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2019

Zonneveld, K. A. F., Gray, D. D., Kuhn, G., Versteegh, G. J. M. Postdepositional aerobic and anaerobic particulate organic matter degradation succession reflected by dinoflagellate cysts: The Madeira Abyssal Plain revisited, Marine Geology, 408, 87-109, DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2018.11.010.

 

2018

Ellegaard M., Head M.J., Versteegh G.J.M. Linking biological and geological data on dinoflagellates using the genus Spiniferites as an example: the implications of species, taxonomy and dual nomenclature. Palynology 42 (Suppl. 1), 221-230. DOI:10.1080/01916122.2018.1465732

Heller, C. Kuhn, T., Versteegh, G.J.M., Wegorzewski, A., and Kasten S. The geochemical behavior of metals during early diagenetic alteration of buried manganese nodules. Deep Sea Research I, 142, 16-33. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2018.09.008

Hartman, J.D., Sangiorgi, F, Bijl, P.K. and Versteegh G.J.M. Nucicla umbiliphora gen. et sp. nov: a Quaternary peridinioid dinoflagellate cyst from the Antarctic margin. Palynology. DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2018.1430070

Mertens K.N., van Nieuwenhove, N., Gurdebeke P.R., Aydin H., Bogus K., Manuel Bringué M., Dale B., de Schepper, S., de Vernal A., Ellegaard M., Grothe A., Gu H., Head M.J., Heikkilä M.,Limoges A., Londeix L., Louwye S., Marret F., Masure E., Matsuoka K., Mudie P.J., Penaud, A., Pospelova V., Price A.M., Ribeiro S., Rochon A., Sangiorgi F., Schreck M., Torres-Torres V., Uzar S., Versteegh G.J.M., Warny S., Zonneveld K. The dinoflagellate cyst genera Achomosphaera Evitt 1963 and Spiniferites Mantell 1850 in Pliocene to modern sediments: a summary of round table discussions. Palynology 42 (Suppl. 1), 10-44. DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2018.1465739

Zonneveld, K.A.F., Ebersbach, F., M., Maeke, M., Versteegh, G.J.M. Transport of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in nepheloid layers off Cape Blanc (N-W Africa). Deep Sea Research I, 139, 55-67 DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2018.06.003.

 

2017

Gray, D., Versteegh, G.J.M., Zonneveld, K.A.F. Species-specific sensitivity of dinoflagellate cysts to aerobic degradation: a five-year natural exposure experiment. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 247: 175-187. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.09.002.

Hoshino Y., Poshibaeva A., Meredith W., Snape C., Poshibaev V., Versteegh G.J.M., Kuznetsov N., Leider A., van Maldegem L., Neumann M., Naeher S., Modczydłowska M., Brocks J.J., Jarett A., Tang Q., Xiao S.,McKirdy D., Das S., Alvaro J.J., Sansjofre P., Hallmann C. Cryogenian evolution of stigmasteroid biosynthesis. Science Advances 3(9), e1700887. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1700887.

Kuhn, T., Versteegh., G.J.M., Villinger, H., Dohrmann., I., Heller., C., S., Koschinsky, A., Kaul. N., Ritter., S., H.,Wegorzewski, A.V., Kasten, S. Widespread sea-water circulation in 18–22 Ma oceanic crust: Impact on heat flow and sediment geochemistry. Geology 45(9), 799-802. doi: 10.1130/G39091.1.

 

2016

Mertens K.N., Gu H, Takano Y., Price A.M., Pospelova V., Bogus K., Versteegh G.J.M., Marret F., Turner R.E., Rabalais N.N., Matsuoka K. The cyst-theca relation of Trinovantedinium pallidifulvum, with erection of Protoperidinium lousianensis sp. nov. and their phylogenetic position within the Conica group. Palynology 41(2), 183-202. doi: 10.1080/01916122.2016.1147219

Quijada, M., Riboulleau, A., Strother, P., Mezzetti, A., Versteegh, G.J.M. Protosalvinia revisited, new evidence for a land plant affinity. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology. 227, 52-64. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.10.008.

Zhu Chun, Wakeham S.G., Elling,F.J., Basse,A., Mollenhauer, G., Versteegh G.J.M., Könneke M., Hinrichs K.-U. Stratification of archaeal membrane lipids in the ocean and implications for adaptation and chemotaxonomy of planktonic archaea. Environmental Microbiology. 18(12), 4324-4336 doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13289.

Zhu Rong, Versteegh G.J.M., Hinrichs, K.-U. Detection of microbial biomass in subseafloor sediment by pyrolysis-GC/MS. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 118, 175-180. doi: 10.1016/j.jaap.2016.02.002

 

2015

Becker K.W., Lipp J.S., Versteegh G.J.M., Wörmer L., Hinrichs K.-U. Rapid and simultaneous analysis of three molecular sea surface temperature proxies and application to sediments of the Sea of Marmara. Organic Geochemistry 85, 42-53. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2015.04.008

Ge Huangmin, Zhang Chuanlun L., Versteegh, G.J.M., Chen Lingling, Fan Daidu, Dong Liang, Liu Jingling. Evolution of the East China Sea sedimentary environment in the past 14 kyr: insights from tetraethers-based proxies. Science China - Earth Sciences. doi: 10.1007/s11430-015-5229-9.

Lü, Xiaoxia, Versteegh, G.J.M., Song Jinming, Li Xuegang, Yuan Huamao, Li, Ning. Geochemistry of middle Holocene sediments from South Yellow Sea: Implications to provenance and climate change. Journal of Earth Science - online. doi: 10.1007/s12583-015-0577-0.

 

2014

Basse, A., Zhu, C., Versteegh, G.J.M., Fischer, G., Hinrichs, K.-U., Mollenhauer, G. Distribution of intact and core tetraether lipids in water column profiles of suspended particulate matter off Cape Blanc, NW Africa. Organic Geochemistry1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.04.007

Bogus, K., Mertens, K.N., Lauwaert, J., Harding, I.C., Vrielinck, H., Zonneveld, K.A.F., Versteegh, G.J.M. Differences in the chemical composition of organic-walled dinoflagellate resting cysts from phototrophic and heterotrophic dinoflagellates. Journal of Phycology, 50(2), 254-266. doi: 10.1111/jpy.12170. 

Ge, H., Zhang, C.L., Li, J., Versteegh, G.J.M., Hu, B., Zhao, J., Dong, L., Tetraether lipids from the southern Yellow Sea of China. Implications for the variability of the East Asia Winter Monsoon in the Holocene. Organic Geochemistry 70, 10-19. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.02.011.

Goudeau, M.-L.S., Grauel, A.-L., Tessaroli, C., Leider, A., Chen, L., Bernasconi, S.M., Versteegh, G.J.M., Zonneveld, K.A.F., Alonso-Hernandez, C.-M., Boer, W., de Lange, G.J. The Glavial-Interglacial transition and Holocene environmental changes in sediments from the Gulf of Taranto, Central Mediterranean. Marine Geology 348, 88-102. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2013.12.003

2013
Chen, L., Zonneveld, K.A.F., and Versteegh, G.J.M. Paleoclimate of the Southern Adriatic Sea region during the ‘Medieval Climate Anomaly’ reflected by organic walled dinoflagellate cysts. The Holocene 23, 645-655, doi:10.1177/0959683612467482.

Ellegaard, M., Figueroa, R., Versteegh, G.J.M. Dinoflagellate life cycles and diversity: key foci for future research. In: Lewis J. M., Marret F., Bradley L. (eds.), Biological and Geological Perspectives of Dinoflagellates, The Micropaleontological Society Special Publications 5, 241-254, Geological Society, London.

Goudeau, M.-L.S., Grauel, A.-L., Tessaroli, C., Leider, A., Chen, L., Bernasconi, S.M., Versteegh, G.J.M., Zonneveld, K.A.F., Alonso-Hernandez, C.-M., Boer, W., de Lange, G.J. The Glavial-Interglacial transition and Holocene environmental changes in sediments from the Gulf of Taranto, Central Mediterranean. Marine Geology

Grauel, A. -L., Leider, A., Goudeau, M.-L.S., Müller, I.A., Bernasconi, S.M., Hinrichs, K.-U., de Lange, G.J., Zonneveld, K.A.F. and Versteegh, G.J.M. What do SST proxies really tell us? A high-resolution multiproxy (UK’37, TEXH86 and foraminifera δ18O) study in the Gulf of Taranto, central Mediterranean Sea. Quaternary Science Reviews 73, 115-131, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.05.007.

Leider, A., Hinrichs, K.-U., Schefuß, E. and Versteegh, G.J.M. Distribution and stable isotopes of plant wax derived n-alkanes in lacustrine, fluvial and marine surface sediments along an Eastern Italian transect and their potential to reconstruct the hydrological cycle. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 117, 16-32, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2013.04.018.

Zonneveld, K.A.F., Marret, F., Versteegh, G.J.M., Bogus, K., Bonnet, S., Bouimetarhan, I., Crouch, E., de Vernal, A., Elshanawany, R., Edwards, L., Esper, O., Forke, S., Grøsfjeld, K., Henry, M., Holzwarth, U., Kielt, J.-F., Kim, S.-Y., Ladouceur, S., Ledu, D., Chen, L., Limoges, A., Londeix, L., Lu, S.-H., Mahmoud, M.S., Marino, G., Matsouka, K., Matthiessen, J., Mildenhal, D.C., Mudie, P., Neil, H.L., Pospelova, V., Qi, Y., Radi, T., Richerol, T., Rochon, A., Sangiorgi, F., Solignac, S., Turon, J.-L., Verleye, T., Wang, Y., Wang, Z. and Young, M. Atlas of modern dinoflagellate cyst distribution based on 2405 datapoints. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 191, 1-197, doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.08.003.
2012
Bogus, K., Harding, I.C., King, A., Charles, A.A., Zonneveld, K.A.F., and Versteegh, G.J.M. The composition and diversity of dinosporin in species of the Apectodinium complex (Dinoflagellata). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 183: 21-31. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.07.001

Bogus, K. A., Zonneveld, K. A. F., Fischer, D., Kasten, S., Bohrmann, G. and Versteegh, G. J. M. The effect of meter-scale lateral oxygen gradients at the sediment-water interface on selected organic matter based alteration, productivity and temperature proxies. Biogeosciences 9: 1553-1570, doi: 10.5194/bg-9-1553-2012.

Versteegh, G. J. M., Blokker, P., Bogus, K., Harding, I., Lewis, J., Oltmanns, S., Rochon, A. and Zonneveld, K. A. F., 2012. 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, 43: 92-102, 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. 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, 64: 114-132, doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.10.012
2011
Bogus, K. A., Zonneveld, K. A. F., Fischer, D., Kasten, S., Bohrmann, G. and Versteegh, G. J. M. 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. doi:10.5194/bgd-8-11359-2011.

Chen, L., Zonneveld, K. A. F. and Versteegh, G. J. M. Short term climate variability during “Roman Classical Period” in the eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30:3880-3891. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.09.024.

Romero-Sarmiento, M.-F., Riboulleau, A., Vecoli, M., Laggoun-Défarge, F. and Versteegh, G. J. M. Aliphatic and aromatic biomarkers from Carboniferous coal deposits at Dunbar (East Lothian, Scotland): Palaeobotanical and palaeoenvironmental significance. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology 309: 309-326. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.06.015

Romero-Sarmiento, M.-F., Riboulleau, A., Vecoli, M. and Versteegh, G. J. M. Aliphatic and aromatic biomarkers from Gondwanan sediments of Late Ordovician to Early Devonian age: An early terrestrialization approach. Organic Geochemistry 42: 605-617. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.04.005
2010
Dhamelincourt, M. C., Vecoli, M., Mezzetti, A., Cesari, C. Versteegh, G. and Riboulleau, A. 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, doi: 10.3233/SPE-2010-0451.

Leider, A., Hinrichs, K. -U., Mollenhauer, G. and Versteegh, G. J. M. 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, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.09.042.

Liu, X. -L., Leider, A., Gillespie, A., Gröger, J., Versteegh, G. J. M. and Hinrichs, K. -U. Identification of polar lipid precursors of the ubiquitous branched GDGT orphan lipids in a peat bog in Northern Germany. Organic Geochemistry 41: 653-660, doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.04.004.

Romero-Sarmiento, M. F., Riboulleau, A., Vecoli, M. and Versteegh, G. J. M. Occurrence of retene in upper Silurian–lower Devonian sediments from North Africa: Origin and implications. Organic Geochemistry 41: 302-306, doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2009.10.003

Versteegh, G. J. M., Riboulleau, A. 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, doi: 10.1144/SP339.3

Versteegh, G. J. M., Zonneveld, K. A. F. and de Lange, G. J. 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, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2010.10.007.

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. Selective preservation of organic matter in marine sediments - processes and impact on the fossil record. Biogeosciences 7: 483-511, doi:10.5194/bg-7-483-2010.
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