Major changes in global climate have repeatedly been the result of geodynamic processes in tectonically active collision zones. In particular, the Neogene geodynamic evolution of the  Mediterranean and Paratethys has caused important changes in ocean circulation patterns and hence in global climate. 

To fully understand the effects of geodynamic evolution on climate history, reliable records from the geological archive with highly accurate age and time control are required. During the past decade, a giant leap forward in dating has been made by the construction of astronomical polarity time scales (APTS). 
Fundamental in the construction of such time scales is the use of cyclostratigraphy which recognises the effects of climate variability and its expression in the sedimentary record. At the same time, it provides a powerful tool to correlate the geological archive over vast geographic (i.e. global) areas with a resolution of a few thousand years. The application of the APTS in reconstructing the geological archives recently solved long-standing controversies and ‘reinforcement syndromes’.

Firstly, our research aims at the simultaneous quantification of climatic and tectonic components in the geological record with an unprecedented resolution in age control. This is crucial for successfully understanding the underlying mechanisms. 
Secondly, it aims at unravelling the tectonic and climatic histories of two complex ocean-continent collision zones, involving subduction zones, arc systems, and oceanic gateways. 

Essentially, this brings together the two systems: geodynamics - driven by the inner Earth - and climate - driven by the outer Earth – that together drive the entire System Earth. It will form the bridge to the next generation of research: the link between the reconstruction and our understanding of this system.
 

• De Leeuw, A., Mandic, O., Krijgsman, W., Kuiper, K.F., Hrvatovic, H. (2012). Paleomagnetic and geochronologic constraints on the geodynamic evolution of the Central Dinarides, Tectonophysics, in press doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.01.004 
• Dupont-Nivet, G. and Krijgsman, W., (2012), Magnetostratigraphic methods and applications, in Busby, C., and Azor, A. (eds.), Recent Advances in Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, Blackwell., in press
• Mandic, O., de Leeuw. A., Buliç J., Kuiper, K.F., Krijgsman, W., Jurišiç-Polšak Z (2012). Paleogeographic evolution of the Southern Pannonian Basin: 40Ar/39Ar age constraints on the Miocene continental series of northern Croatia, International Journal of Earth Sciences, in press 

• Abels, H.A., Dupont-Nivet, G., Xiao, G., Bosboom, R.E. and Krijgsman, W. (2011). Step-wise change of Asian interior climate preceding the Eocene–Oligocene Transition (EOT). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 299, 399-412. 
• Bosboom, R.E., Dupont-Nivet, G., Houben, A.J.P., Brinkhuis, H., Villa, G., Mandic, O., Stoica, M., Zachariasse, W.J., Guo, Z., Li, C. and Krijgsman, W. (2011). Late Eocene sea retreat from the Tarim Basin (west China) and concomitant Asian paleoenvironmental change, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 299, 385-398. 
• Deenen, M.H.L., Langereis, C.G., Krijgsman, W., El Hachimi, H. And El Hassane, C. (2011). Palaeomagnetic results from Upper Triassic red-beds and CAMP lavas of the Argana Basin, Morocco.  In: Van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Buiter, S.J.H., Torsvik, T.H., Gaina, C. & Webb, S.J.(eds), The Formation and Evolution of Africa: A Synopsis of 3.8 Ga of Earth History. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 357, 195–209. 
• De Leeuw, A., Mandic, O., Krijgsman, W., Kuiper, K.F. and Hrvatoviç; H. (2011). A chronostratigraphy for the Dinaride Lake System deposits of the Livno-Tomislavgrad Basin: the rise and fall of a long-lived lacustrine environment, Stratigraphy, 8, 29-43. 
• De Leeuw, A., Mandic, O., de Bruijn, H., Markoviç, Z., Reumer, J., Wessels, W., Šišiç, E. and Krijgsman, W. (2011). Magnetostratigraphy and small mammals of the Late Oligocene Banovici basin in NE Bosnia and Herzegovina, Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimat., Palaeoecol., 292, 155-167. 
• Hüsing, S.K., Deenen, M.H.L., Koopmans, J.G. and Krijgsman, W. (2011). Magnetostratigraphic dating of the proposed Rhaetian GSSP at Steinbergkogel (Upper Triassic, Austria): Implications for the Late Triassic time scale, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 302, 201-216. 
• Karami, M.P., De Leeuw, A., Krijgsman, W., Meijer, P.Th., and Wortel, M.J.R. (2011). The role of gateways in the evolution of temperature and salinity of semi-enclosed basins: An oceanic box model for the Miocene Mediterranean Sea and Paratethys, Global and Planetary Change, 79, 73–88. 
• Mandic, O., De Leeuw, A., Vukovic, B., Krijgsman, W., Harzhauser, M. and Kuiper, K.F. (2011). Palaeoenvironmental evolution of Lake Gacko (Southern Bosnia and Herzegovina): Impact of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum on the Dinaride Lake System, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 299, 475-492.   
• Vasiliev I., Iosifidi A.G., Khramov A.N., Krijgsman W., Kuiper, K.F., Langereis C.G., Popov V.V., Stoica M., Tomsha V.A. and Yudin S.V. (2011). Magnetostratigraphy and radiometric dating of upper Miocene - lower Pliocene sedimentary successions of the Black Sea Basin (Taman Peninsula, Russia), Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol.,  310, 163-175.   

• Abels, H.A., Abdul Aziz, H., Krijgsman, W., Smeets, S.J.B. and Hilgen, F.J. (2010). Long-period eccentricity control on sedimentary sequences in the continental Madrid Basin (middle Miocene, Spain), Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 289, 220-231. 
• Deenen, M.H.L., Ruhl, M., Bonis, N.R., Krijgsman, W., Kuerschner, W.M., Reitsma, M., van Bergen, M.J. (2010). A new chronology for the end-Triassic mass extinction, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 291, 113-125.... 
• De Lange, G.J., and Krijgsman, W. (2010). Messinian Salinity Crisis: a novel unifying shallow gypsum/ deep dolomite formation mechanism, Mar. Geol., 275, 273-277. 
• De Leeuw A., Bukowski, K., Krijgsman, W. and Kuiper, K.F. (2010). Age of the Badenian salinity crisis; impact of Miocene climate variability on the circum Mediterranean region, Geology, 38, 715-718. 
• De Leeuw, A., Mandic, O., Vranjkovic, A., Pavelic, D., Harzhauser, M., Krijgsman, W. and Kuiper, K.F. (2010). Chronology and integrated stratigraphy of the Miocene Sinj Basin (Dinaride Lake System, Croatia),  PalaeogeographyPalaeogeogr., Palaeoclimat., Palaeoecol., 292, 155-167. 
• Hüsing, S.K., Cascella, A., Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W., Kuiper, K.F., Turco, E. and Wilson, D. (2010), Astrochronology of the Mediterranean Langhian between 15.29 and 14.17 Ma, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 290, 254-269 
• Hüsing, S.K., Oms,O., Agustí, J., Garcés, M., Kouwenhoven, T.J., Krijgsman, W. and Zachariasse, W.J. (2010).  On the late Miocene closure of the Mediterranean - Atlantic gateway through  the Guadix basin (southern Spain), Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 291, 167-179. 
• Joannin, S., Cornée, J.J., Münch, Ph., Fornari, M., Vasiliev, I., Krijgsman, W., Nahapetyan, S., Gabryelian, Y., Ollivier, V., Roiron, P., Chataîgnier, Ch. (2010). Early Pleistocene climatic cycles in continental deposits of the Lesser Caucasus of Armenia inferred from palynology, magnetostratigraphy, and 40Ar/39Ar dating, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 291, 149-158. 
• Köhler, C.M., Heslop, D., Krijgsman, W. & Dekkers, M.J. (2010). Late Miocene paleoenvironmental changes in North Africa and the Mediterranean recorded by geochemical proxies (Monte Gibliscemi section, Sicily). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 285, 66-73. 
• Köhler, C.M.,  Krijgsman, W., Van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Heslop, D. and Dupont-Nivet, G. (2010). Concurrent tectonic and climatic changes recorded in upper Tortonian sediments from the eastern Mediterranean, Terra Nova, 22, 52-63. 
• Krijgsman, W., Stoica, M., Vasiliev, I. and Popov, V.V. (2010). Rise and fall of the Paratethys Sea during the Messinian Salinity Crisis, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 290, 183-191 
• Langereis, C.G., Krijgsman, W., Muttoni, G., Menning, M.  (2010). Magnetostratigraphy – concepts, definitions, and applications, Newls. Strat.., 43, 207-233. 
• Leever, K.A., Matenco, L., Rabagia, T., Cloetingh, S., Krijgsman, W. and Stoica, M. (2010). Messinian sea level fall in the Dacic Basin (Eastern Paratethys): palaeogeographical implications from seismic sequence stratigraphy, Terra Nova, 22, 12-17. 
• Ollivier, V., Nahapetyan, S., Roiron, P., Gabrielyan, Y., Gasparyan, B., Chataignier, C., Joannin, S., Cornée, J.-J., Guillou, H., Scaillet, S., Munch, P., Krijgsman, W. (in press). Quaternary volcano-lacustrine patterns and palaeobotanical data in southern Armenia, Quaternary International, Quaternary International, 223-224, 312-326. 
• Ruhl, M., Deenen, M.H.L., Abels, H.A., Bonis, N.R., Krijgsman, W. and Kürschner, W.M. (2010). Astronomical constraints on the duration of the early Jurassic Hettangian stage and recovery rates following the end-Triassic mass extinction (St. Audrie’s Bay/East Quantoxhead, UK) , Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 295, 262-276. 
• Vasiliev, I., Reichart, G.J., Davies, G., Krijgsman, W., Stoica, M. (2010). Strontium isotope ratios of the Eastern Paratethys during the Mio-Pliocene transition; Implications for interbasinal connectivity, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 292, 123-131 
• Vasiliev, I., de Leeuw, A., Filipescu, S., Krijgsman, W., Kuiper, K., Stoica, M., Briceag, A. (2010). The age of the Sarmatian-Pannonian transition in the Transylvanian Basin (Central Paratethys), Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 297, 54-69. 

2009

• Govers, R., Meijer, P. Th. and Krijgsman, W. (2009). Regional isostatic response to Messinian Salinity Crisis events, Tectonophysics, 463, 109-129. (doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2008.09.026) 
• Hilgen, F.J., Abels, H.A., Iaccarino, S., Krijgsman, W., Raffi, I., Sprovieri, R., Turco, E. and Zachariasse, W.J. (2009). The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Serravallian Stage (Middle Miocene), Episodes, 32 (3), 152-166. 
• Hüsing, S.K., Zachariasse, W.J., Van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Krijgsman, W., Inceöz, M., Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O. and Kroh, A. (2009).  Oligo-Miocene foreland basin evolution in SE Anatolia: implications for the closure of the eastern Tethys gateway, In: Van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Edwards, M.A. and Govers, R. (eds.), Geodynamics of Collision and Collapse at the Africa-Arabia-Eurasia subduction zone, Geological Society of London Special Publication, 311, 107-132. 
• Hüsing, S.K., Dekkers, M.J., Franke, C., Krijgsman, W. (2009). The Tortonian reference section at Monte dei Corvi (Italy): evidence for early remanence acquisition in greigite-bearing sediments, Geophys. J. Int., 179, 125-143. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04301.x 
• Hüsing, S.K., Kuiper, K.F., Link, W., Hilgen, F.J. and Krijgsman, W. (2009).  The upper Tortonian - lower Messinian at Monte dei Corvi (Northern Apennines, Italy): Completing a Mediterranean reference section for the Tortonian Stage, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 282, 140-57.  
• Jimenez-Moreno, G., de Leeuw, A., Mandic, O., Harzhauser, M., Pavelic, D., Krijgsman, W. and Vranjkovic, A. (2009). Integrated stratigraphy of the early Miocene lacustrine deposits of Pag Island (SW Croatia): palaeovegetation and environmental changes in the Dinaride Lake System, Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimat., Palaeoecol., 280, 193-206. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.05.018 
• Vasiliev, I., Matenco, L. and Krijgsman, W. (2009). The syn- and post-collisional evolution of the Romanian Carpathian foredeep: New constraints from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and paleostress analysis, Tectonophysics, 407, 457-465.   

• Dupont-Nivet, G., Dai, S., Fang, X., Krijgsman, W., Erens, V., Reitsma, M. and Langereis, C.G. (2008). Timing and distribution of tectonic rotations in the northeastern Tibetan plateau, In: Burchfiel, C. and Wang, E. (eds.), Investigations into the Tectonics of the Tibetan Plateau, The Geological Society of America Special Paper 444, 73–87, (doi: 10.1130/2008.2444). 
• Govers, R., Meijer, P. Th, Krijgsman, W. (2009). Regional isostatic response to Messinian Salinity Crisis events, Tectonophysics, in press (doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2008.09.026) 
• Köhler, C.M., Heslop, D., Dekkers, M.J., Krijgsman, W., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J. and von Dobeneck, T. (2008). Tracking provenance change during the late Miocene in the eastern Mediterranean using geochemical and environmental parameters, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 9, Q12018, doi:10.1029/2008GC002127 
• Krijgsman, W., Hilgen, F.J. and Meijer, P.Th. (2008). Chronological constraints and consequences for the Messinian Salinity Crisis, CIESM Workshop Monograph, 33, 39-44.
• Krijgsman, W. and Meijer, P.Th. (2008). Depositional environments of the Mediterranean “Lower Evaporites” of the Messinian salinity crisis: Constraints from quantitative analyses, Mar. Geol., 253, 73-81. 
• Kuiper, K.F., Deino, A., Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W., Renne, P.R., Wijbrans, J.R. (2008). Synchronizing rock clocks of Earth history, Science, 320, 500-504. ...Science News of the Week: Kerr, R.E. (2008). Two Geologic Clocks Finally Keeping the Same Time, Science, 320, 434-435 
• Vasiliev, I., Franke, C., Meeldijk, J.D.,Dekkers, M.J., Langereis, C.G. and Krijgsman, W. (2008). Putative greigite magnetofossils from the Pliocene epoch, Nature Geoscience, 1(11), 782-786. 

• Dupont-Nivet, G., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Abels, H. A., Dai, S. and Fang, X. (2007). Tibetan Plateau Aridification linked to global cooling at the Eocene-Oligocene transition,  Nature, 445, 635-638 
Nature News & Views: Bowen, G.J. (2007). When the world turned cold, Nature, 445, 607-608 
• Hilgen, F.J., Kuiper, K.F., Krijgsman, W., Snel, E., Van der Laan, E. (2007). Astronomical tuning as the basis for high resolution chronostratigraphy: the intricate history of the Messinian Salinity Crisis, Stratigraphy, 4, 231-238. 
• Hüsing, S.K., Hilgen, F.J., Abdul Aziz, H. and Krijgsman, W. (2007). Completing the Neogene geological time scale between 8.5 and 12.5 Ma, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 253, 340-358 
• Krijgsman, W. and Fortuin, A.R. (2007). Zout en gips in het Middellandse-Zeebekken: De saliniteitscrisis van het Messinien (Mioceen), GEA, 40, 70-77.
• Morigi, C., Negri, A., Giunta, S., Kouwenhoven, T.J., Krijgsman, W., Blanc-Valleron, M.M., Orszag-Sperber, F., Rouchy, J.M. (2007). Integrated quantitative biostratigraphy of the latest Tortonian-early Messinian Pissouri section (Cyprus): an evaluation of calcareous plankton bioevents, Geobios, 40, 267-279. 
• Panaiotu, C.E., Vasiliev, I., Panaiotu, C.G., Krijgsman, W. and Langereis, C.G. (2007). Provenance analysis as a key to orogenic exhumation: a case study from the East Carpathians (Romania), Terra Nova, 19, 120-126 (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00726.x) 
• Stoica, M., Lazar, I., Vasiliev, I. and Krijgsman, W. (2007). Mollusc assemblages of the Pontian and Dacian deposits from the Topolog-Arges area (southern Carpathian foredeep - Romania), Geobios, 40, 391-405.  
• Van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Cornée, J.-J., Duermeijer, C.E. and van Vugt, N., 2007, Discrete Plio-Pleistocene phases of tilting and counterclockwise rotation in the southeastern Aegean arc (Rhodos; Greece): early Pliocene formation of the south Aegean left-lateral strike-slip system, Journal of the Geological Society of London 164,  1133-1144. 
• Vasiliev, I., Bakrac, K., Kovacic, M., Abdul Aziz, H. and Krijgsman, W. (2008). Palaeomagnetic results from the Sarmatian/Pannonian Boundary in North-Eastern Croatia (Vranovic Section, Nasice Quarry), Geologica Croatica, 60(2), 151-163. 
• Vasiliev, I., Dekkers, M.J., Krijgsman, W., Franke, C., Langereis, C.G. and Mullender, T.A.T. (2007). Early diagenetic greigite as a recorder of the palaeomagnetic signal in Miocene–Pliocene sedimentary rocks of the Carpathian foredeep (Romania),  Geophys. J. Int., 171, 613-629 

• Agustí, J., Garcés, M. and Krijgsman, W. (2006). Evidence for African-Iberian exchanges during the Messinian in the Spanish mammalian record, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 238, 5-14. 
• Çagatay, M.N., Görür, N., Flecker, R., Sakinç, M., Tünoglu, C., Ellam, R., Krijgsman, W., Vincent, S. and Dikbas, A. (2006). Paratethyan-Mediterranean connectivity in the Sea of Marmara region (NW Turkey) during the Messinian, Sediment. Geol., 188-189, 171-187. 
• Cornée, J.J., Moissette, P., Joannin, S., Suc, J.-P., Quillévéré, F., Krijgsman, W., Hilgen, F., Koskeridou, E., Münch, Ph., Lécuyer, Ch. and Desvignes, P. (2006). Tectonic and climatic controls on coastal sedimentation: The Late Pliocene-Middle Pleistocene of northeastern Rhodes, Greece, Sediment. Geol., 187, 159-181. 
• Cornée, J.J., Münch, P.,  Quillévéré, F., Moissette, P., Vasiliev, I., Krijgsman, W., Verati, C.  and Lécuyer, C. (2006). Timing of Late Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene tectonic events in Rhodes (Greece) inferred from magneto-biostratigraphy and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of a volcaniclastic layer, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 250, 281-291. 
• Dai, S., X. Fang, G. Dupont-Nivet, C. Song, J. Gao, W. Krijgsman, C. Langereis, and W. Zhang (2006) Magnetostratigraphy of Cenozoic sediments from the Xining Basin: Tectonic implications for the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B11102, doi:10.1029/2005JB004187.
• Krijgsman, W. and Tauxe, L. (2006). E/I corrected paleolatitudes for the sedimentary rocks of the Baja British Columbia hypothesis, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 242,205– 216   
• Krijgsman, W., Leewis, M.E., Garcés, M., Kouwenhoven, T.J., Kuiper, K.F., and Sierro, F.J. (2006). Tectonic control for evaporite formation in the Eastern Betics (Tortonian; Spain), Sediment. Geol., 188-189, 155-170. 
• Kouwenhoven, T.J., Morigi, C., Negri, A., Giunta, S., Krijgsman, W. and Rouchy, J.-M. (2006). Paleoenvironmental evolution of the eastern Mediterranean during the Messinian: Constraints from integrated microfossil data of the Pissouri Basin (Cyprus), Mar. Micropal, 60, 17-44. 
• Kuiper, K.F., Krijgsman, W., Garcés, M. and Wijbrans, J.R. (2006). Revised isotopic (⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar) age for the lamproite volcano of Cabezos Negros, Fortuna Basin (Eastern Betics, SE Spain). Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol, 238, 53-63. 
• Popescu, S.M., Krijgsman, W., Suc, J.P., Clauzon, G., Marunteanu, M. and Nica, T. (2006). Pollen record and integrated high-resolution chronology of the early Pliocene Dacic Basin (southwestern Romania). Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 238, 78-90. 
• Steenbrink, J., Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W., Wijbrans, J.R. and Meulenkamp, J.E. (2006). Late Miocene to early Pliocene depositional history of the intramontane Florina-Ptolemais-Servia Basin, NW Greece: interplay between orbital forcing and tectonics, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 238, 151-178. 
• Van der Laan, E., Snel, E., de Kaenel E., Hilgen, F.J. and Krijgsman, W. (2006). No major deglaciation across the Miocene–Pliocene boundary: integrated stratigraphy and astronomical tuning of the Loulja section (Bou Regreg area, NW Morocco). Paleoceanography, 21 (3): Art. No. PA3011 
• Van Assen, E., Kuiper, K.F., Krijgsman, W., Sierro, F.J. and Barhoun, N. (2006). Messinian astrochronology of the Melilla Basin: stepwise restriction of the Mediterranean-Atlantic connection through Morocco,  Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 238, 15-31. 

2005

• Abels, H. A.; Hilgen, F. J.; Krijgsman, W.; Kruk, R. W.; Raffi, I.; Turco, E.; Zachariasse, W. J. (2005). Long-period orbital control on middle Miocene global cooling: Integrated stratigraphy and astronomical tuning of the Blue Clay Formation on Malta, Paleoceanography, 20 (4), PA4012 
• Dupont-Nivet, G., Vasiliev, I., Langereis, C.G., Krijgsman, W. and Panaiotu, C. (2005). Neogene tectonic evolution of the southern and eastern Carpathians constrained by paleomagnetism, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 236, 374– 387  
• Hilgen, F.J, Abdul Aziz,  H.A., Bice, D., Iaccarino, S., Krijgsman, W., Kuiper, K.F., Montanari, A., Raffi, I., Turco, E., Zachariasse, W.J., (2005). The Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Tortonian Stage (Upper Miocene) at Monte Dei Corvi, Episodes, 28, 6-17.
• Meijer, P.Th. and Krijgsman, W. (2005). A quantitative analysis of the desiccation and re-filling of the Mediterranean during the Messinian Salinity Crisis, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.,  240, 510-520. 
• Vasiliev, I., Krijgsman, W., Stoica, M. Cor G. Langereis (2005). Mio-Pliocene magnetostratigraphy in the southern Carpathian foredeep and Mediterranean – Paratethys correlations, Terra Nova, 17, 376–384 

• Abdul Aziz, H. Van Dam, J. Hilgen, F.J. and Krijgsman, W. (2004). Astronomical forcing in Upper Miocene continental sequences: implications for the Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 222, 243-258 
• Krijgsman, W., Gaboardi, S., Hilgen, F.J., Iaccarino, S., de Kaenel, E., Van der Laan, E. (2004). Revised astrochronology for the Ain el Beida section (Atlantic Morocco): No glacio-eustatic control for the onset of the Messinian Salinity Crisis, Stratigraphy, 1, 87-101. 
• Krijgsman, W. and Garcés, M. (2004). Paleomagnetic constraints on the geodynamic evolution of the Gibraltar Arc, Terra Nova, 16, 281–287, 2004 
• Krijgsman,W. and Kent, D.V. (2004). Non-uniform occurrence of small term fluctuations in the geomagnetic field ? New results from Middle to Late Miocene sediments from the North Atlantic (DSDP Site 608),  Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 145 (AGU), 328 pp..  (proofs)
• Krijgsman, W. and Tauxe, L. (2004). Shallow bias in Mediterranean paleomagnetic directions caused by inclination error, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 222, 685-695. 
• Vasiliev, I., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Panaiotu, C.E., Matenco, L. and Bertotti, G. (2004). Towards an astrochronological framework for the eastern Paratethys Mio-Pliocene sedimentary sequences of the Focsani basin (Romania), Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 227, 231-247  

• Abdul Aziz, H., Hilgen, F.J., Wilson, D.S., Krijgsman, W. and Calvo, J.P (2003). An astronomical polarity time scale for the middle Miocene based on continental sequences, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (B3), 2159, doi: 10.1029 / 2002JB001818. 
• Abdul Aziz, H., Sanz-Rubio, E., Calvo, J.P., Hilgen, F.J. and Krijgsman, W. (2003). Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a middle Miocene proximal alluvial fan to cyclic shallow lacustrine depositonal system in the Calatayud Basin (NE Spain),  Sedimentology, 50, 211–236. 
• Cloetingh, S.,Horváth, F., Dinu, C., Stephenson, R.A., Bertotti, G., Bada, G., Garcia-Castellanos, D. and the TECTOP Working Group (2003). Probing Tectonic Topography in the Aftermath of Continental Convergence in Central Europe, EOS, Trans. AGU, 84(10), 89-96. 
• Carrapa, B., Bertotti, G. and Krijgsman, W. (2003). Subsidence, stress regime and rotation(s) of a tectonically active sedimentary basin within the western Alpine Orogen: the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (Alpine domain, NW Italy), In: T. McCann and A. Saintot (eds.), Tracing Tectonic Deformation Using the Sedimentary Record, Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ., 208, 205-227.
• Fortuin, A.R. and Krijgsman, W. (2003). The Messinian of the Nijar basin (SE Spain): sedimentation, depositional environments and paleogeographic evolution, Sediment. Geol., 160, 213-242. 
• Garcés, M., Krijgsman, W., Peláez-Campomanes, P., Álvarez Sierra, M.A., and Daams, R. (2003). Hipparion dispersal in Europe: magnetostratigraphic constraints from the Daroca area (Spain), Coloquios de Paleontología, vol. ext. 1: 171-178. 
• Hilgen, F.J., Abdul Aziz, H., Krijgsman, W., Raffi, I. and Turco, E. (2003). Integrated stratigraphy and astronomical tuning of the Serravallian and lower Tortonian at Monte dei Corvi (Middle-Upper Miocene, northern Italy), Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 199, 229-264. 
• Krijgsman, W. (2003). Magnetostratigraphic dating of the Çandir fossil locality (middle Miocene, Turkey), Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg, 240, 41-49.
• Kruiver, P.P., Langereis, C.G., Dekkers, M.J. and Krijgsman, W. (2003). Rock magnetic properties of multi-component natural remanent magnetisation in alluvial red beds (NE Spain), Geophys. J. Int.,153, 317-332. 
• Pérez-Folgado, M., Sierro, F.J., Bárcena, M.A., Flores, J.A., Vázquez, A., Utrilla, R., Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W. and Filipelli, G.M. (2003). Western versus eastern Mediterranean paleoceanographic response to astronomical forcing: a high-resolution microplankton study of precession-controlled sedimentary cycles during the Messinian, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 190, 317-334. 
• Rodionov, V.P.,  Dekkers, M.J., Khramov, A.N., Gurevich, E.L., Krijgsman, W. , Duermeijer, C.E. and Heslop, D. (2003). Paleomagnetism and cyclostratigraphy of the Middle Ordovician Krivolutsky suite, Krivaya Luka section, southern Siberian platform: record of non-synchronous NRM-components or a non-axial geomagnetic  field ? Studia Geophysica Geodaetica, 47, 255-274. 

• Krijgsman, W. (2002). The Mediterranean: Mare Nostrum of Earth Sciences, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 205, 1-12.   [PDF]
• Krijgsman, W., Blanc-Valleron, M.-M., Flecker, R., Hilgen, F.J., Kouwenhoven, T.J., Merle, D., Orszag-Sperber, F. and Rouchy, J.-M. (2002). The onset of the Messinian salinity crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean (Pissouri Basin, Cyprus), Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 194, 299-310.   [PDF]
• Langereis, C.G., Dinarès-Turell, J. and Krijgsman, W. (2002). Milankovitch cyclicity in late Neogene marine succesions on Sicily: astrochronological tool and paleoclimate indicator. Excursion Guide, Symposium on Fundamental rock magnetism and environmental applications, Erice (Italy), 106 pp.
• Kruiver, P.P., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G. and Dekkers, M.J. (2002). Cyclostratigraphy and rock-magnetic investigation of the NRM signal in late Miocene palustrine-alluvial deposits of the Librilla section (SE Spain), J. Geophys. Res., 107, B12, 2334, doi:10.1029/2001JB000945   [PDF]
• Merle, D.,  Lauriat-Rage, A., Gaudant, J., Pestrea, S., Courme-Rault, M.-D., Zorn, I.,  Blanc-Valleron, M.-M., Rouchy, J.-M., Orszag-Sperber, F. and Krijgsman, W. (2002). Les paléopeuplements marins du Messinien pré-évaporitique de Pissouri (Chypre, Méditerranée orientale): aspects paléoécologiques de la crise de salinité messinienne, Geodiversitas, 24 (3), 669-691.   [PDF]

• Agustí, J., Cabrera, L., Garcés, M., Krijgsman, W., Oms, O. and Parés, J.M. (2001). A calibrated mammal scale for the Neogene of Western Europe. State of the art, Earth Sci. Rev. 52, 247-260.  [PDF]
• Garcés, M., Krijgsman, W., Agustí, J. (2001). Chronostratigraphic framework and evolution of the Fortuna Basin (Eastern Betics) since the Late Miocene, Basin Res., 13 (2), 199-217.   [PDF]
• Krijgsman, W., Fortuin, A.R., Hilgen, F.J. and Sierro, F.J. (2001). Astrochronology for the Messinian Sorbas Basin (SE Spain) and orbital (precessional) forcing  evaporite cyclicity, Sedim. Geol., 140, 43-60.  [PDF]
• Langereis, C.G. and Krijgsman, W. (2001). Paleo-Oceanography: Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale, In: J. Steele, S. Thorpe and K. Turekian (eds.), Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 1134-1141, Academic Press, London.
• Sanz-Rubio, E., Abdul Aziz, H., Calvo, J.P., Hilgen, F.J. and Krijgsman, W. (2001). Análisis sedimentológico y caracterización paleoclimática de la sucesión cíclica de Orera, Mioceno continental de la Cuenca de Calatayud. Geotemas, 3, 85-90.
• Sierro, F.J., Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W. and Flores, J.A. (2001). The Abad composite (SE Spain): A Mediterranean and global reference section for the Messinian,Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 168, 141-169.  [PDF]
• Van Dam, J.A., Alcalá, L., Alonso Zarza, A., Calvo, J.P., Garcés, M. and Krijgsman, W. (2001). The upper Miocene mammal record from the Teruel-Alfambra region (Spain). The MN system and continental stage/age concepts discussed, J. Vertebrate Paleontol., 21 (2), 367-385.

2000

• Abdul Aziz, H, Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W., Sanz, E., and Calvo, J.P. (2000). Astronomical forcing of sedimentary cycles in the Middle to Late Miocene continental Calatayud Basin (NE Spain), Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 177, 9-22   [PDF]
• Alcalá, L., Alonso-Zarza, A.M., Alvarez-Sierra, M.A., Azanza, B., Calvo, J.P., Cañaveras, J.C., Dam, J.A. van, Garcés, M., Krijgsman, W., Van der Meulen, A.J., Morales, J., Peláez-Campomanes, P., Pérez González, A., Sánchez Moral, S., Sancho, R., and Sanz Rubio, E. (2000). El registro sedimentario y faunístico de las cuencas de  Calatayud-Daroca y Teruel: Evolución paleoambiental y paleoclimática durante el Neógeno. Rev. Soc. Geol. España, 13, 323-343.
• Bernini, M., Boccaletti, M., Dahmani, M., El Mokhtari, J., Gelati, R., Iaccarino, S., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Moratti, G., Papani, G., Sani, F. and Villa, G. (2000). The Neogene Taza-Guercif Basin. Excursion Guide, (XIth congress RCMNS), 47-117.
• Fortuin, A.R., Krijgsman, W., Hilgen, F.J., Sierro, F.J. (2000). Late Miocene Mediterranean desiccation: topography and significance of the “Salinity Crisis” erosional surface on-land in southeast Spain: Comment. Sedim. Geol., 133, 175-184. [PDF]
• Riding, R., Braga, J.C., Martín, J.M. (2000). Late Miocene Mediterranean desiccation: topography and significance of the ‘Salinity Crisis’ erosion surface on-land in southeast Spain: Reply. Sedim. Geol., 133, 175-184. [PDF]
• Garcés, M., Krijgsman, W, Agustí, J. (2000). La cuenca neógena de Fortuna, Cordilleras Béticas: Magnetoestratigrafía y evolución tectonosedimentaria, Geotemas, 1, 81-85.
• Garcés, M. and Krijgsman, W. (2000). Remagnetizaciones y migración de fluidos en la cuenca neógena de Fortuna, Cordilleras Béticas, Geotemas, 1, 105-109.
• Hilgen, F.J., Bissoli, L., Iaccarino, S., Krijgsman, W., Meijer, R., Negri, A. and Villa, G. (2000). Integrated stratigraphy and astrochronology of the Messinian GSSP at Oued Akrech (Atlantic Morocco), Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 182, 237-251 [PDF]
• Hilgen, F.J., Iaccarino, S., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Villa, G. and Zachariasse, W.J. (2000). The Global Standard Stratotype-section and Point (GSSP) of the Messinian Stage (uppermost Miocene), Episodes, 23/3, 1-6.
• Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W., Raffi, I., Turco, E. and Zachariasse, W.J. (2000). Integrated stratigraphy and astronomical calibration of the Serravallian/Tortonian boundary section at Monte Giblisciemi, Sicily, Marine Micropal., 38, 181-211   [PDF]
• Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W. and Lourens, L.J. (2000). Astronomische cycli: hun invloed op het klimaat op Aarde, Gea, 35, 1-8
• Krijgsman, W., Garcés, M., Agustí, J., Raffi, I., Taberner, C. and Zachariasse, W.J. (2000). The “Tortonian Salinity Crisis” of the eastern Betics (Spain), Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 181, 497-511.   [PDF]
• Krijgsman, W. and Langereis, C.G. (2000). Magnetostratigraphy of the Zobzit and Koudiat Zarga sections (Taza-Guercif basin, Morocco): implications for the evolution of the Rifian Corridor. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 17, 359-371. [PDF]
• Martín-Suarez, E., Freudenthal, M., Krijgsman, W. and Fortuin, A.R. (2000). On the age of the continental deposits of the Zorreras member (Sorbas Basin, SE Spain), Geobios, 33(4), 505-512.

• Calvo, J.P., Abdul Aziz, H., Hilgen, F, Sanz-Rubio, E. and Krijgsman, W. (1999). The Orera section (Calatayud Basin, NE Spain): a remarkable cyclically bedded lacustrine succession from the Spanish Miocene. In: D. Barettino, M. Vallejo and E. Gallego (Eds.), Towards the Balanced Management and Conservation of the Geological Heritage in the New Millenium, 186-192.
• Daams, R., van der Meulen, A.J., Alvarez Sierra, M.A., Peláez-Campomanes, P., Calvo, J.P., Alonso Zarza, M.A. and Krijgsman, W. (1999). Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Aragonian (Early to Middle Miocene) in its type area (North-Central Spain), Newsl. Stratigr., 37(3), 103-139.
• Daams, R., van der Meulen, A.J., Alvarez Sierra, M.A., Peláez-Campomanes, P. and Krijgsman, W. (1999). Aragonian stratigraphy reconsidered, and a re-evaluation of the middle Miocene mammal biochronology in Europe, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 165, 287-294. [PDF]
• Duermeijer, C.E., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Meulenkamp, J.E., Triantaphyllou, M.V. and Zachariasse, W.J. (1999). A late Pleistocene clockwise rotation phase of Zakynthos (Greece) and implications for the evolution of the western Aegean arc, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 173, 315-331.
• Garcés, M., Krijgsman, W., van Dam, J., Calvo, J.P., Alcalá, L. and Alonso-Zarza, A.M. (1997, Pub. 1999). Late Miocene alluvial sediments from the Teruel area: magnetostratigraphy, magnetic susceptibility and facies organisation, Acta Geol. Hisp., 32, 171-184.
• Hilgen, F.J. and Krijgsman, W. (1999). Cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology of the Tripoli diatomite formation (pre-evaporite Messinian, Sicily, Italy), Terra Nova, 11, 16-22. [PDF]
• Hilgen, F.J., Abdul Aziz, H., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Lourens, L.J., Meulenkamp, J.E., Raffi, I., Steenbrink, J., Turco, E., Van Vugt, N., Wijbrans, J.R. and Zachariasse, W.J. (1999). Present status of the astronomical (polarity) time-scale for the Mediterranean late Neogene, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A, 357, 1-17.
• Krijgsman, W., Delahaije, W., Langereis, C.G. and De Boer, P.L. (1997, Pub. 1999). Paleomagnetism and astronomically induced cyclicity of the Armantes section; a Miocene continental red bed sequence in the Daroca-Calatayud basin (Central Spain), Acta Geol. Hisp., 32, 201-220
• Krijgsman, W., Hilgen, F.J., Raffi, I, Sierro, F.J. and Wilson, D.S. (1999). Chronology, causes and progression of the Messinian salinity crisis, Nature, 400, 652-655. [PDF]See also: Nature N&V [PDF]
• Krijgsman, W., Hilgen, F.J., Marabini, S. and Vai, G.B. (1999). New paleomagnetic and cyclostratigraphic age constraints on the Messinian of the Northern Apennines (Vena del Gesso Basin, Italy), Special Issue Messinian, Mem. Soc. Geol. Ital., 54, 25-33.
• Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Zachariasse, W.J., Boccaletti, M., Moratti, G., Gelati, R., Iaccarino, S., Papani, G. and Villa, G. (1999). Late Neogene evolution of the Taza-Guercif Basin (Rifian Corridor; Morocco) and implications for the Messinian salinity crisis, Marine Geol., 153, 147-160. [PDF]
• Negri, A., Giunta, S., Hilgen, F, Krijgsman, W. and Vai, G.B. (1999). Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the M. del Casino section (northern Apennines, Italy) and paleoceanographic conditions at times of Late Miocene sapropel formation, Marine Micropal., 36, 13-30.
• Sierro, F.J., Flores, J.A. Zamarreno, I., Vazquez, A., Utrilla, R., Frances, G., Hilgen, F.J. and Krijgsman, W. (1999). Messinian pre-evaporite and precession-induced oscillations in western Mediterranean climate, Marine Geol., 153, 137-146. [PDF]

• Duermeijer, C.E., Krijgsman, W., C.G. Langereis and J.H. ten Veen, (1998). Post early Messinian counter-clockwise rotations on Crete: implications for the late Miocene to Recent kinematics of the southern Hellenic Arc. Tectonophysics, 298, 177-189.
• Garcés, M., Krijgsman, W. and Agustí, J. (1998) Chronology of the late Turolian deposits of the Fortuna basin (SE Spain): Implications for the Messinian evolution of the eastern Betics, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 163, 69-81.
• Hilgen, F.J., W. Krijgsman, C.G. Langereis, W.J. Zachariasse, S. Iaccarino, G. Villa, Benson R.H., and  M. Dahmani (1998). The Global Standard Stratotype-section and Point (GSSP) of the Messinian Stage (Uppermost Miocene) - A proposal. Neogene Newsletter, 5, 55-77.
• Krijgsman, W., (1998). Book Review: Miocene stratigraphy: An Integrated approach, by A. Montanari, G.S. Odin, R.Coccioni, Sediment. Geol., 119, 337-338.
• Peeters, F.J.C., Hoek, R.P., Brinkhuis, H., Wilpshaar, M., de Boer, P.L., Krijgsman, W. And Meulenkamp, J.E. (1998). Differentiating glacio-eustacy and tectonics; a case study involving dinoflagellate cysts from the Eocene-Oligocene transition of the Pindos foreland basin (NW Greece), Terra Nova, 10, 245-249.

• Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G. and Lourens, L.J. (1997). Breakthrough Made in Dating of the Geological Record, EOS, Trans. AGU, 78, 285 & 288
• Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W. and Wijbrans, J.R. (1997). Astronomical ages and Ar/Ar dating of some Miocene ash beds: consequences for the age of mineral dating standards, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24 , 2043-2046.
• Krijgsman, W., Delahaije, W, Langereis, C.G. and de Boer, P.L. (1997). Cyclicity and NRM acquisition in a continental red bed sequence (Miocene, Spain): potential for an Astronomical Polarity Time Scale, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 1027-1030.
• Krijgsman, W., Hilgen, F.J., Negri, A., Wijbrans, J.R. and Zachariasse, W.J. (1997). The Monte del Casino section: A potential Tortonian-Messinian boundary stratotype ?, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol., 133, 27-48.
• Sierro, F.J., Flores, J.A. Zamarreno, I., Vazquez, A., Utrilla, R., Frances, G., Hilgen, F.J. and Krijgsman, W. (1997). Astronomical cyclicity and sapropels in the pre-evaporitic Messinian of the Sorbas basin (Western Mediterranean), Geogaceta,, 21, 199-202.

• Krijgsman, W. (1996). Miocene magnetostratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy in the Mediterranean: extension of the astronomical time scale. (PhD Thesis Utrecht University), Geologica Ultraiectina, 141, pp. 207.
• Krijgsman, W., Garcés, M., Langereis, C.G., Daams, R., van Dam, J., van der Meulen, A.J., Agustí, J. and Cabrera, L. (1996). A new chronology for the middle to late Miocene continental record in Spain. Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 142, 367-380. [PDF]
• Krijgsman, W., Duermeijer, C.E., Langereis, C.G., de Bruijn, H., Saraç, G. and Andriessen, P.A.M. (1996). Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of late Oligocene to middle Miocene mammal-bearing localities in Central Anatolia (Turkey). Newsl. Strat.,34, 13-29.

• Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Lourens, L.J., Santarelli, A. and Zachariasse, W.J. (1995). Extending the astronomical (polarity) time scale into the Miocene, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 136, 495-510.
• Krijgsman, W., Hilgen, F.J., Langereis, C.G., Santarelli, A. and Zachariasse, W.J. (1995). Late Miocene magnetostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy in the Mediterranean, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 136, 475-499.

• Krijgsman, W., Hilgen, F.J., Langereis, C.G. and Zachariasse, W.J. (1994). The age of the Tortonian-Messinian boundary. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 121, 533-547.
• Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Daams, R. and Van der Meulen, A. (1994). Magnetostratigraphic dating of the middle Miocene climate change in the continental deposits of the Aragonian type area in the Calatayud-Teruel basin (Central Spain). Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 128, 513-526.