Paleoenvironmental Sediment Laboratory

  • Löwemark, L. and Chen, T.-T.. 2017. Trace Fossil, the Evidence of Past Biological Activities. Taiwan Natural Science, 36(2), 6-9. IIWXIV Special Issue.

  • Löwemark, L. and Chen, T.-T.. 2017. Zoophycos: The World's Strangest Trace Fossil. Taiwan Natural Science, 36(2), 10-15. IIWXIV Special Issue.

  • Yeh, C.-P., Pan, Y.-Y. and Löwemark, L.. 2017. Clues to the behavior of juvenile crustaceans from a peculiar trace fossil (Ophiomorpha) at Fanziao. Taiwan Natural Science, 36(2), 16-21. IIWXIV Special Issue.

  • Chao, W.-S. and Löwemark, L.. 2017. Expedition to the Arctic - Evidence from the sediment core. Taiwan Natural Science, 36(2), 22-27. IIWXIV Special Issue.

  • Kuo, P.-C., Löwemark, L., Song, S.-R., Wang, C.-C., Chiang, C.-C. and Song, Y.-F.. 2017. Unveiling the secrets of the King of the paleocean: The Mosasaurs' mystical teeth. Taiwan Natural Science, 36(2), 28-35. IIWXIV Special Issue.

  • Chiu, P.-Y.B., Chao, W.-S., Gyllencreutz, R., Jakobsson, M., Li, H.-C., Löwemark, L., O'Regan, M. 2017. New constraints on Arctic Ocean Mn stratigraphy from radiocarbon dating on planktonic foraminifera. Quaternary International, Available online 1 March 2017, ISSN 1040-6182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.11.030.

  • Huang, J.-J., Huh, C.-A., Wei, K.-Y., Löwemark, L., Lin, S.-F., Liao, W.-H., Yang, T.-N., Song, S.-R., Lee, M.-Y., Su, C.-C. and Lee, T.-Q. 2016. Disentangling natural and anthropogenic signals in lacustrine records: An example from the Ilan Plain, NE Taiwan.. Frontiers in Earth Science, 4(98).

  • Löwemark, L, Chao, W.-S., Gyllencreutz, R., Hanebuth, T.J.J., Chiu, P.-Y., Yang, T.-N., Su, C.-C., Chuang, C.-K., León Dominguez, D.C. and Jakobsson, M. 2016. Variations in glacial and interglacial marine conditions over the last two glacial cycles off northern Greenland, Quaternary Science Reviews.

  • Plikk, A., Helmens, K.F., Fernández-Fernández, M., Kylander, M., Löwemark, L., Salonen, J.S., Risberg, J., Väliranta, M. and Weckström, J. 2016. Development of an Eemian (MIS 5e) Interglacial paleolake at Sokli (N Finland) inferred using multiple proxies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

  • Kunz, A., Walther, B.A., Löwemark, L. and Lee, Y.-C. 2016. Distribution and quantity of microplastic on sandy beaches along the northern coast of Taiwan. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 111 (1-2), 126-135.

  • Huang, J.-J., *Löwemark, L., Chang, Q., Lin, T.-Y., Chen, H.-F., Song, S.-R. and Wei, K.-Y. 2016, Choosing optimal exposure times for XRF core-scanning: Suggestions based on the analysis of geological reference materials. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17 (4), 1558-1566.

  • Chawchai, S., Kylander, M., Löwemark, L., Chabangborn, A., Wohlfarth, B. 2016. Testing commonly used X-ray fluorescence core scanning-based proxies for organic-rich lake sediments and peat. Boreas, 45 (1), 180-189.

  • Löwemark, L., Zheng, Y.-C., Das, S., Yeh, C.-P. and Chen, T.-T., 2016. A peculiar reworking of Ophiomorpha shafts in the Miocene Nangang Formation, Taiwan. Geodinamica Acta, 28 (1-2), 71-85.

  • Löwemark, L. 2015, Testing ethological hypotheses of the trace fossil Zoophycosbased on Quaternary material from the Greenland and Norwegian Seas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 425:1–13.

  • Löwemark, L., 2015. Evidence for targeted elasmobranch predation on thalassinidean shrimp in the Miocene Taliao sandstone formation, NE Taiwan. Lethaia, 48 (2), 227-234

  • Löwemark, L, Chen, T.-T., Gunnarson, B., Su, C.-C., Yang, T.-N., Huang, J.-J., Lan, Y.-H. & Burr, G.. 2015. The Tienchi Pond on Lanyu Island (Western Pacific): Lake formation and potential as environmental archive. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences.

  • 陳姿彤、施路易, 臺灣東北部中新世大寮層發現魟魚掠食海蛄蝦之證據, 2015, 地質

  • Chawchai, S., Chabangborn, A., Fritz, S., Vliranta, M., Mrth, C.-M., Blaauw, M., Reimer, P.J., Krusic, P.J. Lwemark, L.. 2015. Wohlfarth, B.. Hydroclimatic shifts in northeast Thailand during the last two millennia-the record of Lake Pa Kho.. Quaternary Science Reviews, 111: 62-71. 

  • Hanebuth, T.J.J., Hofmann, A.L., Löwemark, L.A., Schwenk, T., Zhang, W., Hydrographic fronts steering bottom-current activity deduced from a 50-ka contourite sediment record and numerical modelling (off NW Spain), 2015. Quaternary Science Reviews.

  • Finné, M., Kylander, M., Boyd, M., Sundqvist, H.S. and Löwemark, L., 2014. Can XRF scanning be used as a non-destructive method to identify flood events in caves? International Journal of Speleology, 44(1): 17-23

  • Alexanderson, H., Backman, J., Cronin;, T.M., Funder, S., Ingólfsson, Ó., Jakobsson, M., Landvik, J.Y., Löwemark, L., Mangerud, J., März, C., Möller, P., O'Regan, M. and Spielhagen, R.F., 2014. An Arctic perspective on dating Pleistocene environmental history. Quaternary Science Reviews, 92: 9-31.

  • Löwemark, L., März, C., O’Regan, M. and Gyllencreutz, R.. 2014. Arctic Ocean Mn-stratigraphy: genesis, synthesis and inter-basin correlation. Quaternary Science Reviews. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.11.018.

  • Shala, S., Helmens, K.F., Jansson, K., Kylander, M.E., Risberg, J. and Löwemark, L., 2013. Palaeoenvironmental record of glacial lake evolution during the early Holocene at Sokli, NE Finland. Boreas.

  • Kylander, M.E., Klaminder, J., Wohlfarth, B., Löwemark, L. 2013. Geochemical responses to paleoclimatic changes in southern Sweden since the late glacial: the Hässeldala Port lake sediment record. Journal of Paleolimnology, DOI 10.1007/s10933-013-9704-z.

  • Chawchai, S., Chabangborn, A., Kylander, M., Löwemark, L., Mörth, C.-M., Blaauw, M., Klubseang, W., Reimer, P.J., Fritz, S. and Wohlfarth, B. 2013. Lake Kumphawapi: an archive of Holocene palaeoenvirontal and palaeoclimatic changes in northeast Thailand. Quaternary Science Reviews 68, 59–75.

  • Hanslik, D., Löwemark, L., Jakobsson, M. 2013. Biogenic and detrital rich intervals in central Arctic Ocean cores identified using X-Ray fluorescence scanning. Polar Research, 32, doi.org/10.3402/polar.v32i0.18386.

  • Löwemark, L. and Nara, M., 2013. Morphological variability of the trace fossil Schaubcylindrichnus coronus as a response to environmental forcing. Paleontologica electronica, 16(1):5A

  • Wohlfarth, B., Klubseang, W., Inthongkaew, S., Fritz, S.C., Blaauw, M., Reimer, P.J., *Chabangborn, A., Löwemark, L. & Chawchai, S. 2012. Holocene environmental changes in northeast Thailand as reconstructed from a tropical wetland. Global and Planetary Change, 92-93, 148–161. doi:110.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.1005.1008.

  • Kylander, M.E., Lind, E.M., Wastegård, S., and Löwemark, L., 2012. Recommendations for using XRF core scanning as a tool in tephrochronology. The Holocene, 22(3): 371-375. DOI: 10.1177/0959683611423688.

  • Löwemark, L., 2012. Ethological analysis of the trace fossil Zoophycos: Hints from the Arctic Ocean. Lethaia, 45, 290–298. DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2011.00282.x

  • Yang, T.-N., Lee, T.-Q., Lee, M.-Y., Huh, C.-A., Meyers, P.A., Löwemark, L., Wang, L.-C., Kao, W.-Y., Wei, K.-Y., Chen, R.-F., Chen, H.-F., Chen, S.-H., Wu, J.-T., Shiau, L.-J., Chen, Y.-G. and Hsieh, Y.-C., Paleohydrological changes in northeastern Taiwan over the past 2 ky inferred from biological proxies in the sediment record of a floodplain lake, 2014, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 

  • Yang, T.-N., Lee, T.-Q., Meyers, P. A., Song, S.-R., Kao, S-J, Löwemark, L., Chen, H-F, Chen, R.-F., Wei, K.-Y., Fan, C.-W., Shiau, L.-J., Chiang, H.-W., Chen, Y.-G., Chen, M.-T., 2011. Variations in monsoonal rainfall over the last 21 ka inferred from sedimentary organic matter in Tung-Yuan Pond, southern Taiwan. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30, 3413-3422Rodríguez-Tovar, F., Löwemark, L., and Pardo-Igúzquiza, E. 2011. Zoophycos cyclicity during the last 425 ka in the northeastern South China Sea:  evidence for monsoon fluctuation at the Milankovitch scale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 305, 256–263.

  • Löwemark, L., Chen, H.-F., Yang, T.-N., Kylander, M., Yu, E.-F., Hsu, Y.-W., Lee, T.-Q., Song, S.-R., Jarvis, S. 2011. A cautionary note on the interpretation of high-resolution XRF-scanner records from organic-rich lakes. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 40, (6) 1250-1256.

  • Virtasalo, J.J., Löwemark, L., Papunen, H.,Kotilainen, A.K., Whitehouse, 2010. M. Pyritic and baritic burrows and microbial filaments in postglacial lacustrine clays in the northern Baltic Sea. Journal of the Geological Society, 167: 1185-1198.

  • Rogerson, M., Colmenero-Hidalgo, E., Levine, R.C., Rohling, E.J., Bigg, G.R., Schönfeld, J., Cacho, I., Sierro, F.J., Völker, A.H.L., Löwemark, L., Reguera, M.I., and de Abreu., L. 2010. Impact of Heinrich Event-Related Freshening on the Exchange at Gibraltar. G3 11, Q08013, doi:10.1029/2009GC002931

  • Dowdeswell, J.A., Jakobsson, M., Hogan, K.A., O´Regan, M., Backman, J., Evans, J., Hell, B., Löwemark, L., Marcussen, C., Noormets, R., Cofaigh, C. Ó, Sellén, E., Sölvsten, M. 2010. High-resolution geophysical observations of the Yermak Plateau and northern Svalbard margin: implications for ice-sheet grounding and deep-keeled icebergs. Quaternary Science Reviews. 29(25-26): 3518-3531

  • Jakobsson, M., Nilsson, J., O'Regan , M.A., Backman, J., Löwemark, L., Dowdeswell, J.A., Mayer, L., Polyak, L., Colleoni, F., Anderson, L., Björk, G., Darby, D., Eriksson, B., Hanslik, D., Hell, B., Marcussen, C., Sellén, E., and Wallin, Å., 2010. An Arctic  Ocean ice shelf during MIS 6 constrained by  new geophysical and geological data. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29: 3505-3517.

  • Steinke, S., Groeneveld, J., Mohtadi, M., Lin, L.-C., Löwemark, L., Chen, M.-T. and Rendle-Bühring, R., 2010. Reconstructing the southern South China Sea upper water-column structure over the last 22,000 years: Implications for the East Asian winter monsoon development. Paleoceanography, 25: doi:10.1029/2009PA001850

  • Löwemark, L. and Nara, M., 2010. Morphology, ethology and taxonomy of the ichnogenus Schaubcylindrichnus: Notes for clarification. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 297(1): 184-187.

  • Chen, H.-F., Song, S.-R., Lee, T.-Q., Löwemark, L., Chi, Z., and Yong, W. 2010. A multiproxy lake record from Inner Mongolia displays a late Holocene teleconnection between central Asian and North Atlantic climate. Quaternary International. 227: 170-182. doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2010.03.005

  • Björk, G., Anderson, L., Jakobsson, M., Antony, D., Eriksson, P.B., Eriksson, B., Hell, B., Hjalmarsson, S., Janzen, T., Jutterström, S., Linders, J., Löwemark, L., Marcussen, C., Olsson, K.A., Rudels, B., Sellén, E. and Sølvsten, M., 2010. Flow of Canadian Basin Deep Water in the Western Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean. Deep Sea Research, 57(4): 577-58.

  • Löwemark, L., Steinke, S., Wang, C.-H., Chen, M.-T., Müller, A., Shiau, L.-J., Kao, S.-J., Song, S.-R., Lin, H.-L. and Wei, K.-Y. 2009.  New evidence for a glacioeustatic influence on deep water circulation, bottom water ventilation and primary productivity in the South China Sea. Dynamics of Oceans and Atmosphere, 47 (138–153).

  • Löwemark, L., Konstantinou, K., and Steinke, S. 2008. Bias in foraminiferal multispecies reconstructions of paleohydrographic conditions caused by foraminiferal abundance variations and bioturbational mixing: A model approach. Marine Geology, 256, 101–106.

  • Löwemark, L., Jakobsson, M., Mörth M., and Backman, J. 2008. Arctic Ocean Mn contents and Sediment Color Cycles. Polar Research, 27: 105–113.

  • Löwemark, L., Lin, I.-T., Wang, C.-H. and Schönfeld, J. 2008. A test of the gardening hypothesis as behavioral explanation for the Zoophycos trace. In: R.G. Bromley, L.A. Buatois, M.G. Mángano, J.F. Genise and R.N. Melchor (Editors), Sediment-Organism Interactions: A Multifaceted Ichnology. SEPM Special Publications, 88.

  • Löwemark, L., Schönfeld, J., Schäfer, P., 2006,. Deformation of pyritized burrows: A novel technique for the detection and estimation of core shortening in gravity cores. Marine Geology, 233 (1-4): 37-48.

  • Löwemark, L. and Hong, E., 2006. Schaubcylindrichnus formosus ichnosp. nov. in Miocene sandstones from northeastern Taiwan. ICHNOS, 13 (4): 267-276.

  • Löwemark, L., Lin, Y, Chen, H.-F., Yang, T.-N., Beier, C., Werner, F., Lee, C.-Y., Song, S.-R., Kao, S.-J., 2006. Sapropel burn-down and ichnological response to late quaternary sapropel formation in two ~400 ky records from the eastern Mediterranean Sea.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 239: 406–425. Included in Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology.

  • Steinke, S., Chiu, H.-I., Yu, P.-S., Shen, C.-C., Erlenkeuser, H., Löwemark, L. and Chen, M.-T., 2006. On the influence of sea level and monsoon climate on the southern South China Sea freshwater budget over the last 22,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25: 1475-1488.

  • Löwemark, L., Lin, H.-L., Sarnthein, M. 2006. Temporal variations of the trace fossil Zoophycos in a 425 k.y.-long sediment record from the South China Sea: Implications for the ethology of the Zoophycos-producer. Geological Magazine, 143(1): 105-114.

  • Steinke, S., Chiu, H.-I., Yu, P.-S., Shen, C.-C., Löwemark, L., Mii, H.-S., Chen, M.-T., 2005. Mg/Ca ratios of two Globigerinoides ruber (white) morphotypes: Implications for reconstructing past (tropical/subtropical) surface water conditions. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 6(11): Q11005, doi:10.1029/2005GC000926.

  • Löwemark, L., Hong, W.-L., Yui, T.-F., Hung, G.-W., 2005. A test of different factors influencing the isotopic signal of planktonic foraminifers in surface sediments from the northern South China Sea. Marine Micropaleontology, 55, 49-62.

  • Löwemark, L., Lin, I.-T., Wang, C.-H., Huh, C.-A., Wei, K.-Y. and Chen, C.-W., 2004. Ethology of the Zoophycos-producer: Arguments against the gardening model from d13Corg evidences of the spreiten material. TAO, 15(4): 713-725.

  • Löwemark, L. and Grootes, P.M., 2004. Large age differences between planktonic foraminifers caused by abundance variations and Zoophycos bioturbation. Paleoceanography, 19 (2): PA2001  10.1029/2003PA000949.

  • Löwemark, L., Chen, C.-H., Huh, C.-A., Lee, T.-Q. Ku, Y.-P., Wei, K.-Y., Chen, C.-W., Chiu, T.-C., Chen, M.-T., 2004. Biogenic reworking of tephra layers in the South China Sea (core MD972142) and the Celebes Sea (core MD012388). Berita Sedimentologi (Sedimentology Newsletter) Special issue on Ichnofossils, 19 (1): 31-41.

  • Colmenero-Hidalgo, E., Flores, J.-A., Sierro, F.J., Bárcena, M.Á., Löwemark, L., Schönfeld, J. and Grimalt, J.O., 2004. Ocean surface water response to short-term climate changes revealed by coccolithophores from the Gulf of Cadiz (NE Atlantic) and Alboran Sea (W Mediterranean). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 205 (3-4): 317-336.

  • Löwemark, L., Schönfeld, J., Werner, F. and Schäfer, P., 2004. Trace fossils as a paleoceanographic tool: evidence from Late Quaternary sediments of the SW Iberian Margin. Marine Geology, 204 (1-2): 27-41.

  • Löwemark, L. and Schäfer, P., 2003. Ethological implications from a detailed X-ray radiograph and 14C-study of the modern deep-sea Zoophycos. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 192 (1-4): 101-121.

  • Löwemark, L., 2003. Automatic Image Analysis of X-ray radiographs: a new Method for Ichnofabric evaluation. Deep-Sea Research I, 50 (6): 815-827. Included in Elsevier's Virtual Journal of Geobiology.

  • Löwemark, L. and Werner, F., 2001. Dating errors in high-resolution stratigraphy: a detailed X-ray radiograph and AMS-14C study of Zoophycos burrows. Marine Geology, 177(3-4): 191-198.


Book Chapter


  • Löwemark, L., 2006. Importance and usefulness of trace fossils and bioturbation in paleoceanography, Invited book chapter. Trace Fossils: Concepts, Problems & Prospects, Miller III, W. (ed.). pp. 413-427, Elsevier, Amsterdam.