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Bachelorstudiengang Geowissenschaften

  • Geländetage München und Umgebung (P3.4)
  • Endogene Dynamik (P4.1, Geo III)
  • Geländeübungen, Kartierung Kreta, Ries (WP31)
  • Strukturgeologie (WP41)
  • Bachelorarbeit (P6)

Bachelor Arbeitsthemen
1) Themen:
  • Scherzonen und Störungssysteme: Erdbebenschäden in großen Tiefen
  • Gefügeentwicklung in metamorphen und magmatischen Gesteinen
  • Deformationsprozesse in Subduktionszonen
  • Impaktgeologie (Schockeffekte, Impaktbrekzien)

2) Regionen:

  • Kreta, Alpen (Ostalpin, Silvretta), Ries (Nördlingen), Steinheim, Bayerischer Wald (Pfahl), Vredefort (S-Afrika),...
3) Methoden:
  • Geländearbeit/Kartierung, Polarisationsmikroskopie, Elektronenmikroskopie,
  • Ramanspektroskopie (in Zusammenarbeit mit Dr. Melanie Kaliwoda)

4) Voraussetzungen:

  • Interesse am Materialverhalten von Gesteinen, Deformation von metamorphen und magmatischen Gesteinen
  • Grundlegende Kenntnisse in Polarisationsmikroskopie, Strukturgeologie und Tektonik, Petrologie

Master Program Geomaterials and Geochemistry

  • Polarized light microscopy (P3.2)

Doctoral students

  • Fabian Dellefant: Magnetic properties and microfabrics of shocked minerals and their influence on the magnetic anomalies in the Ries, Vredefort and Manicouagan impact structures (since January 2020)
  • Lisa Brückner: Transient deformation and long-lived shear zone activity (since June 2019)
  • Dr. Felix Hentschel (PhD 2020): Deformation behaviour of feldspar in greenschist facies granitoide shear zones
  • Dr. Lina Seybold (PhD 2019): The geological record of the lowermost tectonic unit of the Cretan nappe pile in the Talea Ori, Crete, Greece - the deformation history during burial and exhumation
  • Dr. Anthony Druiventak (PhD 2012): Experimental high-stress deformation and annealing of peridotite - simulating coseismic deformation and postseismic creep
  • Dr. Agnes Matysiak (PhD 2012): Microfabric development in peridotites during deformation controlled by the seismic cycle

Master students

  • E. Prince: Microfabric development of shear zone eclogites from the Western Gneiss Region, Norway (2020)
  • J. Considene: The relationship between mylonitic deformation and pseudotachylyte-formation in fault rocks from the base of the Silvretta nappe, Eastern Alps (2020)
  • C. Mertens: High-grade deformation of orthopyroxene – microfabric in gneisses from Gjelsvikfjella, Antarctica (2020)
  • T. Alatrach: Shear band cleavage in a quartz-rich mylonite from the Defereggen-Antholz-Vals (DAV) shear zone in the Eastern Alps (2019)
  • J. van Lier: Faults and fault rocks at the Southern border of the Talea Ori, Crete (2017)
  • C. Hsu: Recrystallization of deformed quartz - dynamic recrystallization versus nucleation and growth (2016)
  • C. Peinelt: Monazite and other accessory minerals in HP-LT metamorphic rocks of the Talea Ori, Crete (2016)
  • V. Wichmann: Fault rocks of the Silvretta basal thrust zone, Switzerland (2015)
  • F. Hentschel: Deformation and reactions in mylonitic pegmatites in the Eastern Alps south of the Tauern window and west of the Tauferer valley (2014)
  • R. Gutknecht: The lowermost unit of the Cretan nappe pile in the Talea Ori, Greece (2014)
  • Ch. Schneider: Pseudotachylytes at the base of the Silvretta nappe, Eastern Alps (2013)
  • K. Döhler: Deformation related to the DAV fault system in the Eastern Alps south of the Tauern window and west of the Tauferer valley (2012)
  • A. Rogowitz: Deformed coronitic eclogites from the Sunnfjord area, Western Gneiss Region, Norway (2011)
  • V. Helpa: Deformation history of dunites from the peridotite complex at Almklovdalen, Norway (2010)
  • J. Dröger: Recrystallization of shocked quartz from the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa (2010)
  • J. Bial: Microfabric development in serpentinite mylonites from the Erro-Tobbio unit of the Voltri massif, Italy (2010)
  • P. Jakschik: Pseudotachylytes at the base of the Silvretta Nappe, Eastern Alps (2010)