Smrzka, D, Lin, Z, Monien, P, Chen, T, Bach, W, Peckmann, JL and Bohrmann, G (2024) Pyrite-based trace element fingerprints for methane and oil seepage. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 29. 33-37. doi:10.7185/geochemlet.2409
Lu, Y, Mihailova, B, Malcherek, T, Paulmann, C, Smrzka, D, Zwicker, J, Lin, Z, Bohrmann, G and Peckmann, JL (2024) Role of bottom water chemistry in the formation of fibrous magnesium calcite at methane seeps in the Black Sea. Sedimentology, 71. 1193-1213. doi:10.1111/sed.13170
Zwicker, J, Smrzka, D, Gothieu, M, Libowitzky, E, Joachimski, MM, Ernst Böttcher, M and Peckmann, JL (2023) Chemotrophy-based phosphatic microstromatolites from the Mississippian at Drewer, Rhenish Massif, Germany. Geological Magazine. 1-17. doi:10.1017/S0016756823000493
Schmid‐Beurmann, HA, Kahl, WA, Bach, W, Ivarsson, M, Böttcher, ME and Peckmann, JL (2023) Dispersal of endolithic microorganisms in vesicular volcanic rock: Distribution, settlement and pathways revealed by 3D X‐ray microscopy. Terra Nova. doi:10.1111/ter.12663
Cordova‐Gonzalez, A, Birgel, D, Wisshak, M, Urich, T, Brinkmann, F, Marcon, Y, Bohrmann, G and Peckmann, JL (2023) A carbonate corrosion experiment at a marine methane seep: The role of aerobic methanotrophic bacteria. Geobiology. doi:10.1111/gbi.12549
Zwicker, J, Smrzka, D, Vadillo, I, Jiménez-Gavilán, P, Giampouras, M, Peckmann, JL and Bach, W (2022) Trace and rare earth element distribution in hyperalkaline serpentinite-hosted spring waters and associated authigenic carbonates from the Ronda peridotite. Applied Geochemistry, 147. 105492. doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105492
Eickmann, B, Little, CTS, Peckmann, JL, Taylor, PD, Boyce, AJ, Morgan, DJ and Bach, W (2021) Shallow-marine serpentinization-derived fluid seepage in the Upper Cretaceous Qahlah Formation, United Arab Emirates. Geological Magazine, 158(9). 1561-1571. doi:10.1017/S0016756821000121
Sabino, M, Schefuß, E, Natalicchio, M, Dela Pierre, F, Birgel, D, Bortels, D, Schnetger, B and Peckmann, JL (2020) Climatic and hydrologic variability in the northern Mediterranean across the onset of the Messinian salinity crisis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 545. 109632. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109632
Rubin-Blum, M, Antony, CP, Sayavedra, L, Martinez-Perez, C, Birgel, D, Peckmann, JL, Wu, YC, Cardenas, P, MacDonald, I, Marcon, Y, Sahling, H, Hentschel, U and Dubilier, N (2019) Fueled by methane: deep-sea sponges from asphalt seeps gain their nutrition from methane-oxidizing symbionts. The ISME Journal. doi:10.1038/s41396-019-0346-7
Giampouras, M, Garrido, CJ, Zwicker, J, Vadillo, I, Smrzka, D, Bach, W, Peckmann, JL, Jiménez, P, Benavente, J and García-Ruiz, JM (2019) Geochemistry and mineralogy of serpentinization-driven hyperalkaline springs in the Ronda peridotites. Lithos, 350-35. 105215. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105215
Smrzka, D, Zwicker, J, Misch, D, Walkner, C, Gier, S, Monien, P, Bohrmann, G, Peckmann, JL and Tosca, N (2019) Oil seepage and carbonate formation: A case study from the southern Gulf of Mexico. Sedimentology. doi: 10.1111/sed.12593
Smrzka, D, Zwicker, J, Bach, W, Feng, D, Himmler, T, Chen, D and Peckmann, JL (2019) The behavior of trace elements in seawater, sedimentary pore water, and their incorporation into carbonate minerals: a review. Facies, 65(4). doi:10.1007/s10347-019-0581-4
Zwicker, J, Birgel, D, Bach, W, Richoz, S, Smrzka, D, Grasemann, B, Gier, S, Schleper, C, Rittmann, SKMR, Koşun, E and Peckmann, JL (2018) Evidence for archaeal methanogenesis within veins at the onshore serpentinite-hosted Chimaera seeps, Turkey. Chemical Geology, 483. 567-580. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.03.027
Himmler, T, Smrzka, D, Zwicker, J, Kasten, S, Shapiro, RS, Bohrmann, G and Peckmann, JL (2018) Stromatolites below the photic zone in the northern Arabian Sea formed by calcifying chemotrophic microbial mats. Geology. doi:10.1130/G39890.1
Smrzka, D, Zwicker, J, Klügel, A, Monien, P, Bach, W, Bohrmann, G and Peckmann, JL (2016) Establishing criteria to distinguish oil-seep from methane-seep carbonates. Geology, 44(8). 667-670. doi:10.1130/G38029.1
Liu, XL, Birgel, D, Elling, FJ, Sutton, PA, Lipp, JS, Zhu, R, Zhang, C, Könneke, M, Peckmann, JL, Rowland, SJ, Summons, RE and Hinrichs, KU (2016) From ether to acid: A plausible degradation pathway of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 183. 138-152. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.04.016
Himmler, T, Bayon, G, Wangner, D, Enzmann, F, Peckmann, JL and Bohrmann, G (2016) Seep-carbonate lamination controlled by cyclic particle flux. Scientific Reports, 6. 37439. doi:10.1038/srep37439
Smrzka, D, Kraemer, SM, Zwicker, J, Birgel, D, Fischer, D, Kasten, S, Goedert, JL and Peckmann, JL (2015) Constraining silica diagenesis in methane-seep deposits. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 420. 13-26. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.12.007
Himmler, T, Birgel, D, Bayon, G, Pape, T, Ge, L, Bohrmann, G and Peckmann, JL (2015) Formation of seep carbonates along the Makran convergent margin, northern Arabian Sea and a molecular and isotopic approach to constrain the carbon isotopic composition of parent methane. Chemical Geology, 415. 102-117. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.09.016
Ivarsson, M, Peckmann, JL, Tehler, A, Broman, C, Bach, W, Behrens, K, Reitner, J, Böttcher, ME and Norbäck Ivarsson, L (2015) Zygomycetes in vesicular basanites from Vesteris Seamount, Greenland Basin – a new type of cryptoendolithic fungi. PLOS ONE, 10(7). e0133368. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0133368
Birgel, D, Guido, A, Liu, X, Hinrichs, KU, Gier, S and Peckmann, JL (2014) Hypersaline conditions during deposition of the Calcare di Base revealed from archaeal di- and tetraether inventories. Organic Geochemistry, 77. 11-21. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.09.002
Peckmann, JL, Sandy, MR, Taylor, DG, Gier, S and Bach, W (2013) An Early Jurassic brachiopod-dominated seep deposit enclosed by serpentinite, eastern Oregon, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 390. 4-16. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.01.003
Feng, D, Lin, Z, Bian, Y, Chen, D, Peckmann, JL, Bohrmann, G and Roberts, HH (2013) Rare earth elements of seep carbonates: Indication for redox variations and microbiological processes at modern seep sites. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 65. 27-33. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.09.002
Ziegenbalg, SB, Birgel, D, Hoffmann-Sell, L, Pierre, C, Rouchy, JM and Peckmann, JL (2012) Anaerobic oxidation of methane in hypersaline Messinian environments revealed by C-13-depleted molecular fossils. Chemical Geology, 292. 140-148. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.11.024
Küchler, RR, Birgel, D, Kiel, S, Freiwald, A, Goedert, JL, Thiel, V and Peckmann, JL (2012) Miocene methane-derived carbonates from southwestern Washington, USA and a model for silicification at seeps. Lethaia, 45(2). 259-273. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2011.00280.x
Heindel, K, Birgel, D, Brunner, B, Thiel, V, Westphal, H, Gischler, E, Ziegenbalg, SB, Cabioch, G, Sjovall, P and Peckmann, JL (2012) Post-glacial microbialite formation in coral reefs of te Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Chemical Geology, 304. 117-130. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.02.009
Berndmeyer, C, Birgel, D, Brunner, B, Wehrmann, LM, Jöns, N, Bach, W, Arning, ET, Föllmi, KB and Peckmann, JL (2012) The influence of bacterial activity on phosphorite formation in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 317. 171-181. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.01.004
Himmler, T, Brinkmann, F, Bohrmann, G and Peckmann, JL (2011) Corrosion patterns of seep-carbonates from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Terra Nova, 23(3). 206-212. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3121.2011.01000.x
Ziegenbalg, SB, Berthold, C, Kappler, A and Peckmann, JL (2011) Gypsum whiskers in Messinian evaporites identified by mu-XRD2. Facies, 57(2). 249-253. doi:10.1007/s10347-010-0237-x
Feng, D, Chen, D, Peckmann, JL and Bohrmann, G (2010) Authigenic carbonates from methane seeps of the northern Congo fan: Microbial formation mechanism. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27. 748-756. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.08.006
Heindel, K, Birgel, D, Peckmann, JL, Kuhnert, H and Westphal, H (2010) Formation of deglacial microbialites in coral reefs off Tahiti (IODP 310) involving sulfate-reducing bacteria. Palaios, 25(9-10). 618-635. doi:10.2110/palo.2010.p10-032r
Ziegenbalg, SB, Brunner, B, Rouchy, JM, Birgel, D, Pierre, C, Böttcher, ME, Caruso, A, Immenhauser, A and Peckmann, JL (2010) Formation of secondary carbonates and native sulphur in sulphate-rich Messinian strata, Sicily. Sedimentary Geology, 227(1-4). 37-50. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.03.007
Westphal, H, Heindel, K, Brandano, M and Peckmann, JL (2010) Genesis of microbialites as contemporaneous framework components of deglacial coral reefs, Tahiti (IODP 310). Facies, 56(3). 337-352. doi:10.1007/s10347-009-0207-3
Haas, A, Peckmann, JL, Elvert, M, Sahling, H and Bohrmann, G (2010) Patterns of carbonate authigenesis at the Kouilou pockmarks on the Congo deep-sea fan. Marine Geology, 268(1-4). 129-136. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2009.10.027
Holmkvist, L, Arning, ET, Küster-Heins, K, Vandieken, V, Peckmann, JL, Zabel, M and Jørgensen, BB (2010) Phosphate geochemistry, mineralization processes, and Thioploca distribution in shelf sediments off central Chile. Marine Geology, 277(1-4). 61-72. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2010.08.011
Himmler, T, Bach, W, Bohrmann, G and Peckmann, JL (2010) Rare earth elements in authigenic methane-seep carbonates as tracers for fluid composition during early diagenesis. Chemical Geology, 277(1-2). 126-136. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.07.015
Feng, D, Roberts, HH, Cheng, H, Peckmann, JL, Bohrmann, G, Edwards, RL and Chen, D (2010) U/Th dating of cold-seep carbonates: An initial comparison. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 57(21-23). 2055-2060. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.09.004
Eickmann, B, Bach, W and Peckmann, JL (2009) Authigenesis of carbonate minerals in modern and Devonian ocean-floor hard rocks. Journal of Geology, 117. 307-323. doi:10.1086/597362
Arning, ET, Birgel, D, Brunner, B and Peckmann, JL (2009) Bacterial formation of phosphatic laminites off Peru. Geobiology, 7. 295-307. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00197.x
Eickmann, B, Bach, W, Kiel, S, Reitner, J and Peckmann, JL (2009) Evidence for cryptoendolithic life in Devonian pillow basalts of Variscan orogens, Germany. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 283. 120-125. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.09.006
Arning, ET, Lückge, A, Breuer, C, Gussone, N, Birgel, D and Peckmann, JL (2009) Genesis of phosphorite crusts off Peru. Marine Geology, 262(1-4). 68-81. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2009.03.006
Eickmann, B, Bach, W, Rosner, M and Peckmann, JL (2009) Geochemical constraints on the modes of carbonate precipitation in peridotites from the Logatchev Hydrothermal Vent Field and Gakkel Ridge. Chemical Geology, 268(1-2). 97-106. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.08.002
Haas, A, Little, CTS, Sahling, H, Bohrmann, G, Himmler, T and Peckmann, JL (2009) Mineralization of vestimentiferan tubes at methane seeps on the Congo deep-sea fan. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 56(2). 283-293. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2008.08.007
Peckmann, JL, Birgel, D and Kiel, S (2009) Molecular fossils reveal fluid composition and flow intensity at a Cretaceous seep. Geology, 37. 847-850. doi:10.1130/G25658A.1
Feng, D, Chen, D and Peckmann, JL (2009) Rare earth elements in seep carbonates as tracers of variable redox conditions at ancient hydrocarbon seeps. Terra Nova, 21(1). 49-56. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00855.x
de Boever, E, Birgel, D, Thiel, V, Muchez, P, Peckmann, JL, Dimitrov, L and Swennen, R (2009) The formation of giant tubular concretions triggered by anaerobic oxidation of methane as revealed by archaeal molecular fossils (Lower Eocene, Varna, Bulgaria). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 280(1-2). 23-36. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.05.010
Birgel, D, Elvert, M, Han, X and Peckmann, JL (2008) 13C-depleted biphytanic diacids as tracers of past anaerobic oxidation of methane. Organic Geochemistry, 39. 169-173. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.08.013
Birgel, D and Peckmann, JL (2008) Aerobic methanotrophy at ancient marine methane-seeps: A synthesis. Organic Geochemistry, 39. 1659-1667. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.01.023
Himmler, T, Freiwald, A, Stollhofen, H and Peckmann, JL (2008) Late Carboniferous hydrocarbon-seep carbonates from the glaciomarine Dwyka Group, southern Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 257(1-2). 185-197. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.09.018
Arning, ET, Birgel, D, Schulz-Vogt, HN, Holmkvist, L, Jørgensen, BB, Larson, A and Peckmann, JL (2008) Lipid Biomarker Patterns of Phosphogenic Sediments from Upwelling Regions. Geomicrobiology Journal, 25(2). 69-82. doi:10.1080/01490450801934854
Kiel, S and Peckmann, JL (2008) Paleoecology and evolutionary significance of an Early Cretaceous Peregrinella-dominated hydrocarbon-seep deposit on the Crimean Peninsula. Palaios, 23. 751-759. doi:10.2110/palo.2008.p08-052r
Peckmann, JL, Bach, W, Behrens, K and Reitner, J (2008) Putative cryptoendolithic life in Devonian pillow basalt, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Germany. Geobiology, 6(2). 125-135. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2007.00131.x
Birgel, D, Himmler, T, Freiwald, A and Peckmann, JL (2008) A new constraint on the antiquity of anaerobic oxidation of methane: Late Pennsylvanian seep limestones from southern Namibia. Geology, 36(7). 543-546. doi:10.1130/G24690A
Kiel, S and Peckmann, JL (2007) Chemosymbiotic bivalves and stable carbon isotopes indicate hydrocarbon seepage at four unusual Cenozoic fossil localities. Lethaia, 40(4). 345-357. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2007.00033.x
Senowbari-Daryan, B, Gaillard, C and Peckmann, JL (2007) Crustacean microcoprolites from Jurassic (Oxfordian) hydrocarbon-seep deposits of Beauvoisin, southeastern France. Facies, 53. 229-238. doi:10.1007/s10347-006-0096-7
Peckmann, JL, Campbell, KA, Walliser, OH and Reitner, J (2007) A Late Devonian hydrocarbon-seep deposit dominated by dimerelloid brachiopods, Morocco. Palaios, 22. 114-122. doi:10.2110/palo.2005.p05-115r
Peckmann, JL, Senowbari-Daryan, B, Birgel, D and Goedert, JL (2007) The crustacean ichnofossil Palaxius associated with acllianassid body fossils in an Eocene methane-seep limestone, Humptulips Formation, Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Lethaia, 40(3). 273-280. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2007.00026.x
Birgel, D, Peckmann, JL, Klautzsch, S, Thiel, V and Reitner, J (2006) Anaerobic and aerobic oxidation of methane at Late Cretaceous seeps in the Western Interior Seaway, USA. Geomicrobiology Journal, 23. 565-577. doi:10.1080/01490450600897369
Birgel, D, Thiel, V, Hinrichs, KU, Elvert, M, Campbell, KA, Reitner, J, Farmer, JD and Peckmann, JL (2006) Lipid biomarker patterns of methane-seep microbialites from the Mesozoic convergent margin of California. Organic Geochemistry, 37(10). 1289-1302. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2006.02.004
Reitner, J, Peckmann, JL, Blumenberg, M, Michaelis, W, Reimer, AL and Thiel, V (2005) Concretionary methane-seep carbonates and associated microbial communities in Black Sea sediments. In: Peckmann, JL and Goedert, JL (eds.) Geobiology of Ancient and Modern Methane-Seeps. Elsevier, 18-30. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.04.033
Goedert, JL and Peckmann, JL (2005) Corals from deep-water methane-seep deposits in Paleogene strata of western Oregon and Washington, USA. In: Freiwald, A and Roberts, JM (eds.) Cold-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 27-40. doi:10.1007/3-540-27673-4_2
Reitner, J, Peckmann, JL, Schumann, G, Reimer, AL and Thiel, V (2005) Methane-derived carbonate build-ups and associated microbial communties at cold seeps on the lower Crimean shelf (Black Sea). Facies, 51. 66-79. doi:10.1007/s10347-005-0059-4
Peckmann, JL, Little, CTS, Gill, F, Walliser, OH and Reitner, J (2005) Worm tube fossils from the Hollard Mound hydrocarbon-seep deposit, Middle Devonian: Palaeozoic seep-related vestimentiferans? In: Peckmann J, Goedert JL (eds.) Geobiology of Ancient and Modern Methane-Seeps. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 227(1-3). 242-257. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.04.021
Peckmann, JL and Thiel, V (2004) Carbon cycling at ancient methane-seeps. Chemical Geology, 205(3-4). 443-467. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2003.12.025
Peckmann, JL, Thiel, V, Reitner, J, Taviani, M, Aharon, P and Michaelis, W (2004) A microbial mat of a large sulfur bacterium preserved in a Miocene methane-seep limestone. Geomicrobiology Journal, 21. 247-255. doi:10.1080/01490450490438757
Peckmann, JL, Goedert, JL, Heinrichs, T, Hoefs, J and Reitner, J (2003) The Late Eocene 'Whiskey Creek' methane-seep deposit (western Washington State) - Part II: Petrology, stable isotopes, and biogeochemistry. Facies, 48. 241-254. doi:10.1007/BF02667542
Goedert, JL, Thiel, V, Schmale, O, Rau, WW, Michaelis, W and Peckmann, JL (2003) The Late Eocene Whiskey Creek methane-seep deposit (western Washington State) - Part I: Geology, palaeontology, and molecular geobiology. Facies, 48. 223-240.