Prof. Dr. Armin Dielforder

• Tektonik konvergenter Plattenränder
• Bedeutung kurzzeitiger Deformationsprozesse für langfristige Tektonik
• Erdbebengeologie
• Klima-Tektonik Wechselwirkungen

Tektonisch-topographische Reaktion konvergenter Plattenränder auf Veränderungen im submarinen Relief - eine Analyse basierend auf der Kombination von analytischen und numerischen Betrachtungen des Kräftegleichgewichts

• Dielforder, A., Bocchini, G. M., Hampel, A. (2025). Importance of forearc topography for the triggering of aftershocks of megathrust earthquakes: Insights from mechanical models and the Tohoku-Oki and Maule earthquakes. Solid Earth, in press
   
• Matthies, F., Dielforder, A., & Hampel, A. (2024). Force-balance modelling of the impact of glacial erosion, trench sedimentation, megathrust weakening and glacial loading on the stress state of the crust at active continental margins. Tectonophysics, 871, 230180. 
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230180
   
• Dielforder, A., Bocchini, G. M., Kemna, K., Hampel, A., Harrington, R., & Oncken, O. (2023). Megathrust stress drop as trigger of aftershock seismicity: Insights from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL101320. 
  https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101320
   
• Ford, M., Masini, E., Vergés, J., Pik, R., Ternois, S., Léger, J., Dielforder, A., Frasca, G., et al. (2022). Evolution of a low convergence collisional orogen: a review of Pyrenean orogenesis. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 193, 
  https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2022018
   
• Sippl, C., Dielforder, A., John, T., & Schmalholz, S. (2022). Global constraints on intermediate-depth intraslab stresses from slab geometries and mechanisms of double seismic zone earthquakes. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23, e2022GC010498. 
  https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010498
   
• Dielforder, A., Villa, I. M., Berger, A., & Herwegh, M. (2022). Tracing wedge-internal deformation by means of strontium isotope systematics of vein carbonates. Geological Magazine. 
  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756821001357
   
• Wölfler, A., Hampel, A., Dielforder, A., Hetzel, R., & Glotzbach, C. (2022). LGM ice extent and deglaciation history in the Gurktal and Lavantal Alps (eastern European Alps): first constraints from ¹⁰Be surface exposure dating of glacially polished quartz veins. Journal of Quaternary Science, 37, 677-687. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3399 
   
• Dielforder, A., & Hampel, A. (2021). Force-Balance analysis of stress changes during the subduction-collision transition and implications for the rise of mountain belts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, 
  https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020914
   
• Krone, L., Hampl, F., Schwerdhelm, C., Bryce, C., Ganzert, L., Kitte, A., Übernickel, K., Dielforder, A., et al. (2021). A very deep weathering front in the semi-arid Coastal Cordillera, Chile. Scientific Reports, 11, 13057 (2021). 
  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90267-7
   
• Saltogianni, V., Mouslopoulou, V., Dielforder, A., Bocchini, G. M., Bedford, J., & Oncken, O. (2021) Slow slip triggers the 2018 M_w 6.9 Zakynthos Earthquake within the weakly locked Hellenic Subduction System, Greece. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, e2021GC010090. 
  https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010090
   
• Dielforder, A., Hetzel, R., & Oncken, O. (2020). Megathrust shear force controls mountain height at convergent plate margins. Nature,582, 225–229. 
  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2340-7 
   
• Dielforder, A., Frasca, G., Brune, S., & Ford, M. (2019). Formation of the Iberian‐European convergent plate boundary fault and its effect on intraplate deformation in Central Europe. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 2395–2417. 
  https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007840 
   
• Grool, A. R., Ford, M., Vergés, J., Huismans, R. S., Christophoul, F., & Dielforder, A. (2018). Insights into the crustal‐scale dynamics of a doubly vergent orogen from a quantitative analysis of its forelands: A case study of the Eastern Pyrenees. Tectonics, 37, 450–476. 
  https://doi.org/10.1002/2017TC004731
   
• Dielforder, A. (2017). Constraining the strength of megathrusts from fault geometries and application to the Alpine collision zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letter, 474, 49–58. 
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.06.021
   
• Dielforder, A., Berger, A., & Herwegh, M. (2016). The accretion of foreland basin sediments during early stages of continental collision in the European Alps and similarities to accretionary wedge tectonics. Tectonics, 35, 2216–2238. 
  https://doi.org/10.1002/2015TC004101
   
• Dielforder, A., Vollstaedt, H., Vennemann, T., Berger, A., & Herwegh, M. (2015). Linking megathrust earthquakes to brittle deformation in a fossil accretionary complex. Nature Communications, 6:7504, 
  https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8504 
   
• Dielforder, A., & Hetzel, R. (2014). The deglaciation history of the Simplon region (southern Swiss Alps) constrained by ¹⁰Be exposure dating of ice-molded bedrock surfaces. Quaternary Science Reviews, 84, 26–38. 
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.11.008