Abteilung Strukturgeologie und Geothermik

vorherige Seminare und Treffen / previous meetings


13.Mai.2024, 10:00 - 17:00 Uhr / 10am - 5pm
Joint Workshop „Geothermics and Structural Geology” and Fusion Party of the united department „Structural Geology and Geothermics“ at the Geoscience Centre of the University of Göttingen


    10.00 Arriving of the LIAG-group
    10.15 Lab visits of the LIAG-group
      10.15 GREAT-Cell (Marco Fazio)
      10.45 Geothermal test field (Quan Liu, Bernd Leiss)
      11.00 New set-up of instruments/labs related to geothermics (Alena Broge, Sibel Gürsoy, Bernd Leiss)
      11.20 Cathodoluminescence & Fluid Inclusions (Fons de Kerkhof, Graciela Sosa)
      11.45 GoeLEM (Thomas Müller)
      12.10 MiniMintrop (David Hindle)

      12.30 Break
      13.00 Workshop session (presentations seminar room 16-5)

      – Intro by Profs Moeck and Kley
      – 4 min presentations of the participants and project groups
      – Questions and discussions


      14.30 Photo session and Interactions
      15.00 Barbecue (west side of GZG/GeoPark)
      17.00 Official end


    15.Apr.2024, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Semesterbeginn und offene Themen / Semester start and open topices


    08.Apr.2024, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungsseminar / Department seminar
    Renas Koshnaw - Tectonothermal constraints on the early-stage orogenic wedge formation along the Arabia-Eurasia suture zone in the NW Zagros orogenic belt


    04.Mär.2024, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungsseminar / Department seminar
    Christian Gross - Fluidrock interaction, grain coarsening processes and geochemical constraints in hydrothermally altered metacarbonates and carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn-(Ge)-bearing sulfide deposits: Three case studies from the Damara Orogen (Namibia)


    26.Feb.2024, 12:00 Uhr / 12:00am
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Themen: Haushalt- und Verwaltungsaufgaben / Topics: budget and administration


    05.Feb.2024, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungsseminar / Department seminar
    Domenico C. G. Ravidà - Reconstructing signals of environmental perturbations in the sedimentary record: a case study from the Permian-Triassic of SE Germany


    22.Jan.2024, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungsseminar / Department seminar
    Mumtaz Shah - Diagenetic Evolution in the Jurassic-Cretaceous Succession of the Upper Indus Basin, Pakistan: Role of Tectonics and Related Processes


    15.Jan.2024, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Thema: Aktualisierung der Schulung zum Whiteboard im Seminarraum / Topic: Update to In-house training for the Whiteboard in the seminar room


    08.Jan.2024, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Thema: Publikationslisten mit gro.publications / Topic: publication lists with gro.publications
    - Einführung durch das Team von gro.publications und gemeinsame Erstellung der Publikationslisten / Introduction into the system gro.publications and joint setup of personal and department publication pages
    - Verknüpfung persönlicher Publikationslisten mit der Abteilungsliste / Linking of personal publication lists to the department list
    - Informationen zum Publikationsfonds und Univerlag / Informations about Publication Fonds and University Press


    18.Dez.2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungsseminar / Department seminar
    David Hindle - Overview over results from recent seismic reflection and refraction experiments


    11.Dez.2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Thema: neues Abteilungsfoto / Topic: New department photo


    04.Dez.2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Thema: Interne Schulung Whiteboard Seminarraum / Topic: In-house training Whiteboard Seminar room


    27.Nov.2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungsseminar / Department seminar
    Muhammad Anees - Exploration of geothermal resources in Himalaya-Karakoram Orogenic belt, northern Pakistan


    20.Nov.2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Themen: Haushalt- und Verwaltungsaufgaben / Topics: budget and administration


    13.Nov.2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Mukhtiar Ghani - Deciphering the Deformation History of the Western Indian Fold and Thrust Belt (Kirthar Range): Advancements from Field and Laboratory Data, and Directions and Challenges Ahead


    24. Jul. 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Muhammad Anees - Petrological, geochemical and petrophysical characterization of granitoids of western Himalaya-Karakoram as potential geothermal reservoirs


    10. Jul. 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Johanna Kerch - Characterisation of microstructural processes in the North-East Greenland Ice Stream from microstructure analysis of the EastGRIP ice core


    03. Jul. 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting


    26. Jun. 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Fiorella Arduin Rode - Amethyst-agate geodes from Uruguay: insights from fluid inclusions and stable isotopes


    22. Mai 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Thema: wird noch bekanntgegeben / Topic: t.b.a.


    08. Mai 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting


    17. Apr. 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Thema: Strategietreffen Neutronen in den Geowissenschaften / Topic: Strategic meeting Neutrons in Geoscience


    03. Apr. 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Thema: Kühlkammer im Tektoniklabor / Topic: Coldroom in Tectonics Lab


    13. Mar. 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Thema: Geländeausbildung in der Abteilung / Topic: Field training of the department


    06. Mar. 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Mike David Schulze (BSc. cand.) - Providing and publishing virtual outcrop models from the Harz Mountains – building an outcrop database (Geologie-Projekt)
    Hybrid Seminar / hybrid seminar link: https://meet.gwdg.de/b/ber-gkc-ly8-orv


    20. Feb. 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Mathias Hueck - Same data, different ages: testing different strategies for the interpretation of illite geochronology


    13. Feb. 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Thema: Lehre / Topic: GIS Lehre und Lizenzen / Teaching GIS and licences


    06. Feb. 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Themen: Sicherheitsbelehrung (Schwerpunkt Gelände, neue Kollegen) / Topics: Saftey briefing (Emphasis on Field work, new colleagues)


    23. Jan. 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Fiorella Arduin Rode - Uruguayan amethyst and agate deposits: field, fluid inclusions and stable isotope

    Kurzfassung / Abstract:
    Amethyst and agate geodes hosted in basalt of the Paraná-Etendeka Igneous Province comprise the only world class deposit of Uruguay being an important export product of the county. However, the forming conditions and the estimation of remaining reserves are still matters of discussion. The origin of the mineralizing fluid has been subject to different proposals, with models involving magmatic, post-magmatic/epigenetic processes, or host rock - surface water/groundwater interactions. In order to give new insights to this problem, field observations in combination with fluid inclusions studies and stable isotope analyses were carried out in the mineralized lava flows of the Los Catalanes mining district. Three stages can be distinguished in the geode fillings: the first stage include celadonite, zeolite, chalcedony, calcite, micro-crystalline quartz, pyrite and chalcopyrite, the second macro-crystalline colourless quartz and amethyst, and the third stage late calcite, sporadic fluorite and pyrite. Primary and pseudo-secondary fluid inclusions in amethyst, colourless quartz and calcite contain predominantly monophase liquid. Since spontaneous nucleation of the vapour bubble fails to occur in these inclusions, single ultra-short laser pulses were applied to stimulate bubble nucleation in the metastable liquid. This allowed subsequent measurement of homogenization temperatures, which range from 10 to 130 °C in amethyst and colourless quartz, and from 20 to 90 °C in early and late calcite. Ice melting temperatures measured at saturation pressure, i.e., in presence of a vapour bubble, revealed low salt concentrations up to 3.8 wt% NaCl. Oxygen isotopic compositions on silica minerals and carbonates suggest a relatively low temperature environment with crystallisation from a single fluid composition with temperature fluctuations. These data point to low salinity - close to pure water - and low temperature for the fluid responsible in the geode mineralization.


    16. Jan. 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Themen: Lehre und Abteilungsverwaltung / Topics: Teaching and department administration


    09. Jan. 2023, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Hernán Silva Lara - Reassessing the polyphase Neoproterozoic evolution of the Punta del Este Terrane, Dom Feliciano Belt, Uruguay

    Kurzfassung / Abstract:
    Some recent models challenge the position and extension of the assumed oceanic basins formed through the break-up of Rodinia, and the tectonic processes involved in the Gondwana assembly, making the investigation of the Early Neoproterozoic record of great relevance. Within the South-American Atlantic margin, the Punta del Este Terrane (PET) of the Dom Feliciano Belt (DFB) comprises a unique Tonian to Ediacaran record, and has a strategic position to reconstruct spatio-temporal relationships with the southern African orogenic belts. Novel zircon U–Pb and Lu–Hf data from the PET basement orthogneisses display Tonian magmatic ages (805–760 Ma) and Hf isotopic signatures indicative of mainly crustal/metasedimentary sources, (Nd TDM ages: 2.2–1.9 Ga, and εHf(t): − 12 to − 4). The basement paragneisses yielded late Paleoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic U–Pb ages, but dominantly positive εHf(t) values. The presented results confirm the correlation of the PET with the Coastal Terrane of the Kaoko Belt, and discard the idea of the Nico Pérez Terrane as a source. Detrital zircon U–Pb and Lu–Hf data from the Rocha Formation yielded a main peak at ca. 660 Ma, with the Neoproterozoic grains showing a εHf(t) between + 1 and + 14. The deposition age of the Rocha Formation is constrained by the youngest detrital zircon age peak (660 Ma), and the beginning of the deposition of the Sierra de Aguirre Formation (580 Ma). The data indicate common sources with the Marmora Terrane, and it is thus proposed that the Rocha Formation belongs to the Gariep Belt, and it was juxtaposed during the Ediacaran to the DFB.


    15. Dez. 2022, 11:30 - 23:00 Uhr / 11.30 am to 11.00 pm
    Weihnachtsausflug / Christmas event:
    "UNESCO-Welterbe Oberharzer Wasserwirtschaft" und Lehrbergwerk in St. Andreasberg/Harz (1 Tag)
    Exkursionsleiter Dr. Bernd Leiss, Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum der Universität Göttingen
    - 11.30 Abfahrt GZG
    gegen 13.00 Uhr: Einführung in Obertageanlagen Oderteich und Rehberger Graben sowie in situ Wollsackverwitterung des Brockengranits (Bernd Leiss)
    - 14.00 (fixer Zeitpunkt): Einfahrt in die Grube Samson in St. Andreasberg mit Sonderführung der Bergwerksleitung incl. Konzepte erneuerbarer Energien (Koordination Lasafam Iturrizaga)
    - 16.00: Einfahrt in Lehrbergwerk "Wenns glückt (Roter Bär)", kein Schaubergwerk, sondern historisches Bergwerk im Orignalzustand, Ausrüstung und Kleidung wird gestellt, nur Grubenlampen und unebene Wege (Führung Wilfried Ließmann, der Harzer Montanhistoriker schlechthin)
    - gegen 19.00 gemütliche Einkehr zum Weihnachtsessen
    - Rückkehr gegen 23.00 Uhr
    Individuelle Anfahrt möglich. Anmeldungen bitte an Marie-France Hesse (mhesse1@gwdg.de, Tel.: 0551-39-27931)

    12. Dez. 2022, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Mukhtiar Ghani - Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of Western Indian plate boundary region, Balochistan, Pakistan

    Kurzfassung / Abstract:
    The western plate boundary of Indian plate is different from northern collisional in terms of stratigraphy and tectonic. In this talk, I will discuss the stratigraphic architecture of different tectonic basin in the collisional zones and possible impact of tectonic and large scale structures on the development of these basins. The cotemporaneous evolution, basement configuration and already developed structural model will be presented in details.


    05. Dez.. 2022, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting


    28. Nov. 2022, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    David Hindle - Central Western European tectonic revolution


    21. Nov. 2022, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    Abteilungstreffen / Department meeting
    Thema: Lehre / Topic: Teaching


    14. Nov. 2022, 13:00 Uhr / 1pm
    David Peacock - A comparison between structural styles interpreted in the Variscan Orogenic Belt

    Kurzfassung / Abstract:
    Structural cross-sections have been constructed in the Variscan Orogenic Belt in both the Harz Mountains (central Germany) and the Rhenish Massif (western Germany, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg and NE France) as part of a project on the geothermal potential of these regions. Cross-sections in the Harz Mountains were constructed using Move software, and were based on geological maps and lithological data from several wells. These cross-sections show Variscan folds cut by later normal and/or strike-slip faults. Cross-sections in the Rhenish Massif were constructed using forward modelling software, and were based on both geological maps and a detailed lithostratigraphic and structural analysis of a well at Havelange, Belgium. These cross-sections show a classic thin-skinned thrust belt, in which folds are related to the ramp-flat geometries of thrusts. The cross-sections for the two regions therefore show significant differences because of the data and section construction methods used, and possibly also because of the backgrounds of the researchers. Well-exposed coastal cliff exposures in Cornwall and Pembrokeshire (UK) show fold-thrust structures that indicate the Variscan Orogenic Belt tends to have structures that are intermediate between the cross-sections for the Harz Mountains and the Rhenish Massif.


    5 dec. 2019, 10:00:
    Wolfgang Franke: HEATin´EUROPE: heat sources for melting and HT/LP-metamorphism

    28 nov. 2019, 10:00 in MN16-5:
    Chiara Montomoli: Tectonic evolution of the metamorphic core of the Himalayan belt and Laura Nania: Architecture and kinematics of the South Tibetan Detachment System and the Main Central Thrust in Central Himalaya

    21 nov. 2019, 10:00:
    Hernan Silva: The Nico Perez Terrane: a record of Archean to Proterozoic tectonometamorphic processes

    7 nov. 2019, 11:00:
    Muhammad Anees: Multi proxy evaluation of granites in Pakistan as potential geothermal prospects

    24 oct. 2019, 10:00:
    Renas Koshnaw: Late Miocene deformation of the NW Zagros thrust belt

    19 sept. 2019, 11:00:
    GeoMuenster preparation meeting with presentations by:

    Martin Reyes-Correa: The evolution of Mesozoic rifting in the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia
    Ali Abdelhalek: Unraveling an abandoned Oligocene rift segment along the River Nile
    Jonas Kley: Mesozoic-Cenozoic uplift and exhumation in Central Europe
    Elco Luijendijk: Thermal springs and deep fluid flow in the Alps

    23 may 2019:
    Ali Abdelhalek: Challenges to unravel an abandoned Oligocene rift segment along the River Nile in Egypt

    30 april 2019:
    Elco Luijendijk, Jan Tomasek, Ali Abdelhalek: What new and cool geoscience did we find at the EGU general assembly this year?

    21 feb 2019:
    Saskia Köhler: Distinguishing the sedimentary or tectonic origin of structures in Devonian carbonates at the Bielstein (Harz mts)
    Elco Luijendijk: Submarine hot springs and polgyonal faults in Guadeloupe

    24 jan 2019:
    Sofia Pascual: Insights into the cover units of the Punta del Este in Uruguay: implications for Gondwana assembly

    17 jan 2019:
    David Hindle: There is no such thing as lower crustal flow, and what that means for plateaus

    20 Dec 2018:
    Katharine Ford: Characterization of late stage faulting in SW England using drone imagery
    Sarah Louis: Quantifying the timing and rate of exhumation of the central and eastern molasse basin

    12 Nov 2018
    Florian Duschl: Structural control on fluid migration in inverted sedimentary basins.

    1 Nov 2018
    Max Zeuner: Digital outcrop model of a Variscan shear zone at the Oker reservoir (Harz)

    12 July 2018:
    Mathias Hueck, Long-term activity of shear zones in the Dom Feliciano Belt and associated terranes (South America)

    31 May 2018
    Jonas Kley, Models of the Pamir orogeny

    17 May 2018
    David Hindle, Flexure of the Harz foreland basin and broken plates

    15 Feb. 2018
    Introduction to three new projects in the framework of the DFG priority program "Mountain building processes in 4D":

    • Elco Luijendijk: Two projects on the thermal effects of fluid flow in the Alps and the exhumation of the Molasse Basin

    • Jonas Kley: Structural thermochronology along AlpArray geophysical transects


    25 Jan 2018
    Bianca Wagner and Bernd Leiss: introducing a new EU Horizon 2020 project: "MEET: Enhanced Geothermal Systems in different geological settings"

    18 Jan 2018
    David Hindle: Evidence for earthquakes and displacement rates on the Ulakhan fault, Northeastern Russia.

    14 Dec 2017
    Christopher Pötzl: Volcanic tuff as natural building stone in monuments and historical architecture

    30 Nov 2017
    Florian Duschl: MinNoBeck - (hydrothermale) Mineralisationen im Norddeutschen Becken

    16 Nov 2017
    Introduction to PhD and Postdoc projects by:

    • Johanna Menningen: Characterisation of marble deterioration using ultrasound tomography

    • Martin Reyes Correa: Reconstruction of rift basins in the Eastern Cordillera: Analysis and comparison between the structural styles of tectonic inversion in Middle Magdalena Valley

    • Tim Knörrich: Seismic regionalization of Germany and neighboring areas


    2 Nov 2017
    Introduction to PhD projects by:

    • Ali Mohamed: Realization of the Nile Basin rifting, Assiut-Beni Suef Province, Egypt: an integrated surface and subsurface structural study.

    • Jan Tomasek: Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the western Eger Rift

    • Mathias Hueck: Shear zone evolution in the Dom Feliciano Belt and its influence in the Phanerozoic


    18 Feb 2016
    Sebastian Oriolo: The Sarandí del Yí Shear Zone, Uruguay: implications for the assembly of Western Gondwana

    4 Feb 2016
    Bernd Leiss: Current State of the geothermal resource exploration for the Göttingen University Campus

    21 Jan 2015
    Sonja Philipp: Ergebnisse des Projektes AuGE-Aufschlussanalogstudien in der geothermischen Exploration

    7 Jan 2016
    Jonas Kley: Tectonics of the Pamir: From Mesozoic terrane accretion to intracontinental subduction

    3 Dec 2015
    Michael Krumbholz: Applications and limitations of statistics in structural geology

    19 Nov 2015
    Elco Luijendijk: The global volume and distribution of young and old groundwater in the crust

    2 July 2015
    David Hindle: Tectonics of the Eurasia-North America plate boundary zone in Northeast Russia

    4 June 2015
    Florian Duschl: Auswirkungen tektonischer Ereignisse auf die Fluidmigration in Sedimentbecken

    21 May 2015
    Alexander Malz: Profilbilanzierung des östlichen Faltenjura

    30 April 2015
    Jonas Kley: Mesozoic structures in Germany - studying the all-important details

    5 Feb 2015
    Jens Walter: Experimental rock deformation in a neutron beam

    15 Jan 2015
    Jashar Arfai (BGR): Geology of the German North Sea Basin

    8 Jan 2015
    Filiz Afsar: Fracture propagation and reservoir permeability in limestone-marl alternations of the Jurassic Blue Lias Formation (Bristol Channel Basin, UK)

    11 Dec 2014
    Jonas Kley and David Hindle: The evolution of the mid-continent rift

    27 Nov 2014
    Jonas Kley and Bernd Leiss: Discussion on future research on the geology and geothermal energy resources of the Leinetal Graben

    6 Nov 2014
    Elco Luijendijk: Constraining the thermal effects of groundwater flow in sedimentary basins