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GEORGE KONTAKIOTIS

George Kontakiotis

Position: Faculty Member
Rank: Assoc. Professor

Section of: Historical Geology and Palaeontology
Scientific Topic: Sedimentology-Marine Geology

Tel: +30 2107274804
e-mail: gkontak@geol.uoa.gr
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Research Interests

Sedimentology, Paleoceanography, Stratigraphy, Isotopes, Microfacies analysis, Petroleum research, Paleoclimatology

Indicative Teaching Topics (Teaching Project Co-Assistance)

Undegraguate Program

  • Sedimentology
  • Stratigraphy
  • Marine Geology
  • Sedimentary basins and petroleum systems
  • Environmental Sedimentology and Applications

Postgraduate Program "Earth Sciences and Environment"

  • Paleoecology

Inter-Departmental Postgraduate Program "Oceanography"

  • Marine Sedimentary Environments

Indicative Publications

Agiadi K., Hohmann N., Gliozzi E., Thivaiou D., Bosellini F.R., Taviani M., Bianucci G., Collareta A., Londeix L., Faranda C., Bulian F., Koskeridou E., Lozar F., Mancini A.M., Dominici S., Moissette P., Campos I.B., Borghi E., Iliopoulos G., Antonarakou A., Kontakiotis G., Besiou E., Zarkogiannis S.D., Harzhauser M., Sierro F.J., Coll M., Vasiliev I., Camerlenghi A., García-Castellanos D., 2024. The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis.Science 385 (6712), pp. 986 - 991, DOI: 10.1126/science.adp3703

Agiadi K., Hohmann N., Gliozzi E., Thivaiou D., Bosellini F.R., Taviani M., Bianucci G., Collareta A., Londeix L., Faranda C., Bulian F., Koskeridou E., Lozar F., Mancini A.M., Dominici S., Moissette P., Campos I.B., Borghi E., Iliopoulos G., Antonarakou A., Kontakiotis G., Besiou E., Zarkogiannis S.D., Harzhauser M., Sierro F.J., Coll M., Vasiliev I., Camerlenghi A., García-Castellanos D., 2024. Late Miocene transformation of Mediterranean Sea biodiversity. Science Advances, 10 (39), eadp1134, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp1134

Kontakiotis, G., Antonarakou, A., Besiou, E., Skampa, E., Triantaphyllou, M.V., 2023. Towards an integrated and accurate planktonic-foraminiferal-deduced bio-chrono-stratigraphic framework of late Quaternary Mediterranean marine cores. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 11(12), 2345, doi.org/10.3390/jmse11122345.

Besiou, E., Kontakiotis, G., Vasiliev, I., Moissette, P., Cornée, J.-J., Antonarakou, A., 2023. Evolutionary Palaeoecological and Morphological Response of Globorotalia menardii to Environmental Stress Conditions Preceding the Tortonian–Messinian Boundary in the Mediterranean Basin. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 11, 1228, doi.org/10.3390/jmse11061228.

Qamar, S., Shah, M.M., Janjuhah, H.T., Kontakiotis, G., Shahzad, A., Besiou, E., 2023. Sedimentological, Diagenetic, and Sequence Stratigraphic Controls on the Shallow to Marginal Marine Carbonates of the Middle Jurassic Samana Suk Formation, North Pakistan. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering,11, 1230, doi.org/10.3390/jmse11061230.

Bilal, A., Yang, R., Janjuhah, H. T., Mughal, M. S., Li, Y., Kontakiotis, G., Lenhardt, N., 2023. Microfacies analysis of the Palaeocene Lockhart limestone on the eastern margin of the Upper Indus Basin (Pakistan): Implications for the depositional environment and reservoir characteristics. The Depositional Record, 9, 152–173. doi.org/10.1002/dep2.222.

Kontakiotis, G., Butiseacă, G.A., Antonarakou, A., Agiadi, K., Zarkogiannis, S.D., Krsnik, E., Besiou, E., Zachariasse, W.J., Lourens, L., Thivaiou, D., Koskeridou, E., Moissette, P., Mulch, A., Karakitsios, V., Vasiliev, I., 2022. Hypersalinity accompanies tectonic restriction in the eastern Mediterranean prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 592, 110903, doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110903.

Butiseacă, G.A., Van Der Meer, M.T.J., Kontakiotis, G., Agiadi, K., Thivaiou, D., Besiou, E., Antonarakou, A., Mulch, A., Vasiliev, I., 2022. Multiple crises preceded the Mediterranean Salinity Crisis: Aridification and vegetation changes revealed by biomarkers and stable isotopes. Global and Planetary Change, 217, 103951, doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103951.

Zachariasse, W.J., Kontakiotis, G., Lourens, L.J., Antonarakou, A., 2021. The Messinian of Agios Myron (Crete, Greece): A key to better understanding of diatomite formation on Gavdos (south of Crete). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 581, 110633, doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110633.

Vasiliev, I., Karakitsios, V., Bouloubassi, I., Agiadi, K., Kontakiotis, G., Antonarakou, A., Triantaphyllou, M., Gogou, A., Kafousia, N., De Rafélis, M., Zarkogiannis, S., Kaczmar, F., Parinos, C., Pasadakis, N., 2019. Large sea surface temperature, salinity, and productivity-preservation changes preceding the onset of the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34, 182-202, doi.org/10.1029/2018PA003438. .

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