angiosperm pollen from Portuguese coastal deposits: Implications for the timing of the early angiosperm radiation

    Ulrich Heimhofer;Peter A. Hochuli;Stefan Burla;Helmut Weissert

  • Timing of Early Cretaceous angiosperm diversification and possible links to major paleoenvironmental change

    U. Heimhofer;P.A. Hochuli;S. Burla;J.M.L. Dinis

  • Deciphering the depositional environment of the laminated Crato fossil beds (Early Cretaceous, Araripe Basin, North-eastern Brazil)

    Ulrich Heimhofer;Daniel Ariztegui;Marc Lenniger;Stephen P. Hesselbo

  • Perturbation of the carbon cycle during the late Pliensbachian – early Toarcian: New insight from high-resolution carbon isotope records in Morocco

    Stéphane Bodin;Francois-Nicolas Krencker;Tim Kothe;René Hoffmann

  • Timing of early angiosperm radiation: recalibrating the classical succession

    P.A. Hochuli;U. Heimhofer;H. Weissert

  • Latitudinally different responses of Tethyan shoal‐water carbonate systems to the Early Aptian oceanic anoxic event (OAE 1a)

    Stefan Huck;Niels Rameil;Tvrtko Korbar;Ulrich Heimhofer

  • Strontium and carbon-isotope chronostratigraphy of Barremian–Aptian shoal-water carbonates: Northern Tethyan platform drowning predates OAE 1a

    S. Huck;U. Heimhofer;N. Rameil;S. Bodin

  • Toarcian extreme warmth led to tropical cyclone intensification

    François-Nicolas Krencker;Stéphane Bodin;Guillaume Suan;Ulrich Heimhofer

  • Changes in sedimentary patterns of coastal and deep-sea successions from the North Atlantic (Portugal) linked to Early Cretaceous environmental change

    Stefan Burla;Ulrich Heimhofer;Peter A. Hochuli;Helmut Weissert

  • Absence of major vegetation and palaeoatmospheric pCO2 changes associated with oceanic anoxic event 1a (Early Aptian, SE France)

    Ulrich Heimhofer;Peter A Hochuli;Jens O Herrle;Nils Andersen

  • Coastal sediments from the Algarve: low-latitude climate archive for the Aptian-Albian

    Ulrich Heimhofer;Thierry Adatte;Peter A. Hochuli;Stefan Burla

  • Terrestrial carbon‐isotope records from coastal deposits (Algarve, Portugal): a tool for chemostratigraphic correlation on an intrabasinal and global scale

    Ulrich Heimhofer;Peter A. Hochuli;Stefan Burla;Nils Andersen

  • Carbon-isotope stratigraphy of Early Cretaceous (Urgonian) shoal-water deposits: Diachronous changes in carbonate-platform production in the north-western Tethys

    S. Huck;S. Huck;U. Heimhofer;A. Immenhauser;H. Weissert

  • Halite pseudomorphs in the Crato Formation (Early Cretaceous, Late Aptian-Early Albian), Araripe Basin, northeast Brazil: further evidence for hypersalinity

    David M. Martill;Robert Loveridge;Ulrich Heimhofer

  • Vegetation response to exceptional global warmth during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

    Ulrich Heimhofer;Nina Wucherpfennig;Thierry Adatte;Stefan Schouten

  • Mesozoic climates and oceans – a tribute to Hugh Jenkyns and Helmut Weissert

    Stuart A. Robinson;Ulrich Heimhofer;Stephen P. Hesselbo;Maria Rose Petrizzo

  • Reconstructing Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) mid-latitude vegetation and climate dynamics based on spore–pollen assemblages

    Ariane Kujau;Ulrich Heimhofer;Peter A. Hochuli;Sebastian Pauly

  • Elemental geochemistry and strontium-isotope stratigraphy of Cenomanian to Santonian neritic carbonates in the Zagros Basin, Iran

    Amin Navidtalab;Hossain Rahimpour-Bonab;Stefan Huck;Ulrich Heimhofer

  • Contrasting origins of Early Cretaceous black shales in the Vocontian basin: Evidence from palynological and calcareous nannofossil records

    Ulrich Heimhofer;Peter A. Hochuli;Jens O. Herrle;Helmut Weissert

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian Immenhauser
Adrian Immenhauser Ruhr University Bochum
Peter A. Hochuli
Peter A. Hochuli University of Zurich
Thierry Adatte
Thierry Adatte University of Lausanne
André Bornemann
André Bornemann Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
Reiner Dohrmann
Reiner Dohrmann Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
David M. Martill
David M. Martill University of Portsmouth
Jörg Mutterlose
Jörg Mutterlose Ruhr University Bochum
Karl B. Föllmi
Karl B. Föllmi University of Lausanne
Masanobu Yamamoto
Masanobu Yamamoto Hokkaido University

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