Papers

2011

  
 

  • Van Loon, A.J., Mazumder, R., 2011. Can once lithified rocks later undergo soft-sediment deformation? Sedimentary Geology 238 (1/2), 101-105. pdf

  • Van Loon, A.J., Malik, P., 2011. Abraded sand volcanoes as a tool for recognizing paleo-earthquakes, with examples from the Cisyrelian Talchir Formation near Angul (Orissa, eastern India). Sedimentary Geology 238 (1/2), 145-155. pdf

2010

  

 

  • Kincal, C., Koca, M.Y., Yilmaz, H.R., Akgün, M., Özyalin, S., Eskişar, T., Akçig, Z., van Loon, A.J., 2010 - Engineering-geological and geotechnical investigations for risk assessment of the university Olympic village in Izmir (Turkey). Geologos, 16, 43-57. pdf

  • Van Vliet-Lanoe, B., Gudmundsson, A., Guillou, H., Guegan, S., Van Loon, A.J,(Tom), De Vleeschouwer, F., 2010. Glacial terminations ii and i as recorded in ne Iceland. Geologos, 16, 201–222. pdf

  • Ruban, D.A., Conrad, C.P., Van Loon, A.J. (Tom), 2010 - The challenge of reconstructing the Phanerozoic sea level and the pacific basin tectonics. Geologos, 16, 235–243. pdf

  • Mulder, T., Hűneke, H., Van Loon, A.J., 2010. Progress in depp-sea sedimentology. [In:] H. Hueneke, T. Mulder (Eds.). Developments in Sedimentology, Elsevier, Amsterdam: 1-24. pdf

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2010. Do pyroclastics form part of a volcano?: A sedimentologist's view. [In:] Cañón-Tapia, E. Szakács, A. (Eds). What Is a Volcano? Special Paper of the Geological Society of America, 470, Boulder, Colorado: 103-114. www

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2010. Sedimentary volcanoes: Overview and implications for the definition of a volcano on earth. [In:] Cañón-Tapia, E. Szakács, A. (red). What Is a Volcano? Special Paper of the Geological Society of America, 470, Boulder, Colorado: 31-41. www

2009

  

 

  • Mazumder, R., Rodríguez-López, J.P., Arima, M., Van Loon, A. J., 2009. Palaeoproterozoic seismites (fine-grained facies of the Chaibasa Formation, east India) and their soft-sediment deformation structures. In: Reddy, S.M. et al. (Eds). Paleoproterozoic Supercontinents and Global Evolution.  Geological Society of London, Special Publication 323, pp. 301-318. pdf

  • Van Loon A.J.,  2009. Unravelling the enigmas of the ‘silver sands’ in the Dutch/German/Belgian border area. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 88, 133–145. pdf

  • Chen J., Van Loon A.J., Han Z., Chough S.K., 2009 - Funnel-shaped, breccia-filled clastic dykes in the Late Cambrian Chaomidian Formation (Shandong Province, China). Sedimentary Geology, 221, 1-6. pdf

  • Kincal C., Koca M.Y., Van Loon A.J. (Tom), 2009. Large-scale land-suitability mapping in the GIS environment for the construction site of the University Olympic Village in Izmir (Turkey). Geologos, 15, 189–198; pdf

  • Van Loon A.J. (Tom), 2009. Soft-sediment deformation structures in siliciclastic sediments: an overview. Geologos, 15, 3–55. pdf

  • Van Loon A.J. (Tom), 2009. Reflections on subglacial megafloods: their possible cause, occurrence, and consequence for the global climate. Geologos, 15, 115–128. pdf

  • Zorina, S.O., Ruban, D.A., Van Loon, A.J., 2009. A condensed succession at the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary in a shallowing basin on the eastern Russian Platform. Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva. Annales Géologiques de la Peninsule Balkanique, 70, 1-8. pdf

2008

 

 

  • Hilgers, A., Van Loon, A.J., 2008. Luminescence dating of sand deposits. In: Besler, H., The Great Sand Sea in Egypt - Formation, dynamics and environmental change - a sediment-analytical approach. Developments in Sedimentology 59, Elsevier, pp. 27-30.

  • Rebesco, M., Camerlenghi, A., Van Loon, A.J., 2008. Contourite research: A field in full development. In: Rebesco, M. & Camerlenghi, A. (Eds), Contourites. Developments in Sedimentology 60, Elsevier, pp. 3-10. pdf

  • Ruban, D.A., Van Loon, A.J., 2008. Possible pitfalls in the procedure for paleodiversity-dynamics analysis. Geologos 14, 37-50. pdf

  • Salon, S., Crise, A., Van Loon, A.J., 2008. Dynamics of the bottom boundary layer. In: Rebesco, M. &Camerlenghi, A. (Eds), Contourites. Developments in Sedimentology 60, Elsevier, pp. 83-97. pdf

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2008. Could ‘Snowball Earth’ have left thick glaciomarine deposits? In: Maruyama, S., Santosh, M. (Eds), Snowball Earth to Cambrian explosion. Gondwana Research 14, 73-81. pdf

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2008. The nature of Mawsonites (Ediacara fauna). In: Maruyama, S., Santosh, M. (Eds), Snowball Earth to Cambrian explosion. Gondwana Research 14, 175-181. pdf

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2008. Geological education of the future. Earth-Science Reviews 86, 247-254. pdf

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2008. Interpretation of dinosaur behaviour on the basis of swim tracks. Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of Oil-Gas Basins 1, 61-70. pdf

 2007

     

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2007. Explorers' challenge sunk by Arctic warming. Nature 450, 161. pdf

  • Gruszka, B., Van Loon, A.J., Zieliński, T. (Eds), 2007. Quaternary Geology - Bridging the gap between East and West. Sedimentary Geology 193: 232 pp.

  • Gruszka, B., Van Loon, A.J., Zieliński, T. , 2007. Bridging the gap in Quaternary geology between East and West: the Brodzikowsi heritage.  Sedimentary Geology 193, 1-5. pdf

  • Goździk, J., Van Loon, A.J., 2007. The origin of a giant downward directed clastic dyke in a kame (Bełchatów mine, central Poland). Sedimentary Geology 193, 71-79. pdf

  • Gruszka, B., Van Loon, A.J., 2007. Pleistocene glaciolacustrine breccias of seismic origin in an active graben (central Poland). Sedimentary Geology 193, 93-104. pdf

  • Rodríguez-López, J.P., Meléndez, N., Soria, A.R., Liesa, C.R., Van Loon, A.J. (Tom), 2007. Lateral variability of ancient seismites related to differences in sedimentary facies (the synrift Escucha Formation, mid-Cretaceous, eastern Spain). Sedimentary Geology 201, 461–484. pdf

  • Van Loon, A.J., Mange, M.A., 2007. 'In situ' dissolution of heavy minerals through extreme weathering, and the application of the surviving assemblages and their dissolution characteristics to correlation of Dutch and German silver sands. In: Mange, M.A. & Wright, D. (Eds), Heavy minerals in use. Developments in Sedimentology 58 (Elsevier, Amsterdam), 189-213. pdf

2006

 

 

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2006. Lost loesses. Earth-Science Reviews 74, 309-316. pdf

  • Mazumder, R., Van Loon, A.J., Arima, M., 2006. Soft-sediment deformation structures in the Earth’s oldest seismites. Sedimentary Geology 186, 19-26. pdf

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2006. Review of the sedimentary types and stratigraphic positions of the Pleistocene glacial diamictons in the Belchatów mine (Kleszczów Graben, central Poland) ). Studia Quaternaria 23, 3-9.

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2006. Deformation of a modern alluvial plain. Geomorphology 78, 351-358.  pdf

2005

 

 

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2005. The needless search for extraterrestrial fossils on Earth. Earth-Science Reviews 68, 335-346. pdf

  • Mabesoone, J.M., Ettensohn, F.R., Van Loon, A.J., Neumann, V.H., 2005. Long-term cyclicities: introduction. In: Mabesoone, J.M. & Neumann, V.H. (eds): Cyclic development of sedimentary basins. Developments in Sedimentology  57, pp. 1-14, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

 2004

 

  • Zielinski, T., Van Loon, A.J., 2004. Present-day sandurs are not representative of the geological record - reply. Sedimentary Geology 164, 341-344. pdf

  • Mokhtari Fard, A., Van Loon, A.J., 2004. Deformation of an early Preboreal deposit at Nykvarn (SE Sweden) as a result of the bulldozing effect of a grounding iceberg. Sedimentary Geology 165, 355-369. pdf

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2004. From speculation to model: the challenge of launching new ideas in the earth sciences. Earth-Science Reviews 65, 305-313. pdf

2003

 

     

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2003. How "hard" are hard-rock deformations? Earth-Science Reviews 61, 181-188. pdf

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2003. Nomenclature of igneous rocks. In: Maisonneuve, H., Enckell, P.H., Polderman, A.K.S., Thapa, R. & Vekony, M. (Eds.): Science Editors' Handbook. European Association of Science Editors (West Clandon) 3-5.2: 1-4.

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2003. Nomenclature of sedimentary rocks. In: Maisonneuve, H., Enckell, P.H., Polderman, A.K.S., Thapa, R. & Vekony, M. (Eds.): Science Editors' Handbook. European Association of Science Editors (West Clandon) 3-5.3: 1-4.

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2003. Nomenclature of metamorphic rocks. In: Maisonneuve, H., Enckell, P.H., Polderman, A.K.S., Thapa, R. & Vekony, M. (Eds.): Science Editors' Handbook. European Association of Science Editors (West Clandon) 3-5.4: 1-2.

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2003. Stratigraphic nomenclature. In: Maisonneuve, H., Enckell, P.H., Polderman, A.K.S., Thapa, R. & Vekony, M. (Eds.): Science Editors' Handbook. European Association of Science Editors (West Clandon) 3-5.5: 1-4.

  • Van Loon, A.J., 2003. The dubious role of Man in a questionable mass extinction. Earth-Science Reviews 62, 177-186. pdf

  • Zielinski, T., Van Loon, A.J., 2003. Pleistocene sandur deposits represent braidplains, not alluvial fans. Boreas 32, 590-611. pdf