Weiss AM, Foster WJ, Košir A, Muscente AD, Martindale RC (2025) Shallow-marine, benthic ecosystems show compositional shifts in response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) on the Adriatic Carbonate Platform. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 40: e2024PA005039. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024PA005039 

Gale L, Brajkovič R, Košir A (2025) Foraminiferal assemblages from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) ‘Spotted limestone’ of the northern Adriatic Carbonate Platform. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 667: 112841 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112841 

Torromé Sanz D, Martín-Pérez A, Košir A, Aurell M (2024) Insights on the controls of carbonate deposition and microbialite formation in distal alluvial systems (Campanian, Iberian Basin). Geologica Acta 22: https://10.1344/GeologicaActa2024.22.12

Torromé D, Aurell M, Martín Pérez A, Košir A (2023) A carbonate palustrine system with marshes and shallow ephemeral lakes (Campanian, northeastern Iberian Basin). Sedimentary Geology 456:106516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2023.106516

Johnston VE, Košir A, Martín Pérez A (2021) Evaluating carbonate dissolution and precipitation in a short time-frame using SEM: techniques and preliminary results from Postojna Cave, Slovenia. Acta Carsologica 50:253-267. https://doi.org/10.3986/ac.v50i2-3.9788 

Goričan Š, Žibret L, Košir A, Kukoč D, Horvat A (2018) Stratigraphic correlation and structural position of Lower Cretaceous flysch-type deposits in the eastern Southern Alps (NW Slovenia). International Journal of Earth Sciences 1-21, DOI: 10.1007/s00531-018-1636-4 (PDF)

Grahek L, Košir A (2018) Scanning electron microscopy analysis of the pottery from the settlement at Most na Soči (Analiza naselbinske keramike z Mosta na Soči z vrstičnim elektronskim mikroskopom). In: Dular J, Tecco Hvala S (eds) The Iron Age settlement at Most na Soči, Treatises (Železnodobno naselje Most na Soči. Razprave), OIAS 34, 307−320 (PDF)

Verbovšek T, Košir A, Teran M, Zajc M, Popit T (2017) Volume determination of the Selo landslide complex (SW Slovenia): integrating field mapping, ground penetrating radar and GIS approaches. Landslides 14: 1265–1274 (PDF)

Turk M, Košir A (2017) Mousterian osseous artefacts? The case of Divje babe I, Slovenia. Quaternary International DOI: /10.1016/j.quaint.2016.12.012

Bojanowski MJ, Jaroszewicz E, Košir A, Łoziński M, Marynowski L, Wysocka A, Derkowski A (2016) Root-related rhodochrosite and concretionary siderite formation in oxygen-deficient conditions induced by a ground-water table rise. Sedimentology 63: 523-551 doi: 10.1111/sed.12227 (PDF)

Cimerman F, Košir A (2015) Remarks on the shell structure of Halkyardia maxima CIMERMAN: its umbilical plug and the microspheric form. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie-Abhandlungen 277: 43-48. doi: 10.1127/njgpa/2015/0494 (PDF)

Martín-Peréz A, Košir A, Otoničar B (2015) Dolomite in speleothems of Snežna Jama cave, Slovenia. Acta Carsologica 44: 81-100 DOI: 10.3986/ac.v44i1.1039 (PDF)

Kukoč D,  Goričan Š, Košir A, Belak M, Halamić J & Hrvatović H (2015) Middle Jurassic age of basalts and the post‑obduction sedimentary sequence in the Guevgueli Ophiolite Complex (Republic of Macedonia). International Journal of Earth Sciences 104: 435-447. doi: 10.1007/s00531-014-1086-6 (PDF)

Brlek, M., Korbar, T., Košir, A., Glumac, B., Grizelj, A., Otoničar, B. 2014: Discontinuity surfaces in Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene carbonates of central Dalmatia (Croatia): Glossifungites ichnofacies, biogenic calcretes, and stratigraphic implications.- Facies, v. 60, p. 467-487 (PDF)

Popit, T.,  Rožič, B. ,Šmuc, A., Kokalj, Z., Verbovšek, T., and Košir, A., 2014: A lidar, GIS and basic spatial statistic application for the study of ravine and palaeo-ravine evolution in the upper Vipava valley, SW Slovenia.- Geomorphology v. 204, p. 638-645. DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.09.010.

Goričan, Š., Košir, A., Rožič, B., Šmuc, A., Gale, L., Kukoč. D., Celarc, B., Črne, A.E., Kolar-Jurkovšek, T., Placer, L., Skaberne, D. 2012: Mesozoic deep-water basins of eastern Southern Alps (NW Slovenia).- Journal of Alpine Geology, v. 54, p. 101-143. (PDF, >80 MB!!)

Kukoč, D., Goričan, Š., and Košir, A., 2012, Lower Cretaceous carbonate gravity-flow deposits from the Bohinj area (NW Slovenia): evidence of a lost carbonate platform in the Internal Dinarides: Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, v. 183, p. 383-392. (PDF)

Zamagni, J., Mutti, M., Ballato, P., and Košir, A., 2012, The Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) in shallow-marine successions of the Adriatic carbonate platform (SW Slovenia): Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 124; no. 7/8; p. 1071–1086. (PDF) (Supplementary Data)

Zamagni, J., Mutti, M., and Košir, A., 2012, The evolution of mid Paleocene - early Eocene coral communities: How to survive during rapid global warming: Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v. 317-318, p. 48-65.  doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.12.010

Zamagni, J., Košir, A., and Mutti, M., 2009, The first microbialite-coral mounds in the Cenozoic (uppermost Paleocene) from the Northern Tethys (Slovenia): Environmentally-triggered phase shifts preceding the PETM?: Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v. 274, no. 1-2, p. 1-17. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.12.007  

Zamagni, J., Mutti, M., and Košir, A., 2008, Evolution of shallow benthic communities during the late Paleocene-earliest Eocene transition in the northern Tethys (SW Slovenia): Facies, v. 54, no. 1, p. 25-43 (PDF)

Košir A (2006) Calcite biomineralization in plant roots: an important process of secondary CaCO3 accumulation in soils. Geophysical Research Abstracts 8: 10284 SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU06-A-10284

Buffetaut, E., Grellet-Tinner, G., Suteethorn, V., Cuny, G., Tong, H. Y., Košir, A., Cavin, L., Chitsing, S., Griffiths, P. J., Tabouelle, J., and Le Loeuff, J., 2005, Minute theropod eggs and embryo from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand and the dinosaur-bird transition: Naturwissenschaften, v. 92, no. 10, p. 477-482. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-005-0022-9

Buffetaut, E., Suteethorn, V., Tong, H. Y., and Košir, A., 2005, First dinosaur from the Shan-Thai Block of SE Asia: a Jurassic sauropod from the southern peninsula of Thailand: Journal of the Geological Society, v. 162, p. 481-484. DOI: 10.1144/0016-764904-053

Košir A (2004) Microcodium revisited: Root calcification products of terrestrial plants on carbonate-rich substrates. Journal of Sedimentary Research 74, 6: 845-857 (PDF) 

Turnsek D Košir A (2004) Bacarella vipavica n. gen., n. sp. (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) from reefal blocks in Lower Eocene carbonate megabeds in the Vipava Valley (SW Slovenia). Razprave IV. razr. SAZU  45: 145-169 (PDF) 

Born in SFRY.

BSc Geology (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1992)
MSc Geosciences (University of Zagreb, Croatia, 1997)
PhD Earth Sciences (Cardiff University, UK, 2022)