Marine Geophysik und Hydroakustik

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Krastel

Leiter der Arbeitsgruppe

Otto-Hahn-Platz 1, R. 110
Telefon: +49 431 880-3914
Telefax: +49 431 880-4432
sebastian.krastel@ifg.uni-kiel.de

Research Interests

  • Submarine hazards
  • Slope stabilities and submarine landslides
  • Sediment processes along continental margins
  • Evolution of lakes
  • Evolution of submarine volcanos

Resume

Occupations

since 10/2012 Professor for ‘Marine Geophysics and Hydroacoustics’ Kiel University

03/2008 - 09/2012 Professor for ‘Submarine Hazards at Continental Margins’ GEOMAR, Kiel University

2007 - 2008 ‘Akademischer Rat’ at the ‘Marine Technology/ Environmental Research’ Group of the Department of Geosciences, Bremen Uni

2001 - 2006 ‘Wissenschaftlicher Assistent’ at the ‘Marine Technology/ Environmental Research’ Group of the Department of Geosciences, Bremen Uni

1999 - 2000 Post-Doc at GEOMAR Research Center, Kiel, Germany. Project: ‘Volcanic and geodynamic evolution of the Canary Archipelago and adjacent seamounts’.

 

Education

12/1999 Ph.D. in earthsciences. Title of thesis: 'Growth processes and destructive events during the evolution of volcanic islands: a case study from the Canary Islands'.

1995 - 1999 Ph.D.-student at the graduate school 'Dynamics of Global Cycles', GEOMAR Research Center, Kiel, Germany

06/1995 MSc (Diplom Geophysiker)

1988 - 1995 Study of Geophysics at Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany

Expert Activities

  • More than 40 research cruises and expeditions on lakes (several as chief scientists)
  • PI of two scientific drilling projects
  • Member of the IODP Scientific Technology Panel and Site characterization panel
  • Several research stays at foreign universities
  • Teaching since 2001
  • Reviews for scientific journals and projects
  • Convener and presenter at International Meetings
  • Public outreach activities (exhibitions, talks, kids university ect.)

List of Publications

Peer-reviewed

  • Riedinger, N., Brunner, B., Krastel, S., Arnold, G.L., Wehrmann. L.M., Formolo, M.J., Beck, A., Bates, S.M., Henkel, S., Kasten, S., Lyons, T.W. (2017) Sulfur cycling in an iron oxide-dominated, dynamic marine depositional system: The Argentine continental margin. Frontiers in Earth Science, 5:33, doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00033
  • Wagner, B., et al. (2017) The environmental and evolutionary history of Lake Ohrid (FYROM/Albania): interim results from the SCOPSCO deep drilling project. Biogeosciences, 14, 2033–2054, doi:10.5194/bg-14-2033-2017
  • Fu, L, Heidarzadeh, M., Cukur, D., Chiocci, F., Ridente, D., Gross, F., Bialas, J., Krastel, S. (2017) Tsunamigenic potential of a newly-discovered active fault zone in the outer Messina Strait, Southern Italy. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, Doi: 10.1002/2017GL072647
  • Gutscher, M.A., Kopp, H., Krastel, S., Bohrmann, G., Thierry, Garlan, T., Zaragosi, S., Klaucke, I., Wintersteller, P., Loubrieu, B., Faou, Y.L., San Pedro, L., Dominguez, S., Rovere, M., Mercier de Lepinay, B., Ranero, C., Sallares, V. (2017) Active tectonics of the Calabrian subduction revealed by new multi-beam bathymetric data and high-resolution seismic profiles in the Ionian Sea (Central Mediterranean) Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 46, 61-72.
  • Cukur, D., Krastel, S., Tomonaga, Y., Schmincke, H.-U., Sumita, M., Meydan, F.A., Çağatay, N., Toker, M., Kim, S.-P., Horozal, S. (2017) Structural characteristics of the Lake Van Basin, eastern Turkey, from high-resolution seismic reflection profiles: geologic and tectonic implications. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 106, 239-253, DOI 10.1007/s00531-016-1312-5
  • Schönke, M., Feldens, P., Wilken, D., Papenmeier, S., Heinrich, C., Schneider von Deimpling, J., Held, P., Krastel, S. (2016) Impact of Lanice conchilega on seafloor microtopography off the island of Sylt (German Bight, SE North Sea), Geo-Marine Letters, doi:10.1007/s00367-016-0491-1
  • Geissler, W., Gebhardt, A.C., Gross, F., Wollenburg, J., Jensen, L., Schmidt-Aursch, M.C., Krastel, S., Elger, J., Osti, G. (2016) Arctic megaslide at presumed rest. Scientific Reports. Doi: 10.1038/srep38529
  • Gross, F., Krastel, S., Geersen, J., Behrmann, J.H., Ridente, D., Chiocci, F.L., Bialas, J., Papenberg, C., Cukur, D., Urlaub, M., Micallef, A. (2016) The limits of seaward spreading and slope instability at the continental margin offshore Mt Etna, imaged by high-resolution 2D seismic data. Tectonophysics, 667, 63-76 doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.11.011
  • Krastel, S., Wynn, R.B., Feldens, P., Schürer, A., Böttner, C., Stevenson, C., Cartigny, M., Hühnerbach, V., Unverricht, D. (2016) Flow behaviour of a giant landslide and debris flow entering Agadir Canyon, NW Africa. In: Submarine mass movements and their consequences (eds: Lamarche, G. et al). Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 41, Springer, 145-154.
  • Lindhorst, K., Krastel, S., Baumgarten, H. (2016) Mass Wasting History within Lake Ohrid Basin (Albania/Macedonia) over the last 600 ka. In: Submarine mass movements and their consequences (eds: Lamarche, G. et al). Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 41, Springer, 291-300.
  • Micallef, A., Mountjoy, J.J., Krastel, S., Crutchley, G., Koch, S. (2016) Shallow gas and the development of a weak layer in submarine spreading. In: Submarine mass movements and their consequences (eds: Lamarche, G. et al). Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 41, Springer, 419-426.
  • Lamarche, G., Mountjoy, J., Bull, S., Hubble, T., Krastel, S., Lane, E., Micallef, A., Moscardelli, L, Mueller, C., Pecher, I., Woelz, S. In: Submarine mass movements and their consequences (eds: Lamarche, G. et al). Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 41, Springer, 145-154.) Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences: Progress and Challenges. In: Submarine mass movements and their consequences (eds: Lamarche, G. et al). Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 41, Springer, 1-12.
  • Cukur, D., Krastel, S., Çağatay, N., Damci, E., Meydan, A.F., Kim, S.P. (2015) Evidence of extensive carbonate mounds and sublacustrine channels in shallow waters of Lake Van, easternTurkey, based on high-resolution chirp subbottom profiler and multibeam echosounder data. Geo-Marine Letters, 25, 329-340Doi: 10.1007/s00367-015-0410-x
  • Steinle, L., Graves, C., Treude, T., Ferré, B., Biastoch, A., Bussmann, I., Berndt, C., Krastel, S., James, R.H., Behrens, E., Böning, C.W., Greinert, J., Sapart, C.-J, Scheinert, M., Sommer, S., Lehmann, M.F., Niemann, H. (2015) Water column methanotrophy controlled by a rapid oceanographic switch. Nature Geoscience, 8, 378-382. Doi: 10.1038/NGEO2420
  • Glogowski, S., Dullo, W.-C., Feldens, P., Liebetrau, V., von Reumont, J., Hühnerbach, V., Krastel, S., Wynn, R.B., Flögel, S. (2015) The Eugen Seibold coral mounds offshore western Morocco: oceanographic and bathymetric boundary conditions of a newly discovered cold-water coral province. Geo-Marine Letters, 25, 257-269, DOI: 10.1007/s00367-015-0405-7
  • Lindhorst, K., Krastel, S., Reicherter, K., Stipp, M., Wagner, B., Schwenk, T. (2015) Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania). Basin Research. 27, 84-101, DOI: 10.1111/bre.12063
  • Elger, J., Berndt, C., Krastel, S., Piper, D.J.W., Gross, F., Spielhagen, R.F., Meyer, S. (2015) The Fram Slide off Svalbard: A submarine landslide on a low-sedimentation-rate glacial continental margin. Journal of the Geological Society, 172, 153-156.
  • Cukur, D., Krastel, S., Schmincke, H.-U., Sumita, M., Tomonaga, Y., M.N. Çağatay (2014) Water level changes in Lake Van, Turkey, during the past ca. 600 ka: climatic, volcanic and tectonic controls. Journal of Paleolimnology, 52, 201-214. Doi: 10.1007/s10933-014-9788-0
  • Cukur, D., Krastel, S., Schmincke, H.-U., Sumita, M., Çağatay, N., Meydan, A.F., Damci, E., Stockhecke, M. (2014) Seismic stratigraphy of Lake Van, eastern Turkey. Quaternary Science Reviews, 104, 63-84, Doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.07.016
  • Crutchley, G., Klaeschen, D., Planert, L., Bialas, J., Berndt, C., Papenberg, C., Hensen, C., Hornbach, M.J., Krastel, S., Brueckmann, W. (2014) The impact of fluid advection on gas hydrate stability: Investigations at sites of methane seepage offshore Costa Rica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 401, 95-109.
  • Ai, F., Strasser, M., Preu, B., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Krastel, S., Kopf, A. (2014) New constraints on the oceanographic vs. seismic control on submarine landslides initiation: a geotechnical approach off Uruguay and northern Argentina. Geo-Marine-Letters.34, 399-417
  • Wagner, B., Wilke, T., Krastel, S., Zanchetta, G., Sulpizio, R., Reicherter, K., Leng, M.J., Grazhdani, A., Trajanovski, S., Francke, A., Lindhorst, K., Levkov, Z., Cvetkoska, A., Reed, J.M., Zhang, X., Lacey, J.H., Wonik, T., Baumgarten, H., Vogel, H. (2014) The SCOPSCO drilling project recovers more than 1.2 million years history from Lake Ohrid. Scientific Drilling, 17, 19-29.
  • Wagner, B., Wilke, T., Krastel, S., Zanchetta, G., Sulpizio, R., Reicherter, R., Leng, M., Grazhdani, A., Trajanovski, S., Levkov, Z., Reed, J., Wonik, T. (2014) More than one million years of history in Lake Ohrid cores. Eos, 95 25-26.
  • Berndt, C., Feseker, T., Treude, T., Krastel, S., Liebetrau, V., Niemann, H., Bertics, V.J., Dumke, I., Dünnbier, K., Ferré, B., Graves, C., Gross, F., Hissmann, K., Hühnerbach, V., Krause, S., Lieser, K., Schauer, J., Steinle, L. (2014) Temporal constraints on hydrate-controlled methane seepage off Svalbard. Science, 343, 248-287, DOI: 10.1126/science.1246298.
  • Heidarzadeh, M., Krastel, S., Yalciner, A.C. (2014) The state-of-the-art numerical tools for modeling of landslide tsunamis: a short review. In: Submarine mass movements and their consequences (eds: Krastel et al). Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 37, 483-495.
  • Krastel, S., Lehr, J., Winkelmann, D., Schwenk, T., Preu, B., Strasser, M., Wynn, R.B., Georgiopoulou, A., Hanebuth, T. (2014) Mass wasting along Atlantic continental margins: a comparison between NW-Africa and the de la Plata River region (northern Argentina and Uruguay). In: Submarine mass movements and their consequences (eds: Krastel et al). Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 37, 459-469.
  • Schwab, J., Krastel, S., Heidarzadeh, M. (2014) Modeling potential tsunami hazards associated with submarine landslides in the East Andaman Basin offshore western Thailand. In: Submarine mass movements and their consequences (eds: Krastel et al). Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 37, 517-528.
  • Lindhorst, K., Krastel, S., Papenberg, C., Heidarzadeh, M. (2014) Modeling submarine landslide-generated waves in Lake Ohrid, Macedonia/Albania. In: Submarine mass movements and their consequences (eds: Krastel et al). Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 37, 497-506.
  • Gross, F., Krastel, S., Chiocci, F.L., Ridente, D., Schwab, J., Beier, J., Cukur, D., Winkelmann, D. (2014) New implications on submarine landslides offshore Mt. Etna, Italy. In: Submarine mass movements and their consequences (eds: Krastel et al). Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 37, 307-316.
  • Georgiopoulou, A., Benetti, S., Shannon, P.M., Sacchetti, F., Haughton, D.W., Krastel, S. (2014) Mass wasting processes on the slopes of the Rockall Trough margins, Northeast Atlantic. In: Submarine mass movements and their consequences (eds: Krastel et al). Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 37, 471-481.
  • Cukur, D., Krastel, S., Tomonaga, Y., Cagatay, N., Maydan, A.F., The PaleoVan Science Team (2013) Seismic evidence of shallow gas from Lake Van, eastern Turkey. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 48, 341-353.
  • Geersen, J., Völker, D., Behrmann, J.H., Kläschen, D., Weinrebe, W., Krastel, S., Reichert, K. (2013) Seismic rupture during the 1960 Great Chile and the 2010 Maule earthquakes limited by a giant Pleistocene submarine slope failure. Terra Nova, 6, 472-477.
  • Weiss, R., Krastel, S., Anasetti, A., Wuennemann, K. (2013) Constraining the characteristics of tsunami waves from deformable submarine landslides. Geophysical Journal International, 194, 316-321.
  • Preu, B.M., Hernández-Molina, J., Violante, R., Pioal, A., Paterlini, C.M., Schwenk, T., Voigt, I., Krastel, S., Spiess, V. (2013) Morphosedimentary and hydrographic features of the northern Argentine margin: the interplay between erosive, depositional and gravitational processes and its conceptual implications. Deep-Sea Research Part I, 75, 157-174.
  • Cukur, D., Krastel, S., Demirel-Schlüter, F., Demirbag, E., Imren, C., Niessen, F., Toker, M., and Paleo Van-Working Group (2013) Sedimentary evolution of Lake Van (Eastern Turkey) reconstructed from high resolution seismic investigations. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 102, 571-585.
  • Wynn, R.B., Krastel, S. (2012) An unprecedented Western Palearctic concentration of Wilson’s Storm-petrels Oceanites oceanicus at an oceanic upwelling front offshore Mauritania. Seabird, 25, 47-53.
  • Wagner, B., Francke, A., Sulpizio, R., Zanchetta, G., Lindhorst, K., Krastel, S., Vogel, H., Daut, G.. Grazhdani, A., Lushaj, B., Trajanovski, S. (2012) Seismic and sedimentological evidence of an early 6th century AD earthquake at Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania). Climate of the Past, 8, 2069-2078, doi:10.5194/cp-8-2069-2012.
  • Preu, B.M., Schwenk, T., Hernández-Molina, J., Violante, R., Paterlini, M., Tomasini, J., Krastel, S., Spiess, V. (2012) Sedimentary growth pattern on the northern Argentine slope: the impact of North Atlantic Deep Water on southern hemisphere slope architecture. Marine Geology, 329-331, 113-125.
  • Schwab, J.M., Krastel, S., Grün, M., Gross, F., Pananont, P., Jintasaeranee, P., Bunsomboonsakul, S., Weinrebe, W., Winkelamnn, D. Submarine (2012) Mass Wasting and associated Tsunami Risk in the Andaman Sea, Thailand. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 12, 2609-2630, doi:10.5194/nhess-12-2609-2012, 2012.
  • Krastel, S., Wynn, R.B., Georgiopoulou, A., Geersen, J., Henrich, R., Meyer, M., Schwenk, T. (2012) Large scale mass wasting at the NW-African Continental Margin: some general implications for mass wasting at passive continental margins. Submarine mass movements and their consequences. In: Yamada, Y. et al. (eds), Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 31, Springer, 189-199.
  • Lindhorst, K., Grün, M., Krastel, S., Schwenk, T. (2012) Mass wasting in Lake Ohrid (FYR Macedonia/Albania) – hydroacoustic analysis and its tsunamigenic potential. Submarine mass movements and their consequences. In: Yamada, Y. et al. (eds), Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 31, Springer, 245-253.
  • Meyer, M., Geersen, J., Krastel, S., Schwenk, T., Winkelmann, D. (2012) Dakar Slide offshore Senegal, NW-Africa: Interaction of stacked giant mass-wasting events and canyon evolution. Submarine mass movements and their consequences. In: Yamada, Y. et al. (eds), Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 31, Springer, 177-188.
  • Anasetti, A., Winkelmann, D., Krastel, S., Bialas, J., Brückmann, W. (2012) The BGR Slide off Costa Rica: preconditioning factors, trigger, and slide dynamics. In: Yamada, Y. et al. (eds), Submarine mass movements and their consequences. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 31, Springer, 289-299.
  • Henkel, S., Schwenk, T., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Strasser, M., Riedinger, N., Formolo, M., Arnold, G.L., Tomasini, J., Krastel, S., Kasten, S. (2012) Pore water geochemistry as a tool for identifying and dating young mass-transport deposits. In: Yamada, Y. et al. (eds), Submarine mass movements and their consequences. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 31, Springer, 87-97.
  • Litt, T., Anselmetti, F., Cagatay, N., Kipfer, R., Krastel, S., Schmincke, H.-U. (2011) A 500,000 year-long sedimentary archive drilled in Eastern Anatolia (Turkey): The PaleoVan Drilling Project. Eos, 92-51, 477-479.
  • Geersen, J., Völker, D., Behrmann, J., Reichert, C., Krastel, S. (2011) Pleistocene giant slope failures offshore Arauco Peninsula, Southern Chile. Journal of the Geological Society, 168, 1237-1248.
  • Henkel, S., Strasser, M., Schwenk, T., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Hüsener, J., Arnold, G.L., Winkelmann, D., Formolo, M., Tomasini, J.P., Krastel, S., Kasten, S. (2011) An interdisciplinary investigation of a recent submarine mass transport deposit at the continental margin off Uruguay. Geochemistry, Geophsics, Geosystems, Q08009, doi:10.1029/2011GC003669.
  • Reicherter, K., Hoffmann, N., Lindhorst, K., Krastel, S., Fernández-Steeger, T. (2011) Active basins and neotectonics: the Lake Ohrid (FYROM, Albania), ZDGG, Tectonics and Sedimentation, 162, 217-234.
  • Krastel, S., Wefer, G., Hanebuth, T.J.J, Antobreh, A.A., Freudenthal, T., Preu, B., Schwenk, T., Strasser, M., Violante, R., Winkelmann, D., and M78/3 shipboard scientific party (2011) Sediment Dynamics and Geohazards off Uruguay and the de la Plata River region (Northern-Argentina). Geo-Marine Letters, 31, 271-283.
  • Geersen, J., Behrmann, J., Völker, D., Krastel, S., Ranero, C.R., Diaz-Naveas, J., Weinrebe, W. (2011) Active tectonics of the South Chilean marine forearc (35°S – 40°S). Tectonics, 30, TC3006, doi:10.1029/2010TC002777.
  • Pierau, R., Henrich, R., Preiß-Daimler, I., Krastel, S., Geersen, J. (2011) Sediment transport and turbidite architecture in the submarine Dakar Canyon off Senegal, NW-Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 60, 196-208.
  • Carracedo, J.C., Fernández Turiel, J.L., Gimeno, D., Guillou, H., Klügel, A., Krastel, S., Paris, R., Pérez Torrado, F.J., Rodríguez Badiola, E., Rodríguez González, A., Troll, V.R., Walter, T.R., Wiesmaier. S. (2011) Comment on “The distribution of basaltic volcanism on Tenerife, Canary Islands: Implications on the origin and dynamics of the rift systems” by A. Geyer and J. Martí. Tectonophysics 483 (2010) 310–326. Tectonophysics, 503, 239-241.
  • Lindhorst, K., Vogel, H., Krastel, S., Wagner, B., Hilgers, A., Zander, A., Schwenk, T., Wessels, M., Daut, G. (2010) Stratigraphic analysis of Lake Level Fluctuations in Lake Ohrid: An integration of high resolution hydro-acoustic data and sediment cores. Biogeosciences, 7, 3531–3548.
  • Georgiopoulou, A., Masson, D., Wynn, R.B., Krastel, S. (2010) The Sahara Slide: Initiation and processes from headwall to deposit of a giant submarine slide. G-cubed. 11-7. doi:10.1029/2010GC003066.
  • Förster, A., Ellis, R., Henrich, R., Krastel, S., Kopf, A.J. (2010) Geotechnical characterization and strain analyses of sediment in the Mauritania Slide Complex, NW-Africa. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27, 1175-1189.
  • Strozyk, F., Strasser, M., Krastel. S., Meyer, M., Huhn, K. (2010) Reconstruction of retreating mass wasting from progressive slope steepening of the northeastern Cretan margin, eastern Mediterranean. Marine Geology. 271, 44-54.
  • Pierau, R., Hanebuth, T.J.J, Krastel, S., Henrich, R. (2010) Late Quaternary climatic events and sea level changes recorded by turbidite activity, Dakar Canyon, NW-Africa. Quaternary Research,73, 385-392.
  • Henrich, R., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Cherubini, Y., Krastel, S., Pierau, R., Zühlsdorff, C. (2010) Climate induced trubidity current activity in NW-African canyon systems. In: Mosher, D.C., Shipp, R.C. Moscardelli, L., Chaytor, J., Baxter, C. Lee, H., Urgeles, R. (eds) Submarine mass movements and their consequences. Advances in Natural and technological Hazards Research, Vol 28, Springer, 447-459.
  • Strozyk, F., Huhn. K., Strasser. M., Krastel. S., Kock. I., Kopf. A. (2009) New evidence for mass wasting at the NE Cretan slope: a multi-stage slide complex from the eastern Mediterranean. Marine Geology, 263, 97-107.
  • Litt, T., Krastel, S., Sturm, M., Kipfer, R., Örcen, S., Heumann, G., Franz, S.O., Ülgen, U.B., Niessen, F. (2009) Lake Van Drilling Project ‘PALEOVAN’, International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP): Results of a recent pre-site survey and perspectives. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28, 1555-1567.
  • Lantsch, H., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Bender, V., Krastel, S. (2009) Sedimentary architecture of a low-accumulation shelf since the Late Pleistocene (NW Iberia). Marine Geology, 259, 47-58.
  • Sahling, H., Bohrmann, G., Spiess, V., Bialas, J., Breitzke, M., Ivanov, M., Kasten, S., Krastel, S., Schneider, R. (2008) Pockmarks in the northern Congo Fan area, SW Africa: complex seafloor features shaped by fluid flow. Marine Geology, 249, 206-225.
  • Wagner-Friedrichs, M., Krastel, S., Spiess, V., Ivanov, M., Bohrmann, G., Meisner, L. (2008) 3D seismic investigations of the Sevastopol mud volcano in correlation to gas/fluid migration pathways and gas hydrates occurrences in the Sorokin Trough (Black Sea). G-cubed, 9-5, doi:10.1029/2007GC001685.
  • Henrich, R., Hanebuth, T.T.J., Krastel, S., Neubert, N., Wynn, R. (2008) Architecture and sediment dynamics of the Mauritania Slide Complex. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 25, 17-33.
  • Kopf, A., Stegmann, S., Krastel, S., Förster, A., Strasser, M., Irving, M. (2007) Marine deep-water free fall CPT measurements for landslide characterisation off Crete, Greece (Eastern Mediterranean Sea). Part 2: Initial data from the western Cretan Sea. In Lykousis, V., Sakellariou, D., Locat, J. (eds) Submarine mass movements and their consequences. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, Springer, 199-208.
  • Georgiopoulou, A., Krastel, S., Masson, D.G., Wynn, R.B. (2007) Repeated instability of the NW African Margin related to buried landslide scarps. In Lykousis, V., Sakellariou, D., Locat, J. (eds) Submarine mass movements and their consequences. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, Springer, 29-36.
  • Bartels, T., Krastel, S., Spiess, V. (2007) Correlation of high-resolution seismic data with ODP Leg 208 borehole measurements. In Kroon, D., Zachos, J.C., and Richter, C. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 208: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 1–27, doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.208.204.2007.
  • Antobreh, A.A., Krastel, S. (2007) Mauritania Slide Complex: Morphology, seismic characterisation and processes of formation. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 96, 451-472.
  • Krastel, S., Wynn, R.B., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Henrich, R., Holz, C., Meggers, H., Kuhlmann, H., Georgiopoulou. A., Schulz, H.D. (2006) Mapping of seabed morphology and shallow sediment structure of the Mauritania continental margin, Northwest Africa: some implications for geohazard potential. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 86, 163-176.
  • Antobreh, A.A., Krastel, S. (2006) Morphology, seismic characteristics and development of Cap Timiris Canyon, offshore Mauritania: a newly discovered canyon preserved off a major arid climatic region. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 23, 37-59.
  • Krastel, S., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Wynn, R.B., Antobreh, A.A., Henrich, R., Holz, C., Kölling, M., Schulz, H.D., Wien, K. (2004) Cap Timiris Canyon: A newly discovered channel-system off Mauritania. EOS Transactions, 45/42, p. 417, 423.
  • Krastel, S., Spiess, V., Ivanov, M., Weinrebe, W., Bohrmann, G., Shashkin, P., Heidersdorf, F. (2003) Acoustic images of mud volcanoes in the Sorokin Trough, Black Sea, Geo-Marine Letters, 23, 230-238.
  • Borhmann, G., Ivanov, M., Foucher, J.-P. , Spiess, V. , Bialas, J., Greinert, J., Weinrebe, W., Abegg, F., Aloisi, G., Artemov, Y., Blinova, V., Broser, A., Drews, M., Heidersdorf, F., Klaucke, I., Krastel, S., Leder, T., Polikarpov, I., Saburova, M., Seifert, R. Volkonskaya, A., Zillmer. M. (2003) Mud volcanoes and gas hydrates in the Black Sea – new data from Dvurechenskii and Odessa mud volcanoes, Geo-Marine Letters, 23, 239-249.
  • Krastel, S., Schmincke, H.-U., Jacobs, C.L., Le Bas, T.P., Rihm, R., Alibes, B. (2002) Large-scale slides on the flanks of the Canary Islands. In: Mienert, J., Weaver, P.P.R. (eds), European Margin Sediment dynamics – Sidescan sonar and seismic images. Springer, Berlin, New York, 293-296.
  • Krastel, S., Schmincke, H.-U. (2002) The channel between Gran Canaria and Tenerife: constructive processes and destructive events during the evolution of volcanic islands, International Journal of Earth Sciences, 91, 629-641.
  • Krastel, S., Schmincke, H.-U. (2002) Crustal structure of northern Gran Canaria deduced from active seismic tomography, Journal of Volcanology Geothermal Research, 115, 153-177.
  • Krastel, S., Schmincke, H.-U., Jacobs, C.L., Rihm, R., Le Bas, T.P., Alibes, B. (2001) Submarine landslides around the Canary Islands, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 3977-3998.
  • Krastel, S., Schmincke, H.-U., Jacobs, C.L. (2001) Formation of submarine canyons on the flanks of ocean islands: examples from the Canary Islands, Geo-Mar Letters, 20, 160-167.
  • Rihm, R., Jacobs, C.L., Krastel, S., Schmincke, H.-U., Alibes, B. (1998) Las Hijas Seamounts-the next Canary Island? Terra Nova, 10, 121-125.
  • Collier, J.S., Danobeitia, J.J., Canales, J.P., Dalwood, R., Gadd, S., Hayward, N., Henstock, T.J., Krastel, S., Peirce, C., Watts, A. (1997) Evidence for asymmetric accretion and low-angle, planar faults in slow-spreading oceanic crust. Geology, 25, 1075-1078.
  • Schmincke, H.-U., Freundt, A., Rihm, R., Sumita, M., Krastel, S., Hoernle, K. (1997) Vulkaninseln als ozeanische Geosysteme. Geowissenschaften, 9, 301-305.
  • Funck, T., Dickmann, T., Rihm, R., Krastel, S., Lykke-Andersen, H., Schmincke, H.-U. (1996) Reflection seismic investigations in the volcaniclastic apron of Gran Canaria and implications for its volcanic evolution. Geophysical Journal International, 125, 519-536.

Books

  • Lamarche, G., Mountjoy, J., Bull, S., Hubble, T., Krastel, S., Lane, E., Micallef, A., Moscardelli, L., Mueller, C., Pecher, I., Woelz, S. (2016) Submarine mass movements and their consequences. 7th International Symposium. Advances in Natural and Technological Research, 41, pp 621.
  • Krastel, S., Behmann, J.-H., Völker, D., Stipp, M., Berndt, C., Urgeles, R., Chaytor, J., Huhn, K., Strasser, M., Harbitz, C.B. (2014) Submarine mass movements and their consequences. 6th International Symposium. Advances in Natural and Technological Research, 37, pp 683.
  • Balzereit, F.; Blume, B.; Knickmeier, K.; Krastel, S.; Visbeck, M. Abenteuer Weltmeere, Cornelsen Verlag, Hrsg: Dietrich, V.; Kleesattel, W.  pp 64, ISBN: 978-3-06-010828-2

Selected Reports

  • Krastel, S. (2016) RV POSEIDON-CRUISE POS496, Malaga – Catania, 24.03.2016 - 04.04.2016, Short Cruise Report: MAGOMET - Offshore flank movement of Mount Etna and associated landslide hazard in the Ionian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) . Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Institute of Geosciences, 8 pp. DOI 10.3289/SCR_POS_496.
  • Krastel, S. (2015) Interaction of large landslides and canyons off NW-Africa. Briand, F. (ed), Submarine canyon dynamics in the Mediterranean and tributary seas - An integrated geological, oceanographic and biological perspective. CIESM Monograph 47, CIESM Publisher, Monaco, 59-69
  • Ceramicola S., Amaro T., Amblas D., Çağatay N., Carniel S., Chiocci F.L., Fabri M.C., Gamberi F., Harris P., Lo Iacono C., Jipa D., Kontoyiannis H., Krastel S., Mascle J., Puig P., Vázquez J.T. and F. Briand (2015) Submarine canyon dynamics - Executive Summary. pp. 7 - 20 In CIESM Monograph 47 [F. Briand ed.] Submarine canyon dynamics in the Mediterranean and tributary seas - An integrated geological, oceanographic and biological perspective, 232 p. CIESM Publisher, Monaco.
  • Krastel, S. and cruise participants (2014) Morphology, processes and geohazards of giant landslides in and around Agadir Canyon, northwest Africa. Cruise No. MSM32 – September 25 – October 30, 2013 – Bremen (Germany) – Southampton (UK) – Cádiz (Spain). MARIAS S. MERIAN-Berichte, MSM32, 53 pp, DFG-Senatskommission für Ozeanographie, DOI: 10.2312/cr_msm32.
  • Krastel, S. and cruise participants (2014) Seismogenic faults, landslides, and associated tsunamis off southern Italy. Cruise No. M86/2 – November 21, 2011 – January 17, 2012 – Cartagena (Spain) – Brindisi (Italy). METEOR-Berichte, M86/2, 49 pp, DFG-Senatskommission für Ozeanographie, DOI: 10.2312/cr_m86_2.
  • Wagner, B., Wilke, T., Krastel, S., Zanchetta, G.,. Sulpizio, R., Reicherter, K., Leng, M.J., Grazhdani, A.,. Trajanovski, S., Francke, A., Lindhorst, K., Levkov, Z., Cvetkoska, A., Reed, J.M.,. Zhang, X., Lacey, J.H., Wonik, T.,Baumgarten, H. (2014) The SCOPSCO drilling project recovers more than 1.2 million years of history from Lake Ohrid. Scientific Drilling, 17, 19-29.
  • Litt, T., Anselmetti, F.S., 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., PALEOVAN Scientific Team, 2012. 500,000 Years of Environmental History in Eastern Anatolia: The PALEOVAN Drilling Project. Scientific Drilling, 14, 18-29.
  • Krastel, S., Wefer, G., and cruise participants, 2012. Report and preliminary results of RV METEOR Cruise M78/3. Sediment transport off Uruguay and Argentina: From the shelf to the deep sea. 19.05.2009 – 06.07.2009, Montevideo (Uruguay) – Montevideo (Uruguay). Berichte, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Universität Bremen, No. 285, 79 pages. Bremen, 2012.
  • Krastel, S., 2011. Gefahren aus dem Meer: Erdbeben, Hangrutschungen und Tsunamis. In: Der Ozean ist unsere Zukunft. Kieler Meeresforscher auf Zeitreise ins Jahr 2100. 64-69.
  • Krastel, S.. 2011. FS POSEIDON Fahrtbericht / Cruise Report P395 - Sahara Slide Complex, 04.02. – 19.02.2010 Las Palmas - Las Palmas (Spain) IFM-GEOMAR Report, 50, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, 53 pp.
  • Krastel, S., 2011. RV Chakratong Tongyai Fahrtbericht / Cruise Report: MASS-III Morphodynamics and Slope Stability of the Andaman Sea Shelf Break (Thailand), Phuket - Phuket (Thailand), 11.01. - 24.01.2011 IFM-GEOMAR Report, 43 . IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, 42 pp.
  • Henrich, R., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Krastel, S., Zühlsdorff, C., 2010. Wüste und submarine Canyons - ein vermeintliches Paradoxon vor Mauretanien. Expedition Erde, 150 - 155.
  • Lindhorst, K., Krastel, S., Wagner, B., SCOPSCO Working Group, 2010. Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of ancient Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Geophysikalischen Gesellschaft, 1-2010, 28-31.
  • Wagner, B, Wilke, T, Krastel, S, Grazhdani, A, Reicherter, K, Trajanovski, S., Zanchetta, G. 2009. Scientific Collaboration on Past Speciation Conditions in Lake Ohrid–SCOPSCO Workshop Report. Scientific Drilling, 7, 51-53.
  • Urgeles, R., Camerlenghi, A., Ercilla, G., Anselmetti, F., Brückmann, W., Canals, M., Gràcia, E., Locat, J., Krastel, S., Solheim, A., 2007. Scientific ocean drilling behind the assessment of geo-hazards from submarine slides. Eos Transactions, 88(17), 192.
  • Litt, T., Krastel, S., Örçen, S., Karabiyikoglu, M., 2007 Lake Van Drilling Project: A Long Continental Record in Eastern Turkey. Scientific Drilling, 4, 40-41.
  • Krastel, S. and cruise participants, 2006. Report and preliminary results of RV METEOR Cruise M65/2, Dakar - Las Palmas, 04.07. - 26.07.2005. Berichte Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Universität Bremen, 249, pp. 185.
  • Henrich, R., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Krastel, S., Zühlsdorff, C., 2006. Wüste und submarine Canyons. 20 Jahre Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Einblicke in die Forschung, Universität Bremen, 40-43.
  • Bohrmann, G., Spiess, V., Krastel, S., 2003. Vulkane, die Schlamm statt Lava speien. Impulse aus der Forschung, Universität Bremen, 2/2003, 6-9.