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  1. Relation between mean stress, thermodynamic, and lithostatic pressure

    Article • Journal of Metamorphic Geology, September 2018, Wiley

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  2. Necking of the Lithosphere: A Reappraisal of Basic Concepts With Thermo-Mechanical Numerical Modeling

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, June 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  3. M2Di: Concise and efficient MATLAB 2-D Stokes solvers using the Finite Difference Method

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, February 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  4. Exhumation of the Dora Maira ultrahigh-pressure unit by buoyant uprise within a low-viscosity mantle oblique-slip shear zone

    Article • Terra Nova, July 2016, Wiley

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  5. Current challenges for explaining (ultra)high-pressure tectonism in the Pennine domain of the Central and Western Alps

    Article • Journal of Metamorphic Geology, July 2015, Wiley

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  6. Shear zone and nappe formation by thermal softening, related stress and temperature evolution, and application to the Alps

    Article • Journal of Metamorphic Geology, July 2015, Wiley

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  7. A dimensional analysis to quantify the thermal budget around lithospheric-scale shear zones

    Article • Terra Nova, April 2015, Wiley

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  8. A 3-D Lagrangian finite element algorithm with remeshing for simulating large-strain hydrodynamic instabilities in power law viscoelastic fluids

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, January 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  9. Kinematics and dynamics of tectonic nappes: 2-D numerical modelling and implications for high and ultra-high pressure tectonism in the Western Alps

    Article • Tectonophysics, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  10. Metamorphism under stress: The problem of relating minerals to depth

    Article • Geology, July 2014, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  11. Physics-controlled thickness of shear zones caused by viscous heating: Implications for crustal shear localization

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  12. Three-dimensional necking during viscous slab detachment

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  13. The influence of long-wavelength tilting and climatic change on sediment accumulation

    Article • Lithosphere, June 2014, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  14. Wave propagation in unsaturated porous media

    Article • Acta Mechanica, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  15. Viscous overthrusting versus folding: 2-D quantitative modeling and its application to the Helvetic and Jura fold and thrust belts

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  16. Relationship between tectonic overpressure, deviatoric stress, driving force, isostasy and gravitational potential energy

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, February 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  17. Quantifying the impact of mechanical layering and underthrusting on the dynamics of the modern India-Asia collisional system with 3-D numerical models

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, January 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  18. Tectonic overpressure in weak crustal-scale shear zones and implications for the exhumation of high-pressure rocks

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, May 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  19. Thermo-mechanical model for the finite strain gradient in kilometer-scale shear zones

    Article • Geology, March 2013, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  20. A simple thermo-mechanical shear model applied to the Morcles fold nappe (Western Alps)

    Article • Tectonophysics, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  21. Numerical simulation of ambient seismic wavefield modification caused by pore-fluid effects in an oil reservoir

    Article • Geophysics, January 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  22. Lateral fold growth and fold linkage

    Article • Geology, August 2012, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  23. Pore fluid effects on S-wave attenuation caused by wave-induced fluid flow

    Article • Geophysics, May 2012, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  24. Pinch-and-swell structure and shear zones in viscoplastic layers

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, April 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  25. Folding in power-law viscous multi-layers

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, March 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  26. Dynamics of slab detachment

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, March 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  27. Viscous heating in silicate melts: An experimental and numerical comparison

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  28. Phase Velocity Dispersion and Attenuation of Seismic Waves due to Trapped Fluids in Residual Saturated Porous Media

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, January 2012, Soil Science Society of America

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  29. Time-reverse imaging with limited S-wave velocity model information

    Article • Geophysics, September 2011, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  30. Comparing thin-sheet models with 3-D multilayer models for continental collision

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, August 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  31. Thermo-Tectono-Stratigraphic Forward Modelling of the Upper Rhine Graben in reference to geometric balancing: Brittle crustal extension on a highly viscous mantle

    Article • Tectonophysics, August 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  32. Spectral analysis of ambient ground-motion—Noise reduction techniques and a methodology for mapping horizontal inhomogeneity

    Article • Journal of Applied Geophysics, July 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  33. A simple analytical solution for slab detachment

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  34. Impact of fluid saturation on the reflection coefficient of a poroelastic layer

    Article • Geophysics, March 2011, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  35. Quasi-static finite element modeling of seismic attenuation and dispersion due to wave-induced fluid flow in poroelastic media

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  36. S‐wave attenuation caused by wave‐induced fluid flow

    Article • January 2011, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  37. The exponential flow law applied to necking and folding of a ductile layer

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, November 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  38. Stress orientation and fracturing during three-dimensional buckling: Numerical simulation and application to chocolate-tablet structures in folded turbidites, SW Portugal

    Article • Tectonophysics, October 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  39. Dynamic unfolding of multilayers: 2D numerical approach and application to turbidites in SW Portugal

    Article • Tectonophysics, October 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz, Dr Fernando Ornelas Marques

  40. Kinematics of constant arc length folding for different fold shapes

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, June 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  41. Fluid-assisted particulate flow of turbidites at very low temperature: A key to tight folding in a submarine Variscan foreland basin of SW Europe

    Article • Tectonics, March 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz, Dr Fernando Ornelas Marques

  42. Reply to comment on ‘Low-frequency microtremor anomalies at an oil and gas field in Voitsdorf, Austria’ by Marc-André Lambert, Stefan M. Schmalholz, Erik H. Saenger and Brian Steiner,Geophysical Prospecting57, 393-411

    Article • Geophysical Prospecting, March 2010, Wiley

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  43. Finite-element simulations of Stoneley guided-wave reflection and scattering at the tips of fluid-filled fractures

    Article • Geophysics, March 2010, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  44. Waves in Residual-Saturated Porous Media

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  45. Comment on ‘Folding with thermal-mechanical feedback’

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  46. Stress-strength relationship in the lithosphere during continental collision

    Article • Geology, September 2009, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  47. “Low-frequency reflections from a thin layer with high attenuation caused by interlayer flow,” GEOPHYSICS,74, no. 1, N15–N23

    Article • Geophysics, July 2009, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  48. Low-frequency microtremor anomalies at an oil and gas field in Voitsdorf, Austria

    Article • Geophysical Prospecting, May 2009, Wiley

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  49. A passive seismic survey over a gas field: Analysis of low-frequency anomalies

    Article • Geophysics, March 2009, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  50. Spectral modification of seismic waves propagating through solids exhibiting a resonance frequency: a 1-D coupled wave propagation-oscillation model

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, February 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  51. Low-frequency reflections from a thin layer with high attenuation caused by interlayer flow

    Article • Geophysics, January 2009, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  52. Comparison of finite difference and finite element methods for simulating two-dimensional scattering of elastic waves

    Article • Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, December 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  53. A benchmark comparison of spontaneous subduction models—Towards a free surface

    Article • Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, December 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  54. Brittle fracture during folding of rocks: A finite element study

    Article • The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics, October 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  55. Viscous heating allows thrusting to overcome crustal-scale buckling: Numerical investigation with application to the Himalayan syntaxes

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, September 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  56. Numerical modelling of the effect of matrix anisotropy orientation on single layer fold development

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, August 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  57. Evolution of pinch-and-swell structures in a power-law layer

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, May 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  58. Automated thermotectonostratigraphic basin reconstruction: Viking Graben case study

    Article • AAPG Bulletin, March 2008, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  59. Time reverse modeling of low-frequency microtremors: Application to hydrocarbon reservoir localization

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, February 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  60. 3D numerical modeling of forward folding and reverse unfolding of a viscous single-layer: Implications for the formation of folds and fold patterns

    Article • Tectonophysics, January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  61. Finite-difference modeling of wave propagation on microscale: A snapshot of the work in progress

    Article • Geophysics, September 2007, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  62. A hydrocarbon microtremor survey over a gas field: Identification of seismic attributes

    Article • January 2007, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  63. Interaction of seismic background noise with oscillating pore fluids causes spectral modifications of passive seismic measurements at low frequencies

    Article • January 2007, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  64. Deformation mechanisms, microstructure and rheology of rocks in nature and experiment

    Article • Tectonophysics, December 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  65. Numerical simulations of parasitic folding in multilayers

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, September 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  66. Finite amplitude folding of single layers: elastica, bifurcation and structural softening

    Article • The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics, July 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  67. Impact of mechanical anisotropy and power-law rheology on single layer folding

    Article • Tectonophysics, July 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  68. Scaled amplification equation: A key to the folding history of buckled viscous single-layers

    Article • Tectonophysics, June 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  69. 3D finite amplitude folding: Implications for stress evolution during crustal and lithospheric deformation

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2006, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  70. Effect of mineral phase transitions on sedimentary basin subsidence and uplift

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, April 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  71. Structural softening of the lithosphere

    Article • Terra Nova, February 2005, Wiley

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  72. Control of folding by gravity and matrix thickness: Implications for large-scale folding

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2002, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  73. Inverse Modelling of Sedimentary Basins

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  74. Strain and competence contrast estimation from fold shape

    Article • Tectonophysics, October 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  75. Viscoelastic folding: Maxwell versus Kelvin Rheology

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, May 2001, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  76. A spectral/finite difference method for simulating large deformations of heterogeneous, viscoelastic materials

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, April 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  77. Finite amplitude folding: transition from exponential to layer length controlled growth

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, September 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  78. Erratum to ‘Finite amplitude folding: transition from exponential to layer length controlled growth’

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, September 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  79. Finite amplitude folding: transition from exponential to layer length controlled growth

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, June 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz

  80. Buckling versus folding: Importance of viscoelasticity

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 1999, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stefan M Schmalholz