| Microbial reefs in the Black Sea fueled by anaerobic oxidation of methane W Michaelis, R Seifert, K Nauhaus, T Treude, V Thiel, M Blumenberg, ... Science 297 (5583), 1013-1015, 2002 | 867 | 2002 |
| Carbon cycling at ancient methane–seeps J Peckmann, V Thiel Chemical Geology 205 (3-4), 443-467, 2004 | 691 | 2004 |
| Highly isotopically depleted isoprenoids: molecular markers for ancient methane venting V Thiel, J Peckmann, R Seifert, P Wehrung, J Reitner, W Michaelis Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 63 (23-24), 3959-3966, 1999 | 294 | 1999 |
| Molecular signals for anaerobic methane oxidation in Black Sea seep carbonates and a microbial mat V Thiel, J Peckmann, HH Richnow, U Luth, J Reitner, W Michaelis Marine chemistry 73 (2), 97-112, 2001 | 285 | 2001 |
| Cold seep deposits of Beauvoisin (Oxfordian; southeastern France) and Marmorito (Miocene; northern Italy): microbially induced authigenic carbonates J Peckmann, V Thiel, W Michaelis, P Clari, C Gaillard, L Martire, J Reitner International Journal of Earth Sciences 88, 60-75, 1999 | 281 | 1999 |
| A comprehensive approach to the study of methane‐seep deposits from the Lincoln Creek Formation, western Washington State, USA J Peckmann, JL Goedert, V Thiel, W Michaelis, J Reitner Sedimentology 49 (4), 855-873, 2002 | 249 | 2002 |
| Biofilm exopolymers control microbialite formation at thermal springs discharging into the alkaline Pyramid Lake, Nevada, USA G Arp, V Thiel, A Reimer, W Michaelis, J Reitner Sedimentary Geology 126 (1-4), 159-176, 1999 | 244 | 1999 |
| An anaerobic world in sponges F Hoffmann, O Larsen, V Thiel, HT Rapp, T Pape, W Michaelis, J Reitner Geomicrobiology Journal 22 (1-2), 1-10, 2005 | 239 | 2005 |
| Concretionary methane-seep carbonates and associated microbial communities in Black Sea sediments J Reitner, J Peckmann, M Blumenberg, W Michaelis, A Reimer, V Thiel Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 227 (1-3), 18-30, 2005 | 194 | 2005 |
| Methane-derived carbonate build-ups and associated microbial communities at cold seeps on the lower Crimean shelf (Black Sea) J Reitner, J Peckmann, A Reimer, G Schumann, V Thiel Facies 51 (1), 66-79, 2005 | 164 | 2005 |
| Molecular preservation of the pigment melanin in fossil melanosomes J Lindgren, P Uvdal, P Sjövall, DE Nilsson, A Engdahl, BP Schultz, V Thiel Nature communications 3 (1), 824, 2012 | 154 | 2012 |
| Unusual distributions of long-chain alkenones and tetrahymanol from the highly alkaline Lake Van, Turkey V Thiel, A Jenisch, G Landmann, A Reimer, W Michaelis Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 61 (10), 2053-2064, 1997 | 151 | 1997 |
| Petrology of Lower Cretaceous carbonate mud mounds (Albian, N. Spain): insights into organomineralic deposits of the geological record F Neuweiler, P Gautret, V Thiel, R Lange, W Michaelis, J Reitner Sedimentology 46 (5), 837-859, 1999 | 127 | 1999 |
| Lipid biomarker patterns of methane-seep microbialites from the Mesozoic convergent margin of California D Birgel, V Thiel, KU Hinrichs, M Elvert, KA Campbell, J Reitner, ... Organic geochemistry 37 (10), 1289-1302, 2006 | 122 | 2006 |
| Biomarkers of black shales formed by microbial mats, Late Mesoproterozoic (1.1 Ga) Taoudeni Basin, Mauritania M Blumenberg, V Thiel, W Riegel, LC Kah, J Reitner Precambrian Research 196, 113-127, 2012 | 120 | 2012 |
| Unexpected occurrence of hopanoids at gas seeps in the Black Sea V Thiel, M Blumenberg, T Pape, R Seifert, W Michaelis Organic Geochemistry 34 (1), 81-87, 2003 | 113 | 2003 |
| Mid-chain branched alkanoic acids from “living fossil” demosponges: a link to ancient sedimentary lipids? V Thiel, A Jenisch, G Wörheide, A Löwenberg, J Reitner, W Michaelis Organic geochemistry 30 (1), 1-14, 1999 | 112 | 1999 |
| A microbial mat of a large sulfur bacterium preserved in a Miocene methane-seep limestone J Peckmann, V Thiel, J Reitner, M Taviani, P Aharon, W Michaelis Geomicrobiology Journal 21 (4), 247-255, 2004 | 103 | 2004 |
| Implications of in situ calcification for photosynthesis in a~ 3.3 Ga-old microbial biofilm from the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa F Westall, B Cavalazzi, L Lemelle, Y Marrocchi, JN Rouzaud, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 310 (3-4), 468-479, 2011 | 100 | 2011 |
| Soft-tissue evidence for homeothermy and crypsis in a Jurassic ichthyosaur J Lindgren, P Sjövall, V Thiel, W Zheng, S Ito, K Wakamatsu, R Hauff, ... Nature 564 (7736), 359-365, 2018 | 96 | 2018 |
