Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie

Prof. Dr. Ralf Hetzel Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie Corrensstraße 24 D-48149 Münster Telefon: +49 (0) 251-83 33908 Telefax: +49 (0) 251-83 33933 E-Mail: rahetzel[at]uni-muenster.de Zimmer-Nr.: 414

Curriculum Vitae Since Oct. 2004: Full Professor, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, University of Münster 2004: Heisenberg-Fellow, Institute of Geology, ETH Zurich 2001 - 2003: Post-Doc, Institute of Geoscience, University of Potsdam (Habilitation) 1995 - 2001: Post-Doc, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam 1992 - 1995: Doctoral student, Institute of Geoscience, University of Mainz 1987 - 1992: Study of Geology, Technical University of Karlsruhe

2013-2012

• Buscher, J., Hampel, A., Hetzel, R., Dunkl, I., Glotzbach, C., Struffert, A., Akal, C., Rätz, M. (accepted). Quantifying rates of detachment faulting and erosion in the central Menderes Massif (western Turkey) by thermochronology and cosmogenic ¹⁰Be. Journal of the Geological Society of London.
• Hetzel, R., Zwingmann, H., Mulch, A., Gessner, K., Akal, C., Hampel, A., Güngör, T., Petschick, R., Tamás, M., Wedin, F. (2013). Spatio-temporal evolution of brittle normal faulting and fluid infiltration in detachment fault systems - a case study from the Menderes Massif, western Turkey. Tectonics, 32, 1-12, doi:10.1002/tect.20031.
• Hetzel, R. (2013). Active faulting, mountain growth, and erosion at the margins of the Tibetan Plateau constrained by in situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides. Tectonophysics, 582, 1-24, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2012.10.027 (invited review paper).
• Hampel, A., Hetzel, R., Maniatis, G. (2013). Response of faults to climate-driven changes in ice and water volumes on Earth's surface. In: Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards (edited by B. McGuire and M. Maslin), 1st edition, Wiley-Blackwell, p. 124-142.
• Salomon, E., Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Mingorance, F., Hampel, A. (2013). Repeated folding during late Holocene earthquakes on the Cal thrust fault near Mendoza city (Argentina). Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 103, 936-949, doi:10.1785/0120110335. 
• Hampel, A., Hetzel, R. (2012). Temporal variation in fault friction and its effects on the slip evolution of a thrust fault over several earthquake cycles. Terra Nova, 24, 357-362, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2012.01073.x. PDF
• Strobl, M., Hetzel, R., Niedermann, S., Ding, L., Zhang , L. (2012). Landscape evolution of a bedrock peneplain on the southern Tibetan Plateau revealed by in situ-produced cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and ²¹Ne. Geomorphology, 153-154, 192-204, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.02.024. PDF
• Sindern, S., Gerdes, A., Ronkin, Y.L., Dziggel, A., Hetzel, R., Schulte B.A. (2012). Monazite stability, composition and geochronology as tracers of Proterozoic events at the eastern margin of the East European Craton (Taratash complex, Middle Urals). Lithos, 132-133, 82-97, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2011.11.017.
• Schmidt, S., Tsukamoto, S., Salomon, E., Frechen, M., Hetzel, R. (2012). Optical dating of alluvial deposits at the orogenic front of the Andean Precordillera (Mendoza, Argentina). Geochronometria, 39, 62-75, doi: 10.2478/s13386-011-0050-5. PDF
  

2011-2009

• Sanhueza-Pino, K., Korup, O., Hetzel, R., Munack, H., Weidinger, J.T., Dunning, S., Ormukov, C., Kubik, P.W. (2011). Glacial advances constrained by ¹⁰Be exposure dating of bedrock landslides, Kyrgyz Tien Shan. Quaternary Research, 76, 295-304, doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2011.06.013. PDF
• Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Mingorance, F. & Ramos, V.A. (2011). Coseismic displacements and Holocene slip rates for two active thrust faults at the mountain front of the Andean Precordillera (~33°S). Tectonics, 30, TC5011, doi:10.1029/2011TC002932. PDF
• Hetzel, R., Dunkl, I., Haider, V., Strobl, M., von Eynatten, H., Ding, L., Frei, D. (2011). Peneplain formation in southern Tibet predates India-Asia collision and plateau uplift. Geology, 39, 983-986, doi: 10.1130/G32069.1. PDF
• Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Kuhlmann, J., Mingorance, F., Ramos V.A. (2011). A note of caution on the use of boulders for exposure dating of depositional surfaces. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 302, 60-70.
• Palumbo, L., Hetzel, R., Tao, M., Li, X. (2011). Catchment-wide denudation rates at the margin of NE Tibet from in situ-produced cosmogenic ¹⁰Be. Terra Nova, 23, 42-48, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2010.00982.x. PDF
• Strobl, M., Hetzel, R., Ding, L., Zhang, L., Hampel, A. (2010). Preservation of a large-scale bedrock peneplain suggests long-term landscape stability in southern Tibet. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, 54, 453-466.
• Hampel, A., Hetzel, R., Maniatis, G. (2010). Response of faults to climate-driven changes in ice and water volumes on Earth's surface. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences), 368, 2501-2517, doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0031. PDF
• Meyer, H., Hetzel, R., Strauss, H. (2010). Erosion rates on different timescales derived from cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and river loads: Implications for landscape evolution in the Rhenish Massif, Germany. International Journal of Earth Sciences 99, 395-412. PDF
• Hampel, A., Karow, T, Maniatis, G., Hetzel, R. (2010). Slip rate variations on faults during glacial loading and postglacial unloading: Implications for the viscosity structure of the lithosphere. Journal of the Geological Society of London167, 385-399, doi: 10.1144/0016-76492008-137. PDF
• Meyer, H., Hetzel, R., Fügenschuh, B., Strauss, H. (2010). Determining the growth rate of topographic relief using in situ-produced ¹⁰Be: A case study in the Black Forest, Germany. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 290, 391-402, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.034. PDF
• Palumbo, L., Hetzel, R., Tao, M., Li, X. (2009). Topographic and lithologic control on catchment-wide denudation rates derived from cosmogenic ¹⁰Be in two mountain ranges at the margin of NE Tibet. Geomorphology, 117, 130-142. PDF
• Densmore, A.L., Hetzel, R., Ivy-Ochs, S., Krugh, W.C., Dawers, N., Kubik, P.W. (2009). Spatial variations in catchment-averaged denudation rates from normal fault footwalls. Geology 37, 1139-1142, doi:10.1130/G30164A.1. PDF
• Meyer, H., Strauss, H., Hetzel, R. (2009). The role of supergene sulphuric acid during weathering in small river catchments in low mountain ranges of Central Europe: Implications for calculating the atmospheric CO2 budget. Chemical Geology 268, 41-51, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.07.007. PDF
• Palumbo, L., Hetzel, R., Tao, M., Li, X., Guo, J. (2009). Deciphering the rate of mountain growth during topographic presteady state: an example from the NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics , 28, TC4017, doi:10.1029/2009TC002455. PDF
• Hampel, A., Hetzel, R., Maniatis, G., Karow, T. (2009). Three-dimensional numerical modeling of slip rate variations on normal and thrust fault arrays during ice cap growth and melting. Journal of Geophysical Research , 114, B08406, doi:10.1029/2008JB006113. PDF
• Goethals, M.M., Hetzel, R., Niedermann, S., Wittmann, H., Fenton, C.R., Kubik, P.W., Christl, M., von Blanckenburg, F. (2009). An improved experimental determination of cosmogenic ¹⁰Be/²¹Ne and ²⁶Al/²¹Ne production ratios in quartz. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 284, 187-198, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.04.027. PDF
• Goethals, M.M., Niedermann, S., Hetzel, R., Fenton, C.R. (2009). Determining the impact of faulting on the rate of erosion in a low-relief landscape: A case study using in situ produced ²¹Ne on active normal faults in the Bishop Tuff, California. Geomorphology, 103, 401-413, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.07.008. PDF

2008-2006

• Hampel, A., Hetzel, R. (2008). Slip reversals on active normal faults related to the inflation and deflation of magma chambers: Numerical modeling with application to the Yellowstone-Teton region. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L0731, doi:10.1029/2008GL033226.PDF
• Alvarez-Marrón, J., Hetzel, R., Niedermann, S., Menéndez, R., Marquinez, J. (2008). Origin, structure and exposure history of a wave-cut platform more than 1 Ma in age at the coast of northern Spain: a multiple cosmogenic nuclide approach. Geomorphology, 93, 316-334. PDF
• Hampel, A., Hetzel, R., Densmore A.L. (2007) Postglacial slip rate increase on the Teton normal fault, northern Basin and Range Province, caused by melting of the Yellowstone ice cap and deglaciation of the Teton Range? Geology, 35, 1107-1110. PDF
• Glodny, J., Hetzel, R. (2007). Precise U-Pb ages of syn-extensional Miocene intrusions in the central Menderes Massif, western Turkey. Geological Magazine, 144, 235-246.PDF
• Brown, D., Spadea, P., Puchkov, V., Alvarez-Marron, J., Herrington, R., Willner, A., Hetzel, R., Gorozhanina Y., Juhlin, C. (2006). Arc-continent collision in the Southern Urals. Earth Science Reviews, 79, 261-287.PDF
• Hetzel, R., Niedermann, S., Tao, M., Kubik, P.W., Strecker, M.R. (2006). Climatic versus tectonic control on river incision at the margin of NE Tibet: ¹⁰Be exposure dating of river terraces at the mountain front of the Qilian Shan. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, 111, F03012, doi:10.1029/2005JF000352. PDF
• Hampel, A., Hetzel, R. (2006). Response of normal faults to glacial-interglacial fluctuations of ice and water masses on Earth's surface. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, B06406, doi:10.1029/2005JB004124. PDF
• Küster, Y., Hetzel, R., Krbetschek, M., Tao, M. (2006). Holocene loess sedimentation along the Qilian Shan (China): significance for understanding the processes and timing of loess deposition. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25, 114-125.PDF

2005-2003

• Sindern, S., Hetzel, R., Schulte, B.A., Kramm, U., Ronkin, Y.L., Maslov, A.V., Lepikhina, O.P. (2005). Proterozoic magmatic and tectonometamorphic evolution of the Taratash complex, Central Urals, Russia. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 94, 319-335, DOI 10.1007/s00531-005-0489-9.PDF
• Hetzel, R., Hampel, A. (2005). Slip rate variations on normal faults during glacial–interglacial changes in surface loads. Nature, 435, 81-84. PDF
• Hetzel, R., Tao, M., Stokes, S., Niedermann, S., Ivy-Ochs, S., Gao, B., Strecker, M.R., Kubik, P.W. (2004). Late Pleistocene/Holocene slip rate of the Zhangye thrust (Qilian Shan, China) and implications for the active growth of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics 23 (6), TC6006, doi:10.1029/2004TC001653.PDF
• Hetzel, R., Tao, M., Niedermann, S., Strecker, M.R., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kubik, P.W., Gao, B. (2004). Implications of the fault scaling law for the growth of topography: Mountain ranges in the broken foreland of NE Tibet. Terra Nova, 16, 157-162.PDF
• Stokes, S., Hetzel, R., Bailey, R.M., Tao, M. (2003). Combined IRSL-OSL single aliquot regeneration (SAR) equivalent dose (De) estimates from source proximal Chinese loess. Quaternary Science Reviews, 22, 975-983.PDF
• Ring, U., Johnson, C., Hetzel, R., Gessner, K. (2003). Tectonic denudation of a Late Cretaceous–Tertiary collisional belt: regionally symmetric cooling patterns and their relation to extensional faults in the Anatolide belt of western Turkey. Geological Magazine, 140, 421-441. PDF

2002-2000

• Hetzel, R., Niedermann, S., Tao, M., Kubik, P.W., Ivy-Ochs, S., Gao, B., Strecker, M.R. (2002). Low slip rates and long-term preservation of geomorphic features in Central Asia. Nature, 417, 428-432.PDF
• Hetzel, R., Niedermann, S., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kubik, P.W., Tao, M., Gao, B. (2002). ²¹Ne versus ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al exposure ages of fluvial terraces: the influence of crustal Ne in quartz. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 201, 575-591. PDF
• Seward, D., Brown, D., Hetzel, R., Friberg, M., Gerdes, A., Petrov, G.A., Perez-Estaun, A. (2002). The syn-and post-orogenic low temperature events in the Southern and Middle Uralides: Evidence from fission-track analysis. In: Mountain Building in the Uralides, AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, edited by D. Brown, C. Juhlin, V. Puchkov, 257-272.
• Scarrow, J.H., Hetzel, R., Gorozhanin, V.M., Dinn, M., Glodny, J., Gerdes, A., Ayala, C., Montero, P. (2002). Four decades of geochronological work in the Southern and Middle Urals: A review. In: Mountain Building in the Uralides, AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, edited by D. Brown, C. Juhlin, V. Puchkov, 233-256.
• Hetzel, R., Glodny, J. (2002). A crustal-scale, orogen-parallel strike-slip fault in the middle Urals: age, magnitude of displacement, and geodynamic significance. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 91, 231-245.PDF
• Gessner K., Ring U., Passchier C.W., Hetzel R. (2002). Discussion on "Stratigraphic and metamorphic inversions in the central Menderes Massif: a new structural model" by A.I. Okay. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 91, 168-172.
• Gessner, K., Ring U., Johnson, C., Hetzel, R., Passchier, C.W., Güngör T. (2001). An active bivergent rolling-hinge detachment system: Central Menderes metamorphic core complex in western Turkey. Geology, 29, 611-614.
• Sherlock, S.C., Hetzel, R. (2001). A laser-probe 40Ar/39Ar study of pseudotachylite from the Tambach Fault Zone, Kenya: direct isotopic dating of brittle faults. Journal of Structural Geology, 23, 33-44.PDF
• Hetzel, R., Romer, R.L. (2000). A moderate exhumation rate for the high-pressure Maksyutov complex, southern Urals, Russia. Geological Journal, 35, 327-344.PDF
• Brown, D, Hetzel, R., Scarrow, J. (2000). Tracking arc-continent collision subduction zone processes from high-pressure rocks in the southern Urals. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 157, 901-904.PDF

1999-1997

• Hetzel, R., Romer, R.L. (1999). U-Pb dating of the Verkniy Ufaley intrusion, Middle Urals, Russia: A minimum age for subduction and amphibolite facies overprint of the East European continental margin. Geological Magazine, 136, 593-597.PDF
• Hetzel, R. (1999). Geology and geodynamic evolution of the high-P/low-T Maksyutov Complex, Southern Urals, Russia. Geologische Rundschau, 87, 577-588.PDF
• Hetzel, R., Romer, R.L., Candan, O., Passchier, C.W. (1998). Geology of the Bozdag area, central Menderes Massif, SW Turkey: Pan-African basement and Alpine deformation. Geologische Rundschau, 87, 394-406.PDF
• Hetzel, R., Echtler, H.P., Seifert, W., Schulte, A.B., Ivanov, K.S. (1998). Subduction- and exhumation-related fabrics in the Paleozoic high-P/low-T Maksyutov Complex, Antingan area, Southern Urals, Russia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 110, 916-930.
• Echtler, H.P., Hetzel, R. (1997). Main Uralian Thrust and Main Uralian Normal Fault: non-extensional Paleozoic high-P rock exhumation, oblique collision, and normal faulting in the Southern Urals. Terra Nova, 9, 158-162.PDF
• Echtler, H.P., Ivanov, K.S., Ronkin, Y.L., Karsten, L.A., Hetzel, R., Noskov, A.G. (1997). The tectono-metamorphic evolution of gneiss complexes in the Middle Urals, Russia: A reappraisal. Tectonophysics, 276, 229-251.

1996-1994

• Hetzel, R., Reischmann, T. (1996). Intrusion age of Pan-African augen gneisses in the southern Menderes Massif and the age of cooling after Alpine ductile extensional deformation. Geological Magazine, 133, 565-572.
• Hetzel, R., Altenberger, U., Strecker, M.R. (1996). Structural and chemical evolution of pseudotachylytes during seismic events. Mineralogy and Petrology, 58, 33-50.PDF
• Hetzel, R., Passchier, C.W., Ring, U., Dora, O.Ö. (1996). Reply on a Comment by R. Westaway on Bivergent extension in orogenic belts: The Menderes Massif (southwestern Turkey). Geology, 24, 94-95.PDF
• Hetzel, R., Passchier, C.W., Ring, U., Dora, O.Ö. (1995). Bivergent extension in orogenic belts: The Menderes Massif (SW Turkey). Geology, 23, 455-458.PDF
• Hetzel, R., Ring, U., Akal, C., Troesch, M. (1995). Miocene NNE-directed extensional unroofing in the Menderes Massif, SW Turkey. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 152, 639-654.PDF
• Hetzel, R., Strecker, M.R. (1994). Late Mozambique Belt structures in western Kenya and their influence on the evolution of the Cenozoic Kenya Rift. Journal of Structural Geology, 16, 189-201.PDF
• Hetzel R., Dora O.Ö. (1994). Miocene extensional tectonics in the Menderes Massif, southwestern Turkey. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 30, 507-512.