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Publications

2025

  • Adema, P. H., Eggenhuisen, J. T., Jacinto, R. S., Lagunova, N., Alwadhakhi, A. I., van der Woning, R., Miramontes, E. (2025). Submarine channel shape controls combined turbidity current–contour current flow. Marine Geology, 490, 107646, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2025.107646.
  • Adema, P.H., Eggenhuisen, J.T., Bleeker, J., Silva Jacinto, R., Miramontes, E. (2025). Turbidity current flow structure and its modulation by contour currents: Insights from 3D flume experiments. Marine Geology, 480, 107469, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107469.
  • Cornard, P.H., Pickering, K.T., Strasser, M. (2025), Supercritical-Flow Deposits: A New Quantitative Tool to Characterise Deep-Marine Depositional Environments (Oligocene Annot Sandstones, SE France). Terra Nova, 37: 49-56. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12746
  • Cornard, P.H., Schleicher, A., Regalla, C., Hamahashi, M., Kitamura, M., Fukuchi, R., Pickering, K. T., Kitajima, H., Wiersberg, T. (2025). Recent advances in the use of drill cuttings for determining subduction zone structure, stratigraphy, and stress state. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26, e2024GC012094, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC012094
  • Cornuault, P., Beaufort, L., Pälike, H., Bickert, T., Baumann, K.-H., Kucera, M. (2025). Orbital-scale variability in the contribution of foraminifera and coccolithophores to pelagic carbonate production. Biogeosciences, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-198
  • Durand, N., Tassi, P., Blanpain, O., Lefebvre, A. (2025). Meteorological conditions influence the migration of a marine dune field in the southern North Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 130, e2024JF007731, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JF007731.
  • Jonkers, L., Strack, T., Alonso-Garcia, M., D'haenens, S., Huber, M., ... Baumann, K.-H., ...(2025). Community guidelines to increase the reusability of marine microfossil assemblage data. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 44(1), 145-168, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-44-145-2025.
  • Lefebvre, A., Bosch, R., Burrows, K., Giaime, M., Goodwin, G., Lai, L. S.-H., Stammler, M., Fernández, R., 2025. Geomorphica: The most accessible journal for the geomorphology community. Geomorphica, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.59236/geomorphica.v1i1.54
  • Liu, R, Cheng, H, Chen, J, Teng, L, Ren, Z, Yang, Q, Fan, H, Lefebvre, A, 2025. Subaqueous multiscale bedform morphology dynamics in a mountainous macrotidal estuary. Frontiers in Marine Science 12, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1585285
  • Müller, D., Liu, B., Geibert, W., Holtappels, M., Sander, L., Miramontes, E., Taubner, H., Henkel, S., Hinrichs, K.-U., Bethke, D., Dohrmann, I., Kasten, S. (2025). Depositional controls and budget of organic carbon burial in fine-grained sediments of the North Sea–the Helgoland Mud Area as a natural laboratory. Biogeosciences, 22(11), 2541-2567, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-2541-2025.
  • Saavedra-Pellitero, M., Baumann, K.-H., Bachiller-Jareno, N., Lovell, H., Vollmar, N.M., Malinverno, E. (2025). Mismatch between coccolithophore-based estimates of particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) concentration and satellite-derived PIC concentration in the Pacific Southern Ocean. Biogeosciences, 22 (13), 3143–3164. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3143-2025
  • Wang, L., Lefebvre, A., Schwenk, T., Kockisch, B., Wheeler, A., Iversen, M., Miramontes, E. (2025). Contourite distribution on the continental slope off NW Ireland, Rockall Trough (NE Atlantic Ocean): genesis and evolution. Geomorphology, 109788, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.109788.
  • Yu, K., Li, W., Xu, J., Zhan, W., Yang, Y., Miramontes, E. (2025). Interaction of turbidity currents traversing a Pockmark field: Insights for submarine channel inception. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 130(11), e2025JF008394, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JF008394.

2024

  • Bailey, L.P., Clare, M.A., Hunt, J.E., Kane, I.A., Miramontes, E., Fonnesu, M., Argiolas, R., Malgesini, G., Wallerand, R. (2024). Highly variable deep-sea currents over tidal and seasonal timescales. Nature Geoscience, 17, 787–794, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01494-2.
  • Chen, M., Wu, S., Wang, R., Zhang, J., Xie, P., Wang, M., Wang, X., Xiong, Q., Yu, J., Miramontes, E. (2024). Sedimentary architecture of submarine lobes affected by bottom currents: Insights from the Rovuma Basin offshore East Africa. Basin Research, e12829, https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12829.
  • Cornard, P.H., Dawson, H.L., Pickering, K.T. (2024). Sediment provenance along the Middle Miocene-Pleistocene Nankai subduction zone from sediment transport to accretion: Implications for stratigraphy in the accretionary prism. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25, e2023GC011393, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011393.
  • Hanafi-Portier, M., Samadi, S., Corbari, L., Boulard, M., Miramontes, E., Penven, P., Leroy, B., Napoléon, T., Jorry, S.J., Olu, K. (2024). Multiscale spatial patterns and environmental drivers of seamount and island slope megafaunal assemblages along the Mozambique channel. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 203, 10498, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2023.104198.
  • Kreps, G., Schwenk, T., Romero, S., Quesada, A., Gruetzner, J., Spiess, V., Keil, H., Kantner, R., Lester, L.-J., Ferrari, R., Lamy, F., Miramontes, E. (2024). The role of bottom meso-scale dynamics in contourite formation in the Argentine basin. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 128, e2022JC019623, https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2024.012.
  • Lefebvre, A., Bernhard, R. (2024). Diversity at a small geoscience conference. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129, e2023JF007487. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007487.
  • Nicholson, U., Stow, D., Brackenridge, R., Miramontes, E., Wåhlin, A. (2024). Introduction: Special issue on bottom currents and contourites: Processes, products and Impact. Marine Geology, 107237, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107237.
  • Scheiber, L., Zomer, J., Wang, L., Cisneros, J., Gutierrez, R.R., Lefebvre, A. (2024). Automated bedform identification—A meta-analysis of current methods and the heterogeneity of their outputs. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129, e2023JF007607, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007607.
  • Skampa, E., Dimiza, M. D., Arabas, A., Gogou, A., Panagiotopoulos, I. P., Tsourou, T., Velaouras, D., Karagiorgas, M., Baumann, K.-H., Triantaphyllou, M. V. (2024). The Cretan Basin (South Aegean Sea, NE Mediterranean) in the Early Pliocene: A paleoceanographic reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 640, 112085, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112085.
  • Strack, T., Jonkers, L., C. Rillo, M., Baumann, K. H., Hillebrand, H., Kucera, M. (2024). Coherent response of zoo‐and phytoplankton assemblages to global warming since the Last Glacial Maximum. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(6), e13841, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13841.
  • Unland, E., Miramontes, E., Spiess, V., Bozzano, G., Kasten, S., Schwenk, T. (2024). Evolution of a buried moat-drift system within the Ewing Terrace uncovering highly dynamic bottom currents at the Argentine Margin during Early Oligocene to Middle Miocene. Journal of Sedimentary Research, https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2024.030.
  • Wang, L., Zhao, F., Miramontes, E. (2024). Origin and evolution of widespread crescentic pockmarks on the western South China Sea margin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 107091, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.107091.
  • Wei, B., Seidel, M., Mollenhauer, G., Lefebvre, A., Miramontes, E., Grotheer, H., Elvert, M., Wendt, J., Dittmar, T., Holtappels, M. (2024). Rapid Down-Slope Transport of Fresh Dissolved Organic Matter to the Deep Ocean in the Eastern North Atlantic. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(21), e2024GL110349, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110349.
  • Yu, K., Miramontes, E., Cartigny, M.J.B., Yang, Y., Xu, J. (2024). The impacts of profile concavity on turbidite deposits: Insights from the submarine canyon on global continental margins. Geomorphology, 454, 109157, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109157.

2023

  • Babonneau, N., Raisson, F., Genêt, A., Lopes, U., Fierens, R., Miramontes, E., Révillon, S., Rabineau, M., Droz, L., Belleney, D., Moulin, M., Aslanian, D. (2023). Contourite on the Limpopo Corridor, Mozambique margin: Long‐term evolution, facies distribution and Plio‐Quaternary processes. Sedimentology, 70, 728-758, https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13045.
  • Chiggiato, J., Schroeder, K., Mourre, B., Miramontes, E., Lionello, P., Marcos, M., Pinardi, N., Mason, E., Álvarez, M., Trincardi, F. (2023). Chapter 1 - Introdution. In Oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea (pp. 1-11). Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-823692-5.00002-9.
  • Cornuault, P.,Westerhold, T., Pälike, H., Bickert, T., Baumann, K.-H., Kucera, M. (2023). Nature and origin of variations in pelagic carbonate production in the tropical ocean since the mid-Miocene (ODP Site 927). Biogeosciences, 20, 597–618, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-597-2023.
  • Kreps, G., Lembke-Jene, L., Romero, S., Ferrari, R., Lamy, F., Miramontes, E. (2023). Bottom-Current Variability and the Relationship with Topography and Sedimentary Processses in the Drake Passage. Journal of Geophysical research: Oceans, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC019623.
  • Lefebvre, A., Cis­ne­ros, J. (2023). The in­flu­ence of dune lee side shape on time-aver­aged ve­lo­ci­ties and tur­bu­lence, Earth Sur­face Dy­na­mics, 11, 575–591, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-575-2023.
  • Lopes, U., Babonneau, N., Fierens, R., Revillon, S., Raisson, F., Miramontes, E., Rabineau, M., Aslanian, D., Moulin, M. (2023). Foraminiferal sandy contourite of the Limpopo Corridor (Mozambique margin): Facies characterization and paleaoceanographic record. Marine Geology, 459, 107031, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2023.107031.
  • Miramontes, E., Déverchère, J., Pellegrini, C., Chiarella, D. (2023). Mediterranean Sea evolution and present-day physiography. In Oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea (pp. 13-39). Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-823692-5.00006-6.
  • Miramontes, E., Pellegrini, C., Casalbore, D., Dupré, S. (2023). Active geological processes in the Mediterranean Sea. In Oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea (pp. 453-499). Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-823692-5.00010-8.
  • Razmjooei, M.J., Henderiks, J., Coxall, H.K., Baumann, K.-H., Vermassen, F., Jakobsson, M., Niessen, F., O’Regan, M. (2023). Revision of the Quaternary nannofossil biochronology of Arctic Ocean sediments. Quat. Sci. Rev., 321, 108382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108382
  • Warnke, F., Schwenk, T., Miramontes, E., Spiess, V., Wenau, S., Bozzano, G., Baqués, M., Kasten, S. (2023). Evolution of complex giant seafloor depressions at the northern Argentine continental margin (SW Atlantic Ocean) under the influence of a dynamic bottom current regime. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1117013.
  • Wilckens, H., Eggenhuisen, J.T., Adema, P.H., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Silva Jacinto, R., Miramontes, E. (2023). Secondary flow in contour currents controls the formation of moat-drift contourite systems. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 316, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00978-0.
  • Wilckens, H., Schwenk, T., Lüdmann, T., Betzler, C., Zhang, W., Chen, J., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Lefebvre, A., Cattaneo, A., Spieß, V., Miramontes, E. (2023). Factors controlling the morphology and internal sediment architecture of moats and their associated contourite drifts. Sedimentology, 70, 1472-1495, https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13093.
  • Yu, K., Lefebvre, A., Li, W., Zhan, W., Miramontes, E. (2023). Channel Inception Through Bottom Current Erosion of Pockmarks Revealed by Numerical Simulation. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5610.

2022

  • Baumann, K.-H., Vollmar, N.M. (2022). Coccolithophore response to changes in surface wáter conditions south of Iceland (ODP Site 984) between 130 and 56 ka. Marine Micropaleontology, 175: 102149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2022.102149.
  • Rodrigues, S., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Fonnesu, M., Miramontes, E., Rebesco, M., Campbell, D.C. (2022). A new classification system for mixed (turbidite-contourite) depositional systems: Examples, conceptual models and diagnostic criteria for modern and ancient records. Earth-Science Reviews, 104030, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104030.
  • Rodrigues, S., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Fonnesu, M., Miramontes, E., Rebesco, M., Campbell, D.C. (2022). Reply to the comment on "A new classification system for mixed (turbidite-contourite) depositional systems: Examples, conceptual models and diagnostic criteria for modern and ancient records". Earth-Science Reviews, 104155, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104155.
  • Saavedra-Pellitero, M, Hernández-Almeida, I., Cabarcos, E., Baumann, K.-H., Dunkley Jones, T., Sierro, F.J., Flores, J.-A. (2022). Coupled coccolith-based temperature and productivity high-resolution reconstructions in the eastern equatorial Pacific during the last Deglaciation and the Holocene. Front. Mar. Sci., 9: 865846, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.865846.
  • Vollmar, N.M., Baumann, K.-H., Saavedra-Pellitero, M., Hernández-Almeida, I. (2022). Distribution of coccoliths in surface sediments acrossthe Drake Passage and calcification of Emiliania huxleyi morphotypes. Biogeosciences, 19, 585-612, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-585-2022.
  • Yin, S., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Miramontes, E., Shen, Z., Yang, C., Gao, J., Liu, S., Li, J. (2022). Sequential bedform development in mixed turbidite-contourite systems: An example from the Cosmonaut Sea, East Antarctica. Geomorphology, 410, 108287, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108287

2021

  • Das, P., Lin, A.T.S., Chen, M.P.P., Miramontes, E., Liu, C.S., Huang, N.W., Kung, J., Hsu, S.-K., Pillutla, R.K., Nayak, K. (2021). Deep-sea submarine erosion by the Kuroshio current in the Manila accretionary prism, offshore Southern Taiwan. Tectonophysics, 228813, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228813.
  • de Castro, S., Miramontes, E., Dorador, J., Jouet, G., Cattaneo, A., Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Hernández-Molina, F.J. (2021). Siliciclastic and bioclastic contouritic sands: Textural and geochemical characterisation. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 128, 105002, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105002.
  • Guerreiro, C., Baumann, K.-H., Brummer, G.-J., Valente, A., Fischer, G., Ziveri, P., Brotas, V., Stuut, J.-B. (2021).Carbonate fluxes by coccolithophore species between NW Africa and the Caribbean: implications for the biological carbon pump. Limnol. Oceanogr., 9999, 1–19, https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11872.
  • Herrling, G., Becker, M., Lefebvre, A., Zorndt, A., Krämer, K., Winter, C. (2021). The effect of asymmetric dune roughness on tidal asymmetry in the Weser estuary. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5170.
  • Lefebvre, A., Winter, C. (2021). Special issue: Marine and river bedforms dynamics, MARID VI. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 46, 1646–1651, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5091.
  • Lefebvre, A., Herrling, G., Becker, M., Zorndt, A., Krämer, K., Winter, C. (2021). Morphology of estuarine bedforms, Weser Estuary, Germany. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5243.
  • Miramontes, E., Thiéblemont, A., Babonneau, N., Penven, P., Raisson, F., Droz, L., Jorry, S.J., Fierens, R., Counts, J., Wilckens, H., Cattaneo, A., Jouet, G. (2021). Contourite and mixed turbidite-contourite systems in the Mozambique Channel (SW Indian Ocean): Link between geometry, sediment characteristics and modelled bottom currents. Marine Geology, 437, 106502, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106502.
  • Suchéras-Marx, B., Giraud, F., Daniel, I., Rivard, C., Aubry, M.-P., Baumann, K.-H., Beaufort, L., Tucoulou, R., Simionovici, A. (2021). Origin of manganese in nannofossil calcite based on synchrotron nanoXRF and Xanes. Mar. Micropaleontol., 163: 101961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2021.101961.
  • Tangunan, D., Berke, M. A., Cartagena-Sierra, A., Flores, J. A., Gruetzner, J., Jiménez-Espejo, F., LeVay, L.J., Baumann, K.-H., Romero, O., Saavedra-Pellitero, M., Coenen, J.J., Starr, A., Hemming, S.R., Hall, I. R., and Expedition 361 Science Party (2021). Strong glacial-interglacial variability in upper ocean hydrodynamics, biogeochemistry, and productivity in the southern Indian Ocean. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(1), 1-13, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00148-0.
  • Wilckens, H., Miramontes, E., Schwenk, T., Artana, C., Zhang, W., Piola, A., Baques, M., Provost, C., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Felgendreher, M., Spieß, V., Kasten, S. (2021). The erosive power of the Malvinas Current: Influence of bottom currents on morpho-sedimentary features along the northern Argentine margin (SW Atlantic Ocean). Marine Geology, 437,106539, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106539. Preprint: https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/2411/
  • Yu, K., Miramontes, E., Alves, T. M., Li, W., Liang, L., Li, S., Zhan, W., Wu, S. (2021). Incision of submarine channels over pockmark trains in the South China Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, e2021GL092861, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092861.

2020

  • Cavaleiro, C., Voelker, A.H.L., Stoll, H., Baumann, K.-H., Kucera, M. (2020). Coccolithophore productivity at the western Iberian Margin during the Middle Pleistocene (310–455 ka) - evidence from coccolith Sr/Ca data. Clim. Past, 16, 2017–2037, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-2017-2020.
  • Jorry, S.J., Jouet, G., Edinger, E.N., Toucanne, S., Counts, J.W., Miramontes, E., Courgeon, S., Vázquez Riveiros, N., Le Roy, P., Camoin, G.F. (2020). From platform top to adjacent deep sea: New source-to-sink insights into carbonate sediment production and transfer in the SW Indian Ocean (Glorieuses archipelago). Marine Geology, 423, 106144, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106144.
  • Kane, I.A., Clare, M.A., Miramontes, E., Wogelius, R., Rothwell, J.J., Garreau, P., Pohl, F. (2020). Seafloor microplastic hotspots controlled by deep-sea circulation. Science, 368, 1140–1145, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba5899.
  • Miramontes, E., Eggenhuisen, J.T., Silva Jacinto, R.S., Poneti, G., Pohl, F., Normandeau, A., Campbell, C., Hernández-Molina, F.J. (2020). Channel-levee evolution in combined contour current-turbidity current flows from flume-tank experiments. Geology, 48(4), 353–357, https://doi.org/10.1130/G47111.1.
  • Miramontes, E., Eggenhuisen, J.T., Silva Jacinto, R.S., Poneti, G., Pohl, F., Normandeau, A., Campbell, C., Hernández-Molina, F.J. (2020). Channel-levee evolution in combined contour current-turbidity current flows from flume-tank experiments: Reply. Geology, 48(8): e508, https://doi.org/10.1130/G47885Y.1.
  • Miramontes, E., Jouet, G., Thereau, E., Bruno, M., Penven, P., Guerin, C., Le Roy, P., Droz, L., Jorry, S.J., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Thiéblemont, A., Silva Jacinto, R., Cattaneo, A. (2020). The impact of internal waves on upper continental slopes: insights from the Mozambican margin (southwest Indian Ocean). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45(6), 1469–1482 https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4818.
  • Pastor, L., Brandily, C., Schmidt, S., Miramontes, E., Appere, D., Chéron, S., Boissier, A., Jouet, G. (2020). Modern sedimentation and geochemical imprints in sediments from the NW Madagascar margin. Marine Geology, 426, 106184, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106184
  • Romero, O.E., Baumann, K.-H., Zonneveld, K.A.F., Donner, B., Hefter, J., Hamady, B., Pospelova, V., Fischer, G. (2020). Flux variability of phyto- and zooplankton communities in the Mauritanian coastal upwelling between 2003 and 2008. Biogeosciences, 17, 187–214, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-187-2020.
  • Skampa, E., Triantaphyllou, M.V., Dimiza, M.D., Gogou, A., Malinverno, E., Stavrakakis, S., Parinos, C., Panagiotopoulos, I.P., Tselenti, D., Archontikis, O., Baumann, K.-H. (2020). Coccolithophore export in three deep-sea sites of the Aegean and Ionian Seas (Eastern Mediterranean): Biogeographical patterns and biogenic carbonate fluxes. Deep-Sea Res. II, 171, 10469, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.104690.
  • Tangunan, D., Baumann, K.-H., Fink, C. (2020). Variations in coccolithophore productivity off South Africa over the last 500 kyr. Mar. Micropaleontol., 160: 101909, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2020.101909.