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Zdzislaw Belka is affiliated with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in Poland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Arts and Humanities. Their research spans across multiple subfields, including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Archeology, Geophysics, and Ecology.

Their work covers a range of topics primarily centered on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

Zdzislaw Belka has published research in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Chemical Geology
  • Journal of African Archaeology
  • Scientific Reports

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Corded Ware cultural complexity uncovered using genomic and isotopic analysis from south-eastern Poland" (2020), Scientific Reports
  • "Mapping of spatial variations in Sr isotope signatures (87Sr/86Sr) in Poland - Implications of anthropogenic Sr contamination for archaeological provenance and migration research" (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Comparative Fe and Sr isotope study of nephrite deposits hosted in dolomitic marbles and serpentinites from the Sudetes, SW Poland: Implications for Fe-As-Au-bearing skarn formation and post-obduction evolution of the oceanic lithosphere" (2020), Ore Geology Reviews
  • "The role of magmatism in hydrocarbon generation in sedimented rifts: A Nd isotope perspective from mid-Cretaceous methane-seep deposits of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain" (2021), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Fluid expulsion system and tectonic architecture of the incipient Cascadia convergent margin as revealed by Nd, Sr and stable isotope composition of mid-Eocene methane seep carbonates" (2020), Chemical Geology

Collaboration is an important aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Jolanta Dopieralska
  • Michał Jakubowicz
  • Mateusz Zieliński
  • Aleksandra Walczak
  • Stanisław Skompski

Best Publications

  • Devonian/Lower Carboniferous stratigraphy, facies patterns and palaeogeography of Iran Part II. Northern and central Iran

    Jobst Wendt;Berdt Kaufmann;Zdzisław Bełka;Noor Farsan

  • Unraveling ancestry, kinship, and violence in a Late Neolithic mass grave.

    Hannes Schroeder;Ashot Margaryan;Ashot Margaryan;Marzena Szmyt;Bertrand Theulot

  • Age and depositional environment of upper devonian (early Frasnian to early famennian) black shales and limestones (Kellwasser facies) in the eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco

    Jobst Wendt;Zdzislaw Belka

  • Accretion of first Gondwana-derived terranes at the margin of Baltica

    Z. Belka;P. Valverde-Vaquero;P. Valverde-Vaquero;W. Dörr;H. Ahrendt

  • Early Devonian Kess-Kess carbonate mud mounds of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco), and their relation to submarine hydrothermal venting

    Zdzislaw Belka

  • U-Pb single-grain dating of detrital zircon in the Cambrian of central Poland: implications for Gondwana versus Baltica provenance studies

    P. Valverde-Vaquero;W. Dörr;Z. Belka;W. Franke

  • Lower Carboniferous conodont biostratigraphy ln the northeastern part of the Moravia-Silesia Basin

    Zdzisław Bełka

  • Devonian/Lower Carboniferous stratigraphy, facies patterns and palaeogeography of Iran. Part I. Southeastern Iran

    Jobst Wendt;Bernd Kaufmann;Zdzisław Bełka;Noor Farsan

  • The drowning of a carbonate platform: an example from the Devonian-Carboniferous of the southwestern Holy Cross Mountains, Poland

    M. Szulczewski;Z. Belka;S. Skompski

  • The Baltica-Gondwana suture in central Europe: evidence from K-Ar ages of detrital muscovites and biogeographical data

    Z. Belka;H. Ahrendt;W. Franke;K. Wemmer

  • Devonian conodont and ammonoid succession of the eastern Tafilalt (Ouidane Chebbi section), Anti-Atlas, Morocco

    Zdzisław Bełka;Christian Klug;Bernd Kaufmann;Dieter Korn

  • Conodont-based quantitative biostratigraphy for the Eifelian of the eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco

    Zdzislaw Belka;Bernd Kaufmann;Pierre Bultynck

  • Corded Ware cultural complexity uncovered using genomic and isotopic analysis from south-eastern Poland.

    Anna Linderholm;Gülşah Merve Kılınç;Anita Szczepanek;Anita Szczepanek;Piotr Włodarczak

  • U /Pb and Ar /Ar geochronology of anorogenic granite magmatism of the Mazury complex, NE Poland

    Wolfgang Dörr;Zdzislaw Belka;Dirk Marheine;Janina Schastok

  • The World's Most Spectacular Carbonate Mud Mounds (Middle Devonian, Algerian Sahara)

    Jobst Wendt;Zdzislaw Belka;Bernd Kaufmann;Renate Kostrewa

  • Temporal–spatial reconstruction of the early Frasnian (Late Devonian) anoxia in NW Africa: new field data from the Ahnet Basin (Algeria)

    S. Lüning;J. Wendt;Z. Belka;B. Kaufmann

  • Sedimentary evolution of a Palaeozoic basin and ridge system: the Middle and Upper Devonian of the Ahnet and Mouydir (Algerian Sahara)

    Jobst Wendt;Bernd Kaufmann;Zdzislaw Belka;Christian Klug

  • Thermal and burial history of the Cracow-Silesia region (southern Poland) assessed by conodont CAI analysis

    Zdzislaw Belka

  • Tracing the composition and origin of fluids at an ancient hydrocarbon seep (Hollard Mound, Middle Devonian, Morocco): A Nd, REE and stable isotope study

    M. Jakubowicz;J. Dopieralska;Z. Belka

  • Sr isotope tracing of multiple water sources in a complex river system, Noteć River, central Poland

    Mateusz Zieliński;Jolanta Dopieralska;Zdzislaw Belka;Aleksandra Walczak

  • Conodont biofacies patterns in the Kellwasser Facies (upper Frasnian/lower Famennian) of the eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco

    Zdzislaw Belka;Jobst Wendt

  • An exhumed Palaeozoic underwater scenery: the Visean mud mounds of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco)

    Jobst Wendt;Bernd Kaufmann;Zdzislaw Belka

Frequent Co-Authors

Jobst Wendt
Jobst Wendt University of Tübingen
Dieter Korn
Dieter Korn Museum für Naturkunde
Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen
Grzegorz Racki
Grzegorz Racki University of Silesia
Steffen Kiel
Steffen Kiel Swedish Museum of Natural History
Klaus Wemmer
Klaus Wemmer University of Göttingen
Christian Klug
Christian Klug University of Zurich
Maurice Streel
Maurice Streel University of Liège
Simon Rasmussen
Simon Rasmussen University of Copenhagen
Jesper V. Olsen
Jesper V. Olsen University of Copenhagen

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