Publications

Bogus, K. A., Zonneveld, K. A. F., Fischer, D., Kasten, S., Bohrmann, G. and Versteegh, G. J. M., 2011. The effect of meter-scale lateral oxygen gradients at the sediment-water interface on selected organic matter based alteration, productivity and temperature proxies. Biogeosciences Discussion Papers 8: 11359-11403.

Chen, L., Zonneveld, K. A. F. and Versteegh, G. J. M., 2011. Short term climate variability during “Roman Classical Period” in the eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews, -, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.09.024.

Romero-Sarmiento, M.-F., Riboulleau, A., Vecoli, M., Laggoun-Défarge, F. and Versteegh, G. J. M., 2011. Aliphatic and aromatic biomarkers from Carboniferous coal deposits at Dunbar (East Lothian, Scotland): Palaeobotanical and palaeoenvironmental significance. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology 309: 309-326.

Romero-Sarmiento, M.-F., Riboulleau, A., Vecoli, M. and Versteegh, G. J. M., 2011. Aliphatic and aromatic biomarkers from Gondwanan sediments of Late Ordovician to Early Devonian age: An early terrestrialization approach. Organic Geochemistry 42: 605-617.

Versteegh, G. J. M., Blokker, P., Bogus, K., Harding, I., Lewis, J., Oltmanns, S., Rochon, A. and Zonneveld, K. A. F., 2011. Infra red spectroscopy, flash pyrolysis, thermally assisted hydrolysis and methylation (THM) in the presence of tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) of cultured and sediment-derived Lingulodinium polyedrum (Dinoflagellata) cyst walls. Organic Geochemistry, doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.10.007.

Zonneveld, K. A. F., Chen, L., Elshanawany, R., Fischer, H. W., Hoins, M., Ibrahim, M. I., Pittauerova, D., and Versteegh, G. J. M., 2011. The use of dinoflagellate cysts to separate human and natural variability in the trophic state of the Po-river discharge plume during the last two centuries. Marine Pollution Bulletin, in press.

Dhamelincourt, M. C., Vecoli, M., Mezzetti, A., Cesari, C. Versteegh, G. and Riboulleau, A., 2010. Laser Raman micro-spectroscopy of Proterozoic and Palaeozoic organic-walled microfossils (acritarchs and prasinophytes) from the Ghadamis Basin, Libya and Volta Basin, Ghana. Spectroscopy 24: 207-212.

Leider, A., Hinrichs, K. -U., Mollenhauer, G. and Versteegh, G. J. M., 2010. Core top calibration of the lipid-based UK’37 and TEX86 temperature proxies on the southern Italian shelf (SW Adriatic Sea, Gulf of Taranto). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 300: 112-124.

Liu, X. -L., Leider, A., Gillespie, A., Gröger, J., Versteegh, G. J. M. and Hinrichs, K. -U., 2010. Identification of polar lipid precursors of the ubiquitous branched GDGT orphan lipids in a peat bog in Northern Germany. Organic Geochemistry 41: 653-660.

Romero-Sarmiento, M. F., Riboulleau, A., Vecoli, M. and Versteegh, G. J. M., 2010. Occurrence of retene in upper Silurian–lower Devonian sediments from North Africa: Origin and implications. Organic Geochemistry 41: 302-306.

Versteegh, G. J. M., Riboulleau, A., 2010. An organic geochemical perspective on terrestrialisation. In: Vecoli M., Clément G., Meyer-Berthaud B. (eds.), The Terrestrialization Process: Modelling Complex Interactions at the Biosphere - Geosphere Interface, The Geological Society Publishing House, London 339: 11-36.

Versteegh, G. J. M., Zonneveld, K. A. F. and de Lange, G. J., 2010. Selective aerobic and anaerobic degradation of lipids and palynomorphs in the Eastern Mediterranean since the onset of sapropel S1 deposition. Marine Geology 278: 177-192.

Zonneveld, K. A. F., Versteegh, G. J. M., Kasten, S., Eglinton, T. I., Emeis, K. C., Huguet, C., Koch, B. P., de Lange, G. J., de Leeuw, J. W., Middelburg, J. J., Mollenhauer, G., Prahl, F. G., Rethemeyer, J. and Wakeham, S. G., 2010. Selective preservation of organic matter in marine sediments - processes and impact on the fossil record. Biogeosciences 7: 483-511.

Bison, K. M., Versteegh, G.J.M., Rouchy, J.M. Orszag-Sperber, F., Willems, H. Palaeoenvironmental changes of the early Pliocene (Zanclean) in the eastern Mediterranean. Mar. Micropaleontol. 73: 49-56.

Boere, A., Abbas, B., Rijpstra, W.I.C., Versteegh, G.J.M., Volkman, J.K., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., and Coolen, M.J.L. Late Holocene succession of dinoflagellates in an Antarctic Fjord using a multi-proxy approach: palaeometagenomics, lipid biomarkers and palynology. Geobiology 17(3) 265-281. DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00202.x.

Kim, J.-H., Huguet, C., Zonneveld, K.A.F., Versteegh, G.J.M., Ruder, W., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Schouten, S. An experimental field study to test the stability of lipids used for TEX86 and UK’37 paleothermometers. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta. 73:2888-2898.

Servais, T., Munnecke, A. and Versteegh, G.J.M. Silurian calcispheres (Calcitarcha) of Gotland (Sweden): comparisons with calcareous dinoflagellates. Comptes Rendus Palevol 8(8): 527-534.

Vecoli, M., Riboulleau, A. and Versteegh G. Palynology, organic geochemistry and carbon isotope analysis of a latest Ordovician through Silurian clastic succession from borehole Tt1, Ghadamis Basin, southern Tunisia, North Africa: palaeoenvironmental interpretation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 273(3-4):378-394.

Versteegh, G.J.M. Servais, T, Streng, M., Munnecke, A. and Vachard, D. A discussion and proposal concerning calcispheres. Palaeontology. 52(2):343-348.

Elbrächter, M., Gottschling, M., Hildebrand-Habel., T., Keupp, H., Kohring, R., Lewis, J., Meier, S., Montresor, M., Streng, M., Versteegh, G.J.M., Willems, H., and Zonneveld, K.A.F. Establishing an agenda for calcareous dinoflagellates (Thoracosphaeraceae, Dinophyceae) including a nomenclatural synopsis of generic names. Taxon 57(4): 1289-1303.

Zonneveld, K.A.F. and Versteegh, G.J.M. and Kodrans-Nsiah, M. Preservation and organic chemistry of late Cainozoic organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts; a review. Marine Micropaleontology 68(1-2): 179-197.

Bison, K., Versteegh, G.J.M., Willems, H. Hilgen, F. J. Calcareous dinoflagellate turnover in relation to the Messinian salinity crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean Pissouri Basin; Cyprus. Journal of Micropalaeontology 26: 103-116.

Versteegh, G.J.M., de Leeuw, J.W., Taricco, C. and Romero, A. Temperature and productivity influences on UK'37 and their possible relation to solar forcing of the Mediterranean winter. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 8 Q9005, DOI:10.1029/2006GC001543.

Versteegh., G.J.M., Blokker, P., Marshall, C.R. and Pross, J. Macromolecular composition of the dinoflagellate cyst Thalassiphora pelagica (Oligocene, SW Germany). Organic Geochemistry 38:1643-1656.

Blokker, P., van den Ende, H., de Leeuw, J.W., Versteegh, G.J.M., Sinninghe-Damsté, J.S. Chemical fingerprinting of algaenans using RuO4 degradation. Organic Geochemistry. 37(8): 871-881.

van Dorland, R., de Jager, C and Versteegh, G.J.M. Scientific assessment of solar induced climate change. Report for the National Research Programme on Global Change. Scientific assessments and policy analyses. 154 pp. http://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/2006/ScientificAssessmentofSolarInducedClimateChange.html

de Leeuw, J.W., Versteegh., G.J.M. and van Bergen, P.F. Biomacromolecules of plants and algae and their fossil analogues. Plant Ecology, 182(1-2): 209-233.

de Jager, C. and Versteegh, G.J.M. Do planetary motions drive solar variability? Solar Physics, 229(1): 175-179.

Kim,J, Dupont, L., Behling, H. and Versteegh, G.J.M. Impacts of rapid sea level rise on mangrove deposit erosion: application of taraxerol and Rhizophora records. Journal of Quaternary Science 20: 221-225.

Scourse, J., Marret, F., Versteegh, G.J.M., Jansen, J.H.F. Schefuß, E. and van der Plicht, J. High resolution last deglaciation record from the Congo fan reveals significance of mangrove pollen and biomarkers as indicators of shelf transgression. Quaternary Research, 64(1): 57-69.

Susek, E., Zonneveld, K.A.F., Fischer, G., Versteegh, G.J.M. and Willems, H. Organic walled dinoflagellate cysts production related to variations in upwelling intensity and lithogenic influx in the Cape Blanc region (off NW Africa). Phycological Research. 53(2): 97-112.

Versteegh, G.J.M. Solar forcing of climate. 2: Evidence from the past. Space Science Reviews, 120(3-4): 243-286.

Bison, K.-M., Wendler, J., Versteegh, G.J.M., and Willems, H. Tetratropis terrina sp. nov., a new calcareous dinoflagellate cyst from the Upper Campanian polyplocum zone of Lägerdorf, (NW Germany). Journal of Micropalaeontology 23(2): 127-132.

Esper, O., Versteegh, G.J.M., Zonneveld, K.A.F. and Willems, H. A palynological reconstruction of the Agulhas Retroflection (South Atlantic Ocean) during the Late Quaternary. Global and Planetary Change 41: 31-62.

Schefuß, E., Versteegh, G.J.M., Jansen, J.H.F. and Sinninghe-Damsté, J.S. Lipid biomarkers as major source and preservation indicators in SE Atlantic surface sediments.
Deep-Sea Research I 51: 1199-1228.

Versteegh, G.J.M., Schefuß, E., Dupont, L.M., Marret, F., Sinninghe-Damsté, J.S. and Jansen, J.H.F. Taraxerol and Rhizophora pollen as proxies for tracking past Mangrove ecosystems. Geochimica Gosmochimica Acta 68: 411-422.

Versteegh G.J.M., Blokker, P., Wood G. D., Collinson M. E., Sinninghe-Damsté J. S. and de Leeuw J.W. Fossil evidence for oxidative polymerization of unsaturated fatty acids as a mechanism for production of refractory carbon in sediments, Organic Geochemistry. 35: 1129-1139.

Versteegh, G.J.M. and Blokker, P. Resistant macromolecules of extant and fossil microalgae. Phycological Research. 52(4): 325-339.

Versteegh, G.J.M. and Willems, H. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 8th International Nannoplankton Association Conference. Bremen Sept. 11-15, 2000. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 244: 1-135.

Spieß V., et al. Report Meteor Cruise 47/3 Libreville Walvis Bay. Meteor Berichte 01-2, Bremen Univ. Bremen, 71 pp.

Versteegh, G.J.M. and Zonneveld, K.A.F. Use of selective degradation to separate preservation from productivity. Geology 30(7): 615-618.

Reichart, G.J. Nortier, J., Versteegh, G.J.M. and Zachariasse, W.-J. Periodical breakdown of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone related to deep convective mixing? In: The tectonic and Climatic Evolution of the Arabian Sea Region. Clift, P.D., Kroon, D., Gaedicke, C and Craig, J. (Eds). Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 195: 407-419.

Bijma, J., Altabet, M., Conte, M., Kinkel, H., Versteegh, G.J.M., Volkman, J.K., Wakeham, S.G. and Weaver, P.P. Primary signal: Ecological and environmental factors - Report from Working Group 2. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 2: 2000GC000051.

Rosell-Melé, et al. Precision of the current methods to measure alkenone relative (UK37') and absolute abundance in sediments: results of an inter-laboratory comparison study. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys. 2: 2000GC000141.

Schefuss, E., Versteegh, G.J.M., Jansen, J.H.F. and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Marine and terrigenous lipids in southeast Atlantic sediments (Leg 175) as paleoenvironmental indicators: initial results. Init. Repts. ODP Sci. Res. 175: 1-34.

van der Schrier, G. and Versteegh, G.J.M. Internally and externally forced climate variability: A dynamical systems approach using the Central England Temperature record. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28(5): 759-762.

Versteegh, G.J.M., Riegman, R., de Leeuw, J.W. and Jansen, J.H.F. The Uk’37 of Isochrysis galbana as a function of culture temperature, light intensity and nutrient concentrations. Org. Geochem. 32: 785-794

Zonneveld, K.A.F., Versteegh, G.J.M. and de Lange, G.J. Palaeoproductivity and post-depositional aerobic organic matter decay reflected by dinoflagellate cyst assemblages of the Eastern Mediterranean S1 sapropel. Mar. Geol. 172: 181-195.

Marret, F., Scourse, J., Versteegh, G.J.M., Jansen, J.H.F., Schneider, R.R. Interlatitudinal phasing of abrupt climate changes during the last deglaciation; the equatorial record. Journal of Quaternary Science, 16(8): 761-766.

Versteegh, G.J.M., Jansen, J.H.F., de Leeuw, J.W. and Schneider, R.R. Mid-chain diols and keto-ols in sediments. A new tool for tracing past sea surface water masses? Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 64: 1879-1892.

Hildebrand-Habel, T., Willems, H. and Versteegh, G.J.M. Variations in calcareous dinoflagellate associations from the Maastrichtian to middle Eocene of the western South Atlantic Ocean (Sao Paulo Plateau, DSDP Leg 39, Site 356). Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 106: 57-87.

Wrenn, J.H. et al. Comparative regional charts of Pliocene events. In: J.H. Wrenn, J.-P. Suc and S.A.G. Leroy (Editors), The Pliocene: Time of Change. AASP Foundation, Dallas, pp. 13-47.

Brinkhuis, H., Bujak, J.P., Smit, J., Versteegh, G.J.M. and Visscher, H. Dinoflagellate-based sea surface temperature reconstructions across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 141: 67-83.

Hoefs, M.J.L., Versteegh, G.J.M., Rijpstra, W.I.C., de Leeuw, J.W. and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Postdepositional oxic degradation of alkenones: implications for the measurement of palaeo sea surface temperatures. Paleoceanography, 13(1): 42-49.

Santarelli, A., Brinkhuis, H., Hilgen, F.J., Lourens, L.J., Versteegh, G.J.M. and Visscher, H., 1998. Orbital signatures in a Late Miocene dinoflagellate record from Crete (Greece). Mar. Micropaleontol., 33: 273-297.

Versteegh, G.J.M. The onset of northern hemisphere glaciations and its impact on dinoflagellate cysts and acritarchs from the Singa section (south Italy) and ODP core 607 (North Atlantic). Mar. Micropaleontol., 30: 319-343.

Versteegh, G.J.M., Bosch, H.-J. and de Leeuw, J.W. Potential palaeoenvironmental information of C24 to C30 mid-chain diols, keto-ols and mid-chain hydroxy fatty acids; a critical review. Org. Geochem., 27: 1-13.

Zonneveld, K.A.F., Ganssen, G., Troelstra, S., Versteegh, G.J.M. and Visscher, H. Mechanisms forcing abrupt fluctuations of the Indian Ocean summer monsoon during the last deglaciation. Quat. Sci. Rev., 16: 187-201.

Zonneveld, K.A.F., Versteegh, G.J.M. and de Lange, G.J. Preservation of organic walled dinoflagellate cysts in different oxygen regimes: a 10,000 years natural experiment. Mar. Micropaleontol., 29: 393-405.

Versteegh, G.J.M., Brinkhuis, H., Visscher, H. and Zonneveld, K.A.F. The relation between productivity and temperature in the Pliocene North Atlantic at the onset of northern hemisphere glaciation: a palynological study. Global Planet. Change, 11: 155-165.

Versteegh, G.J.M. Palaeoenvironmental changes in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic in relation to the onset of northern hemisphere glaciations - a palynological approach -. Ponsen and Looijen, Wageningen, 134 pp. Published Ph.D. Thesis, University of Utrecht, Utrecht.

Versteegh, G.J.M. and Zevenboom, D. New genera and species of dinoflagellate cysts from the Mediterranean Neogene. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 85: 213-229.

Versteegh, G.J.M. Recognition of cyclic and non-cyclic environmental changes in the Mediterranean Pliocene; a palynological approach. Mar. Micropaleontol., 23: 147-171.

Versteegh, G.J.M. and Zonneveld, K.A.F. Determination of (palaeo-) ecological preferences of dinoflagellates by applying detrended and canonical correspondence analysis to Late Pliocene dinoflagellate cyst assemblages of the south Italian Singa section. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 84: 181-199.

Zonneveld, C.A.F. and Versteegh, G.J.M. (Eds). Dino-5; 5th international conference on modern and fossil dinoflagellates. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 84 (1/2): 1-199.

Versteegh, G. New Pliocene and Pleistocene calcareous dinoflagellate cysts from southern Italy and Crete. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 78: 353-380.

Keupp, H. and Versteegh, G. Ein neues konzept für kalkige dinoflagellaten-zysten der Subfamilie Orthopithonelloideae Keupp 1987. Berliner Geowiss. Abh., A, 106: 207-219.