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Overview

Wolfgang Oschmann is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research intersects multiple areas within environmental science and engineering, with a particular focus on methane hydrates, hydrocarbon exploration, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Their body of work includes contributions to diverse subfields, notably environmental chemistry, mechanics of materials, and global and planetary change. This interdisciplinary approach supports comprehensive analyses of geological and environmental processes.

Wolfgang Oschmann has authored publications in the following venues:

  • Goldschmidt Abstracts

One of their recent papers is "Variable Basin Ventilation during Mesozoic OAEs Constrained by Correlated Mo-U Isotope Signatures," published in 2020 in Goldschmidt Abstracts.

The topics most frequently addressed in their research include:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wolfgang Oschmann have included:

  • Stefan Weyer
  • Carolina Montoya Pino
  • Bas van de Schootbrugge
  • Jörg Pross

Wolfgang Oschmann's contributions span across two main fields of study:

  • Environmental Science
  • Engineering

Their research integrates environmental science perspectives with engineering methods to examine complex geological phenomena and related environmental implications.

Best Publications

  • The Posidonia Shale (Lower Toarcian) of SW-Germany: an oxygen-depleted ecosystem controlled by sea level and palaeoclimate

    Hans-Joachim Röhl;Annette Schmid-Röhl;Wolfgang Oschmann;Andreas Frimmel

  • Shell beds as tools in basin analysis : the Jurassic of Kachchh, western India

    F. T. Fürsich;W. Oschmann

  • Climate records from a bivalved Methuselah (Arctica islandica, Mollusca; Iceland)

    Bernd R. Schöne;Jens Fiebig;Miriam Pfeiffer;Renald Gleβ

  • Daily Growth Rates in Shells of Arctica islandica: Assessing Sub-seasonal Environmental Controls on a Long-lived Bivalve Mollusk

    Bernd R. Schöne;Stephen D. Houk;Antuané D. Freyre Castro;Jens Fiebig

  • Sea surface water temperatures over the period 1884–1983 reconstructed from oxygen isotope ratios of a bivalve mollusk shell (Arctica islandica, southern North Sea)

    B Schone;A Freyrecastro;J Fiebig;S Houk

  • Chemostratigraphy of the Posidonia Black Shale, SW Germany

    A Frimmel;A Frimmel;W Oschmann;L Schwark

  • Hardgrounds, reworked concretion levels and condensed horizons in the Jurassic of western India: their significance for basin analysis

    F. T. Fürsich;W. Oschmann;I. B. Singh;A. K. Jaitly

  • Global enhancement of ocean anoxia during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2: A quantitative approach using U isotopes

    Carolina Montoya-Pino;Stefan Weyer;Ariel D. Anbar;Jörg Pross

  • North Atlantic Oscillation dynamics recorded in shells of a long-lived bivalve mollusk

    Bernd R. Schöne;Wolfgang Oschmann;Jochen Rössler;Antuané D. Freyre Castro

  • Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Lower Toarcian epicontinental black shales (Posidonia Shale, SW Germany): global versus regional control

    Annette Schmid-Röhl;Hans-Joachim Röhl;Wolfgang Oschmann;Andreas Frimmel

  • Kimmeridge clay sedimentation — A new cyclic model

    Wolfgang Oschmann

  • Sea surface water temperatures over the period 1884–1983 reconstructed from oxygen isotope ratios of a bivalve mollusk shell (Arctica islandica, southern North Sea)

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  • Calibrating the magnitude of the Toarcian carbon cycle perturbation

    Guillaume Suan;Guillaume Suan;Bas van de Schootbrugge;Thierry Adatte;Jens Fiebig

  • Faunal response to transgressive-regressive cycles: example from the Jurassic of western India

    Franz T. Fürsich;Wolfgang Oschmann;Anand K. Jaitly;Indra Bir Singh

  • Giant Holocene Freshwater Microbialites, Laguna Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico

    Eberhard Gischler;Michael A. Gibson;Wolfgang Oschmann

  • An Early Carboniferous seep community and hydrocarbon-derived carbonates from the Harz Mountains, Germany

    Jörn Peckmann;Eberhard Gischler;Wolfgang Oschmann;Joachim Reitner

  • Natural evidence for rapid abiogenic hydrothermal generation of CH4

    Jens Fiebig;Alan B. Woodland;Jorge Spangenberg;Wolfgang Oschmann

  • A 1500-Year Holocene Caribbean Climate Archive from the Blue Hole, Lighthouse Reef, Belize

    Eberhard Gischler;Eugene A. Shinn;Wolfgang Oschmann;Jens Fiebig

  • Storm shell beds of Nanogyra virgula in the upper Jurassic of France

    F. T Fürsich;W Oschmann

  • Distribution of sulfur and pyrite in coal seams from Kutai Basin (East Kalimantan, Indonesia): Implications for paleoenvironmental conditions

    Sri Widodo;Wolfgang Oschmann;Achim Bechtel;Reinhard F. Sachsenhofer

  • Erratum to “The Posidonia Shale (Lower Toarcian) of SW-Germany: an oxygen-depleted ecosystem controlled by sea level and palaeoclimate”: [Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeocol. 165 (2001) 27–52]

    Hans-Joachim Röhl;Annette Schmid-Röhl;Wolfgang Oschmann;Andreas Frimmel

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Fiebig
Jens Fiebig Goethe University Frankfurt
Bernd R. Schöne
Bernd R. Schöne Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Eberhard Gischler
Eberhard Gischler Goethe University Frankfurt
Bas van de Schootbrugge
Bas van de Schootbrugge Utrecht University
Franz T. Fürsich
Franz T. Fürsich University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Ingrid Kröncke
Ingrid Kröncke Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Lorenz Schwark
Lorenz Schwark Curtin University
Guillaume Suan
Guillaume Suan University of Lyon System
Wilhelm Püttmann
Wilhelm Püttmann Goethe University Frankfurt
Stefan Weyer
Stefan Weyer University of Hannover

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