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Prof. Dr. Thomas Litt
Institute: Steinmann Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie (Uni Bonn)

Adress: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Nussallee 8

53115 Bonn
DFG-Projects

Environmental response to climatic and volcanic events in NE Anatolia during the last 20,000 years based on annually laminated sediments from Lake Van (Projektverantwortlicher) (2007 - 2011)


Flow cytometry method for purification of fossil pollen from Lake Van varved sediments for AMS radiocarbon dating – a new approach (Mitverantwortlicher) (2018 - 2019)


Forschungsbohrungen im nördlichen Oberrheingraben zur Untersuchung der stratigraphischen, paläoklimatischen und neotektonischen Entwicklung des mitteleuropäischen Plio-Pleistozäns (Projektverantwortlicher) (2001 - 2005)


Lake Van Drilling Project 'PALEOVAN', a long continental record in eastern Turkey: Paleoecological investigations on new cores obtained during the ICDP deep drilling operation in 2010 (Projektverantwortlicher) (2009 - 2015)


Lake Van Drilling Project 'PALEOVAN', a long continental record in eastern Turkey: Paleoecological investigations on new cores obtained during the ICDP deep drilling operation in 2010 (Projektverantwortlicher) (2012 - 2015)


Lake Van, Turkey - Pre-Site Survey for a potential new ICDP site (Projektverantwortlicher) (2002 - 2005)


Lake van, Turkey - a potential new ICDP site: Paleoecological investigations based on lacustrine sediments (short cores from coring campaign 2004) (Projektverantwortlicher) (2005 - 2009)


Lake van, Turkey - a potential new ICDP site: Paleoecological investigations based on lacustrine sediments (short cores from coring campaign 2004) (Projektverantwortlicher) (2005 - 2009)


Vansee-Bohrprojekt "PALEOVAN", ein langes kontinentales bohrprofil in der Osttürkei: Geochronologie, Palynostratigraphie und Umweltreaktionen auf vulkanische Ereignisse (Projektverantwortlicher) (2013 - 2017)


Vansee-Bohrprojekt "PALEOVAN", ein langes kontinentales bohrprofil in der Osttürkei: Geochronologie, Palynostratigraphie und Umweltreaktionen auf vulkanische Ereignisse (Projektverantwortlicher) (2015 - 2016)


Related Publications

Pickarski, Nadine, Kwiecien, Ola, Litt, Thomas (2023). "Volcanic impact on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in the Eastern Mediterranean" Communications Earth & Environment p167


Miebach, Andrea, Stolzenberger, Sophie , Wacker, Lisa , Hense, Andreas, Litt, Thomas (2019). "A new Dead Sea pollen record reveals the last glacial paleoenvironment of the southern Levant" Quaternary Science Reviews 214 p98-116


Chen, Chunzhu, Litt, Thomas (2018). "Dead Sea pollen provides new insights into the paleoenvironment of the southern Levant during MIS 6–5" Quaternary Science Reviews 188 p15-27


Pickarski, Nadine, Litt, Thomas (2017). "A new high-resolution pollen sequence at Lake Van, Turkey: insights into penultimate interglacial–glacial climate change on vegetation history" Climate of the Past 13 p689-710


Stockhecke, Mona, Timmermann, Axel, Kipfer, Rolf, Haug, Gerald H., Kwiecien, Ola, Friedrich, Tobias, Menviel, Laurie, Litt, Thomas, Pickarski, Nadine, Anselmetti, Flavio (2016). "Millennial to orbital-scale variations of drought intensity in the Eastern Mediterranean" Quaternary Science Review 133 p77-95


Pickarski, N., Kwiecien, O., Langgut, D., Litt, T. (2015). "Abrupt climate and vegetation variability of eastern Anatolia during the last glacial" Clim. Past 11 p1491-1505


Ina Neugebauer, Achim Brauer, Markus J Schwab, Peter Dulski, Ute Frank, Elitsa Hadzhiivanova, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Thomas Litt, Vera Schiebel, Nimer Taha, Nicolas D Waldmann, DSDDP Scientific Party (2015). "Evidences for centennial dry periods at ~3300 and ~2800 cal. yr BP from micro-facies analyses of the Dead Sea sediments" The Holocene 25 p1358-1371


Pickarski, Nadine, Kwiecien, Ola, Djamali, Morteza, Litt, Thomas (2015). "Vegetation and environmental changes during the last interglacial in eastern Anatolia (Turkey): a new high-resolution pollen record from Lake Van" Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology p145-158


Litt, Thomas, Pickarski, Nadine, Heumann, Georg, Stockhecke, Mona, Tzedakis, Polychronis C. (2014). "A 600,000 year long continental pollen record from Lake Van, eastern Anatolia (Turkey)" Quaternary Science Reviews 104 p30-41


Randlett, Marie-Ève, Coolen, Marco J. L., Stockhecke, Mona, Pickarski, Nadine, Litt, Thomas, Balkema, Cherel, Kwiecien, Ola, Tomonaga, Yama, Wehrli, Bernhard, Schubert, Carsten J. (2014). "Alkenone distribution in Lake Van sediment over the last 270 ka: influence of temperature and haptophyte species composition" Quaternary Science Reviews 104 p53-62


Stockhecke, Mona, Kwiecien, Ola, Vigliotti, Luigi, Anselmetti, Flavio S., Beer, Jürg, Çağatay, M. Namik, Channell, James E. T., Kipfer, Rolf, Lachner, Johannes, Litt, Thomas, Pickarski, Nadine, Sturm, Michael (2014). "Chronostratigraphy of the 600,000 year old continental record of Lake Van (Turkey)" Quaternary Science Reviews 104 p8-17


Kwiecien, Ola, Stockhecke, Mona, Pickarski, Nadine, Heumann, Georg, Litt, Thomas, Sturm, Michael, Anselmetti, Flavio, Kipfer, Rolf, Haug, Gerald H. (2014). "Dynamics of the last four glacial terminations recorded in Lake Van, Turkey" Quaternary Science Reviews 104 p42-52


Litt, Thomas, Anselmetti, Flavio (2014). "Lake Van deep drilling project PALEOVAN" Quaternary Science Reviews 104 p1-7


Litt, T., Anselmetti, F., Baumgarten, H., Beer, J., Cagatay, N., Cukur, D., Damci, E., Glombitza, C., Haug, G., Heumann, G., Kallmeyer, J., Kipfer, R., Krastel, S., Kwiecien, O., Meydan, A.F., Orcen, S., Pickarski, N., Randlett, M.-E., Schmincke, H.-U., Schubert, C.J., Sturm, M., Sumita, M., Stockhecke, M., Tomonaga, Y., Vigliotti, L., Wonik, T. (2012). "500,000 Years of Environmental History in Eastern Anatolia: The PALEOVAN Drilling Project" Scientific Drilling p18-29


Huguet, C., Fietz, S., Moraleda, N., Litt, T., Heumann, G., Stockhecke, M., Anselmetti, F. S., Sturm, M. (2012). "A seasonal cycle of terrestrial inputs in Lake Van, Turkey" Environmental Science and Pollution Research p3628-3635


Litt, Thomas, Anselmetti, Flavio S., Cagatay, M. Namik, Kipfer, Rolf, Krastel, Sebastian, Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich, Sturm, Michael (2011). "A 500,000-year-long sediment archive drilled in eastern Anatolia" Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 51 p477-479


Litt, Thomas, Krastel, Sebastian, Sturm, Michael, Kipfer, Rolf, Örcen, Sefer, Heumann, Georg, Franz, Sven Oliver, Ülgen, Umut B., Niessen, Frank (2009). "‘PALEOVAN’, International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP): site survey results and perspectives" Quaternary Science Reviews 28 p1555-1567