Kenneth Jinghwa Hsü

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Kenneth Jinghwa Hsü

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Kenneth Jinghwa Hsü's Degrees

PhD Geology University of Chicago
Bachelors Geology University of Chicago

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Late Miocene Desiccation of the Mediterranean (1973) (870)
Catastrophic Debris Streams (Sturzstroms) Generated by Rockfalls (1975) (831)
Freshwater Carbonate Sedimentation (1978) (675)
Origin and assembly of the Tethyside orogenic collage at the expense of Gondwana Land (1988) (614)
Tectonics of South China: Key to understanding West Pacific geology (1990) (433)
Mountain building processes (1982) (345)
Mesozoic overthrust tectonics in south China (1988) (265)
PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS ON HYDRODYNAMIC MOVEMENT INDUCED BY EVAPORATION AND THEIR BEARING ON THE DOLOMITE PROBLEM (1969) (218)
THE ORIGIN OF THE MEDITERRANEAN EVAPORITES (2007) (194)
Movement of Subsurface Waters Under the Sabkha Abu Dhabi, UAE, and its Relation to Evaporative Dolomite Genesis (1980) (177)
Tectonic Evolution of the Tibetan Plateau: A Working Hypothesis Based on the Archipelago Model of Orogenesis (1995) (175)
Pygmoid Australomelanesian Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Liang Bua, Flores: Population affinities and pathological abnormalities (2006) (161)
Deep sea drilling in the South atlantic. (1970) (157)
Sedimentary basins of the world (1999) (148)
When the Mediterranean Dried UP (1972) (130)
Fractal geometry of music. (1990) (129)
Terrestrial catastrophe caused by cometary impact at the end of Cretaceous (1980) (127)
Alpine-Mediterranean geodynamics (1982) (123)
Tectonic evolution of Qinling Mountains, China (1987) (121)
Gondwana and Tethys (1988) (114)
Messinian event in the black sea (1979) (106)
Chapter 1 - Albert Heim: Observations on Landslides and Relevance to Modern Interpretations (1978) (103)
Comment and Reply on "Mesozoic overthrust tectonics in south China" (1989) (98)
Franciscan Mélanges as a model for eugeosynclinal sedimentation and underthrusting tectonics (1971) (97)
Event stratigraphy and paleoceanography in the Fortuna Basin (southeast Spain): A scenario for the Messinian salinity crisis (1987) (88)
Tectonic Evolution of the Mediterranean Basins (1977) (85)
Relict Back-Arc Basins: Principles of Recognition and Possible New Examples from China (1988) (84)
Self-similarity of the "1/f noise" called music. (1991) (80)
When the Black Sea was Drained (1978) (80)
Geologic evolution of Bulgaria in light of plate tectonics (1977) (80)
Non‐annual cycles of varve‐like sedimentation in Walensee, Switzerland* (1979) (79)
Origin of the Alps and Western Mediterranean (1971) (78)
Physical Principles of Sedimentology (1989) (59)
Progress Report on Dolomitization — Hydrology of Abu Dhabi Sabkhas, Arabian Gulf (1973) (58)
Terminal Cretaceous environmental and evolutionary changes (1982) (56)
Late cretaceous—cenozoic magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic correlations of the South Atlantic Ocean: DSDP Leg 73 (1983) (54)
Mesozoic and Cenozoic Sedimentary History of South China (1989) (54)
Evolved developmental homeostasis disturbed in LB1 from Flores, Indonesia, denotes Down syndrome and not diagnostic traits of the invalid species Homo floresiensis (2014) (51)
Carbon-isotope anomalies at era boundaries; Global catastrophes and their ultimate cause (1990) (48)
A “Strangelove” Ocean in the Earliest Tertiary (2013) (48)
Carbon isotope evidence for unusual plankton blooms and fluctuations of surface water CO2 in “Strangelove Ocean” after terminal Cretaceous event (1993) (46)
Origin of the Kunlun Mountains by arc-arc and arc-continent collisions (1994) (44)
The Mediterranean was a Desert: A Voyage of the Glomar Challenger (1983) (44)
Mediterranean Plate Tectonics and Triassic Palaeogeography (1973) (43)
DSDP Leg 73: Contributions to Paleogene stratigraphy in nomenclature, chronology and sedimentation rates (1983) (38)
Application of an eutrophic lake model to the origin of ancient organic‐carbon‐rich sediments (1993) (38)
Ultrahelvetic Flysch Sedimentation and Deformation Related to Plate Tectonics (1971) (37)
Swiss lakes as a geological laboratory (1985) (37)
Paleoceanography of the Mesozoic Alpine Tethys (1975) (34)
The Geology of Switzerland: An Introduction to Tectonic Facies (1994) (33)
HUANAN ALPS, NOT SOUTH CHINA PLATFORM (1988) (33)
Mesozoic and Cenozoic oceans (1986) (32)
Rare events in earth history include the LB1 human skeleton from Flores, Indonesia, as a developmental singularity, not a unique taxon (2014) (32)
Resedimented Facies in Ventura Basin, California, and Model of Longitudinal Transport of Turbidity Currents (1980) (32)
South Atlantic paleoceanography (1985) (32)
49. GENESIS OF THE TETHYS AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (2006) (28)
The messinian salinity crisis (1978) (28)
Quaternary Geology of Lake Zurich: An Interdisciplinary Investigation by Deep-Lake Drilling (1985) (27)
Causes and Consequences of Extinction (1986) (25)
Energy relations of density‐current flows: an experimental investigation (1976) (25)
Swiss lakes as a geological laboratory (1985) (24)
Numerical ages of Cenozoic biostratigraphic datum levels: Results of South Atlantic Leg 73 drilling: Discussion and reply (1984) (23)
Time and place in Alpine orogenesis — the Fermor Lecture (1989) (22)
Introduction and Explanatory Notes (1978) (20)
GENESIS OF THE TETHYS AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (2006) (20)
Longitudinal transport of turbidity currents--a model study of Horgen events (1984) (19)
STABLE-ISOTOPE INVESTIGATIONS OF SEDIMENTS FROM THE DSDP III CRUISE TO SOUTH ATLANTIC (1972) (19)
Actualistic Catastrophism Address of the retiring President of the International Association of Sedimentologists (1983) (19)
Neptunic dikes and their relation to the hydrodynamic circulation of submarine hydrothermal systems (1983) (18)
Mesozoic Suturing in the Huanan Alps and the Tectonic Assembly of South China (1989) (17)
Environmental Changes in Times of Biotic Crisis (1986) (17)
The miocene desiccation of the Mediterranean and its climatical and zoogeographical implications (1974) (17)
Fractal Geometry of Music: From Bird Songs to Bach (1993) (16)
Bromine Content of Mediterranean Halite (1974) (14)
Geology of the Beishan Mountains and the tectonic evolution of Northwest China (1992) (14)
Manual of Carbonate Sedimentology: A Lexicographical Approach (1986) (14)
Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science (2014) (14)
Origin of Chinese Tianshan by Arc-Arc Collisions (1994) (13)
Physical Principles of Sedimentology: A Readable Textbook for Beginners and Experts (1989) (12)
Catastrophic extinctions and the inevitability of the improbable (1989) (12)
Stress Distribution in Overthrusting Slabs and Mechanics of Jura Deformation (1980) (12)
Messinian evaporites from the Mediterranean and Red Seas (1978) (11)
Geologic atlas of China : an application of the tectonic facies concept to the geology of China (1999) (11)
Biotic systems and diversity—Report of working group 4, interlaken workshop for past global changes (1990) (11)
Early Triassic paleomagnetism and tectonics, South China (1993) (11)
Physics of sedimentology (2004) (11)
Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary Event (2013) (10)
Preliminary isotopic and palaeomagnetic evidence for Younger Dryas and Holocene climate evolution in NE Asia (1997) (10)
The desiccation of the Mediterranean sea (1987) (9)
Late quaternary sediments in Lake Zürich, Switzerland (1983) (9)
The “Great Dying”: (2018) (9)
Commentary Darwin's three mistakes (1986) (8)
13. CORRELATION OF BLACK SEA SEQUENCES (2006) (8)
A basement of melanges: A personal account of the circumstances leading to the breakthrough in Franciscan research (1985) (7)
Comment and Reply on "Exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks" (1992) (7)
Quaternary geology of Lake Zurich (1984) (6)
In search of a physical theory of time. (1992) (6)
Role of ophiolites in archipelago model of orogenesis (2003) (6)
Geochemical Markers of Impacts and of Their Effects on Environments (1984) (6)
37. SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE FOR EXTENSIONAL AND COMPRESSIONAL TECTONICS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN (2007) (6)
Pelagic Sediments: On Land and under the Sea: Hsü/Pelagic Sediments: On Land and under the Sea (2009) (5)
Paleocene ‐ Eocene Paleoceanography (2013) (5)
Self-Lubrication for Long Runout Landslides: A Discussion (1990) (5)
The Possible Influences of Sudden Events on Biological Radiations and Extinctions (1984) (5)
CORRELATION OF BLACK SEA SEQUENCES (2006) (5)
Pelagic Sediments: On Land and under the Sea An Introduction (2009) (5)
The Precambrian-Cambrian boundary and geochemical perturbations (1986) (4)
Physics of Sedimentology: Textbook and Reference (2010) (4)
Salt deposits. Their origin and composition. Minerals, rocks and inorganic materials, 4: O. Braitsch. (Translated from the German edition (1962) by P. J. Burek and A. E. M. Nairn). Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, N.Y., 1971, 297 pp., 47 fig., U.S. $19.80 (1972) (4)
Could Global Warming be a Blessing for Mankind (1996) (3)
Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary sediment (1988) (3)
A Nonsteady State Model for Dolomite, Evaporite, and Ore Genesis (1984) (3)
Chapter 2 Personal Reminiscences on the History of Contourites (2008) (3)
Relict back‐arc basins of Eurasia and their hydrocarbon potentials (1992) (3)
Self-Similarity of the (1991) (3)
Thirteen Years of Deep-Sea Drilling (1982) (3)
Exploitation of Lithium in Brines by Hsü's Method (2001) (2)
Challenger at sea (1992) (2)
Are Chronons the Elementary Particles in Space and Time (1996) (2)
Introduction to earth processes and global changes (1990) (2)
An Analysis of Sedimentary Facies, and Facies Geometry: A Model of Longitudinal Turbidity Current Transport. Ventura Basin, California With Special Emphasis on the Ventura Avenue Field (1988) (2)
Origin and cure of cancer (2016) (2)
Late Neogene Sedimentation in the Black Sea (2009) (2)
Actualistic catastrophism and global change (1990) (2)
Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from DSDP Leg 42 (Holes 372 and 379A) (1978) (2)
Comments on the paper by J. D. Byerlee, ‘Frictional characteristics of granite under high confining pressure’ (1969) (2)
Gaia and the Mediterranean Sea (2001) (2)
Geology in and of China: A tale of two maps (1982) (2)
Reply to Westaway et al.: Mandibular misrepresentations fail to support the invalid species Homo floresiensis (2015) (1)
Comment and Reply on “Neptunic dikes and their relation to hydrodynamic circulation of submarine hydrothermal systems”REPLY (1984) (1)
24. NUMERICAL AGES OF MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHICALLY CALIBRATED BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC ZONES (2006) (1)
Comment and Reply on “Darwin's three mistakes” (1987) (1)
Lost Secrets of the Mediterranean (1983) (1)
28. PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE VALENCIA TROUGH VOLCANIC ROCKS (2007) (1)
Development of the northern appennines geosyncline: G. Sestini (Editor). Special issue of the journal Sedimentary Geology, Vol. 4(3/4), 1970, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp.203–642, 155 fig., 17 tables, with map, Dfl. 54 (1972) (1)
Pollen and spore abundance of Hole 42-380A (2005) (1)
Summary of "Project DSDP 42A" (1978) (1)
Quantitative evaluation of the dissolution facies of sediments on Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Tenth Int. Congr. on Sedimentology, Abstracts, pp. 715-716, Tel Aviv. (1978) (0)
Carbon analysis of Hole 42-377 (2004) (0)
Chapter 15. When the Mediterranean Dried Up (1992) (0)
Grain size analysis of Hole 73-523 (2004) (0)
Chapter 2. Ice Age and LOCO (1992) (0)
Benthic foraminifera abundance of Hole 73-523 (2005) (0)
Mineral composition of bulk sediment from Hole 13-131A (2004) (0)
Chapter 14. Mid-Cretaceous Anoxia (1992) (0)
Carbon analysis of Hole 13-130 (2004) (0)
Sound velocity of Hole 73-519A (2005) (0)
Oceans Are Ventilated (1989) (0)
Chapter 18 Eating Peanuts on Ocean Margins (1992) (0)
27. "BASEMENT" ROCKS OF THE WESTERN ALBORAN BASIN (2007) (0)
Hazards — causes and responses: ‘Natural and anthropogenically induced hazards’, a European science foundation conference, Davos, Switzerland, 8–12 December 1991 (1992) (0)
Chapter 13. EXPLORING NEW TERRITORIES, 1973-1975 Antarctic Adventures (1992) (0)
Grain size analysis of Hole 13-123 (2004) (0)
Chapter 6. Atlantic and Tethys (1992) (0)
IUGS Proposes Contribution to Global Change (1989) (0)
Chapter 16. The Black Sea Was Not Always Black (1992) (0)
Minor-element chemical analyses of Hole 73-524 (2005) (0)
Morphological characteristics of the “phylogenetically primitive” Liang Bua, Flores, mandibles match past and present regional Homo sapiens populations (2018) (0)
Wet bulk density (GRAPE) of Hole 73-524 (2004) (0)
Planktic foraminifera abundance of Hole 73-520 (2005) (0)
Ostracoda abundance of Hole 13-129A (2005) (0)
Calcium carbonate analysis of Hole 42-377 (2004) (0)
Movement of Subsurface Waters Under Sabkha, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and Its Relation to Dolomite Genesis: ABSTRACT (1979) (0)
Chapter 8. Swallowing Up of the Ocean Floor (1992) (0)
Preface to the German Edition (1992) (0)
Chapter 22 Caribbean modelled after archipelago orogenesis: Coda in esperanto by the series editor (1999) (0)
1. OBJECTIVES, PRINCIPAL RESULTS, AND EXPLANATORY NOTES FOR LEG 73, SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN (2006) (0)
Benthic foraminifera abundance of Hole 42-372 (2005) (0)
Ostracoda abundance of Hole 42-371 (2005) (0)
What is the response of ocean margin systems to natural and anthropogenic perturbations (1991) (0)
Ostracoda abundance of Hole 42-376 (2005) (0)
Appendix B. Bibliographical Notes (1992) (0)
Chapter 11. HawaiianHot-Spot (1992) (0)
Smear slide analysis of Hole 13-129B (2005) (0)
Preface to the American Edition (1992) (0)
Pelagic sediments, on land and under the sea : proceedings of a symposium held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, 25-6 September, 1973 (1974) (0)
Chapter 12. India's Long March (1992) (0)
Chapter 10. Hope and Frustration in Nauru (1992) (0)
List of Plates (1992) (0)
Grain size analysis of Hole 13-128 (2004) (0)
Sediments Are Moved (1989) (0)
Sorting Out and Mixing (1989) (0)
Preliminary Report on Experiments to Monitor C-14 Beta-Decay (2001) (0)
Preface to the Chinese Edition (1992) (0)
Microfossil abundance of Hole 42-378 (2005) (0)
Thin-skinned Plate Tectonics: The Re-Invention of a Crazy Idea (2001) (0)
The second fifteen years of the International Association of Sedimentologists, 1967–82—a success story (1986) (0)
Sand Waves Migrate (1989) (0)
Chapter 3. The Challenger Goes to Sea: The Inauguration of Glomar Challenger (1992) (0)
The Geology of Ocean Floor (2013) (0)
Ophiolites and Pelagic Sediments in the Alpine Mediterranean Region (2013) (0)
The Mediterranean Salinity Crisis: ABSTRACT (1988) (0)
Evolution, ideology, darwinism and science (1989) (0)
Ein Ozean à la Dr. Strangelove (1990) (0)
Ostracoda abundance of Hole 42-372 (2005) (0)
Chapter 19. What Makes the Ocean Run (1992) (0)
OF THE VALENCIA TROUGH VOLCANIC ROCKS (2007) (0)
Why Creativity in Geology (1989) (0)
Chapter 7. Arc and Trench in the Mediterranean (1992) (0)
The Career of a Frustrated Conformist (2001) (0)
Pollen and spore abundance of Hole 13-131A (2005) (0)
(Table 1) Chemical composition of Mediterranean halite from DSDP Hole 13-134 (1974) (0)
Use and misuse of the seafloor : report of the Dahlem Workshop on Use and Misuse of Seafloor, Berlin 1991, March 17 - 22 (1992) (0)
Chapter 1. Moho and Mohole (1992) (0)
Report of the Editors (1979) (0)
Benthic foraminifera abundance of Hole 73-524 (2005) (0)
Planktic foraminifera abundance of Hole 73-524 (2005) (0)
27. "BASEMENT" ROCKS OF THE WESTERN ALBORAN BASIN (2007) (0)
Benthic foraminifera abundance of Hole 73-522 (2005) (0)
Planktic foraminifera abundance of Hole 73-523 (2005) (0)
Sound velocity of Hole 42-381 (2005) (0)
Chapter 17. Getting Stuck in Ocean Crust (1992) (0)
Chapter 9. Marginal Seas (1992) (0)
Abstract: Tectonics of South China - Keystone between Southeast Asia & West Pacific (1991) (0)
Comments and Replies on “Darwin's three mistakes” REPLY (1987) (0)
Ostracoda abundance of Hole 42-375 (2005) (0)
Comments on “The crustal structure of the Balearic Sea” — in light of deep-sea drilling in the Mediterranean (1973) (0)
Appendix A. Deep-Sea Drilling Legs (1992) (0)
Chapter 20. The Great Dying (1992) (0)
Chapter 5. A Game of Numbers (1992) (0)
Nannofossil abundance of Hole 73-524B (2005) (0)
Bromine Content of Mediterranean Halite: Reply (1974) (0)
Comment and Reply on Evolution of continental crust in the Central Andes; constraints from Nd isotope systematics (1990) (0)
Chapter 14 Puzzling questions in the simple history of a continent (1997) (0)
Chapter 4. The Earth Science Revolution (1992) (0)

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ETH Zurich