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Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Geologie; Renard Centre of Marine Geology (RCMG), more

Function: Geologist, Post-doctoral fellow FWO

Detailstudie van lacustriene hellingsinstabiliteiten: Systematische classificatie en paleoseismische reconstructie in zuidelijk Chili, more

A1 Publications (32) [show]
Cornard, P.H.; Degenhart, G.; Tropper, P.; Moernaut, J.; Strasser, M. (2024). Application of micro-CT to resolve textural properties and assess primary sedimentary structures of deep-marine sandstones. Depositional Record Early View: 22. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dep2.261, more Praet, N.; Van Daele, M.; Moernaut, J.; Mestdagh, T.; Vandorpe, T.; Jensen, B.J.L.; Witter, R.C.; Haeussler, P.J.; De Batist, M. (2022). Unravelling a 2300 year long sedimentary record of megathrust and intraslab earthquakes in proglacial Skilak Lake, south‐central Alaska. Sedimentology 69(5): 2151-2180. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sed.12986, more Sabatier, P.; Moernaut, J.; Bertrand, S.; Van Daele, M.; Kremer, K.; Chaumillon, E.; Arnaud, F. (2022). A review of event deposits in lake sediments. Quaternary 5(3): 34. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/quat5030034, more Molenaar, A.; Van Daele, M.; Vandorpe, T.; Degenhart, G.; De Batist, M.; Urrutia, R.; Pino, M.; Strasser, M.; Moernaut, J. (2021). What controls the remobilization and deformation of surficial sediment by seismic shaking? Linking lacustrine slope stratigraphy to great earthquakes in South–Central Chile. Sedimentology 68(6): 2365-2396. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sed.12856, more Franco, A.; Moernaut, J.; Schneider-Muntau, B.; Strasser, M.; Gems, B. (2020). The 1958 Lituya Bay tsunami - pre-event bathymetry reconstruction and 3D numerical modelling utilising the computational fluid dynamics software Flow-3D. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 20(8): 2255-2279. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2255-2020, more Kempf, P.; Moernaut, J.; Van Daele, M.; Pino, M.; Urrutia, R.; De Batist, M. (2020). Paleotsunami record of the past 4300 years in the complex coastal lake system of Lake Cucao, Chiloé Island, south central Chile. Sediment. Geol. 401: 105644. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105644, more Praet, N.; Van Daele, M.; Collart, T.; Moernaut, J.; Vandekerkhove, E.; Kempf, P.; Haeussler, P.J.; De Batist, M. (2020). Turbidite stratigraphy in proglacial lakes: deciphering trigger mechanisms using a statistical approach. Sedimentology 67(5): 2332-2359. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sed.12703, more Schwestermann, T.; Huang, J.; Konzett, J.; Kioka, A.; Wefer, G.; Ikehara, K.; Moernaut, J.; Eglinton, T.I.; Strasser, M. (2020). Multivariate statistical and multiproxy constraints on earthquake-triggered sediment remobilization processes in the central Japan Trench. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 21(6): e2019GC008861. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008861, more Wils, K.; Van Daele, M.; Kissel, C.; Moernaut, J.; Schmidt, S.; Siani, G.; Lastras, G. (2020). Seismo‐turbidites in Aysén Fjord (southern Chile) reveal a complex pattern of rupture modes along the 1960 megathrust earthquake segment. JGR: Solid Earth 125(9): e2020JB019405. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020jb019405, more Kioka, A.; Schwestermann, T.; Moernaut, J.; Ikehara, K.; Kanamatsu, T.; Eglinton, T.I.; Strasser, M. (2019). Event stratigraphy in a hadal oceanic trench: the Japan Trench as sedimentary archive recording recurrent giant subduction zone earthquakes and their role in organic carbon export to the deep sea. Front. Earth Sci. 7: 00319. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00319, more Kioka, A.; Schwestermann, T.; Moernaut, J.; Ikehara, K.; Kanamatsu, T.; McHugh, C.M.; dos Santos Ferreira, C.; Wiemer, G.; Haghipour, N.; Kopf, A.J.; Eglinton, T.I.; Strasser, M. (2019). Megathrust earthquake drives drastic organic carbon supply to the hadal trench. NPG Scientific Reports 9: 1553. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38834-x, more Moernaut, J.; Van Daele, M.; Heirman, K.; Wiemer, G.; Molenaar, A.; Vandorpe, T.; Melnick, D.; Hajdas, I.; Pino, M.; Urrutia, R.; De Batist, M. (2019). The subaqueous landslide cycle in south-central Chilean lakes: the role of tephra, slope gradient and repeated seismic shaking. Sediment. Geol. 381: 84-105. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.01.002, more Molenaar, A.; Moernaut, J.; Wiemer, G.; Dubois, N.; Strasser, M. (2019). Earthquake impact on active margins: tracing surficial remobilization and seismic strengthening in a slope sedimentary sequence. Geophys. Res. Lett. 46(11): 6015-6023. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082350, more Praet, N.; Van Daele, M.; Moernaut, J.; Mestdagh, T.; Vandorpe, T.; Haeussler, P.J.; De Batist, M. (2019). Landslide and megaturbidite records reveal a 2.5 kyr history of seismic shakingin Skilak Lake, Alaska. Seismological Research Letters 90(2B): 921-922, more Boes, E.; Van Daele, M.; Moernaut, J.; Schmidt, S.; Jensen, B.J.L.; Praet, N.; Kaufman, D.; Haeussler, P.; Loso, M.G.; De Batist, M. (2018). Varve formation during the past three centuries in three large proglacial lakes in south-central Alaska. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 130(5-6): 757-774. https://dx.doi.org/10.1130/b31792.1, more Kempf, P.; Moernaut, J.; Van Daele, M.; Vandoorne, W.; Pino, M.; Urrutia, R.; De Batist, M. (2017). Coastal lake sediments reveal 5500 years of tsunami history in south central Chile. Quat. Sci. Rev. 161: 99-116. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.02.018, more Moernaut, J.; Van Daele, M.; Strasser, M.; Clare, M.A.; Heirman, K.; Viel, M.; Cardenas, J.; Kilian, R.; de Guevara, B.L.; Pino, M.; Urrutia, R.; De Batist, M. (2017). Lacustrine turbidites produced by surficial slope sediment remobilization: a mechanism for continuous and sensitive turbidite paleoseismic records. Mar. Geol. 384: 159-176. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2015.10.009, more Praet, N.; Moernaut, J.; Van Daele, M.; Boes, E.; Haeussler, P.J.; Strupler, M.; Schmidt, S.; Loso, M.G.; De Batist, M. (2017). Paleoseismic potential of sublacustrine landslide records in a high-seismicity setting (south-central Alaska). Mar. Geol. 384: 103-119. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2016.05.004, more Kempf, P.; Moernaut, J.; Van Daele, M.; Vermassen, F.; Vandoorne, W.; Pino, M.; Urrutia, R.; Schmidt, S.; Garrett, E.; De Batist, M. (2015). The sedimentary record of the 1960 tsunami in two coastal lakes on Isla de Chiloe, south central Chile. Sediment. Geol. 328: 73-86. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.08.004, more Van Daele, M.; Moernaut, J.; Doom, L.; Boes, E.; Fontijn, K.; Heirman, K.; Vandoorne, W.; Hebbeln, D.; Pino, M.; Urrutia, R.; Brümmer, R.; De Batist, M. (2015). A comparison of the sedimentary records of the 1960 and 2010 great Chilean earthquakes in 17 lakes: implications for quantitative lacustrine palaeoseismology. Sedimentology 62(5): 1466-1496. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sed.12193, more Goldfinger, C.; Patton, J.R.; Van Daele, M.; Moernaut, J.; Nelson, C.H.; De Batist, M.; Morey, A.E. (2014). Comment: can turbidites be used to reconstruct a paleoearthquake record for the central Sumatran margin? Geology (Boulder Colo.) 42: e344. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G35558C.1, more Garcia Moreno, D.; Hubert-Ferrari, A.; Moernaut, J.; Fraser, J. G.; Boes, X.; van Daele, M.; Avsar, U.; Çagatay, N.; De Batist, M. (2011). Structure and recent evolution of the Hazar Basin: a strike-slip basin on the East Anatolian Fault, Eastern Turkey. Basin Res. 23(2): 191-207. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00476.x, more Heirman, K.; De Batist, M.; Charlet, F.; Moernaut, J.; Chapron, E.; Brümmer, R.; Pino, M.; Urrutia, R. (2011). Detailed seismic stratigraphy of Lago Puyehue: implications for the mode and timing of glacier retreat in the Chilean Lake District. J. Quaternary Sci. 26(7): 665-674. dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1491, more Moernaut, J.; De Batist, M. (2011). Frontal emplacement and mobility of sublacustrine landslides: results from morphometric and seismostratigraphic analysis. Mar. Geol. 285(1-4): 29-45. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2011.05.001, more Van Daele, M.; van Welden, A.; Moernaut, J.; Beck, C.; Audemard, F.; Sanchez, J.; Jouanne, F.; Carrillo, E.; Malave, G.; Lemus, A.; De Batist, M. (2011). Reconstruction of Late-Quaternary sea- and lake-level changes in a tectonically active marginal basin using seismic stratigraphy: The Gulf of Cariaco, NE Venezuela. Mar. Geol. 279(1-4): 37-51. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2010.10.011, more Moernaut, J. ; Verschuren, D.; Charlet, F.; Kristen, I.; Fagot, M.; De Batist, M. (2010). The seismic-stratigraphic record of lake-level fluctuations in Lake Challa: Hydrological stability and change in equatorial East Africa over the last 140 kyr. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 290(1-2): 214-223. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.023, more Stefer, S.; Moernaut, J.; Melnick, D.; Echtler, H. P.; Arz, H.W.; Lamy, F.; De Batist, M.; Oncken, O.; Haug, G.H. (2010). Forearc uplift rates deduced from sediment cores of two coastal lakes in south-central Chile. Tectonophysics 495(1-2): 129-143. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2009.05.006, more Moernaut, J.; De Batist, M.; Heirman, K.; Van Daele, M.; Pino, M.; Brümmer, R.; Urrutia, R. (2009). Fluidization of buried mass-wasting deposits in lake sediments and its relevance for paleoseismology: Results from a reflection seismic study of lakes Villarrica and Calafquén (South-Central Chile). Sediment. Geol. 213(3-4): 121-135. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.12.002, more Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Moernaut, J.; Kristen, I.; Blaauw, M.; Fagot, M.; Haug, G.H.; CHALLACEA project members (2009). Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African Equator. Nature (Lond.) 462(7273): 637-641. dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08520, more Audemard, F.; Beck, C.; Moernaut, J.; De Rycker, K.; De Batist, M.; Sánchez, J.; González, M.; Versteeg, W.; Malavé, G.; Schmitz, M.; Van Welden, A.; Carrillo, E.; Lemus, A. (2007). La depresión submarina de Guaracayal, estado Sucre, Venezuela: Una barrera para la propagación de la ruptura cosísmica a lo largo de la falla de el pilar. Interciencia 32(11): 735-741, more Moernaut, J.; De Batist, M.; Charlet, F.; Heirman, K.; Chapron, E.; Pino, M.; Brümmer, R.; Urrutia, R. (2007). Giant earthquakes in South-Central Chile revealed by Holocene mass-wasting events in Lake Puyehue. Sediment. Geol. 195(3-4): 239-256. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.08.005, more Moernaut, J. (2005). Seismic stratigraphy of Lago Puyehue (southcentral Chile): mass-flow deposits as a potential record of past seismic activity. Geol. Belg. 8(3): 120-122, more
Peer reviewed publications (5) [show]
Boës, X.; Hubert-Ferrari, A.; Garcia, D.; Avsar, U.; Damci, E.; Cagatay, N.; Moernaut, J.; De Batist, M. (2009). The Earthquake Sedimentary record of The Lake Hazar along the East Anatolian Fault in Turkey. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 11(EGU2009-13641), more Boës, X.; Moran, B.; Kelly, R.; Ulas, A.; Moernaut, J.; King, J.; Cagatay, N.; Hubert Ferrari, A. (2008). Radionuclide profiles and recent earthquakes history of Lake Hazar Pull-apart basin (East Anatolian Fault, Turkey). Geophys. Res. Abstr. 10(EGU2008-A-11204), more Garcia Moreno, D.; Hubert-Ferrari, A.; Moernaut, J.; van Daele, M.; Damci, E.; De Batist, M. (2008). The Hazar pull-apart along the East Anatolian Fault: Structure and active deformation. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 10(EGU2008-A-01808), more Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Haug, G.; Kristen, I.; Moernaut, J.; Milne, I.; Wolff, C.; Fagot, M.; van Geel, B.; Blaauw, M. (2008). A 25,000 years climate record from the East African equator: Half-precessional climate forcing and the history of temperature and hydrological change. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 10(EGU2008-A-01576), more Moernaut, J.; De Batist, M.; Charlet, F.; Chapron, E.; Heirman, K.; Pino, M.; Brummer, R. (2006). Holocene earthquake-triggered mass-wasting events recorded in the sediments of Lake Puyehue (South-Central Chile). Geophys. Res. Abstr. 8: 02587, more
Book [show]
Moernaut, J. (2010). Sublacustrine landslide processes and their paleoseismological significance : revealing the recurrence rate of giant earthquakes in South-Central Chile. Ghent University. Faculty of Sciences: Ghent, Belgium. 274 + CD-Rom pp., more
Book chapter [show]
Sammartini, M.; Moernaut, J.; Anselmetti, F.S.; Hilbe, M.; Lindhorst, K.; Praet, N.; Strasser, M. (2020). An atlas of mass‐transport deposits in lakes, in: Ogata, K. et al. Submarine landslides: subaqueous mass transport deposits from outcrops to seismic profiles. Geophysical Monograph, 246: pp. 201-226, more
Abstracts (5) [show]
Molenaar, A.; Van Daele, M.; Vandorpe, T.; Degenhart, G.; De Batist, M.; Urrutia, R.; Pino, M.; Strasser, M.; Moernaut, J. (2021). Which factors modulate earthquake-triggered soft sediment deformation? Moving towards quantitative lacustrine paleoseismology, in: EGU General Assembly 2021. vEGU21: Gather Online \| 19-30 April 2021. pp. EGU21-3412. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3412, more Kempf, P.; Moernaut, J.; Van Daele, M.; Vandoorne, W.; Messens, F.; Vandenberghe, D.; Pino, M.; Urrutia, R.; De Batist, M. (2016). Bimodal recurrence pattern of tsunamis in south central Chile, in: Baele, J.-M. et al. Proceedings of the 5^th International Geologica Belgica Congress: 26–29 January 2016 – Mons, Belgium. pp. 183, more Van Daele, M.; Vandoorne, W.; Bertrand, S.; Tanghe, N.; Meyer, I.; Moernaut, J.; Urrutia, R.; De Batist, M. (2014). Sediment drifts in Lago Castor (Chilean Patagonia) reflect changes in the strength of the Southern Hemisphere Westerly winds since the Last Glacial Maximum, in: Van Rooij, D. et al. (Ed.) Book of Abstracts. 2nd Deep-Water Circulation Congress: The Contourite Log-book. Ghent, Belgium, 10-12 September 2014. VLIZ Special Publication, 69: pp. 131-132, more Kempf, P.; Moernaut, J.; Vandoorne, W.; Van Daele, M.; Pino, M.; Urrutia, R.; De Batist, M. (2012). Paleo-tsunamis in South-Central Chile: evidence from coastal lakes, in: Devleeschouwer, X. et al. Abstract Book. 4^th International Geologica Belgica Meeting 2012, September 11-14, Brussels, Belgium. pp. 60, more Beck, C.; Audemard, F.; De Batist, M.; Van Welden, A.; Moernaut, J.; De Rycker, K.; Sánchez, J.; Versteeg, W.; Malavé, G.; Lémus, A. (2007). Late Pleistocene-Holocene sedimentation along the south-eastern caribbean plate boundary: deltaic construction upon the El Pilar strike-slip fault, in: ASF (Ed.) 11e Congrès Français de Sédimentologie. Caen, 23-24-25 octobre 2007: Livre des résumés. Publications ASF, 57: pp. 21, more
Other publications (4) [show]
Molenaar, A.; Van Daele, M.; Vandorpe, T.; Degenhart, G.; De Batist, M.; Urrutia, R.; Pino, M.; Strasser, M.; Moernaut, J. (2020). What controls the remobilization and deformation of surficial sediment by seismic shaking? Linking lacustrine slope stratigraphy to great earthquakes in south-central Chile. ESSOAr: Earth and Space Science Open Archive (preprint): 1-66. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10504161.1, more Moernaut, J.; de Batist, M. A.; Heirman, K.; van Daele, M.; Brümmer, R.; Pino, M.; Urrutia, R.; Wolff, C.; Brauer, A.; Roberts, S.; Kilian, R. (2009). Recurrent giant earthquakes in South-Central Chile revealed by lacustrine sedimentary records. Eos, Trans. (Wash. D.C.) 90(52): NH43B-1319, more Echtler, H. P. ; Stefer, S.; Moernaut, J.; Melnick, D.; Arz, H. W. ; Lamy, F.; Haug, G. H. (2008). The depositional records of two coastal lakes in south-central Chile (Lago Lanalhue and Lago Lleu Lleu, 38°S): Active forearc tectonics and climate variability. Eos, Trans. (Wash. D.C.) 89(53): H33C-1019, more Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Moernaut, J.; Kristen, I.; Fagot, M.; Blaauw, M.; Haug, G. H. ; CHALLACEA project members (2008). Half-precessional climate forcing of Indian Ocean monsoon dynamics on the East African equator. Eos, Trans. (Wash. D.C.) 89(53): PP41B-1450, more
Thesis (co-)promotor [show]
Van Daele, M. (2007). Reflectieseismische studie van een actief dextraal breukensysteem: de Golf van Cariaco, Noordoost-Venezuela. MSc Thesis. RCMG: Gent. 190 pp., more
Thesis supervisor [show]
Boes, E. (2014). Reconstruction of the Southern Alaskan climate during the last 700 years, based on a multi-proxy analysis of annually laminated lake records. MSc Thesis. Universiteit Gent. Faculteit Wetenschappen: Gent. IX, 156 pp., more