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Kaj Hoernle
Researcher at Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences
Publications - 287
Citations - 12991
Kaj Hoernle is an academic researcher from Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mantle (geology) & Basalt. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 264 publications receiving 11334 citations. Previous affiliations of Kaj Hoernle include University of California, Santa Cruz & University of Kiel.
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Deep roots of the Messinian salinity crisis
TL;DR: Using a thermomechanical model, it is shown that westward roll back of subducted Tethys oceanic lithosphere and associated asthenospheric upwelling provides a plausible mechanism for producing the shift in magma chemistry and the necessary uplift along the African and Iberian continental margins to close the Miocene marine gateways, thereby causing the Messinian salinity crisis.
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Post-Collisional Transition from Subduction- to Intraplate-type Magmatism in the Westernmost Mediterranean: Evidence for Continental-Edge Delamination of Subcontinental Lithosphere
TL;DR: In this article, a three-dimensional geodynamic model for the westernmost Mediterranean is presented in which subduction of oceanic lithosphere is inferred to have caused continental-edge delamination of subcontinental lithosphere associated with upwelling of plume-contaminated sub-lithospheric mantle and lithospheric uplift.
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Seismic and geochemical evidence for large-scale mantle upwelling beneath the eastern Atlantic and western and central Europe
TL;DR: In this article, a large, sheet-like region of upwelling in the upper mantle which extends from the eastern Atlantic Ocean to central Europe and the western Mediterranean is identified.
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Geochemistry of oceanic carbonatites compared with continental carbonatites: mantle recycling of oceanic crustal carbonate
TL;DR: In this paper, the major and trace element and Sr-Nd-Pb-O-C isotopic compositions are presented for carbonatites from the Cape Verde (Brava, Fogo, Sao Tiago, Maio and Sao Vicente) and Canary (Fuerteventura) Islands.
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Magmatic evolution of the Alboran region: The role of subduction in forming the western Mediterranean and causing the Messinian Salinity Crisis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used laser 40Ar/39Ar age and geochemical data from igneous rocks from southern Spain, the Alboran Sea and northern Morocco to reconstruct the magmatic evolution of the westernmost Mediterranean since the Eocene.