Publications
2023
Schattner, U., Rocha, C.B., Ramos, R.B., Shtober-Zisu, N., Lobo, F.J. and de Mahiques, M.M., 2023. Lateral shift from turbidite-to contourite-dominated continental slope, a case study from southeast Brazil slope. Geomorphology, p.109009.
de Mahiques, M.M., Schattner, U., Riccomini, C., de Assis Janasi, V., Lobo, F.J., Vasconcelos, P., Thiede, D.S., Ramos, R.B. and dos Santos, R.F., 2023. Submarine basalt xenoliths confirm the occurrence of post-rift volcanism in the Southern Santos Basin, SW Atlantic. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 132, p.104661.
Shatner, M. & Schattner, U., Extreme events in Earth System – bug or feature? in Environmental Challenges as Catalysts for Regional Conflict and Cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean, Z. Rubinovitz, Ed. (A Joint Publication by the Maritime Policy & Strategy Research Center (University of Haifa, Israel) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany), 2023), chap. 3, pp. 16-31.
Ramos, R.B., Schattner, U., Lobo, F.J., Maly, M., Dias, R.J.S., Carerette, O., Sumida, P.Y.G. and de Mahiques, M.M., 2023. What could form a 35-km lineament of carbonate mounds on the ocean floor?. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 152, p.106239.
Schattner, U. and Shatner, M., 2023. Science desperately needs disruptive innovation. Qeios. doi:10.32388/KY5Y9L.2.
Segev, A. & Schattner, U.. "Why does volcanism associated with the Dead Sea fault occur only along its crossing with the Irbid rift and Harrat Ash-Shaam volcanic field?." Tectonophysics 848 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.229718
2022
Schattner, U., Segev, A., Mikhailov, V., Rybakov, M., & Lyakhovsky, V. (2022). Detailed Regional Magnetic Mapping on a Bike, A Case Study from Northern Israel. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-022-03100-1
Segev, A., Reznik, I. J., & Schattner, U., 2022. Miocene to sub-Recent magmatism at the intersection between the Dead Sea Transform and the Ash Shaam volcanic field: evidence from the Yarmouk River gorge and vicinity. Geological Magazine, 159(4), 469-493. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756821001072
de Mahiques, M.M., Lobo, F.J., Schattner, U., López-Quirós, A., Rocha, C.B., Dias, R.J.S., Montoya-Montes, I. and Vieira, A.C.B., 2022. Geomorphological imprint of opposing ocean bottom currents, a case study from the southeastern Brazilian Atlantic margin. Marine Geology, p.106715 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106715
Ben-Avraham, Z., Reshef, M., Schattner, U., 2022. Gas hydrate indications on the southwest African continental margin, in: Mienert, J., Berndt, C., Tréhu, A., Camerlenghi, A., Liu, C.-S. (Eds.), World Atlas of Submarine Gas Hydrates in Continental Margins, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81186-0
2021
Schattner, U., 2021. Isolating the role of shore-parallel sediment transport in continental shelf build-up. Continental Shelf Research, p.104480.
Segev A., Reznik, I. & Schattner, U., 2021. Yarmouk River and vicinity, Miocene to sub-Recent magmatism on the intersection between the Dead Sea Transform and the Ash Shaam volcanic field. Geological Magazine. 1-25
Schattner U., Kanari M., Goodman-Tchernov B.N., and Bernhardt A., 2021. Sedimentary response of the deep eastern Mediterranean basin to the north African desertification, sea level variation and regional tectonics. Basin Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12635
Schattner, U. and Bernhardt, A., 2021. In press. Seascape and seaforms of the Levant basin and margin, eastern Mediterranean, in: Frumkin, A. and Shtober-Zisu, N. (Eds.), Landscapes and Landforms of Israel.
2020
Kanari, M., Tibor, G., Hall, J.K., Ketter, T., Lang, G. & Schattner, U., 2020. Sediment transport mechanisms revealed by quantitative analyses of seafloor morphology, new evidence from multibeam bathymetry of the Israel Exclusive Economic Zone. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 144, 104224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104224
Ben Moshe, L., Ben-Avraham, Z., Enzel, Y., and Schattner, U., 2020. Estimating drawdown magnitudes of the Mediterranean Sea in the Levant basin during the Lago Mare stage of the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Marine Geology, 427, 106215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106215
Ben-Avraham, Z., Schubert, G., Lodolo, E., and Schattner, U., 2020. Ripple tectonics - when subduction is interrupted. Positioning, 11, 33-44. DOI: 10.4236/pos.2020.113303
Lang, G., ten Brink, U.S., Hutchinson, D.R., Mountain, G.S., and Schattner, U., 2020. The role of pre-magmatic rifting in shaping a volcanic continental margin: An example from the Eastern North American Margin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. In press. doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10502270.2
Schattner U., and de Mahiques M.M., 2020. Post-rift regional volcanism in southern Santos Basin and the uplift of the adjacent South American coastal range. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. In press. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102855
Schattner, U., Segev, A., Mikhailov, V., Rybakov, M. and Lyakhovsky, V., 2020. Магнитное Поле Бассейна Кинерет-Кинарот В Зоне Трансформных Разломов Мертвого Моря, Северный Израиль. In Вопросы теории и практики геологической интерпретации геофизических полей, pp. 297-299
2019
Maly M., Schattner U., Dias R.J., Lobo F.J., Ramos R.B., Sumida P.Y.G., and de Mahiques M.M., 2019. The Alpha Crucis Carbonate Ridge (ACCR): Discovery of a giant ring-shaped carbonate complex on the SW Atlantic margin. Scientific reports 9(1), 1-10. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55226-3
Wald, R., Segev, A., Ben-Avraham, Z., and Schattner, U., 2019. Tethys ocean withdrawal and continental peneplanation—An example from the Galilee, northwestern Arabia, Journal of Geodynamics 130, 22-40, doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2019.06.002
Wald, R., Segev, A., Ben-Avraham, Z., and Schattner, U., 2019. Structural Expression of a Fading Rift Front: A Case Study from the Oligo-Miocene Irbid Rift of Northwest Arabia. Solid Earth 10, no. 1 (2019): 225-50. doi.org/10.5194/se-10-225-2019
Schattner, U., Segev, A., Mikhailov, V., Rybakov, M. and Lyakhovsky, V., 2019. Magnetic signature of the Kinneret–Kinarot tectonic basin along the Dead Sea Transform, northern Israel. Pure and Applied Geophysics 1-17, doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02211-6
Rosenthal, M., Ben-Avraham, Z., and Schattner U., 2019. Almost a clear-cut – a case study of the cross point between a continental transform and a rift. Tectonophysics 761, 46-64. doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.04.012
Coianiz, L., Schattner, U., Ben-Avraham, Z. and Lazar, M., 2019. Between plate and salt tectonics - New stratigraphic constraints on the architecture and timing of the Dead Sea basin during the Late Quaternary. Basin Research 00: 1-16; doi.org/10.1111/bre.12387
Schattner U., Lobo F.J., Quirós A.L., Nascimento J.L., and de Mahiques M.M., 2019. What feeds shelf-edge clinoforms on a sediment deprived margin? An example from southeastern Brazil. Basin Research 00: 1– 9. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12397.
Ramos R.B., dos Santos R.F., Schattner U., Figueira R.L., Bícego M.., Lobo F.J., de Mahiques, M.M., 2019. Pockmarks as natural sediment traps: a case study from the SW Atlantic slope. Geo-Marine Letters 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-019-00617-8
2018
dos Santos, R.F., Nagaoka, D., Ramos, R.B., Salaroli, A.B., Taniguchi, S., Figueira, R.C.L., Bícego, M.C., Lobo, F.J., Schattner, U., de Mahiques, M.M., 2018. Metal/Ca ratios in pockmarks and adjacent sediments on the SW Atlantic slope: Implications for redox potential and modern seepage. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 192, 163-173.
Lang, G., Lazar, M., Schattner, U., 2018. Structural implications of strain localization towards a continental transform fault: The example of the shift between the Levant margin and the Dead Sea Fault plate boundary. Marine and Petroleum Geology 89, 402-414.
Schattner, U., Lobo, F.J., García, M., Kanari, M., Ramos, R.B., de Mahiques, M.M., 2018. A detailed look at diapir piercement onto the ocean floor: New evidence from Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. Marine Geology 406, 98-108.
Segev, A., Sass, E., Schattner, U., 2018. Age and structure of the Levant basin, Eastern Mediterranean. Earth-Science Reviews 182, 233-250.
2017
de Mahiques, M.M., Schattner, U., Lazar, M., Sumida, P.Y.G., de Souza, L.A.P., 2017. An extensive pockmark field on the upper Atlantic margin of Southeast Brazil: spatial analysis and its relationship with salt diapirism. Heliyon 3, e00257.
Schattner, U., 2017. A bike built for magnetic mapping, Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017 EO071943. Published on 25 April 2017.
Schattner, U., Lang, G., Lazar, M., 2017. Pliocene or Pleistocene, that is the question - new constraints from the eastern Mediterranean, pp. 63-74, in: Enzel, Y., Bar-Yosef, O. (Eds.), Quaternary Environments, Climate Change, and Humans in the Levant. Cambridge University Press.
Krom, M., Schattner, U., 2017. Earth geology and tectonics, pp. 30-54. In: An Introduction to Physical Geography and the Environment eBook (4e), Ed, Holden, J. Pearson Education Limited.
2016
Schattner, U., Lazar, M., Souza, L., ten Brink, U., Mahiques, M., 2016. Pockmark asymmetry and seafloor currents in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. Geo-Marine Letters 36, 457-464.
Lazar, M., Lang, G., Schattner, U., 2016. Coincidence or not? Interconnected gas/fluid migration and ocean–atmosphere oscillations in the Levant Basin. Geo-Marine Letters: 1-14.
Schattner, U., Lazar, M., 2016. Hierarchy of source-to-sink systems - example from the Nile distribution across the eastern Mediterranean. Sedimentary geology 343, 119-131.
2015
Schattner, U., Gurevich, M., Kanari, M., Lazar, M., 2015. Levant jet system—effect of post LGM seafloor currents on Nile sediment transport in the eastern Mediterranean. Sedimentary Geology 329, 28-39.
2014
Schattner, U. and Lazar, M. , 2014. Flip convergence across the Phoenician basin through nucleation of subduction. Gondwana Research 25, 729-735.
2012
Schattner, U., Lazar, M. , Harari, D., Waldmann, N., 2012. Active gas venting system offshore northern Israel. Continental Shelf Research, 48, 167-172.
Lazar, M., Schattner, U. and Reshef, M., 2012. The great escape: An intra-Messinian gas system in the eastern Mediterranean. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L20309.
Kerem, D., Hadar, N., Goffman, O., Scheinin, A., Kent, R., Boisseau, O.C & Schattner, U., 2012. Update on the Cetacean Fauna of the Mediterranean Levantine Basin, The Open Marine Biology Journal, 2012, 6, 6-27.
2011
Schattner, U., 2011. Early-to-mid Pleistocene Tectonic Transition Across the Eastern Mediterranean Influences the Course of Human History. In:"New Frontiers in Tectonic Research - At the Midst of Plate Convergence" (Ed. U. Schattner), Intech open access publisher. ISBN 978-953-307-594-5, Hard cover, 352 pages.
Schattner, U., 2011. Preface. In:"New Frontiers in Tectonic Research - At the Midst of Plate Convergence" (Ed. U. Schattner), Intech open access publisher. ISBN 978-953-307-594-5, Hardcover, 352 pages.
Schattner, U. and Ben-Avraham, Z., 2011. Tectonic development of the Levant continental margin, eastern Mediterranean. In: "Life in the Mediterranean Sea: A look at habitat changes". pp.57-70. (Ed. N. Stambler), Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Lyakhovsky V., Segev A., Weinberger R. & Schattner, U., 2011. Deformation and seismicity associated with continental rift zones propagating toward continental margins. , Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 13, Q01012.
Segev A., Schattner U. and Lyakhovsky V., 2011. Middle-Late Eocene structure of the southern Levant continental margin - tectonic motion versus global sea-level change. Tectonophysics, 499,165-177.
2010
Lazar M. & Schattner, U., 2010. Landscape evolution and hominin dispersal. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29, 1495-1500.
Sivan D., Schattner U., Morhange C., Purcell T. and Boaretto E., 2010. What can a sessile mollusk tell about neotectonics? Earth and Planetary Science Letter, 296, 451-458.
Schattner U., 2010. What triggered the early-to-mid Pleistocene tectonic transition across the entire eastern Mediterranean? Earth and Planetary Science Letter, 289, 539-548.
Schattner U., Lazar M., Tibor G., Ben-Avraham Z. and Makovsky Y., 2010. Filling up the shelf - a sedimentary response to the last interglacial sea rise. Marine Geology, 278, 165-176.
Weinberger R., Schattner U., Medvedev B., Frieslander U., Sneh A., Harlavan Y. and Gros M. 2010. A spatial and temporal transition from pure to convergent strike-slip faulting imaged by high-resolution seismic reflection data across the Dead Sea Fault. Israel Journal of Earth Science, 58.
2009
Schattner U. and Lazar M., 2009. Subduction, collision and initiation of hominin dispersal. Quaternary Science Review, 28, 1820-1824.
2008
Schattner U. and Weinberger R., 2008. A mid-Pleistocene deformation transition in the Hula basin, northern Israel: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Dead Sea Fault. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 9, Q07009.
2007
Schattner U. and Ben-Avraham Z., 2007. Transform margin of the northern Levant, eastern Mediterranean – from formation to reactivation. Tectonics, 26, TC5020.
2006
Ben-Avraham Z., Schattner U., Hall J.K., Ben-Gai Y., Neev D., Reshef M. and Lazar M., 2006. Segmentation of the Levant continental margin, eastern Mediterranean. Tectonics, 25, TC5002.
Ginzburg A., Reshef M., Ben-Avraham Z. and Schattner U., 2006. The style of transverse faulting in the Dead Sea basin from seismic reflection data: The Amazyahu fault. Israel Journal of Earth Science, 55/3, 129-139.
Lazar M., Ben-Avraham Z. & Schattner, U., 2006. Formation of sequential basin along a strike-slip fault - geophysical observations from the Dead Sea basin. Tectonophysics, 421/1-2, 53-69.
Schattner U., Ben-Avraham Z., Lazar M. and Hübscher C., 2006. Tectonic isolation of the Levant basin offshore Galilee-Lebanon - Effects of the Dead Sea fault plate boundary on the Levant continental margin, eastern Mediterranean. Journal of Structural Geology, 28, 2049-2066.
Schattner U., Ben-Avraham Z., Reshef M., Bar-Am G. and Lazar M., 2006. Oligocene-Miocene formation of the Haifa basin: Qishon-Sirhan rifting coeval with the Red Sea-Suez rift system. Tectonophysics, 419/1-4, p. 1-12.
2005
Ben-Avraham, Z., Lazar, M., Schattner, U. and Marco S., 2005. The Dead Sea Fault and its effect on civilization. In: F. Wenzel (ed.), Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences: Perspectives in Modern Seismology, Springer Verlag Heidelberg, v. 105, p. 147-170.
2002
Baer G., Schattner, U., Wach D., Sandwell D., Wdowinski S., Friedman S., 2002.The lowest place on Earth is subsiding - An InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) perspective, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 114/1, 12-23.