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Publications
Koen Van Noten

International publications in journals or books with peer review, field trip Guides, reports and popularising papers.

About Geoeducation and Research Visibility

Van Noten, K. 2016. Visualizing Cross-Sectional Data in a Real-World Context. EOS, Transactions AGU, 97,  16-19. pdf   Youtube tutorial 

 

About Seismology and Macroseismology 

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T., Hinzen, K.-G., Sira, C. & Camelbeeck, T. in review. Path and Site effects deduced from transfrontierinternet macroseismic data of two recent M4. Solid Earth Discuss.  http://www.solid-earth-discuss.net/se-2016-150/  EGU2016

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T., Shah, A. & Camelbeeck, T. 2015. Seismotectonic significance of the 2008-2010 Walloon Brabant seismic swarm in the Brabant Massif (Belgium). Tectonophysics 656, 20-38. pdf  DOI    EGU2015-presentation

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T. & Camelbeeck, T. 2015. De aardbevingszwerm tussen 2008 en 2010 te Court-Saint-Etienne: 237 aardbevingen in 1,5 jaar tijd.
Science Connection 49, 28-31. Scientific magazine of the Belgian Science Policy Office. pdf

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T. & Camelbeeck, T. 2015. L'essaim sismique de Court-Saint-Etienne entre 2008 et 2010: 237 seismes en 1 an et demi.
Science Connection 49, 28-31.
Scientific magazine of the Belgian Science Policy Office. pdf

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T., & Camelbeeck, T. 2015. The seismic activity in the Walloon Brabant and its relationship with the local and regional geological structure. Final report of BELSPO contract MO/33/028. Royal Observatory of Belgium. 79p. pdf


About travertine (de)formation in western Turkey

Van Noten, K., Topal, S., Baykara, M.O., Ozkul, M. & Swennen, R. in prep. Pleistocene deformation history of the Ballıik travertine at the NE margin of the Denizli Graban-Horst System (SW Turkey). Tectonophysics

Claes, H., Soete, J., Van Noten, K., El Desouky, H., Erthal, M.M., Vanhaecke, F., Ozkul, M. & Swennen, R. 2015. Sedimentology, 3D geobody reconstruction and CO2-origin of Pleistocene travertine deposits in the Ballık area (SW Turkey). Sedimentology. pdf DOI

Van Noten, K., Soete, J., Claes, H., Foubert, A., Ozkul, M. & Swennen, R. 2013. Fracture networks and strike-slip deformation along reactivated normal faults in Quaternary travertine deposits, Denizli Basin, Western Turkey. Tectonophysics, 588, 154-170. DOI  pdf


About veining and stress changes in the Ardennes & Eifel (Belgium-Germany)

Sintubin, M., Haerinck, T., Torremans, K., Van Baelen, H. & Van Noten, K. 2013. Tracing the evolution of crustal-scale, transient permeability in a tectonically active, mid-crustal, low-permeability environment by means of quartz veins. 19th International Conference on Deformation mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics. DRT2013 Field trip held 19-20 September 2013. Field trip guidebook, pp. 78. pdf

Van Noten, K., Van Baelen, H. & Sintubin, M. 2012. The complexity of 3D stress-state changes during compressional tectonic inversion at the onset of orogeny. In: Healy, D., Butler, R.W.H., Shipton, Z.K. & Sibson, R. (Eds) Faulting, Fracturing and Igneous Intrusion in the Earth's Crust. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 367, 51-69. pdf  DOI

Van Noten, K. Muchez, Ph. & Sintubin, M. 2011. Stress-state evolution of the brittle upper crust during compressional tectonic inversion as defined by successive quartz vein-types (High-Ardenne slate belt, Germany). Journal of the Geological Society, London 168(2), 407-422pdf  DOI

Van Noten, K.& Sintubin, M. 2010. Linear to non-linear relationship between vein spacing and layer thickness in centimetre- to decimetre-scale siliciclastic multilayers from the High-Ardenne slate belt (Belgium, Germany). Journal of Structural Geology 32(3), 377-391. pdf  DOI

Van Noten, K., Berwouts, I., Muchez, Ph. & Sintubin, M. 2009. Evidence of pressure fluctuations recorded in crack-seal veins in low-grade metamorphic siliciclastic metasediments, Late Palaeozoic Rhenohercynian fold-and-thrust belt (Germany). Journal of Geochemical Exploration 101(1), 106. pdf  DOI

Van Noten, K., Hilgers, C., Urai, J.L. & Sintubin, M. 2008. Late burial to early tectonic quartz veins in the periphery of the High-Ardenne slate belt (Rursee, North Eifel, Germany). Geologica Belgica 11(3-4), 179-198. pdf  PoPuPs


About biostratigraphy in the Brabant Massif (Belgium)

Vanmeirhaeghe, J., Storme, A., Van Noten, K., Van Grootel, G. & Verniers, J. 2005. Chitinozoan biozonation and new lithostratigraphical data in the Upper
Ordovician of the Fauquez and Asquempont areas (Brabant Massif, Belgium). Geologica Belgica 8(4), 145-159. 
pdf


Book/PhD Thesis

Van Noten, K. 2011. Stress-state evolution of the brittle upper crust during early Variscan tectonic inversion as defined by successive quartz vein types in the High-Ardenne slate belt, Germany. Aardkundige mededelingen 28. 241p. 
Abstract
 Non-scientific abstract  Download the PhD    PhD Defense

Blog written (in Dutch) summarizing the PhD results:  Link or pdf


Participation to international conferences

Short Courses & Conference Sessions

Hough, S.E., Bossu, R., Martin, S.S., Van Noten, K. 2016. Session S018: Macroseismic Data: Challenges, Opportunities, and Insights. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 12-16 December 2016, San Francisco, USA.

Van Noten, K., Arroucau, P., Mordret, A., Lecocq, T., Farrugia, D. & Agius, M.R. 2016. Seismology for non-seismologists. European Geosciences Union, Short course 55, 17-22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria.

Outreach

L. Parisi, L. Ermert, L. Gualtieri, K. Spieker, K. Van Noten, M.R. Agius, R. Chimouni, P. M. Mai. 2016. The EGU Seismology Division Early Career Representative Team and its initiatives. TIDES workshop, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2016.

Agius, M.R., Van Noten, K., Ermert, L., Mai, M. & Krawczyk, M. 2016. Recent activities of the Seismology Division Early Career Representative(s). Geophysical Research Abstracts 18, EGU2016-15565, SM1.1, Vienna Austria.

Van Noten, K. 2016. Vizualizing (geological) cross-sections vertically in Google Earth. 5th International Geologica Belgica Conference, January 2016, Mons, Belgium.  


About macroseismic analysis of online "Did You Feel It?" responses

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T., Hinzen, K.-G., Sira, C. & Camelbeeck, T. 2016. Transfrontier Macroseismic Data Exchange in Europe: Intensity Assessment of M>4 Earthquakes by a Grid Cell Approach. American Geophysical Union, AGU2016, 12-16 December 2016, San Francisco, USA.

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T., Hinzen, K.-G., Sira, C. & Camelbeeck, T. 2016. Transfrontier Macroseismology in Europe. ESC2016, 4-9 September 2016, Trieste, Italy.

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T., Hinzen, K.-G., Sira, C. & Camelbeeck, T. 2016. Transfrontier macroseismic data exchange in NW Europe: examples of non-circular intensity distributions. Geophysical Research Abstracts 18, EGU2016-4609, session SM3.3, 17-22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria.

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T. & Camelbeeck, T. 2016. Macroseismic analysis of "Did You Feel It?" responses to ML > 3 earthquakes felt in and around Belgium5th International Geologica Belgica Conference, January 2016, Mons, Belgium.

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T., Hinzen, K. & Camelbeeck, T. 2015. Macroseismic analysis of "Did You Feel It?" responses to ML > 3 earthquakes felt in Belgium and its neighbouring countries. Membach 20-40 Workshop: Earthquake activity and hazard in NW Europe. La Gileppe, Belgium. 15 October 2015. 

Lecocq, T., Hinzen, K., Van Noten, K. & Camelbeeck, T. 2015. Nearly 15 years of real-time transfrontier macroseismic data acquisition and mapping. Membach 20-40 Workshop: Earthquake activity and hazard in NW Europe. La Gileppe, Belgium. 15 October 2015. 

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T., Vleminckx, B., Camelbeeck, T., 2013. Macroseismic investigation of the 2008-2010 low magnitude seismic swarm in the Brabant Massif, Belgium. The link between macroseismic intensity and geomorphology. Geophysical Research Abstracts 15, EGU2013-4923, session SM2.8, 7-12 april 2013, Vienna. pdf 

About H/V spectral ratio analysis, geophysical prospection and surface wave analysis 

Van Noten, K., Deckers, J. & Vanneste, K. 2016. Influence of the Grote Brogel fault on the local (hydro)geology, Roer Valley Graben, Belgium. BELQUA annual workshop, Brussels, 4 March 2016

Camelbeeck, T., Vanneste, K., Verbeeck, K., Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T. 2016. The relationship between inherited faults and earthquake activity in northwestern Europe. BELQUA annual workshop, Brussels, 4 March 2016

Van Noten, K. & Lecocq, T. 2016. Continuous H/V Spectral Ratio Analysis of Ambient Noise: a necessity to understand microzonation results obtained by mobile stations. Geophysical Research Abstracts 18, EGU2016-4609, session SM2.2/NH4.13, 17-22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria.

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T., Meyer, L., Molron, J. & Camelbeeck, T. 2015. Continuous H/V Spectral Ratio Analysis of Ambient Noise Recorded by Stationary Seismic Stations to Improve Microzonation Results Obtained by Mobile Stations. American Geophysical Union, AGU2015-NS41B-1936, 14-18 December 2015, San Francisco, USA.

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T., Molron, J., Camelbeeck, T. & Van Camp, M. 2015. Shear wave velocity estimation of cover sediments by seismic array measurements.
Geophysical Research Abstracts 17, EGU2015-7445, session SM4.1, 12-17 April 2015, Vienna. pdf

Watlet, A., Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T., Chamber, J., Meldrum, P., Francis, O., Van Camp M., Kaufmann, O. 2014. Hydrogeophysical tools for investigating groundwater storage in the subsurface of a karst system, Near Surface Geoscience, Athens, September 2014

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T., Watlet, A., Camelbeeck, T., 2014. Modelling sediment thickness for site-effect characterisation using H/V spectral ratio analysis and electrical resistivity tomography. Geophysical Research Abstracts 16, EGU2014-13252, session SM2.3, 27 april - 2 May 2014. pdf

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T. & Camelbeeck, T. 2013. Using H/V Spectral Ratio Analysis to Map Sediment Thickness and to Explain Macroseismic Intensity Variation of a Low-Magnitude Seismic Swarm in Central Belgium. American Geophysical Union, AGU2013-S53B-2406, 9-13 December 2013, San Francisco, USA. pdf

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T, Verbeeck, K., Vanneste, K. & Camelbeeck, T. 2012. Modelling the palaeotopography of the Brabant Massif: a necessity to understand the site effects of the 2008-2011 seismic activity in the Brabant Walloon. 4th International Geologica Belgica Meeting, 11-14 September 2012, Brussels, Belgium  pdf


About seismic swarms and intraplate earthquake activity

Camelbeeck, T., Vanneste, K., Verbeeck, K., Van Noten, K. & Lecocq, T.. 2015. Faults and earthquake activity in northwestern Europe. 2nd Historical Earthquake Colloquium on the Rhine Graben and Intraplate Quakes. 12-13 May 2015, Strasbourg. pdf

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T., Shah, A. & Camelbeeck, T. 2015. Seismotectonic significance of the 2008-2010 seismic swarm in the Brabant Massif (Belgium). Geophysical Research Abstracts 17, EGU2015-4229, session TS4.1/SM6.4, 12-17 April 2015. pdf

Verbeeck K., Wouters L., Vanneste K., Vleminckx B., Van Noten K., Camelbeeck T., Schiltz M., Vandenberghe N. 2015. New paleoseismologic trench accross the Rauw Fault at Mol, Belgium. Clay Conference 2015, Brussels, March 2015.

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T., Shah, A. & Camelbeeck, T. 2015. Deducing the seismotectonic significance of the 2008-2010 seismic swarm in the Brabant Massif by aeromagnetic bandpass filtering (Belgium). Tectonic Studies Group AGM, Edinburgh, UK.

Van Noten, K., Lecocq, T. & Camelbeeck, T. 2013. The tectonic significance of the 2008-2010 seismic swarm in the Brabant Massif, Belgium. DRT2013, 16-18 September 2013, Leuven, Belgium


About fracturing and faulting in western Turkey

Topal, S., Van Noten, K.Baykara, M.O. Ozkul, M. & Swennen, R. 2015. Tectonic analysis of the Ballık travertine (Denizli, SW Turkey). Active Tektonics Research Group (ATAG). Sakarya University, Turkey. 5-7 October 2015. 

Van Noten, K. Topal, S., Baykara, M.O. Ozkul, M. & Swennen, R. 2015. Deformation history of the Ballık travertine (Denizli, SW Turkey). Geophysical research Abstracts 17, EGU-2015-7538, session TS1.3, 12 - 17 April 2015, Vienna. pdf

Van Noten, K. Topal, S., Baykara, M.O.Ozkul, M. & Swennen, R. 2015. Pleistocene deformation history of the Ballık travertine along the NE margin of the Denizli Graben-Horst System (SW Turkey). Tectonic Studies Group AGM, January 2015, Edinburgh, UK. 

Van Noten, K.Claes, H., Soete, J., Ozkul, M. & Swennen, R. 2012. Fracture networks and strike-slip deformation along reactivated normal faults in Quarternary travertine deposits, Denizli Basin, Western Turkey. 4th International Geologica Belgica Meeting, 11-14 September 2012, Brussels, Belgium.

About interactive Ba-Ma fieldtrips in Google Earth

Sintubin, M., Adriaens, R., Ronchi, B., Vandewijngaerde, W., Berwouts, I., De Clercq, F., D’Haenens, S., Moermans, G., Vanhove, D. & Van Noten, K. 2011. Integrating field courses in the undergraduate geology curriculum at the K.U.Leuven (Belgium) using Google Earth. GSSA Penrose Conference, Google Earth: Visualizing the Possibilities for Geoscience Education and Research. 4-8 January 2011, Mountain View, U.S.A.


A
bout veining and stress changes in the Ardennes & Eifel (Belgium, Germany)

Van Noten, K., Van Baelen, H., Berwouts, I. Muchez, Ph., Sintubin, M. 2011. Quartz microstructures as key to unravel orogenic history. Interrelationships between deformation and metamorphism, 23-26 May 2011, Granada, Spain.

Sintubin, M., Van Noten, K., Van Baelen, H. & Muchez, Ph. 2011. Quartz veins as proxy for coupled fluid pressure and stress state evolution at the base of the seismogenic crust: examples from the High-Ardenne Slate Belt (Belgium, Germany, France). DRT Conference, 31 August - 2 September 2011, Oviedo, Spain.

Sintubin, M., Van Baelen, H., Van Noten, K., Schavemaker, Y. & de Bresser, J.H.P. 2011. Kinematic expressions of shear localisation in a slate belt. Examples from the High-Ardenne slate belt (Belgium, France). Penrose Conference: Deformation Localization in Rocks: new advances, 27 June - 2 July 2011, Cadaqués & Cap de Creus peninsula, Catalonia, Spain

Van Noten, K., Van Baelen, H. & Sintubin M. 2011. 3D Stress-State Evolution during Tectonic Inversion. Tectonic Studies Group Annual General Meeting. 5-7 January 2011, Durham University, Durham, U.K.

Van Noten, K., Van Baelen H., Muchez, Ph. & Sintubin M. 2010. Stress-state evolution of the crust during extensional and compressional tectonic inversion as documented by quartz veins. Anderson Conference: Stress controls on faulting, fracturing and igneous intrusion in the Earth's crust, p18. 6-8 September 2010, Glasgow University, Glasgow, U.K.

Sintubin, M., Van Baelen, H., Van Noten, K. & Muchez, Ph. 2010. Mixed brittle-plastic deformation behaviour at the base of the seismogenic zone as documented by quartz veins (High-Ardenne slate belt, Belgium, Germany). Gordon Research Conference, Transient and transitional behaviour in rock deformation: Moving away from steady-state, 8-13 August 2010, Tilton, NH, USA

Van Noten, K., Muchez., Ph. & Sintubin, M. 2010. The stress state of the brittle upper crust during early Variscan tectonic inversion and its influence on high-pressure compartments. Tectonic Studies Group Annual General Meeting, 6-8 January 2010, Birmingham University, Birmingham, U.K.

Van Noten, K. 2010. Veins in the High-Ardenne slate belt: useful tools to define early and late orogenic failure. Studiedag: Tectonics and Structural Geology in Belgium. Koninklijke Vlaamse academie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (KVAB), 14 May 2010, Brussels, Belgium

Van Noten, K., Muchez, Ph. & Sintubin, M. 2009. Early veining in the Ardenne-Eifel basin (Rursee - Urftsee, Germany): Evidence of tectonic inversion in an overpressured sedimentary basin at the onset of the Variscan Orogeny. Third International Conference Geologica Belgica, 54-55, 14-15 September 2009, Ghent, Belgium

Van Noten, K., Berwouts, I., Muchez, Ph. & Sintubin, M. 2009. Evidence of pressure fluctuations recorded in crack-seal veins in low-grade metamorphic siliciclastic metasediments, Late Palaeozoic Rhenohercynian fold-and-thrust belt (Germany). Journal of Geochemical Exploration 101(1), 106. Geofluids, 15-17 April 2009, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South-Australia

Van Noten, K. & Sintubin, M. 2009. Spatial distribution of quartz veins in alternating siliciclastic sequences and its relationship to bed thickness. Tectonic Studies Group Annual General Meeting, 27, 7-8 January 2009, Keele University, U.K. ~ Mike Coward Award of best Post-Graduate Talk

Van Noten, K., Hilgers, C., Urai, J.L. & Sintubin, M. 2008. The record of a tectonic inversion in the Lower Devonian Ardenne-Eifel basin (Belgium, Germany): a switch from bedding-normal to bedding-parallel quartz veins. Tectonic Studies Group Annual General Meeting, 72-73, 8-10 January 2008, La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium

Van Noten, K., Kenis, I., Hilgers, C., Urai, J.L. & Sintubin, M. 2007. Early vein generations in the High-Ardenne slate belt (Belgium, Germany): the earliest manifestations of the Variscan orogeny? In: Mechanics of Variscan Orogeny: a modern view on orogenic research. Géologie de la France 2, Orleans, France, 170. 13-15 September 2007, Orleans, France

Van Noten, K., Sintubin, M., Hilgers, C. & Urai, J.L. 2007. On the formation of bedding-perpendicular and bedding-parallel quartz veins in the Variscan fold-and-thrust belt: late burial or early tectonic? Tectonic Studies Group Annual General Meeting, 4-6 January 2007, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K.

Van Noten, K., Kenis, I., Sintubin, M. & Urai, J.L. 2007. Quartz veining in the High-Ardenne slate belt. New evidences from the Rursee area, North Eifel, Germany. Geologica Belgica 10(3-4), 218. Geologica Belgica International Meeting, 7-8 September 2006, Liege, Belgium

Van Noten, K., Kenis, I., Sintubin, M. & Urai, J.L. 2006. Structural morphology and quartz veining in the periphery of the High-Ardenne slate belt, Rursee, North-Eifel, Germany. Tectonic Studies Group Annual General Meeting, 41, 4-6 January 2006, University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.


A
bout biostratigraphy and tectonic deformation in the Brabant Massif (Belgium)

Coenen, B., Debacker, T.N., Van Noten, K. & Verniers, J. 2007. Lateral variations of deformation style in virtually coaxially deformed sequences: the example of the upper Silurian of the inclined shiplift at Ronquieres, southern Brabant Massif (Belgium). Geologica Belgica 10(3-4), 188-189. Geologica Belgica International Meeting, 7-8 September 2006, Liege, Belgium

Vanmeirhaeghe, J., Storme, A., Van Noten, K., Van Grootel, G. & Verniers, J. 2004. Local chitinozoan biozonation of the Upper Ordovician of the Fauquez area (Brabant Massif, Belgium). In: Avalonia-Moesia: Early Palaeozoic orogens in the Trans-European Suture Zone? Avalonia-Moesia symposium/workshop, 41-42, 9-11 October 2004

Vanmeirhaeghe, J., Van Noten, K., Van Grootel, G. & Verniers, J. 2004. Chitinozoans from the Upper Ordovician of the Fauquez area (Brabant Massif, Belgium). In: International Symposium on Early Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimate (edited by Munnecke, A., Servais, T. & Schulbert, C.). Erlanger Geologische Abhandlungen, Sonderband 5, Erlangen, Germany, 71-72, 1-3 September 2004



In the Media (in dutch)
  • 'Kan de aarde echt beven in Antwerpen? Gazet van Antwerpen, rubriek Zeker Weten. 05/03/2016. 
  • 'Uitvoerder: "Geen zware trillingen"; Seismologen: "Explosie tot 2 km voelbaar". Gazet van Antwerpen 29/02/2016. 
  • 'Aardbeving' tot 2 km verder te voelen: "Explosies niet heviger, wel langer dan voorzien. De Morgen. 29/02/2016.  link
  • 'Ik dacht aan een gasontploffing', Het Belang van Limburg. 23/05/2015. - pdf
  • 'Aardbevingen in Belgie: zelden gevaarlijk maar vaker dan je denkt', De Morgen. 23/05/2015.
  • '1.000 mensen voelen aardbeving in Belgie', Het Nieuwsblad. 23/05/2015.
  • 'Aardbeving Kent voelbaar tot in Belgie', Het Laatste Nieuws. 23/05/2015.
  • 'Ook Belgie beefde even vannacht', De Standaard Avond. 22/05/2015.
  • 'De vraag is of alle spanning weg is bij de breuk', NOS Journaal. 27/04/2015.
  • Tabriz (Iran) 12-08-2012 Earthquake - Nieuws item - Q-music
  • 'Zware aardbeving in ons land' – De Grote Peter Van de Veire Ochtendshow, MNM, 12 september 2011 - beluister
  • 'Belgie staat zware aardbeving te wachten' – Het Nieuwsblad op Zondag, 11 september 2011 lees
  • 'Zware aardbeving kan hier ook' – De Standaard, 12 september 2011lees
  • 'Zware aardbeving mogelijk in Nederland en Belgie' – Het Nieuwsblad, 12 september 2011 lees
  • 'Extreme aardbeving in Limburg ‘niet meteen voor morgen’ – De Morgen, 12 september 2011lees
  • 'Reele kans op zeer zware aardbeving in onze region' – Het Belang van Limburg, 12 september 2011 lees
  • 'Kans op zware aardbeving is reeel' – De Gazet van Antwerpen, 12 september 2011lees
  • 'Aarde beeft in Nederland' – Het Nieuws, VTM, 9 september 2011
  • 'Zwaarste schokken nu voorbij' – Het Nieuws, VTM, 12 mei 2011 - bekijk

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