Publications


journal articles, published, accepted & in press


C.Schiffer, et al. , Vp/Vs ratios in the Parnaíba basin from joint active-passive seismic analysis - Implication for continental amalgamation and basin formation, 2020, Tectonophysics, in press

 

S. Jess, A. Peace, C. Schiffer, Sediment supply on the West Greenland passive margin: redirection of a large pre-glacial drainage system, 2020, JGS

 

R. Stephenson, C. Schiffer et al., Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic intraplate basin inversion in the North Atlantic-western Alpine-Tethys realm, 2020, Earth Science Reviews

 

C. Schiffer, T. Doré, et al., 2019, Structural inheritance in the North Atlantic. Earth Science Reviews

 

Foulger et al., C. Schiffer, 2019, The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge, Earth Science Reviews

 

I. Fomin, C. Schiffer, 2019, Water, hydrous melting and the teleseismic signature of the Mantle Transition Zone. Geosciences

 

G. Foulger, C. Schiffer, A. Peace, 2019, A New Paradigm for the North Atlantic Realm, Earth Science Reviews

 

 L. Gernigon, D. Franke, L. Geoffroy, C. Schiffer, G. Foulger, M. Stoker, 2019, Crustal fragmentation, magmatism and the diachronous opening of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea, Earth-Science Reviews

 

A. Peace, et al., C. Schiffer, 2019, A review of pangaea dispersal and large Igneous Provinces - in search of a causative mechanism, Earth-Science Reviews

 

C. Schiffer, T. Eken, S. Rondenay, T. Taymaz, Localised crustal deformation in the central North Anatolian Fault Zone from inversion of P-receiver functions and P-wave polarisation, Geophysical Journal International

 

K. Petersen, C. Schiffer, T. Nagel, LIP formation and protracted lower mantle upwelling induced by rifting and delamination, Scientific Reports

 

A. Peace, E. Dempsey, C. Schiffer, K. Welford, K. McCaffrey, J. Imber, J. Phethean, 2018, Evidence for basement reactivation during the opening of the Labrador Sea from Makkovik Province, labrador: Insights from field-data and numerical modelling. Geosciences

 

T. Nagel, E. Duesterhoeft, C. Schiffer, Garnet-controlled very low velcocities in the lower mantle transition zone at sites of mantle upwelling. Terra Nova

 

C. Schiffer, A. Peace, J. Phethean, L. Gernigon, K. McCaffrey, K. Petersen, G. Foulger, in press, The Jan Mayen Microplate Complex and the Wilson Cycle. Geological Society of London Special Publication

A. Peace, G. Foulger, C. Schiffer, K. McCaffrey, 2017, Evolution of Labrador Sea-Baffin Bay: Plate or Plume Processes?. Geoscience Canada

 

C. Schiffer, C. Tegner, A. Schaeffer, V. Pease, S.B. Nielsen, 2017, The High Arctic geopotential stress field and its implications for geodynamic evolution. Geological Society of London Special Publication

C. Schiffer, R. A. Stephenson, 2017, Regional crustal structure of Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Geological Society of London Special Publications

 

R.A. Stephenson, K. Piepjohn, C. Schiffer, W. vonGosen, G. Oakey, 2017, Integrated crustal-geological cross-section of Ellesmere Island. Geological Society of London Special Publications

 

C. Schiffer, N. Balling, J. Ebbing, B.H. Jacobsen, S.B. Nielsen, 2016, Geophysical-petrological modelling of the East Greenland Caledonides - Isostatic support from crust and upper mantle. Tectonophysics, Vol. 692, 12/2016, p.44-77

 

K.D. Petersen, C. Schiffer, 2016, Wilson Cycle passive margins: Control of orogenic inheritance on continental breakup. Gondwana Research, Vol. 39, 11/2016, p. 131-144

 

C. Schiffer, R.A. Stephenson, G. Oakey, B.H. Jacobsen, 2016, The crustal structure of Ellesmere Island - teleseismic mapping accross a remote orogenic belt. Geophysical Journal International, Vol. 204, 3/2016, p. 1579-1600

 

C. Schiffer, S.B. Nielsen, 2016, Implications for anomalous mantle pressure and dynamic topography from lithospheric stress patterns in the North Atlantic. Journal of Geodynamics, Vol. 98, 8/2016, p. 53-69

 

C. Schiffer, R.A. Stephenson, K.D. Petersen, B.H. Jacobsen, N. Balling, S.B. Nielsen, D.I.M. Macdonald, 2015, A sub-crustal piercing point for North Atlantic reconstructions and tectonic implications. Geology, Vol. 43, No. 12, 12/2015, p. 1087-1090

 

C. Schiffer, B.H. Jacobsen, N. Balling, J. Ebbing, S.B. Nielsen, 2105, The East Greenland Caledonides - Teleseismic signature, gravity and isostasy. Geophysical Journal International, Vol. 203, 12/2015, p. 1400-1418

 

C. Schiffer, N. Balling, B.H. Jacobsen, R.A. Stephenson, S.B. Nieslen, 2014, Seismological evidence for a fossil subduction zone in the East Greenland Caledonides. Geology, Vol. 42, No. 4, 4/2014, p. 311-314

 


Book articles, reports



in review and revision


C. Schiffer et al., Crustal and sedimentary Vp/Vs ratios from joint receiver functions-reflection-refraction seismic analysis: a case study from the Parnaiba Basin, Brazil, submitted to Tectonophysics.

 


in prep