Publications

2020

Roesner, A., M.J. Ikari, D.M. Saffer, K. Stanislowski, A.M. Eijsink, A.J. Kopf, 2020. Friction experiments under in-situ stress reveal unexpected velocity-weakening in Nankai accretionary prism samples. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v 538, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116180 .
Sultan, N., S. Garziglia, X. Bompais, P. Woerther, C. Witt, A. Kopf, S. Migeon, 2020. Transient Groundwater Flow Through a Coastal Confined Aquifer and Its Impact on Nearshore Submarine Slope Instability. J. Geophys. Res., v125, 9: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005654
Ikari, M.J., Laura M. Wallace, Hannah S. Rabinowitz, Heather M. Savage, Ian J. Hamling, Achim J. Kopf, 2020. Observations of Laboratory and Natural Slow Slip Events: Hikurangi Subduction Zone, New Zealand. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. v21, 2 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008717

2019

Tobin, H.J., Hirose, T., Ikari, M., Kanagawa, K., Kimura, G., Kinoshita, M., Kitajima, H., Saffer, D.M., Yamaguchi, A., Toczko, S., Maeda, L., Eguchi, N., and shipboard science party, 2019. Proceedings ofIODP expedition 358, https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.358.2020
Solomon, E.A., K. Becker, A.J. Kopf, and E.E. Davis. 2019. Listening down the pipe. Oceanography 32(1):98–101, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.128.
Kioka, A., T. Schwestermann, J. Moernaut, K. Ikehara, T. Kanamatsu, C. M. McHugh, C. dos Santos Ferreira, G. Wiemer, A. J. Kopf, T. I. Eglinton & M. Strasser, 2019. Giant earthquake drives drastic organic carbon supply into the hadal trench. Nature Scientific Reports, volume 9, Article number: 1553. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38834-x
Moore, G.F., Aung, L.T., Fukuchi, R., Sample, J.C., Hellebrand, E., Kopf, A., Naing, W., Than, W.M., Tun, T.N., 2019. Tectonic, Diapiric and Sedimentary Chaotic Rocks of the Rakhine Coast, Western Myanmar. Gondwana Research, GR-D-18-00462R1

2018

Lackey, J., Gregory Moore; Michael Strasser; Achim Kopf; Christian Ferreira, 2018. Spatial and temporal cross-cutting relationships between fault structures and slope failures along the outer Kumano Basin and Nankai accretionary wedge, southwest Japan, MS ref: GSLSpecPub17-209
Hüpers, A., Saffer, D.M., Kopf, A.J., 2018. Lithostratigraphic controls on dewatering and fluid pressure in the western Nankai subduction zone: Implications for drainage behavior and mechanical behavior of the subduction thrust. In: Timothy Byrne, Michael B. Underwood, Donald Fisher, Lisa McNeill, Demian Saffer, Kohtaro Ujiie, Asuka Yamaguchi. GSA Special Paper Geology and Tectonics of Subduction Zones: A Tribute to Gaku Kimura, 534,https://doi.org/10.1130/2018.2534(03)
Wiersberg, T., Sebastian B. Hammerschmidt, Shigeshi Fuchida, Achim Kopf, Jörg Erzinger, 2018. Mantle-derived fluids in the Nankai Trough Kumano forarc basin. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science - PEPS-D-18-00015
Öhler, T., José M. Mogollón, Nils Moosdorf, Andreas Winkler, Achim Kopf, Thomas Pichler, accepted. Submarine groundwater discharge within a landslide scar at the French Mediterranean coast.Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, # ECSS-D-16-00526R2.
Kinoshita, C., D. Saffer, A. Kopf, A. Roesner, L.M. Wallace, E. Araki, T. Kimura, Y. Machida, R. Kobayashi, E. Davis^,S. Toczko, S. Carr, 2018. Changes in physical properties of the Nankai Trough megasplay fault induced by earthquakes, detected by continuous pressure monitoring, JGR [Paper #2017JB014924R] https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014924
Matt J. Ikari, Achim J. Kopf, Andre Hüpers, Christoph Vogt, 2018. Lithologic Control of Frictional Strength Variations in Subduction Zone Sediment Inputs. Geosphere, 14 (2): 604-625. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01546.1
Roesner, A., G. Wiemer, S. Kreiter, S. Wenau, T. Wei, J. Salichon, F. Courboulex, V. Spieß, A. Kopf, 2018. Impact of Seismicity on Nice Slope Stability – Ligurian Basin, SE France: A Geotechnical Revisit. Landslides, 16(1). 23-35.doi:10.1007/s10346-018-1060-7

2017

Araki, E., Saffer, D., Kopf, A., L.M. Wallace, T. Kimura, Y. Machida, S. Ide, E. Davis, and IODP Expedition 365 shipboard scientists, 2017. Recurring and triggered slow slip events on the trenchward reaches of the Nankai Trough subduction megathrust. SCIENCE, 356: 1157-1160
Moernaut, J., Gauvain Wiemer, Anna Reusch, Nina Stark, Marc De Batist, Roberto Urrutia, Bruno Ladrón de Guevara, Achim Kopf, Michael Strasser, 2017. The influence of overpressure and focused fluid flow on subaquatic slope stability in a formerly glaciated basin: Lake Villarrica (South-Central Chile). Marine Geology, 383: 35-54 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2016.11.012
Wiemer, G., Dziadek, R., Kopf, A., 2017. Influence of diatom microfossils on sediment shear strength and slope stability. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2016GC006568
Kopf, A., Saffer, D.M., Toczko, S., and shipboard science party, 2017. Proceedings of IODP expedition 365, doi:10.14379/iodp.proc.365.2017 (ISSN World Wide Web: 2377-3189)
Strasser, M., Kopf, A., and Shipboard Science Parties Leg SO251-1 & SO251-2, 2017. EAGER-Japan: Extreme events Archived in the Geological Record of Japan’s Subduction margins. Berichte aus dem MARUM und Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Univ. Bremen, No. 318, 219 pp.
Menapace, W., Kopf, A., Zabel, M., de Beer, D. (2017). Mud volcanoes as dynamic sedimentary phenomena that host marine ecosystems. In: Life at Vents and Seeps, J. Kallmeyer (Ed.): De Gruyter, p. 53-84
Öhler, T., José M. Mogollón, Nils Moosdorf, Andreas Winkler, Achim Kopf, Thomas Pichler, 2017. Submarine groundwater discharge within a landslide scar at the French Mediterranean coast.Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 198, 128-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2017.09.006
Ikari, Matt J., Kopf, Achim J., 2017. Seismic potential of weak, near-surface faults revealed at plate tectonic slip rates. SCIENCE Advances, Vol. 3, no. 11, e1701269 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1701269
Ito, Y., Ikari, M.J., Ujiie, K., Kopf, A., 2017. Coseismic slip propagation on the Tohoku plate boundary fault facilitated by slip-dependent weakening during slow fault slip. Geophysical Research Letters 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL074307.
Menapace W., David Völker, Heiko Sahling, Christian Zoellner; Christian dos Santos Ferreira; Gerhard Bohrmann, Achim J Kopf, 2017. Long-term in situ observations at the Athina mud volcano, Eastern Mediterranean: taking the pulse of mud volcanism. Volume 721, 12-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.09.010
Dorvinen, J., Stark, N., Hatcher, B., Hatcher, M., Leys, V., Kopf, A., 2017. In-situ geotechnical investigation of seabed sediments following dredging using a portable free-fall penetrometer: Sydney Harbour, Nova Scotia.ASCE Journal of Port, Waterway, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WW.1943-5460.0000423
Menapace, W., Völker, , Tryon, M.D., Kaul, N., Kopf, A.J., 2017. The role of mud volcanism and deep-seated dewatering processes in the Nankai Trough accretionary prism and Kumano Basin, Japan. G cubed, Volume 18, Issue 7: 2486–2509, DOI: 10.1002/2016GC006763

2016

Stein, R., Fahl, K., Schreck, M., Knorr, G., Niessen, F., Forwick, M., Gebhardt, C., Jensen, L., Kaminski, M., Kopf, A., Matthiessen, J., Jokat, W., Lohmann, G., 2016. Evidence for ice-free summers in the late Miocene central Arctic Ocean. NATURE Communications, 7: 11148, NCOMMS-15-15870C
Wiemer, G., Kopf, A., 2016. On the role of volcanic ash deposits as preferential submarine slope failure planes. Landslides, 1-10pp, 10.1007/s10346-016-0706-6
Kopf A., Sylvia Stegmann, Sebastien Garziglia, Nabil Sultan, Pierre Henry, Bernard Dennielou, Simon Haas, Kai-Christian Weber, 2016. Soft sediment deformation in the shallow submarine slope off Nice (France) as a result of a variably charged Pliocene aquifer and mass wasting processes. Sedimentary Geology, 344: 290-309. DOI: j.sedgeo.2016.05.014
Laberg, J.S., Strasser, M., Alves, T.M., Gao, S., Kawamura, K., Kopf, A., Moore, G.F., 2016. Internal deformation of a muddy gravity flow and its interaction with the seafloor (Site C0018 of IODP Expedition 333, Nankai Trough, SE Japan). Landslides, DOI 10.1007/s10346-016-0766-7
Kopf, A., Saffer, D.M., Toczko, S., and shipboard science party, 2016. Proceedings IODP 365, www.iodp.org/publications
Wallace, L.M., E. Araki, D. Saffer, X. Wang, A. Roesner, A. Kopf, R. Kobayashi, C. Kinoshita, W. Power, S. Toczko, IODP Expedition 365 Science party, 2016. Near-field deformation and seismology of an offshore Mw 6.0 earthquake from an integrated seafloor and sub-seafloor borehole monitoring network at the Nankai Trough, southwest Japan. J. Geophys. Res., # 2016JB013417R
Saffer, D.M., Kopf, A., 2016. Boron desorption and fractionation in Subduction Zone Forearcs: Implications for the sources and transport of deep fluids. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2016GC006635R
Kopf, A., 2015. Mud volcano. Encyclopedia Springer “Marine Geology”, eds. M. Meschede, R. von Huene, et al.: p. 527-536
Kopf, A., Timo Fleischmann, Tugdual Gauchery, Gerrit Meinecke, Jens Renken, Ulli Spiesecke, Nikolas Stange, David Völker, Till von Wahl, Stefan Wenau, Christian Wittauer, Ting-Wei Wu., 2016. Report and preliminary results of R/V Poseidon cruise Pos500 “LISA”: Ligurian Slope AUV mapping, gravity coring and seismic reflection. Berichte aus dem MARUM und Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Univ. Bremen, No. 312, 62 pp. (ISSN 2195-9633)

2015

Ikari, M.J., Y. Ito, K. Ujiie, A. Kopf, 2015. Spectrum of slip behavior in Tohoku fault zone samples at plate tectonic slip rates. Nature Geoscience [Paper #NGS-2015-02-00196B]
Reusch, A., Loher, M., Bouffard, D., Moernaut, J., Hellmich, F., Anselmetti, F.S., Bernasconi, S.M., Hilbe, M., Kopf, A., Lilley, M.D., Meinecke, G., Strasser, M., 2015. Giant lacustrine pockmarks with subsurface sediment mobilization, driven by subaqueous groundwater discharge. Geophys. Res. Letts., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL064179.
Ikari, M.J., S. Trütner, B.M. Carpenter, A.J. Kopf, 2015. Shear behavior of DFDP-1 borehole samples from the Alpine Fault, New Zealand under a wide range of experimental conditions. Int. J. Earth Sciences, DOI 10.1007/s00531-014-1115-5
Wiemer, G., Kopf, A., 2015. Altered marine tephra deposits as potential slope failure planes? Geo-Marine Letters, DOI 10.1007/s00367-015-0408-4
Kopf, A., Freudenthal, T., Ratmeyer, V., Bergenthal, M., Lange, M., Fleischmann, T., Hammerschmidt, S., Seiter, C., and Wefer, G., 2015. Simple, affordable, and sustainable borehole observatories for complex monitoring objectives, Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 4, 99-109, doi:10.5194/gi-4-99-2015
Hüpers, A., M.J. Ikari, B. Dugan, M.B. Underwood, A.J. Kopf, 2015. Origin of a zone of anomalously high porosity in the subduction inputs to Nankai Trough, Marine Geology, Volume 361, 1 March 2015, Pages 147-162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2015.01.004.
Stegmann, S, S Kreiter, D Völker, N.J. Baeten, J-S L’Heureux, S Knudsen, M Vanneste, L Rise, O Longva, JoBrendryen, H Haflidason, T Mörz, A Kopf, 2015. First results of the geotechnical in situ investigation for soil characterisation along the upper slope off Vesterålen (Northern Norway). In: G. Lamarche et al. (eds.), Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences. Springer, Heidelberg.
Hellmich, F., B. Blossier, K. R. Bryan, N. Stark, A. Kopf (2015). In-situ geotechnical investigation of sediment dynamics of an embayed beach using a dynamic penetrometer, in: Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2015, edited by P. Wang, J. D. Rosati, and J. Cheng, pp. 1-13, San Diego, USA
Wiemer, G., Moernaut, J., Stark, S., Kempf, P., De Batist, M., Pino, M., Urrutia, R., Ladron de Guevara, B., Strasser, M., Kopf, A., 2015. The role of sediment composition and behavior under dynamic loading conditions on slope failure initiation: a study of a subaqueous landslide in earthquake‑prone South‑Central Chile. Int. J. Earth Sciences, DOI 10.1007/s00531-015-1144-8
Kopf, A., 2015. Mud volcano. Encyclopedia Springer “Marine Geology”, eds. M. Meschede, R. von Huene, et al., 10pp. (available online)
Trütner, S., Hüpers, A., Ikari, M.J., Yamaguchi, A., A.J., Kopf, 2015. Lithification facilitates frictional instability in argillaceous subduction zone sediments. Tectonophysics 665: 177–185
Steiner, A., Kopf, A., Henry, P., Stegmann, S., Apprioual, Pelleau, P., 2015. Dynamic cone penetration testing to assess slope stability in the 1979 Nice landslide area (Ligurian Margin, SE France). Marine Geology, 369: 162-181, DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2015.08.008
Paull, C., S. Dallimore , D. Caress , R. Gwiazda , H. Melling , M. Riedel , Young K. Jin , J.-K. Hong , Y.-G. Kim , D. Graves , A. Sherman , E. Lundsten , K. Anderson , L. Lundsten , H. Villinger, A. Kopf, S. Johnson , J. Hughes Clarke , S. Blacso , K. Conway , P. Neelands , H. Thomas, M. Cote, 2015. Active mud volcanoes on the continental slope of the Canadian Beaufort Sea. G-cubed, DOI 10.1002/2015GC005928
Ikari, Matt J., Kopf, Achim J., 2015. The Role of Cohesion and Overconsolidation in Submarine Slope Failure. Marine Geology, 369: 153–161
Dorvinen, J., Stark, N., Hatcher, B., Hatcher, M., Leys, V., Kopf, A. (2015) In-situ geotechnical investigation of a confined sediment disposal facility, Sydney Harbour, Nova Scotia. In: Proceedings of Coastal Sediments 2015, xx pp
Vanneste, M., C.F. Forsberg, S. Knudsen, T.J. Kvalstad, J.-S. L’Heureux, T. Lunne, M.E. Vardy, S. Chand, O. Longva, E. Morgan, A. Kopf, T. Mörz, A. Steiner, J. Brendryen, H. Haflidason, 2015. Integration of very-high-resolution seismic and CPTU data from a coastal area affected by shallow landsliding – the Finneidfjord natural laboratory. Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics III – Meyer (Ed.), Ch. 137, Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN: 978-1-138-02848-7, p.1017-1022

2014

Stegmann, S., Kopf, A., 2014. How stable is the Nice slope? – An analysis based on strength and cohesion from ring shear experiments. In Krastel, S., et al. (eds.), Proceedings 6th meeting of Submarine Mass Movements and their consequences, Springer: 189-200.
Kufner, S‐K., Hüpers, A., and Kopf, A. J., 2014. Constraints on fluid flow processes in the Hellenic Accretionary Complex (eastern Mediterranean Sea) from numerical modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 119.4, 3601-3626
Ai, F., Strasser, M., Preu, B., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Krastel, S., Kopf, A., 2014. New constraints on oceanographic vs. seismic control on submarine landslide initiation: a geotechnical approach off Uruguay and northern Argentina. Geo-Marine Letters, 34/5: 399-417
Waldmann, C., Freudenthal, T., Kopf, A., 2014. Underwater monitoring network: Using the deep-sea Drill MARUM-MeBo for installing Subseafloor Sensor Systems for monitoring Seafloor Intervention Operations. Proc. Offshore Technology Conference held in Houston, Texas, USA, 5–8 May 2014, paper OTC 2508125301.
Steiner, A., Kopf, A.J., L'Heureux, J.-S., Kreiter, S., Stegmann, S., Haflidason, H., Moerz, T., 2014. In-situ dynamic piezocone penetrometer tests in natural clayey sediments - a reappraisal of strain-rate corrections. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 51(3): 272-288, 10.1139/cgj-2013-0048.
Pape, T., Geprägs P., Hammerschmidt S., Wintersteller P., Wei J. , Fleischmann T. , Bohrmann G., Kopf A., 2014. Hydrocarbon seepage and its sources at mud volcanoes of the Kumano forearc basin, Nankai Trough subduction zone. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 15 (6), pp 2180 – 2194. doi: 10.1002/2013GC005057
Ai, F., A. Förster, S. Stegmann, A. Kopf, 2014. Geotechnical characteristics and slope stability analysis of the deeper slope of the Ligurian margin, Southern France. Proceedings of the Beijing Landslide Forum, 6pp.
Hammerschmidt, S.H., Wiersberg, T., Heuer, V., Kopf, A., Erzinger, J., Wendt, J., Hinrichs, K.U., 2014. Real-time Drilling Mud Gas Monitoring for Qualitative Evaluation of Subsurface Hydrocarbon Gas Composition. Geochemical Transactions, MS# 2090259533132611
Li, W., S. Wu, D. Völker, F. Zhao, M. Lijun, A.J. Kopf,, 2014. Morphology, seismic characterization and sediment dynamics of the Baiyun Slide Complex on the northern South China Sea margin. J. Geol. Society London, JGS 2014-034R1.
Ikari, M.J. B.M. Carpenter, A.J. Kopf, C. Marone, 2014. Frictional strength, rate-dependence, and healing in DFDP-1 borehole samples from the Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Tectonophysics.

2013

Hammerschmidt SB, Davis EE, Kopf A., 2013. Fluid Pressure and Temperature Transients Detected at the Nankai Trough Megasplay Fault: Results from the SmartPlug Borehole Observatory. Tectonophysics 600, pp 116 - 133. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2013.02.010
Kopf, A., 2013. Effective strength of incoming sediments and its implications for plate boundary propagation and mass balances: The Costa Rica and Nankai margins. Tectonophysics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2013.07.023
Ikari, M., A.R. Niemeijer, C.J. Spiers, A.J. Kopf, 2013. Experimental evidence linking slip instability with seafloor lithology and topography at the Costa Rica convergent margin, Geology, 41/6: doi: 10.1130/G33956.1
Stark N, Kopf A (2013) In-situ geotechnical investigation of sediment remobilization processes. Sea Technology, April 2013, 4pp.
Vanneste, M., Longva, O., L'Heureux, J.-S., Vardy, Mark E., Morgan, E., Forsberg, C.F., Kvalstad, T.J., Strout, J., Brendyren, J., Haflidason, H., Lecomte, I., Steiner, A., Kopf, A., Mörz, T. and Kreiter, S. (2013) Finneidfjord: a Field Laboratory for Integrated Submarine Slope Stability Assessments and Characterization of Landslide-Prone Sediments: A Review. In, OTC 2013: Proceedings of 44th Offshore Technology Conference. Offshore Technology Conference Richardson, US, Offshore Technology Conference, 23967-MS. (doi:10.4043/23967-MS).
Ikari, M.J., Hüpers, A., and Kopf, A.J., 2013, Shear Strength of Sediments Approaching Subduction in the Nankai Trough, Japan as Constraints on Forearc Mechanics, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., doi:10.1002/ggge.20156.
Stark N, LeDantec N, Corella JP, Barry DA, Lemmin U, Girardclos S, Kopf A, 2013. Deployment of a dynamic penetrometer from manned submersibles for fine-scale geomorphology studies. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. Vol. 11: 529-539.
Kopf, A., Asshoff, K., Belke-Brea, M., Bergenthal, M., Bohrmann, G., Bräunig, A., Düssmann, R., Feseker, T., Fleischmann, T., Franke, P.D., Geprägs, P., Hammerschmidt, S., Heesemann, B., Herschelmann, O., Hüpers, A., Ikari, M.J., Kaszemaik, K.M., Kaul, N., Kimura, T., Kitada, K., Klar, S., Lange, M., Madison, M., Mai, A.H., Noorlander, C., Pape, T., Rehage, R., Reuter, C., Reuter, M., Rosiak, U.D., Schmidt, W., Seiter, C., Spiesecke, U., Stachowski, A., Steiner, A., Takanori, O., Tryon, M., Vahlenkamp, M., Wei, J., Wintersteller, P., Zarrouk, M.K., 2013. REPORT AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS of RV Sonne CRUISE SO222: MEMO – MeBo drilling and in situ Long-term Monitoring in the Nankai Trough accretionary complex, Japan. Berichte aus dem MARUM und dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Univ. Bremen, 297: 123pp.
Ikari M.J., C. Marone, D.M. Saffer, A.J. Kopf, 2013. Slip weakening as a mechanism for slow earthquakes. Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo1818
Hammerschmidt, S., Davis, E.E., Hüpers, A., and Kopf, A., 2013, Limitation of Fluid Flow at the Nankai Trough Megasplay Fault Zone. Geo-Marine Letters 33, doi: 10.1007/s00367-013-0337-z.

2012

Stark N, Wilkens R, Ernstsen VB, Lambers Huesmann M, Stegmann S, Kopf A., 2012. Geotechnical Properties of Sandy Seafloors and the Consequences for Dynamic Penetrometer Interpretations: Quartz Sand vs. Carbonate Sand. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Vol 30(1):1-14
Hüpers, A., Kopf, A.J., 2012. Effect of smectite dehydration on pore water geochemistry in the shallow subduction zone: An experimental approach. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 13, doi:10.1029/2012PA002294
Kopf, A., Bartsch, C., Castellino, J., Fleischmann, T., Haas, S., Ioakim, C., Kirsch, K., Kufner, S.K., Steiner, A., Tryon, M.D., Wiemer, G., Zabel., M., 2012. REPORT AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF POSEIDON CRUISE P410: MudFlow (Mud volcanoes and fluid flow in the Mediterranean Ridge Accretionary Complex), Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Univ. Bremen, No. 284: 128 pp.
Magalhães,, V.H., L.M. Pinheiro M.K. Ivanov, E. Kozlova, V. Blinova, J. Kolganova, C. Vasconcelos, J.A. McKenzie, S.M. Bernasconi, A. Kopf, V. Díaz-del-Río, F.J. Gonzalez, L. Somoza, 2012. Formation processes of methane-derived authigenic carbonates from the Gulf of Cadiz. Sedimentary Geology, 243/244: 155-168.
Stegmann, S., Sultan, N., Pelleau, P., Apprioual, R., Garziglia, S., Kopf, A., Zabel, M., 2012. A long-term monitoring array for landslide precursors. A case study at the Ligurian Slope. OTC Proceedings, Houston April 2012, paper number OTC-23271-PP
Kopf, A., Belke-Brea, M., Ferentinos, G., Fleischmann, T., Geraga, M., Kufner, S., Schlenzek, S., Steiner, A., Tryon, M., Wiemer, G., 2012. REPORT AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF RV POSEIDON CRUISE P429: MEDFLUIDS: Slope Stability, Mud volcanism, Faulting and Fluid Flow in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (Cretan Sea, Mediterranean Ridge) and Ligurian Margin (Nice slope), Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Univ. Bremen, No. 286: 80pp
Seifert, A., Kopf, A., 2012. Modified Dynamic CPTU Penetrometer for Fluid Mud Detection. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 138: 203–206
Stark N, Coco G, Bryan KR, Kopf A. (2012) In-situ geotechnical characterization of mixed-grainsize bedforms using a dynamic penetrometer. Journal of Sedimentary Research. Vol 82(7):540-544
Sutherland, R., V.G. Toy, J. Townend, S.C. Cox, J.D. Eccles, D.R. Faulkner, D.J. Prior, R.J. Norris, E. Mariani, C. Boulton, B.M. Carpenter, C.D. Menzies, T.A. Little, M. Hasting, G. De Pascale, R.M. Langridge, H.R. Scott, Z. Reid-Lindroos, B. Fleming, R. Wing, Kopf, A., 2012. DFDP-1 drilling, Alpine Fault, New Zealand, reveals influence of fluids on architecture and rupture of faults. Geology, in press (doi:10.1130/G33614.1)
Hüpers, A., Kopf, A.J., 2012. Consolidation properties of claystones and sandstones sampled seaward of the Nankai Trough subduction zone, IODP Sites C0011 and C0012. In Saito, S., Underwood, U., Kubo, Y., and the Expedition 322 Scientists, Proc. IODP, 322: Washington, DC (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.).
Toczko ST, Kopf AJ, Araki E, the IODP Exp. 332 Scientific Party (2012). The IODP Expedition 332: Eyes on the Prism, The NanTroSEIZE Observatories. Scientific Drilling 14, pp 34 - 38. doi:10.2204/iodp.sd.14.04.2012

2011

Stark N, Teear G, Flaim BK, Kopf A., 2011. High Resolution fluid mud and soft
mud layer quantification in ports using a dynamic penetrometer. Proceedings of the
Coastal Sediments Conference in Miami, May 2011
Kopf, A., Araki, E., Toczko, S., and the Expedition 332 Scientists, 2011. Proc. IODP, Initial Reports 332: Washington, DC (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.), 60 pp. doi: 10.2204/iodp.pr.332.2011
Kopf, A., Araki, E., Toczko, S., and the Expedition 332 Scientists, 2011. Proc. IODP, Initial Reports 332: Washington, DC (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.), 190 pp. doi: 10.2204/iodp.proc.332.2011
Flaim BK, Stark N, Moon V, De Lange W, Healy, T, Kopf A. (2011) Monitoring
a dredged disposal site on the continental shelf using the dynamic penetrometer
Nimrod. Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments Conference in Miami, May 2011
Raimbourg, H., Y. Hamano, S. Saito, M. Kinoshita, Kopf, A., 2011. Acoustic and mechanical properties of Nankai accretionary prism core samples Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., doi:10.1029/2010GC003169.
Hüpers, A., S. Kreiter, A. Kopf, 2011. The role of temperature on pre-consolidation stress determination for the projected sedimentary underthrust sequence at the Nankai margin, Marine Petroleum Geology, 27 (7), 1565-1571, doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.03.014.
Stark, N., Teear, G., Flaim, B.K., Kopf, A., 2011. High resolution fluid mud and soft
mud layer quantfication in ports using a dynamic penetrometer. Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2011 conference in Miami.
Strasser, M., Moore, G., Kimura, G., Kopf, A., Underwood, M., Guo, J., Screaton E. (2011), Slumping and mass-transport deposition in the Nankai forearc: Evidence from IODP drilling and 3-D reflection seismic data; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, in press doi:10.1029/2010GC003431
Kopf, A., Strasser, M., Monsees, N., Underwood, M., Guo, J., 2011. Particle size analysis of sediments recovered during IODP Expeditions 315 and 316, Sites C0001–C0008, Nankai Trough forearc, off Japan. Proc. IODP, 314/315/316, doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.314315316.207.2011 (19pp.)
Stegmann, S., Sultan, N., Kopf, A., Apprioual, R., Pelleau, P., 2011. Hydrogeology and its effect on slope stability along the coastal aquifer of Nice, France. Marine Geology, 280: 161-181.
Steiner, A., L’Heureux, J.S., Longva, O., Lange, M., Haflidason, H., Vanneste, M. Kopf, A., 2011. An In-Situ Free-Fall Piezocone Penetrometer for Characterizing Soft and Sensitive Clays at Finneidfjord (Northern Norway). In: Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, Springer, Kyoto, Japan: 99-110.
L’Heureux J.S., Longva O., Steiner A., Hansen L., Vardy M.E., Vanneste M., Brendryen J., Haflidason H., Kvalstad T.J., Forsberg C.F., Chand S., Kopf A., 2011. Identification of weak layers and their role for the stability of slopes at Finneidfjord, northern Norway. In: Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, Springer, Kyoto, Japan: 321-330.
Stark, N., Hanff, H., Svenson, C., Ernstsen, V.B., Lefevre, A.,Winter, C., Kopf, A., 2011. Temporal variations of the surface sediment layer along active subaqueous dunes. Geo-Marine Letters, 31: 249-258, doi: 10.1007/s00367-011-230-6.
Stark N., Kopf A., 2011. Geotechnical investigations of sediment remobilization processes
using a dynamic penetrometer. Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2011, Kona., 9pp., 978-1-4577-1427-6
Vanneste, M., L’Heureux JS, Baeten, N., Brendryen, J., Vardy, M.E., Steiner, A., Forsberg, C.F., Kvalstad, T.J., Laberg, J.S., Chand, S., Longva, O., Rise, L., Haflidason, H., Hjelstuen, B.O., Forwick, M, Morgan, E., Lecomte, I., Kopf, A., Vorren, T.O., Reichel, T., 2011. Assessing Offshore Geohazards: a Multi-disciplinary Research Initiative to Understand Shallow Landslides and their Dynamics in Coastal and Deepwater Environments, Norway. In: Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, Springer, Kyoto, Japan: 29-42.
Wiemer , G., A. Reusch, M. Strasser, S. Kreiter, D.Otto, T. Mörz, A. Kopf, 2011. Static and cyclic shear strength of cohesive and non-cohesive sediments In: Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, Springer, Kyoto, Japan: 111-122
Ikari, M.J., Kopf, A.J., 2011. Cohesive strength of clay-rich sediment. Geophys. Res. Letters, vol. 38, L16309, 5 pp., 2011 doi:10.1029/2011GL047918
Stark, N., Wilkens, R., Ernstsen, V.B., Lambers-Huesmann, M., Stegmann, S., Kopf, A., 2011. Geotechnical properties of sandy seafloors and the consequences for dynamic penetrometer interpretations: quartz sand vs. carbonate sand. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 30(1), pp.1-14, doi:10.1007/s10706-011-9444-7.
Kopf, A., Hammerschmidt, S., Saffer, D.M., Lauer, R., Davis, E.E., LaBonte, A., Meldrum, R., Heesemann, M., Macdonald, R., Toczko, S., Wheat, C.G., Jannasch, H., Edwards, K., Haddad, A., Orcutt, B., Villinger, H., Araki, E., Kitada, K., Kimura, T., Kido, Y., 2011. The SmartPlug and GeniusPlug: Simple retrievable observatory systems for NanTroSEIZE borehole monitoring. Proc. IODP, vol 332, doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.332.105.2011 (21pp.)
Ikari, M.J., Strasser, M., Saffer, D.M., Kopf, A.J., 2011. Submarine landslide potential near the megasplay fault at the Nankai subduction zone. Earth Planetary Science Letters, 312, 453-462, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.10.024
Strasser, M., Moore, G., Kimura, G., Kopf, A., Underwood, M., Guo, J., Screaton E. 2011. Slumping and mass-transport deposition in the Nankai forearc: Evidence from IODP drilling and 3-D reflection seismic data. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 12, Q0AD13, doi: 10.1029/2010GC003431
Raimbourg, H., Ujiie, K., Kopf, A., Hisamitsu, T., Hamano, Y., Saito, S., Kinoshita, M.,, 2011. The role of compaction contrasts in sediments in décollement initiation in an accretionary prism. Marine Geology, 282: 188-200.

2010

Sultan, N., Savoye, B., Jouet, G., Leynaud, D., Cocchonat, P., Stegmann, S., Kopf, A., 2010. Investigation of a possible submarine landslide at the Var delta front. Can. Geotechnical Journal, 47:(4) 486-496, 10.1139/T09-105
Kopf, A., Delisle, G., Faber, E., Panahi, B., Aliyev, C.S., Guliyev, I., 2010. Long-term in situ monitoring at Dashgil mud volcano, Azerbaijan: A link between seismicity, pore pressure transients and methane emission. Int. J. Earth Sciences, 99, Supplement 1, 227-240, DOI: 10.1007/s00531-009-0487-4
Strozyk, F., Strasser, M., Foerster, A., Kopf, A., Huhn, K., 2010. Slope failure repetition in active margin environments: Constraints from submarine landslides in the Hellenic forearc, eastern Mediterranean. J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 115, B08103, 13 PP., doi:10.1029/2009JB006841.
Lin, W., Doan, M.L., Moore, J.C., McNeill, L., Byrne, T.B., Ito, T., Saffer, D.M., Conin, M., Kinoshita, M., Sanada, Y., Moe, K.T., Araki, E., Tobin, H.J., Boutt, D., Kano, Y., Hayman, N.W., Flemings, P.B., Huftile, G.J., Cukur, D., Buret, C., Schleicher, A.M., Efimenko, N., Kawabata, K., Buchs, D.M., Jiang, S., Kameo, K., Horiguchi, K., Wiersberg, T., Kopf, A., Kitada, K., Eguchi, N., Toczko, S., Takahashi, K., Kido, Y., 2010. Present‐day principal horizontal stress orientations in the Kumano forearc basin of the southwest Japan subduction zone determined from IODP NanTroSEIZE drilling Site C0009. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L13303, doi:10.1029/2010GL043158
Araki, E., Byrne, T., McNeill, L., Saffer, D.M., Eguchi, N., Moe, K.T., Toczko, S. and the Expedition 319 Scientists, 2010. Proc. IODP, Preliminary Report 319: Washington, DC (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.), 83 pp. doi: doi:10.2204/iodp.pr.319.2009
Heberer, B., Roeser, G., Behrmann, J.H., Rahn, M., Kopf, A., 2010. Holocene sediments from the Southern Chile Trench: a record of active margin magmatism, tectonics and paleoseismicity. J. Geol. Soc. London, 167: 539-553.
Araki, E., Byrne, T., McNeill, L., Saffer, D.M., Eguchi, N., Moe, K.T., Toczko, S. and the Expedition 319 Scientists, 2010. Proc. IODP, Exp 319: Washington, DC (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.), 410 pp. doi: doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.319.2009
Kopf, A., Kasten, S., Blees, J., 2010. Geochemical evidence for groundwater-charging of slope sediments: The Nice airport 1979 landslide and tsunami revisited. In: Mosher, DC., Shipp, C., Moscardelli, L., Chaytor, J., Baxter, C., Lee, H., and Urgeles, R. (eds.), Submarine Mass movements and their consequences IV. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Series, Springer: : 203-214.
Kreiter, S., Mörz, T., Strasser, M., Lange, M., Schunn, W., Schlue, B.F., Otto, D., Kopf, A., 2010. Advanced Dynamic Soil Testing – Introducing the new MARUM Dynamic Triaxial Testing Device. In: Mosher, DC., Shipp, C., Moscardelli, L., Chaytor, J., Baxter, C., Lee, H., and Urgeles, R. (eds.), Submarine Mass movements and their consequences IV. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Series, Springer: 31-42.

2009

Grevemeyer, I., Kaul, N., Kopf, A., 2009. Heat flow anomalies in the Gulf of Cadiz and off Cape San Vincente, Portugal. Marine Petroleum Geology, 26: 795-804.
Stark, N., Hanff, H., Kopf, A., 2009. NIMROD – a tool for rapid geotechnical characterization of surface sediments. Sea Technology, 50/4: 10-17.
Stark., N., Hanff, H., Stegmann, S., Wilkens, R., Kopf, A., 2009. Geotechnical
investigations of sandy seafloors using dynamic penetrometers. Proceedings
of MTS/IEEE OCEANS 09, Biloxi, MS, ISBN 978-1-4244-4960-6
Kopf, A., Stegmann, S., Delisle, G., Panahi, B., Aliyev, C.S., Guliyev, I., 2009. In situ CPTU experiments at active Dashgil mud volcano, Azerbaijan: Evidence for excess fluid pressure, updoming, and possible future violent eruption. Marine Petroleum Geology, 26: 1716-1723
Strasser, M., Moore, G.F., Kimura, G., Kitamura, Y., Kopf, A.J., Lallemant, S., Park, J.O., Screaton, E.J., Su, X., Underwood, M.B., Zhao, X., 2009. Origin and evolution of a tsunamigenic splay fault. Nature Geosciences, 2 (9): 648-652.
Förster, A., Spiess, V., Kopf, A., Dennielou, B., 2010. Mass wasting dynamics at the deeper slope of the Ligurian Margin (Southern France). In: Mosher, DC., Shipp, C., Moscardelli, L., Chaytor, J., Baxter, C., Lee, H., and Urgeles, R. (eds.), Submarine Mass movements and their consequences IV. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Series, Springer: 67-78.
Kinoshita, M., Tobin, H., Ashi, J., Kimura, G., Lallemant, S., Screaton, E.J.,
Curewitz, D., Masago, H., Moe, K.T., and the Expedition 314/315/316 Scientists, 2009. Proc. IODP, Initial Reports 314/315/316: Washington, DC (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.). doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.314315316.2009
Kopf, A., R. Apprioual, J. Blandin, J.-P. Brulport, P. Crassous, T. Fleischmann, A. Förster, G. Guyader, S. Hammerschmidt, P. Henry, R. Jacinto Silva, J. Legrand, A. Mayer, S. Pape, P. Pelleau, P. Pichavant, T. Pichler, R. Price, M. Seydel, S. Stegmann, K. Weber, 2009. REPORT AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF POSEIDON CRUISE P386: NAIL (Nice Airport Landslide), Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Univ. Bremen, No. 271: 161pp
Hüpers, A., A. Kopf, 2009. The thermal influence on the consolidation state of underthrust sediments from the Nankai margin and its implications for excess pore pressure, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 286: 324-332.

2008

Kopf, A., 2008. Making calderas of mud. Nature Geosciences, 1 (8): 500-501
Seifert, A., Stegmann, S., Lange, M., Wever, T., Mörz, T., Kopf, A., 2008. In situ pore pressure evolution during FF-CPT measurements in soft sediments of the western Baltic Sea. Geo-Marine Letters, doi.org/10.1007/s00367-008-0102-x
Kopf, A., Alexandrakis, E.C.C., Blees, J., Bogus, K., Dennielou, B., Förster, A., Girault, F.E., Haarmann, T., Hanff, H., Hentscher, M., Kaul., N.E., Klar, S., Krastel, S., Lange, M., Meier, M.-A., Metzen, J.F., Spiess, V., Stegmann, S., Strozyk, F., Volen Krumova, T., 2008. REPORT AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF METEOR CRUISE M73/1: LIMA-LAMO. Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Univ. Bremen, No. 264: 169pp.
Kopf, A., 2008. Die geologische Ursache des Mega-Erdbebens von Lissabon im Jahre 1755. In: Lauer, G. & Unger, T. (eds.), Das Erdbeben von Lissabon und der Katastrophendiskurs im 18. Jahrhundert , Göttingen (Wallstein Verlag), 188-202.

2007

Strasser, M., Stegmann, S., Bussmann, F., Anselmetti, F.S., Rick, B., Kopf, A., 2007. Quantifying subaqueous slope stability during seismic shaking: Lake Lucerne, Central Switzerland, as model for ocean margins. Marine Geology, 240: 77-97.
Mörz, T., Karlik, E.A., Kreiter, S., Kopf, A., 2007. An experimental setup for fluid venting in unconsolidated sediments: new insights to fluid mechanics and structures Sedimentary Geology, 186: 251-267.
Bartetzko, A., Kopf, A., 2007. The relationship of undrained shear strength and porosity with depth in shallow (< 50 m) marine sediments. Sedimentary Geology, 196: 235-249.
Stegmann, S., Strasser, M., Anselmetti, F.S., Kopf, A., 2007. Geotechnical in situ characterisation of subaquatic slopes: The role of pore pressure transients versus frictional strength in landslide initiation. Geophysical Research Letts., 34/7, doi:10.1029/2006GL029122.
Kopf, A., Bohnhoff, M., 2007. Fault zone drilling in the backstop to the Mediterranean ridge accretionary complex off Crete, Greece. Scientific Drilling, Spec. issue 1: 45-46
Stegmann, S., Kopf, A., 2007. Marine deep-water Free-fall CPT measurements for landslide characterisation off Crete, Greece (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) --- PART 1: A new 4000m cone penetrometer. Lykousis, V., Sakellariou, D., Locat, J. (eds.), Submarine Mass movements and their consequences. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Series, Springer, 171-177.
Kopf, A., Stegmann, S., Krastel, S., Förster, A., Strasser, M, Irving, M., 2007. Marine deep-water Free-fall CPT measurements for landslide characterisation off Crete, Greece (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) --- PART 2: Initial data from the western Cretan Sea. In: Lykousis, V., Sakellariou, D., Locat, J. (eds.), Submarine Mass movements and their consequences. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Series, Springer, 199-208.

2006

Stegmann, S., Villinger, H., Kopf, A., 2006. Design of a modular, marine free-fall cone penetrometer. Sea Technology, 47/02, 27-33.
Kopf, A., Alves, T., Heesemann, B., Kaul., N.E., Kock, I., Krastel, S., Reichelt, M., Schäfer, R., Stegmann, S., Strasser, M., Thölen, M., 2006. REPORT AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF POSEIDON CRUISE P336: CRESTS - Cretan Sea Tectonics and Sedimentation. Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Univ. Bremen, No. 253: 140pp.
Niemann, H., J. Duarte, C. Hensen, E. Omoregie , V. H. Magalhães, M. Elvert, L. M. Pinheiro, A. Kopf, A. Boetius, 2006. Microbial Methane Turnover at Mud Volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 70: 5336-5355.
Huhn, K., Kock, I., Kopf, A.J., 2006. Comparative numerical and analogue shear box experiments and their implications for the mechanics along the failure plane of landslides. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 86/3: 209-220.
Minning, M., Hebbeln, D., Hensen, C., Kopf, A., 2006. Geotechnical and geochemical investigations of the Marquês de Pombal landslide at the Portuguese continental margin. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 86/3: 187-198.
Stegmann, S., Moerz, T., Kopf, A., 2006. Initial Results of a new Free Fall-Cone Penetrometer (FF-CPT) for geotechnical in situ characterisation of soft marine sediments. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 86/3: 199-208.
Kopf, A., 2006. Book review: Mervyn S. Paterson and Teng-fong Wong, Experimental Rock Deformation – The Brittle Field, 2005. Surveys in Geophysics, DOI: 10.1007/s10712-006-9004-5, 2pp.

2005

Kopf, A., Clennell, M.B., Brown, K.M., 2005. Physical properties of extruded muds and their relationship to episodic extrusion and seismogenesis. Martinelli, G., and Panahi, B. (Eds.), Mud volcanoes, geodynamics and seismicity. NATO Sci. Ser. IV: Dordrecht (Springer), 263-283.
Moerz T., Kopf, A., Brueckmann, W., Sahling H., Fekete H., Huenerbach V., Masson D., Hepp D.A., Suess E., 2005. Styles and productivity of diapirism along the Middle Amreica margin, Part I: Margin Evolution, Segmentation, Dewatering and Mud Diapirism, In: Martinelli, G., and Panahi, B. (Eds.), Mud volcanoes, geodynamics and seismicity. NATO Sci. Ser. IV: Dordrecht (Springer), 35-48.
Moerz, T., Fekete N., Kopf, A., Brueckmann, W., Kreiter, S., Huenerbach, V., Masson, D., Hepp, D.A., Schmidt, M., Kutterolf, S., Sahling, H., Abegg, F., Spiess, V., Suess, E., Ranero, C.R., 2005. Styles and productivity of diapirism along the Middle Amreica margin, Part II: Mound Culebra and Mounds 11 and 12. In: Martinelli, G., and Panahi, B. (Eds.), Mud volcanoes, geodynamics and seismicity. NATO Sci. Ser. IV: Dordrecht (Springer), 49-76.
Kopf, A., Vidal, N., Klaeschen, D., von Huene, R., and Krasheninnikov, V., 2005. Multi-Channel Seismic Profiles across the Eratosthenes Seamount and the Florence Rise reflecting the incipient collision between Africa and Eurasia near the island of Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean. In: Hall, J.K., Krasheninnikov, V.A., Hirsch, F., Benjamini, C., and Flexer, A. (eds.), Geological Framework of the Levant, vol. II The Levantine Basin and Israel; Historical Productions, Hall Publ., Jerusalem/Israel, p. 57-72.
Vidal, N., Klaeschen, D., Kopf, A., von Huene, R., Krasheninnikov, V., 2005.
Seismic images at the convergence zone from south of Cyprus to the Syrian Coast, Eastern Mediterranean. In: Hall, J.K., Krasheninnikov, V.A., Hirsch, F., Benjamini, C., and Flexer, A. (eds.), Geological Framework of the Levant, vol. II The Levantine Basin and Israel; Historical Productions, Hall Publ., Jerusalem/Israel, p. 41-56.
Klaeschen, D., Vidal, N. , Kopf, A., von Huene, R., Krasheninnikov, V.A., 2005.
Reflexion Seismic Processing and Images of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Cruise 5 of the Research Vessel Akademik Nikolaj Strakhov. In: Hall, J.K., Krasheninnikov, V.A., Hirsch, F., Benjamini, C., and Flexer, A. (eds.), Geological Framework of the Levant, vol. II The Levantine Basin and Israel; Historical Productions, Hall Publ., Jerusalem/Israel, p. 21-40.
Deyhle, A., Kopf, A.J., 2005. The use and usefulness of boron isotopes in natural silicate-water systems. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 30: 1038-1046.
Kopf, A., 2005. Erdbeben: Der Untergang von Lissabon im Jahre 1755. Spektrum der Wissenschaft , 11/05, 84-91.

2004

Ask, M., and Kopf, A., 2004. Rock mechanic characteristics of ODP Leg 186 claystones in the Japan Trench forearc, and their relationship to lithology, geologic structures, physical properties and seismicity. Island Arc, 13, 242-257.
Deyhle, A., Kopf, A., Frape, S., and Hesse, R., 2004. Evidence for fluid flow in the Japan Trench forearc using isotope geochemistry (Cl, Sr, B): Results from ODP Site 1150. Island Arc, 13, 258-270.
Kopf, A. (ed.), 2004. GAP cruise report: Gibraltar Arc Processes, FS Sonne SO175, Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Univ. Bremen, No. 228: 218pp.
Huguen, C., Mascle, J., Chaumillon, E., Kopf, A., Woodside, J., 2004, Tectonic control on Mud Volcanoes: Evidence from the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Ridge. Marine Geology, 209: 245-263.

2003

Kopf, A., Mascle, J., and Klaeschen, D., 2003. The Mediterranean Ridge: A mass balance across the fastest growing accretionary complex on Earth. J. Geophys. Research 108, 2372-2403, doi:10.1029/2001JB000473.
Kopf, A., Deyhle, A., Behrmann, J.H., Roller, S., and Erlenkheuser, H., 2003. Stable isotopic evidence (B, C, O) of deep fluid processes in fault rocks from the active Woodlark Basin detachment zone. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters 208: 51-68
Deyhle, A., Kopf, A., Aloisi, G., 2003. Boron and boron isotopes as a tracer for diagenetic reactions and depth of mobilization, using muds and authigenic carbonates from eastern Mediterranean mud volcanoes. In: Maltman, A.J., Van Rensbergen, P. & Hillis, R. (eds.) Subsurface sediment mobilisation. Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publications 216, 493-505.
Brown, K.M., Kopf, A., Underwood, M., Steurer, J., and Weinberger, J.L., 2003. Frictional and mineralogic properties of sediments entering the western Nankai subduction zone: Implications for state of stress on the subduction thrust. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters 214: 589-613 (link to PDF)
Kopf, A., and Brown, K.M., 2003. The stress state of the Nankai and Barbados subduction thrusts. Marine Geology 202: 193-210 (link to PDF)
Clift, P.D., Najman., Y., Layne, G.D., Kopf, A., Shimizu, N., and Hunt, J., 2003. Temporal Evolution of Boron Flux in the Honshu and Izu Arcs Measured by Ion Microprobe from the Forearc Tephra Record. J. Petrology 14/7: 1211-1236
Kopf, A., Deyhle, A., Lavrushin, V.Yu., Polyak, B.G., Buachidze, G.I., and Eisenhauer, A., 2003. Isotopic evidence for deep gas and fluid migration from mud volcanoes in a zone of incipient continental collision (Caucasus, Russia). Int. J. Earth Sciences 92, 407-426.
Kopf., A.J., 2003. Important global impact of methane degassing through mud volcanoes on past and present Earth climate. Int. J. Earth Sciences 92/5: 806-816 (link to PDF)
Kopf, A., Mora, G., Deyhle, A., Frape, S. and Hesse, R., 2003. Inorganic chemistry of fluids and volcaniclastic sediments from the Japan Trench forearc (ODP Leg 186). In: Suyehiro, K., Sacks, S., Acton, G., et al., 2003. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 186, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program)
Kopf, A., 2003. Vulkanismus: Schlote, die Schlamm statt Feuer speien. Spektrum der Wissenschaft , 01/03, 38-47.

2002

Deyhle, A., and Kopf, A., 2002. Strong B enrichment and anomalous d11B in pore fluids from the Japan Trench forearc. Marine Geology 183: 1-15.
Kopf, A.J., 2002. Significance of mud volcanism. Reviews of Geophysics, 40/2, 52pp. [DOI 10.1029/2000RG000093] (link to PDF)
J. M. Woodside, J. Mascle, T. A. C. Zitter, A. F. Limonov, M. Ergun, A. Volkonskaia and shipboard scientists of the PRISMED II Expedition, 2002. The Florence Rise, the Western Bend of the Cyprus Arc. Marine Geology 185: 177-194.
Kopf, A.J., and Deyhle, A., 2002. Back to the roots: Source depths of mud volcanoes and diapirs using boron and B isotopes. Chem. Geology, 192: 195-210. (link to PDF)

2001

Deyhle, A., Kopf, A., and Eisenhauer, A., 2001. Boron systematics of authigenic carbonates: A new approach to identify fluid processes in accretionary prisms. Earth Planet. Sci. Letts., 187: 191-205.
Peters, W.S., Farm, M.S., and Kopf, A.J., 2001. Does growth correlate with turgor-induced elastic strain in stems? A re-evaluation of de Vries' classical experiment. Plant Physiology, 125: 2173-2179.
Kopf, A., 2001. Permeability variation across an active low-angle detachment fault, western Woodlark Basin (ODP Leg 180), and its implication for fault activation. In: Holdsworth, R.E., Strachan, R.A., Magloughlin, J.F., and Knipe, R.J. (eds), The nature and tectonic significance of fault zone weakening. Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publications, 186: 23-41.
Huguen, C., Mascle, J., Chaumillon, E., Woodside, J.M., Benkhelil, J., Kopf, A., and Volkonskaia, A., 2001. Deformational styles of the Eastern Mediteranean Ridge and surroundings from combined swath mapping and seismic reflection profiling. Tectonophysics, 343:21-47
Kopf, A., Klaeschen, D., and Mascle, J., 2001. Extreme efficiency of mud volcanism in dewatering accretionary prisms. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, 189/3-4: 295-313.
Behrmann, J.H. and Kopf, A., 2001. Balance of tectonically accreted and subducted sediment at the Chile Triple Junction (Ocean Drilling Program Leg 141). Int. J. Earth Sci. 90/4: 753-768.
Kopf. A., Klaeschen, D., Weinrebe, W., Flueh, E. R., and Grevemeyer, I., 2001. Geophysical evidence for late stage magmatism at the central Ninetyeast Ridge, Eastern Indian Ocean. Mar. Geophys. Res., 22: 225-234.
Deyhle, A., and Kopf, A., 2001. Deep fluids and ancient pore waters at the backstop: Stable isotope systematics (C, B, O) of mud volcano deposits on the Mediterranean Ridge accretionary wedge. Geology, 29/11: 1031-1034.
Roller, S., Behrmann, J.H., Kopf, A., 2001. Deformation fabrics of faulted rocks, and some syntectonic stress estimates from the active Woodlark Basin detachment zone. In: Wilson, R.C.L., Whitmarsh, R.B., Taylor, B., and Froitzheim, N. (eds.), Non-Volcanic Rifting of Continental Margins. Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publications, 187: 319-334

2000

Kopf, A., Robertson, A.H.F., and Volkmann, N., 2000. Origin of mud breccia from the Mediterranean Ridge accretionary complex using petrography and maturity of solid organic carbon. Marine Geology, 166: 65-82.
Kopf, A., and Behrmann, J.H., 2000. Extrusion dynamics of mud volcanoes on the Mediterranean Ridge accretionary complex. In: Vendeville, B., Mart, Y. & Vigneresse, J.-L. (eds.), From the Arctic to the Mediterranean: Salt, shale, and igneous diapirs in and around Europe. Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ., 174: 169-204.
Kopf, A., and Peters, W.S., 2000. Gradients of turgor-induced longitudinal strain along
growing zones of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) hypocotyls. In: H.-C. Spatz, T. Speck (eds), Plant Biomechanics 2000 (Proceedings of the 3rd Plant Biomechanics Conference at Freiburg-Badenweiler), Thieme Stuttgart: 202-206.
Mascle, J., Benkhelil, J., Bellaiche, G., Zitter, T., Woodside, J., Loncke L., and the Prismed II Scientific Party, 2000, Marine geological evidence for a Levantine-Sinai plate, a missing piece of the Mediterranean puzzle, Geology, 28: 779-782.
Kopf, A., Deyhle, A., and Zuleger, E., 2000. Evidence for deep fluid circulation and gas hydrate dissociation using boron and boron isotopes in forearc sediments from Costa Rica (ODP Leg 170). Marine Geology, 167: 1-28.
Vidal., N., Klaeschen, D., Kopf, A., Docherty, C., von Huene, R., Krasheninnikov, V., 2000. Deep seismic images at the convergence zone from south of Cyprus to the Syria, Eastern Mediterranean. Tectonophysics, 329: 157-170.

1999

Vidal., N., Klaeschen, D., Kopf, A., Docherty, C., von Huene, R., Krasheninnikov, V., 2000. Deep seismic images at the convergence zone from south of Cyprus to the Syria, Eastern Mediterranean. Tectonophysics, 329: 157-170.
Mascle, J., Huguen, C., Benkhelil, J., Chamot-Rooke, N. Chaumillon, E., Foucher, J.-P., Griboulard, R., Kopf, A., Lamarche, G., Volkonskaia, A., Woodside, J., and Zitter, T., 1999. Images may show start of European-African Plate collision. EOS Trans. AGU, 80/37: 421-428

1998

Kopf, A., Robertson, A.H.F., Clennell, M.B., and Flecker, R., 1998. Mechanisms of mud extrusion on the Mediterranean Ridge Accretionary Prism. Geo-Marine Letters, 18: 97-114.
Robertson, A.H.F., and Kopf, A., 1998. Tectonic setting and processes of mud volcanism on the Mediterranean Ridge accretionary complex: evidence from Leg 160. In: Robertson, A.H.F., Emeis, K.-C., Richter, C., et al., 1998. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results., 160, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 665-680.
Kopf, A., Clennell, M.B., and Camerlenghi, A., 1998. Variations in sediment physical properties and permeability of mud volcano deposits from Napoli dome and adjacent mud volcano. In: Robertson, A.H.F., Emeis, K.-C., Richter, C., et al., 1998. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 160, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 625-644.

1997

Kopf, A., 1997. The origin, distribution, and related problems of interpreting normal faults in marine sediments recovered by Advanced Piston Coring (APC): A review of results from cruises of the Ocean Drilling Program (Legs 101-160). Scientific Drilling, 6/1: 35-58.
Kopf, A., and Behrmann, J.H., 1997. Fabric evolution and mechanisms of diagenesis in fine grained sediments from the Kita-Yamato trough, Japan Sea. J. Sed. Res., 67/3, 590-600.

1996

Flecker, R. and Kopf, A., 1996. Clast and grain size analysis of sediment recovered from the Napoli and Milano mud volcanoes, ODP Leg 160 (Eastern Mediterranean). - In: Emeis, K.-C., Robertson, A.H.F., Richter, C., et al., Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 160, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 529-532.
Kopf, A. and Flecker, R., 1996. Problems associated with the interpretation of normal fault distributions in sediments recovered by Advanced Piston Coring during ODP Leg 160 (Eastern Mediterranean). - In: Emeis, K.-C., Robertson, A.H.F., Richter, C., et al., Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 160, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 507-512.
Robertson, A.H.F., and the Scientific Party of ODP Leg 160, 1996. Mud volcanism on the Mediterranean Ridge: Initial results of Ocean Drilling Program, Leg 160. Geology, 24/3, 239-242.

1995

Kopf, A., Sample, J.C., Bauer, P., Behrmann, J.H. & Erlenkeuser, H., 1995. Diagenetic carbonate concretions from ODP Leg 146 (Cascadia Margin): textures, chemical compositions, strain estimations, and oxygen and carbon stable isotope signatures. - In: Carson, B., Westbrook, G.K., Musgrave, R.J., et al., Proc. ODP, 146, Sci. Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 117-136.
Behrmann, J.H., Bauer, P. and Kopf, A., 1995. Provenance of Quaternary sands and sandstones, ODP Leg 146, Cascadia Margin. - In: Carson, B., Westbrook, G.K., Musgrave, R.J., et al., Proc. ODP, 146, Sci. Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 425-430.
Sample, J.C. and Kopf, A., 1995. Occurrences and geochemistry of syntectonic carbonate cements and veins from ODP Leg 146: implications for hydrogeologic evolution of the Cascadia margin. - In: Carson, B., Westbrook, G.K., Musgrave, R.J., et al., Proc. ODP, 146, Sci. Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 137-150.
Kopf, A., 1995. Feststoffbilanzierung akkretierten und subduzierten Sediments und computergestützte Rückwärtsmodellierung deformierter Krusten-querschnitte am Kontinentalrand von Südchile. Quantitative geometrische und kinematische Rekonstruktion der Forearc-Entwicklung nahe dem Chile-Tripelpunkt (Ocean Drilling Program Leg 141). - Giessener Geol. Schriften, Nr. 55, 220pp.
The Scientific Party of ODP Leg 160, 1995. Evidence of collisional processes associated with ophiolite obduction in the Eastern Mediterranean: Results from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 160. GSA Today, 5/11, 213-221.

1994

MacKay, M.E., Jarrard, D.R., Westbrook, G.K., Hyndman, R.D., and Shipboard Scientific Party ODP Leg 146, 1994. - Origin of bottom-simulating reflectors: Geophysical evidence from the Cascadia accretionary prism. - Geology, 22, 459-462.

1993

Behrmann, J.H. and Kopf, A., 1993. Textures and microfabrics in fine grained muds and mudstones from ODP Site 808, Nankai Accretionary Prism. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 131, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 45-56.