Dr. Silke Schmidt, Dipl. Geol. Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie Corrensstraße 24 D-48149 Münster Telefon: +49 (0)251 / 83-33989           Telefax: +49 (0)251 / 83-33933 E-Mail: silkeschmidt [at] uni-muenster.de Uni-Zimmer-Nr.: 524

Education and Work experience

Since October 2011: Research and Teaching Associate, Chair of Endogen and Structural Geology, Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

2008 – 2011: Doctoral student at the Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

2002 - 2008: Diplom student in Geologie & Paläontologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Teaching

• Übungen zur Vorlesung "Die Erde", BSc. Geowissenschaften, 1. FS. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster WS 2011/2012.
• Übungen zur Vorlesung "Die Erde", BSc. Landschaftsökologie, 1. FS. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster WS 2011/2012.
  
  

Publications (peer-reviewed, in preparation)

• Salomon, E., Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Mingorance, F. & Hampel, A. (in review.): Repeated near-surface folding during late Holocene earthquakes on the Cal thrust fault near Mendoza city (Argentina). Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Publications (peer-reviewed)

• 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
• 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
• 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, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.11.039. PDF
• Nagel T.J., Schmidt, S., Janák, M., Froitzheim, N., Jahn-Awe, S. & Georgiev, N. (2011): The exposed base of a collapsing wedge – the Nestos Shear Zone (Rhodope Metamorphic Province, Greece). Tectonics 30, TC4009, doi: 10.1029/2010TC002815. PDF
• Schmidt, S., Nagel, T.J. & Froitzheim, N. (2010): A new occurrence of microdiamond-bearing metamorphic rocks, SW Rhodopes, Greece. European Journal of Mineralogy 22, 189-198, doi: 10.1127/0935-1221/2010/0022-1999. PDF
• Tueckmantel, C., Schmidt, S., Neisen, M., Geogiev, N., Nagel, T.J. & Froitzheim, N. (2008): The Rila-Pastra Normal Fault and multi-stage extensional unroofing in the Rila Mountains (SW Bulgaria). Swiss Journal of Geosciences 101, 295-310, doi: 10.1007/s00015-008-1287-8. PDF
  

Conference Abstracts

• Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., & Kuhlmann, J. (2011): ¹⁰Be exposure dating of depositional surfaces at the eastern Andes: A note of caution on the use of boulders. ESF-LFUI Conference Cosmogenic Nuclides, Obergurgl, Austria, 08.-13. August 2011.
• Reicherter, K., Wiatr, T., Haberzettl, T., Schmidt, S., Kasper, T. & Frenzel, P. (2011): Active tectonics in the northern Tangra Yum Co Basin (central Tibet, VR China). INQUA Congress Bern, 20.-27. July 2011.
• Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Tsukamoto, S. & Frechen, M. (2011): ¹⁰Be, ¹⁴C and OSL dating of alluvial sediments from the eastern Andes. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 13, EGU2011-6793, Vienna, 03.-08. April 2011.
• Reicherter, K., Wiatr, T. Haberzettl, T., Schmidt, S., Kasper, T. & Frenzel, P. (2011): Active tectonics in the northern Tangra Yum Co Basin (central Tibet). Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 13, EGU2011-11927-2, Vienna, 03.-08. April 2011.
• Schmidt, S., Nagel, T.J. & Froitzheim, N. (2011): The age of UHP metamorphism and the exhumation path of microdiamond-bearing rocks (SW Rhodopes, Greece). Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 13, EGU2011-127, Vienna, 03.-08. April 2011.
• Wiatr, T., Reicherter, K., Frenzel, P., Schmidt, S., Haberzettl, T., Kasper, T. & Wrozyna, C. (2011): Lake level variations of Tangra Yum Co by remote sensing and ground truthing. 7th Sino-German Workshop on Tibetan Plateau Research, Hamburg, 02.-06. March 2011.
• Reicherter, K., Wiatr, T., Zhu, L., Wang, J., Haberzettl, T., Kasper, T., Frenzel, T., Daut, G., Hetzel, R. & Schmidt, S. (2011): Neotectonics and Quaternary lake evolution of Tangra Yum Co, central Tibetan Plateau. 7th Sino-German Workshop on Tibetan Plateau Research, Hamburg, 02.-06. March 2011.
• Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Kuhlmann, J. & Ramos, V. (2010): A note of caution on the use of boulders for exposure dating of depositional surfaces. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 13.-17. December 2009, Abstract EP05-0757.
• Hetzel, R., Schmidt, S., Ramos, V.A. & Mingorance, F. (2010): Late Quaternary slip rates of two thrust faults at the mountain front of the Andean Precordillera, Mendoza, Argentina. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 13.-17. December 2009, Abstract T33A-2204.
• Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Kuhlmann, J., Mingorance, F. & Ramos, V.A. (2010): Slip rates of active thrusts at the front of the Precordillera revealed by exposure dating and fault scarp profiles, Mendoza, Argentina. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-1734-2 Vienna, 02.-07. May 2010.
• Salomon, E., Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R. & Mingorance, F. (2010): Paleoseismic investigations at the Cal thrust fault, Mendoza, Argentina. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-4881 Vienna, 02.-07. May 2010
• Nagel T.J., Schmidt, S., Janák, M., Jahn-Awe, S., Froitzheim, N. & Georgiev, N. (2010): Significance of the Nestos Shearzone in the southern Rhodopes (Northern Greece/Southern Bulgaria). Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-10547 Vienna, 02.-07. May 2010.
• Nagel, T.J., Froitzheim, N., Janák, M., Schmidt, S., Sandmann, S., Kirst, F., Herwartz, D. & Kirchenbaur, M. (2010): Assembling UHP-metamorphic units in the Alps and Rhodopes. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-10298, Vienna, 02.-07. May 2010.
• Schmidt, S., Kuhlmann, J., Hetzel, R., Mingorance, F. & Ramos, V.A. (2009): A Late Quaternary shortening rate for the frontal thrust of the Andean Precordillera north of Mendoza –AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 14.-18. December 2009, Abstract T43B-2058.
• Schmidt, S., Nagel, T.J. & Froitzheim, N. (2009): A new location with micro-diamond-bearing metamorphic rocks south of Sidironero (SW Rhodopes, Greece) – Alpine Workshop 2009, Cogne.
• Nagel, T.J., Froitzheim, N., Janák, M., Schmidt, S., Sandmann, S., Kirst, F., Herwartz, D. & Kirchenbaur, M. (2009): Assembling UHP metamorphic terrains in the Alps and Rhodopes – Alpine Workshop 2009, Cogne. PDF
• Nagel T.J., Schmidt, S., Jahn-Awe, S., Georgiev, N., Froitzheim, N. & Pleuger, J. (2009): Significance of the Nestos Shearzone in the southern Rhodopes (Northern Greece/Southern Bulgaria) – Alpine Workshop 2009, Cogne. PDF
• Nagel, T.J., Schmidt, S., Froitzheim, N., Jahn-Awe, S. & Georgiev, N. (2009): Significance of the Nestos Shearzone in the southern Rhodopes (Northern Greece/Southern Bulgaria) – Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009-12482-1, Vienna, 19.-24. April 2009.
• Schmidt, S., Kuhlmann, J., Hetzel, R., Mingorance, F., Ramos, V.A. (2009): A Holocene shortening rate for the range-bounding thrust of the Andean Precordillera north of Mendoza – preliminary results. Tectonics & Sedimentation – Conference Volume, Bonn, 16.-18. February 2009, p. 67.
• Schmidt, S. & Nagel, T.J., Froitzheim, N. (2008): The Nestos Shear Zone in the southern Rhodopes (Northern Greece/Southern Bulgaria) – a late Eocene to Oligocene mid-crustal detachment – EOS Trans. AGU 89(53), Fall Meeting Supplement, San Francisco, 15.-19. December 2008, Abstract T11B-1875.
• Schmidt, S. & Nagel, T.J. (2008): Tectonometamorphic Evolution in the Hanging and Footwall of the Nestos Shear Zone, Greek Rhodopes. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, Heft 60, DGG/GV GEO2008 Conference, Aachen, 29.09.-02.10 2008, p. 79.
• Schmidt, S. & Nagel, T.J. (2007): Comparison of metamorphic grade in the hanging wall and footwall of the Nestos Shear Zone (Western Rhodopes) - Proceedings of the 8th Workshop in Alpine Geological Studies, Davos, 10.-12. October 2007, p. 73.