Christopher Lüthgens
Biographic Data
| ID | 2786370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Lüthgens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Lüthgens |
| SIGNATURE | LÜTHGENS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | BOKU University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3211-6318 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Revisiting the ‘Hole of Bad Aussee
Despite a long history of geologic research in the European Eastern Alps, Quaternary landscape evolution before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) remains poorly constrained due to the scarcity of dated sedimentary archives, particularly in inneralpine regions. In this study, we reinvestigate an 880-m-long drill core from Bad Aussee (Styria, Austria), originally drilled for salt exploration. Sedimentological, geochemical, and geochronological analyse…
Linking archaeology and paleoenvironment
Early human habitation of the arid to semiarid Central Iranian Plateau was strongly connected to the availability of water and associated natural hazards, such as flooding and drought events. In this geoarchaeological study, we focus on the occupation at the prehistoric site of Ajor Pazi within the formerly active fluvial environment of the Varamin Plain. Through radiocarbon and luminescence‐dated sediment cross‐sections, we apply multivariate st…
Late Quaternary formation of the Miaoli Tableland in northwest Taiwan, an interplay of tectonic uplift and fluvial processes dated by OSL
The “tablelands” in Taiwan are sedimentary terraces occurring in the foreland basin west of the Neogene mountain ranges. The Miaoli Tableland consists of elevated Late Quaternary sedimentary successions, representing a change from tidal to coastal and fluvial to eolian depositional environments. The present-day morphology is a result of combined processes, including differential tectonic uplift, ongoing fluvial aggradation, and incision. Selected…
Watering the desert
The phenomenon of very extended desert oases settlements, mega-sites featuring complex irrigation systems and monumental walls has long been observed in Northern Arabia. In the past, it has been linked to the settling down of nomadic components of the population and dated through archaeological material to the Late Bronze or Iron Ages (late second to mid-first millennium BCE). Since 2014 we have been investigating this development through the cas…
Early deglaciation and paleolake history of Río Cisnes Glacier, Patagonian Ice Sheet (44°S)
The timing, structure, and landscape change during the Patagonian Ice Sheet deglaciation remains unresolved. In this article, we provide a geomorphic, stratigraphic, and geochronological deglacial record of Río Cisnes Glacier at 44°S and also from the nearby Río Ñirehuao and Río El Toqui valleys (45°S) in Chilean Patagonia. Our 14 C, 10 Be, and optically stimulated luminescence data indicate that after the last glacial maximum, Río Cisnes Glacier…
Living at the wadi – integrating geomorphology and archaeology at the oasis of Qurayyah (NW Arabia)
The archaeological site Qurayyah, situated in the NW of the Tabuk Province of Saudi Arabia, has been repeatedly described as one of the largest and most significant oases of Northwestern Arabia. Human occupation in the oasis started at least from the early Holocene and continued to the Nabatean, Roman and late Byzantine period. The hydrologically favored position results from its specific geomorphological location where the plateaus fade towards …
Challenges in constraining ages of fluvial terraces in the Vienna Basin (Austria) using combined isochron burial and pIrir225 luminescence dating
Burial dating with terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides and luminescence dating techniques have become two powerful tools to temporally constrain Quaternary deposits. A combination of both methods at the same geological setting has rarely been realized to date, although their viable time frames overlap by several tens of thousands of years. When Middle Pleistocene sediments with depositional ages ranging around ca. 120 ka to ca. 300 ka are targeted, b…
Luminescence dating of the Rissian type section in southern Germany as a base for correlation
The exact timing of the Rissian has been under discussion since being established by Penck and Brückner (1909) at the beginning of the 20th century. Difficulties in correlating and especially dating the sediments associated with the Rissian have led to different nomenclatures in the different regions of the Northern Alpine Foreland (NAF). Various dating approaches have led so far to often unsatisfying results. In this study we successfully dated …
Luminescence dating of glaciofluvial deposits linked to the penultimate glaciation in the Eastern Alps
During the penultimate glaciation vast areas of the Alps were glaciated, with piedmont glaciers protruding into the foreland. In the easternmost part of the northward draining valleys of the Alps, the glaciers did not reach the foreland, but formed valley glaciers confined by the mountainous terrain. This also applies to the Ybbs valley, where samples for luminescence dating out of glaciofluvial gravel accumulations were taken at three locations …
A new deglaciation chronology for north-eastern Germany inferred from OSL dating of sandur sediments and a reinterpretation of surface exposure ages of erratic boulders
Reconstruction of the Holocene coastal development at Fulong Beach in north-eastern Taiwan using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating
Timing of the last interglacial in Northern Europe derived from Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating of a terrestrial Saalian–Eemian–Weichselian sedimentary sequence in NE-Germany
Late Holocene mobilisation of loess-like sediments in Hohuan Shan, high mountains of Taiwan
On the age of the young morainic morphology in the area ascribed to the maximum extent of the Weichselian glaciation in north-eastern Germany
Watering the desert
The phenomenon of very extended desert oases settlements, mega-sites featuring complex irrigation systems and monumental walls has long been observed in Northern Arabia. In the past, it has been linked to the settling down of nomadic components of the population and dated through archaeological material to the Late Bronze or Iron Ages (late second to mid-first millennium BCE). Since 2014 we have been investigating this development through the cas…
On the age of the young morainic morphology in the area ascribed to the maximum extent of the Weichselian glaciation in north-eastern Germany
Timing of the last interglacial in Northern Europe derived from Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating of a terrestrial Saalian–Eemian–Weichselian sedimentary sequence in NE-Germany
Late Holocene mobilisation of loess-like sediments in Hohuan Shan, high mountains of Taiwan
A new deglaciation chronology for north-eastern Germany inferred from OSL dating of sandur sediments and a reinterpretation of surface exposure ages of erratic boulders
Reconstruction of the Holocene coastal development at Fulong Beach in north-eastern Taiwan using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating
Luminescence dating of glaciofluvial deposits linked to the penultimate glaciation in the Eastern Alps
During the penultimate glaciation vast areas of the Alps were glaciated, with piedmont glaciers protruding into the foreland. In the easternmost part of the northward draining valleys of the Alps, the glaciers did not reach the foreland, but formed valley glaciers confined by the mountainous terrain. This also applies to the Ybbs valley, where samples for luminescence dating out of glaciofluvial gravel accumulations were taken at three locations …
Luminescence dating of the Rissian type section in southern Germany as a base for correlation
The exact timing of the Rissian has been under discussion since being established by Penck and Brückner (1909) at the beginning of the 20th century. Difficulties in correlating and especially dating the sediments associated with the Rissian have led to different nomenclatures in the different regions of the Northern Alpine Foreland (NAF). Various dating approaches have led so far to often unsatisfying results. In this study we successfully dated …
Early deglaciation and paleolake history of Río Cisnes Glacier, Patagonian Ice Sheet (44°S)
The timing, structure, and landscape change during the Patagonian Ice Sheet deglaciation remains unresolved. In this article, we provide a geomorphic, stratigraphic, and geochronological deglacial record of Río Cisnes Glacier at 44°S and also from the nearby Río Ñirehuao and Río El Toqui valleys (45°S) in Chilean Patagonia. Our 14 C, 10 Be, and optically stimulated luminescence data indicate that after the last glacial maximum, Río Cisnes Glacier…
Living at the wadi – integrating geomorphology and archaeology at the oasis of Qurayyah (NW Arabia)
The archaeological site Qurayyah, situated in the NW of the Tabuk Province of Saudi Arabia, has been repeatedly described as one of the largest and most significant oases of Northwestern Arabia. Human occupation in the oasis started at least from the early Holocene and continued to the Nabatean, Roman and late Byzantine period. The hydrologically favored position results from its specific geomorphological location where the plateaus fade towards …
Challenges in constraining ages of fluvial terraces in the Vienna Basin (Austria) using combined isochron burial and pIrir225 luminescence dating
Burial dating with terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides and luminescence dating techniques have become two powerful tools to temporally constrain Quaternary deposits. A combination of both methods at the same geological setting has rarely been realized to date, although their viable time frames overlap by several tens of thousands of years. When Middle Pleistocene sediments with depositional ages ranging around ca. 120 ka to ca. 300 ka are targeted, b…
Late Quaternary formation of the Miaoli Tableland in northwest Taiwan, an interplay of tectonic uplift and fluvial processes dated by OSL
The “tablelands” in Taiwan are sedimentary terraces occurring in the foreland basin west of the Neogene mountain ranges. The Miaoli Tableland consists of elevated Late Quaternary sedimentary successions, representing a change from tidal to coastal and fluvial to eolian depositional environments. The present-day morphology is a result of combined processes, including differential tectonic uplift, ongoing fluvial aggradation, and incision. Selected…
Watering the desert
The phenomenon of very extended desert oases settlements, mega-sites featuring complex irrigation systems and monumental walls has long been observed in Northern Arabia. In the past, it has been linked to the settling down of nomadic components of the population and dated through archaeological material to the Late Bronze or Iron Ages (late second to mid-first millennium BCE). Since 2014 we have been investigating this development through the cas…
Linking archaeology and paleoenvironment
Early human habitation of the arid to semiarid Central Iranian Plateau was strongly connected to the availability of water and associated natural hazards, such as flooding and drought events. In this geoarchaeological study, we focus on the occupation at the prehistoric site of Ajor Pazi within the formerly active fluvial environment of the Varamin Plain. Through radiocarbon and luminescence‐dated sediment cross‐sections, we apply multivariate st…
Revisiting the ‘Hole of Bad Aussee
Despite a long history of geologic research in the European Eastern Alps, Quaternary landscape evolution before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) remains poorly constrained due to the scarcity of dated sedimentary archives, particularly in inneralpine regions. In this study, we reinvestigate an 880-m-long drill core from Bad Aussee (Styria, Austria), originally drilled for salt exploration. Sedimentological, geochemical, and geochronological analyse…
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (13 works) · Geology (11 works) · Geography (8 works) · Paleontology (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Geomorphology (7 works) · Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (7 works) · Structural basin (7 works) · Thermoluminescence dating (7 works) · Glacial period (6 works)