Michel, J., Westphal, H., v. Cosel, R. (2011) The mollusk fauna of soft sediments from the tropical, upwelling-influenced shelf of Mauritania (northwestern Africa) Palaios 26, 447-460.
Michel, J., Mateu-Vicens, G., Westphal, H. (2011) Modern heterozoan carbonate facies from a eutrophic tropical shelf (Mauritania). Journal of Sedimentary Research, 81, 641-655.
Massari, F., Westphal, H., Birgel, D. (in press - 2011) Stromatolites in the middle-upper Jurassic red nodular limestones (ammonitico rosso facies) of the southern Alps (Italy). In: Tewari, V, Seckbach, J (eds.) Stromatolites: Interaction of Microbes with Sediments. Springer.
Heindel, K., Birgel, D., Peckmann, J., Kuhnert, H., Westphal, H. (2010) Formation of deglacial microbialites in coral reefs off Tahiti (IODP 310) involving sulfate-reducing bacteria; Palaios 25, 618-635.
Iryu, Y., Takahashi, Y., Fujita, K., Camoin, G., Cabioch, G., Matsuda, H., Sato, T., Sugihara, K., Webster, J.M. and Westphal, H. (2010) Sealevel history recorded in the Pleistocene carbonate sequence in IODP Hole 310-M0005D, off Tahiti; Island Arc, 19, 690-706.
Westphal, H., Halfar, J., Freiwald, A. (2010): Non-coralgal carbonates in subtropical to tropical settings in the present and in the past. International Journal of Earth Sciences; 99, S153-S169; invited paper.
Westphal, H., Heindel, K., Brandano, M., Peckmann, J. (2010) Genesis of microbialites as contemporaneous framework components of coral reefs, deglacial of Tahiti (IODP 310); Facies, 56, 337-352.
Wienberg, C., Kwoll, E., Westphal, H., Hebbeln, D. (2010) An isolated carbonate knoll in the Timor Sea (Sahul Shelf, NW Australia): facies zonation and sediment composition; Facies, 56, 179-193.
Westphal, H., Hilgen, F., Munnecke, A. (2010) An assessment of the suitability of individual rhythmic carbonate successions for astrochronological application. Earth Science Reviews, 99, 19-30.
Michel, J., Westphal, H., Hanebuth, T. (2009) Sediment partitioning and winnowing in a mixed eolian-marine system (Mauritanian shelf). Geo-Marine Letters, 29, 221-232.
Heindel, K., Wisshak, M., Westphal, H. (2009) Microbioerosion in Tahitian reefs: A record of environmental change during the last deglacial sea-level rise (IODP #310). Lethaia, 42, 322-340.
Bornholdt, S., Sneppen, K. & Westphal, H. (2009) Longevity of orders is related to the longevity of their constituent genera rather than genus richness; Theory in Biosciences, 128, 75-83.
Heindel, K., Westphal, H., Wisshak, M. (2009) Bioerosion in the reef framework, IODP Expedition #310 off Tahiti (Tiarei, Mara'a, and Faa'a); Proceedings IODP Vol 310; doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.310.201.2009, 28p.
Heindel K., Birgel D., Peckmann J., Kuhnert H. & Westphal H. (2009). Sulfate-reducing bacteria as major players in the formation of reef-microbialites during the last sea-level rise (Tahiti, IODP 310). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73 (13), Goldschmidt Conference, A514-A514.
Asprion U., Westphal, H., Nieman, M., Pomar, L. (2009) Ground Penetrating Radar for extrapolating depositional geometries of a Miocene carbonate ramp (Menorca, Spain). Facies, 55, 37–46.
Brandano, M., Westphal, H., Mateu-Vicens, G. (2009) The sensitivity of a tropical foramol-rhodalgal carbonate ramp to relative sea-level change:Miocene of the Central Apennines, Italy; in: Mutti, M., Betzler, C.,Piller, W.E.; Carbonate systems during the Oligocene-Miocene climatic transition. IAS Special Publication 42, 89–106.
Westphal, H., Munnecke. A., Böhm, F., Bornholdt, S. (2008) Limestone-marl alternations in epeiric sea settings – witnesses of environmental changes, or of rhythmic diagenesis? In: C. Holmden, B. R. Pratt; Geological Association of Canada Spec Paper 48, 389-406
Westphal, H., Munnecke, A., Brandano, M. (2008) Effects of diagenesis on the astrochronological approach of defining stratigraphic boundaries in calcareous rhythmites: The Tortonian GSSP; Lethaia 41, 461-476
Munnecke, A., Westphal, H., Kölbl-Ebert, M. (2008) Diagenesis of plattenkalk: examples from the Solnhofen area (Upper Jurassic, S-Germany), Sedimentology 55, 1931–1946.
Camoin, G.F., Y. Iryu, D.B. McInroy, IODP Expedition 310 Scientists (2007) IODP Expedition 310 reconstructs sea level, climatic, and environmental changes in the South Pacific during the last deglaciation, Scientific Drilling, 5, 4-12.
Westphal, H. (2006): Limestone-marl alternations as environmental archives and the role of early diagenesis: a critical review . Int. Journal of Earth Science 95, 947-961.
Munnecke, A. & Westphal, H. (2005): Variations in primary aragonite, calcite, and clay in fine-grained calcareous rhythmites of Cambrian to Jurassic age - an environmental archive? Facies, 51, 592-607.
Swart, P.K., Cantrell, D., Westphal, H., Handford, R. and Kendall, C. (2005) Origin of Dolomite in the Arab-D Reservoir from the Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia: Evidence from Petrographic and Geochemical Constraints. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 75, 476-491.
Munnecke, A. and Westphal, H. (2005): Schwankende Umweltbedingungen des südwestdeutschen Oberjura dokumentiert in Kalk-Mergel-Wechselfolgen. Jahreshefte d. Ges. f. Nat. in Würt. 160, 33-48.
Westphal, H., Surholt, I., Kiesl, C., Thern, H.F. and Kruspe, T. (2005) NMR Measurements in Carbonate Rocks - Problems and an Approach to a Solution. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 162, 549-570.
Westphal, H., Böhm F. and Bornholdt, S (2004) Orbital Frequencies in the Sedimentary Record: Distorted by Diagenesis? Facies, 50. p. 3-11.
Pomar, L., Westphal, H. and Obrador, A. (2004) Oriented concretions in Upper Miocene carbonates of Menorca, Spain: Evidence for fluid flow through a heterogeneous porous system. Geologica Acta, 2, 271-284.
Pomar, L. , Brandano, M. & Westphal, H. (2004) Environmental factors influencing skeletal grain sediment associations: a critical review of Miocene examples from the western Mediterranean. Sedimentology, 51, 627-651.
Westphal, H., Eberli, G.P., Smith, L.B., Grammer, G.M. & Kislak, J. (2004): Reservoir characterization in the Mississippian Madison Formation, Wind River Basin, Wyoming. AAPG Bulletin, 88, 405-432.
Munnecke, A. and Westphal, H. (2004) Shallow-water aragonite recorded in bundles of limestone-marl alternations - the Upper Jurassic of SW Germany. Sedimentary Geology, 164, 191-202.
Westphal, H., Munnecke, A., Pross, J. and Herrle, J. (2004) Multi-proxy approach to understanding the origin of Cretaceous pelagic limestone-marl alternations (DSDP Site 391, Blake-Bahama Basin). Sedimentology, 51, 109-126.
Westphal, H. & Munnecke, A. (2003) Limestone-marl alternations - a warm-water phenomenon? Geology, 31, 263-266.
Böhm, F., Westphal, H., and Bornholdt, S. (2003) Required but disguised: Environmental signals in limestone-marl alternations. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2987, 1-18.
Pomar, L. , Obrador, A. & Westphal, H. (2002) Sub-wavebase cross-bedded grainstones on a distally steepened carbonate ramp, upper Miocene, Menorca, Spain. Sedimentology, 49, 139-169.
Melim, L.A. , Westphal, H. , Swart, P.K. and Eberli, G.P., Munnecke, A. (2002) Questioning carbonate diagenetic paradigms: Evidence from the Neogene of the Bahamas. Marine Geology, 185, 27-53.
Kenter, J.A.M., Anselmetti, F.S. , Kramer, P., Westphal, H. & Vandamme, M.G.M. (2002) Acoustic properties of "young" carbonate rocks, ODP Leg 166 and Holes Clino and Unda, Western Great Bahama Bank. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 72, 129-137.
Munnecke, A. , Westphal, H., Elrick, M. & Reijmer, J. (2001) The mineralogical composition of precursor sediments of calcareous rhythmites: a new approach. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 90,795-812.
Cantrell, D.L., Swart, P.K. , Handford, C.R., Kendall, C.G. & Westphal, H. (2001) Geology and Production Significance of Dolomite, Arab-D Reservoir, Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia. GeoArabia, 6, 45-60.
Westphal, H., Head, M.J. & Munnecke, A. (2000) Differential diagenesis of rhythmic limestone alternations supported by palynologic evidence . Journal of Sedimentary Research, 70, 715-725.
Westphal, H., Reijmer, J.J.G. & Head, M.J. (1999) Input and Diagenesis on a Carbonate Slope (Bahamas): Response to Morphology Evolution and Sea-Level Fluctuations.- In: Harris, P.M., Saller, A. and Simo J.A., Advances in Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy: Applications to Reservoirs, Outcrops, and Models. SEPM Special Publication v. 63, p. 247-274.
Bornholdt, S. , Nordlund, U. & Westphal, H. (1999) Inverse stratigraphic modelling using genetic algorithms.- In: Numerical Experiments in Stratigraphy, SEPM
Head, M.J. & Westphal, H. (1999) Palynology and paleoenvironments of a Pliocene carbonate platform: the Clino Core, Bahamas.- Journal of Paleontology 73, p. 1-25.
Westphal, H. (1998) Carbonate Platform Slopes - A Record of Changing Conditions. The Pliocene of the Bahamas .- Lecture Notes in Earth Science, v.75, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York. 197 p.
Bornholdt, S. & Westphal, H. (1998): Automation of stratigraphic simulations - quasi-backward modeling using genetic algorithms.- In: Mascle, A., Puigdefabregas, C., Fernandez, M. & Luterbacher, H.P. Cenozoic Foreland Basins of Western Europe, Geological Society Special Publication v. 134, p. 371-379.
Moritz, E., Bornholdt, S. , Westphal, H. and Meschede, M. (2000) Neural network interpretation of LWD data (ODP Leg 170) confirms complete sediment subduction at the Costa Rica convergent margin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 174, p. 301-312.
Munnecke, A. , Westphal, H., Reijmer, J.J.G. & Samtleben, C. (1997): Microspar development during early marine burial diagenesis: a comparison of Pliocene carbonates from the Bahamas with Silurian limestones from Gotland (Sweden).- Sedimentology, v. 44, 977-990.
Westphal, H. & Aigner, T. (1997): Seismic stratigraphy and subsidence analysis in the Barrow-Dampier Subbasin, NW-Australia.- AAPG Bulletin, v. 81, 1721-1749.
Westphal, H. & Munnecke, A. (1997): Mechanical compaction versus early cementation: differentiation by the preservation of organic microfossils.- Sedimentary Geology, v. 112, p. 33-42.
Westphal, H. & Bornholdt, S. (1996): Lithofacies prediction from wireline logs with genetic algorithms and neural networks.- Zeitschrift der DGG, v. 147, p. 465-474.
Westphal, H. (1996): Cenozoic Progradation in the Barrow-Dampier Subbasin, Northwest Shelf of Australia.- Zeitschrift der DGG, v. 147, 125-135
Schmundt, H.; Vec, M.; Westphal, H. (eds.) (2010): Mekkas der Moderne - die Pilgerstätten der WIssensgesellschaft. Böhlau Verlag.
Westphal, H.; Riegl, B.; Eberli , GP. (eds.) (2010) Carbonate depositional systems - assessing dimensions and controlling parameters. Springer Verlag.
Westphal, H. (2010) Geologie. In: Engelen, E.-M.; Fleischhack, C.; Galizia, C.G.; Landfester, K. (Hrsg.) Heureka - Evidenzkriterien in den Wissenschaften. Spektrum-Verlag.
Vec, M., Beer, B., Engelen, E.-M., Fischer, J., Freund, A.M., Kiesow, R.M., Korte, M., Schollwöck U., Westphal, H. (Hrsg.) (2006) Der Campus-Knigge. Von Abschreiben bis Zweitgutachten. C.H.Beck-Verlag (2. Auflage Feb. 2008).