People at Fort Hoofddijk

Hemmo Abels
back to People of the Fort
(visiting)
 Dr. H.A. Abels
Paleomagnetic Laboratory
Fort Hoofddijk
Department of Earth Sciences, 
Utrecht University 
Budapestlaan 4
3584 CD Utrecht 
The Netherlands 

Phone +31 30 253 5125
Fax +31 30 243 5086
E-mail abels@geo.uu.nl

Research
Publications


Research of Hemmo Abels

Long period astronomical control on Neogene continental and marine successions
The project aims at the determination of the influence of long-period astronomical cycles in eccentricity (2.4-Myr) and obliquity (1.2-Myr cycle) on continental and marine sequences.

Recently, results have been published regarding the coincidence of a 1.2 Myr minimum in obliquity amplitudes together with minima in the 100- and 400-kyr eccentricity cycles and the middle Miocene global cooling (Mi3b). 

This peculiar orbital configuration is similar to that found for the early Oligocene cooling (Oi1), several major coolings in the Oligocene, and the early Miocene cooling (Mi1). The results of our study on Malta have been published in Paleoceanography..
Dome de Barrot


Hemmo looks at an interesting sandstone in the Donbas basin (Ukraine)

publications Publications of Hemmo Abels
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 
2010
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
2009
  • Abels, H.A., Abdul Aziz, H., Ventra, D., Hilgen, F.J. (2009). Orbital climate forcing in mudflat to marginal lacustrine deposits in the Miocene Teruel basin (Northeast Spain), Journal of Sedimentary Research 79, 831-847. 
  • Abels, H.A., Abdul Aziz, H., Calvo, J.P., Tuenter, E. (2009). Shallow lacustrine carbonate microfacies document orbitally paced lake-level history in the Miocene Teruel Basin (North-East Spain), Sedimentology 56,399-419.  
  • 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. 
2007
  • Abels, H.A., Van Simaeys, S., Hilgen, F.J., De Man, E. and Vandenberghe, N. (2007). Obliquity-dominated glacio-eustatic sea level change in the early Oligocene: evidence from the shallow marine siliciclastic Rupelian stratotype (Boom Formation, Belgium),  Terra Nova, 19, 65-73 
  • 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 )
2005
  • Abels, H. A., Hilgen, F. J., Krijgsman, W., Kruk, R. W., Raffi, I,; Turco, E. and 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 
  • Hilgen, F.J., Abdul Aziz, H., Abels, H., Becker, J., Kuiper, K.F., Lourens, L.J., Meijer, P.Th., Steenbrink, E., Tuenter, E., Laan, E. van der, & Weber, N. (2005). Mediterranean Neogene cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology: Recent progress and new developments. In: A. Berger, M. Ercegovac, & F. Mesinger (Eds.), Milutin Milankovitch 125th Anniversary Symposium: Paleoclimate and the Earth Climate System. Proceedings of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia .