Prof. Dr. Heinrich Bahlburg
(Seniorprofessor)
Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie - Exogene Geologie und Sedimentologie
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Corrensstr. 24
D-48149 Münster
Deutschland
bahlbur@uni-muenster.de
Tel.: +49 251 83-33935
Fax: +49 251 83-36108
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Tsunami und Tsunamiablagerungen
- Liefergebiets- und Terraneanalyse
- Plattentektonische und klimatische Steuerungsfaktoren der Entwicklung von Sedimentbecken
Vita
Akademische Ausbildung
- Habilitation, Fachbereich Bergbau und Geowissenschaften, TU Berlin
- Promotion, Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, TU Berlin
- Diplom, Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Universität Hamburg
Beruflicher Werdegang
- Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, WWU Münster
- Akademischer Rat und Kustos, Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg
- PostDoc, Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA
- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, TU Berlin
Preise
- Forschungsstipendium – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Rufe
- Texas A&M University
- WWU Münster – angenommen
Projekte
- EuroCrust – Die Entwicklung der Kruste Europas - U-Pb, Pb, Hf, und O Isotopensystematik von detritischem Zirkon, Rutil und K-Feldspat aus den Sedimenten großer europäischer Flüsse ( – )
Gefördertes Einzelprojekt: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Förderkennzeichen: BA 1011/47-1 - Rift-Systeme an aktiven Kontinentalrändern: Eine Fazies- und Provenanzstudie der vulkanosedimentären Entwicklung der Mitu Group ( – )
Gefördertes Einzelprojekt: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Förderkennzeichen: BA 111/45-1 - SPP 527 - Teilprojekt: Die Provenanz der in der IODP Expedition 341 erbohrten neogenen bis holozänen Sedimente im Golf von Alaska. Eine geochemische und geochronologische Studie der glazial bedingten Denudation des sich entwickelnden St. Elias Orogens anhand von Schwermineraleinzelkörnern ( – )
Teilprojekt in DFG-Verbund koordiniert außerhalb der Universität Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Förderkennzeichen: BA 1011/43-2 - SPP 527 - Teilprojekt: Die Provenanz der in der IODP Expedition 341 erbohrten neogenen bis holozänen Sedimente im Golf von Alaska. Eine geochemische und geochronologische Studie der glazial bedingten Denudation des sich entwickelnden St. Elias Orogens anhand von Schwermineraleinzelkörnern ( – )
Teilprojekt in DFG-Verbund koordiniert außerhalb der Universität Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Förderkennzeichen: BA 1011/43-1 - Sedimentologische post-Tsunami Untersuchungen der Ablagerungen des Illapel-Tsunami vom 16. September 2015 ( – )
Gefördertes Einzelprojekt: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Förderkennzeichen: BA 1011/46-1 - The onshore tsunami record in southern Chile - historical and beyond: Sedimentology, geochemistry, stratigraphy and regional correlation ( – )
Gefördertes Einzelprojekt: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Förderkennzeichen: BA 1011/41-1 - Sedimentology of coastal and lagoon deposits in the Seychelles islands – evidence of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami and other high energy wave events ( – )
Gefördertes Einzelprojekt: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Förderkennzeichen: BA 1011/38-1 - Sedimentologie der Sedimente des Chile-Tsunami vom 27. Februar 2010. Analyse und Vergleich mit ähnlichen Ablagerungen der 2004 Sumatra, 2006 Java und anderer rezenter Tsunami ( – )
Gefördertes Einzelprojekt: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Förderkennzeichen: BA 1011/37-1 - SPP 1006 - TP: The Archean to Paleoproterozoic transition as recovered in the FAR-DEEP cores: LA ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology of detrital zircons and accompanying provenance analysis of siliciclastic sedimentary rocks ( – )
Teilprojekt in DFG-Verbund koordiniert außerhalb der Universität Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Förderkennzeichen: BA 1011/35-2 - SPP 1006 - TP: The Archean to Paleoproterozoic transition as recovered in the FAR DEEP cores: LA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology of detrital zircons and accompanying provenance analysis of siliciclastic sedimentary rocks ( – )
Teilprojekt in DFG-Verbund koordiniert außerhalb der Universität Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Förderkennzeichen: BA 101/35-1 - The Late Tertiary-Quaternary onshore tsunami record of northern Chile and southern Peru: towards the recognition of diagnostic features of onshore tsunami deposits ( – )
Gefördertes Einzelprojekt: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Förderkennzeichen: BA 1011 / 32 - 1 - The geodynamic evolution of the early Paleozoic Gondwana margin in southern Peru and northern Bolivia – the provenance record of the Ordovician and Devonian siliciclastic strata ( – )
Gefördertes Einzelprojekt: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Förderkennzeichen: BA 1011/28-4 - Sedimentologische Analyse der Ablagerungen des Java-Tsunami vom 17.07.2006: Parameter der Strömungsprozesse während des Auflaufens und Rückstroms im Vergleich zum Sumatra-Tsunami vom Dezember 2004 ( – )
Gefördertes Einzelprojekt: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Förderkennzeichen: BA1011/33-1 - Simulation von Entwicklung und Landfall impaktgenerierter Tsunamis am Beispiel des Chicxulub-Impaktes zur Zeit der Kreide-Tertiär Grenze in Yucatán, Mexiko ( – )
Gefördertes Einzelprojekt: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Förderkennzeichen: BA 1011/21 - Geodynamic evolution of the Early Paleozoic Gondwana margin in southern Peru and northern Bolivia – sedimentary facies and provenance analysis of the Ordovician basin in Cordillera Oriental and Sierras Subandinas ( – )
Gefördertes Einzelprojekt: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Förderkennzeichen: BA 1011/28-4
- EuroCrust – Die Entwicklung der Kruste Europas - U-Pb, Pb, Hf, und O Isotopensystematik von detritischem Zirkon, Rutil und K-Feldspat aus den Sedimenten großer europäischer Flüsse ( – )
Publikationen
- doi.org/10.1111/bre.12864. . ‘Sedimentology, geochronology and provenance of the late Permian-Triassic Mitu Group in Peru – The evolution of continental facies along a transform margin.’ Basin Research 36: e12864. doi:
- . . ‘Reply to Comments on Bahlburg (2021) A Silurian-Devonian active margin in the proto-Andes – new data on an old conundrum.’ International Geology Review 2022: 1–2. doi: 10.1080/00206814.2022.2051087. [online first]
- 10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104145. . ‘The European continental crust through detrital zircons from modern rivers: testing representativity of detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology.’ Earth-Science Reviews 232: 104–145. doi:
- . . ‘A Silurian-Devonian active margin in the proto-Andes – New data on an old conundrum.’ International Geology Review 2022. doi: 10.1080/00206814.2021.2012719. [online first]
- . . ‘The provenance signal of climate-tectonic interactions in the evolving St. Elias orogen – Framework mineral analysis and pyroxene and epidote single grain geochemistry of sediments from IODP 341 sites U1417 and U1418.’ International Journal of Earth Sciences 110: 1477–1499. doi: 10.1007/s00531-021-02025-9.
- . . ‘Post-depositional alteration of onshore tsunami deposits – implications for the reconstruction of past events.’ Earth-Science Reviews 202: 1–15. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.103068.
- . . ‘The missing link of Rodinia break up in western South America: A petrographical, geochemical, and zircon Pb-Hf isotope study of the volcanosedimentary Chilla beds (Altiplano, Bolivia).’ Geosphere 16, Nr. 2: 1–27.
- . . ‘Comparability of heavy mineral data – The first interlaboratory round robin test.’ Earth-Science Reviews 211: 103210. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103210.
- . . ‘Provenance of exotic Ordovician and Devonian sedimentary rock units from the Rhenish Massif (Central European Variscides, Germany).’ Tectonophysics 755: 127–159. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.10.029.
- 10.1016/j.margeo.2016.12.011. . ‘The September 16, 2015 Illapel tsunami, Chile - Sedimentology of tsunami deposits at the beaches of La Serena and Coquimbo.’ Marine Geology 396, Nr. null: 43–53. doi:
- 10.1086/699740. . ‘Provenance of the Surveyor Fan and Precursor Sediments in the Gulf of Alaska—Implications of a Combined U-Pb, (U-Th)/He, Hf, and Rare Earth Element Study of Detrital Zircons.’ Journal of Geology 126: 577–600. doi:
- . . ‘Climate-tectonic interactions in the St. Elias orogen: implications from a single grain heavy mineral provenance analysis of Surveyor Fan sediments, Gulf of Alaska.’ Sedimentary Geology 372: 173–192. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.05.007.
- . . ‘Multi-proxy analysis of tsunami deposits – the Tirúa, Chile, example.’ Geosphere 14, Nr. 3: 1067–1086. doi: 10.1130/GES01528.1.
- . . ‘New geochemical results indicate a non-alpine provenance for the Alpine Spectrum (epidote, garnet, hornblende) in Quaternary upper Rhine sediments.’ Sedimentary Geology 375: 134–144. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.02.010.
- 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.03.018. . ‘The ages and tectonic setting of the Faja Eruptiva de la Puna Oriental, Ordovician, NW Argentina.’ Lithos 256-257: 41–54. doi:
- 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.08.001. . ‘Microtextural analysis of quartz grains of tsunami and non-tsunami deposits – A case study from Tirúa (Chile).’ Sedimentary Geology 343, Nr. null: 72–84. doi:
- 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.08.006. . ‘Provenance from zircon U-Pb age distributions in crustally contaminated granitoids.’ Sedimentary Geology 336: 161–170. doi:
- 10.1007/s00024-014-0990-9. . ‘Sedimentology of Coastal Deposits in the Seychelles Islands—Evidence of the Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004.’ Pure and Applied Geophysics 172, Nr. null: 641–656. doi:
- 10.1144/jgs2014-065. . ‘0.3 byr of drainage stability along the palaeozoic palaeo-pacific gondwana margin; a detrital zircon study.’ Journal of the Geological Society 172, Nr. 2: 186–200. doi:
- 10.1016/j.quageo.2015.05.020. . ‘Reconstructing the tsunami record in Tirúa, Central Chile beyond the historical record with quartz-based SAR-OSL.’ Quaternary Geochronology 30, Nr. null: 299–305. doi:
- 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.06.009. . ‘Styles of early diagenesis and the preservation potential of onshore tsunami deposits-A re-survey of Isla Mocha, Central Chile, 2 years after the February 27, 2010, Maule tsunami.’ Sedimentary Geology 326, Nr. null: 33–44. doi:
- 10.1016/j.jsames.2015.08.013. . ‘Multi-method provenance model for early Paleozoic sedimentary basins of southern Peru and northern Bolivia (13°-18°S).’ Journal of South American Earth Sciences 64, Nr. null: 94–115. doi:
- 10.1073/pnas.1512549112. . ‘Mid-Pleistocene climate transition drives net mass loss from rapidly uplifting St. Elias Mountains, Alaska.’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112, Nr. 49: 15042–15047. doi:
- . . ‘Southern Alaska Margin.’ Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program 341. doi: 10.2204/iodp.proc.341.2014.
- 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2014.03.003. . ‘Pliocene mass failure deposits mistaken as submarine tsunami backwash sediments - An example from Hornitos, northern Chile.’ Sedimentary Geology 305, Nr. null: 69–82. doi:
- 10.1007/s00531-014-1020-y. . ‘Origin and age of ultramafic rocks and gabbros in the southern Puna of Argentina: An alleged Ordovician suture revisited.’ International Journal of Earth Sciences 103, Nr. 4: 1023–1036. doi:
- 10.1016/j.precamres.2014.03.014. . ‘Dating Palaeoproterozoic glacial deposits of the Fennoscandian Shield using detrital zircons from the Kola Peninsula, Russia.’ Precambrian Research 246, Nr. null: 281–295. doi:
- . . ‘Provenance of Pleistocene Rhine River Middle Terrace sands between the Swiss-German border and Cologne based on U-Pb detrital zircon ages.’ International Journal of Earth Sciences 102, Nr. 3: 917–932. doi: 10.1007/s00531-012-0842-8.
- . . ‘Historical tsunami deposits in Peru: Sedimentology, inverse modeling and optically stimulated luminescence dating.’ Quaternary International 2013, Nr. 305: 31–44. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.02.010.
- 10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.07.009. . ‘Preservation potential of tsunami deposits on arid siliciclastic coasts.’ Earth-Science Reviews 126, Nr. null: 58–73. doi:
- 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01295.x. . ‘Sedimentology of tsunami inflow and backflow deposits: key differences revealed in a modern example.’ Sedimentology 59, Nr. 4: 1063–1086. doi:
- . Grundlagen der Geologie. 4. erweiterte und überarbeitete Auflage.: Springer Spektrum.
- . . ‘The U-Pb and Hf isotope evidence of detrital zircons of the Ordovician Ollantaytambo Formation, southern Peru, and the Ordovician provenance and paleogeography of southern Peru and northern Bolivia.’ Journal of South American Earth Sciences 32, Nr. 3: 196–209. doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2011.07.002.
- . . ‘Mantle-controlled mountains.’ Nature Geoscience 4: 280–282.
- . . ‘A quasi-experimental setting of boulder transport by the 2010 Chile tsunami (Bucalemu, Central Chile).’ Marine Geology 289: 72–85. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2011.09.007.
- . . ‘Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) graptolite faunas of the Sandia Region, southern Peru.’ Geological Journal 45, Nr. 4: 397–411.
- . . ‘Comment on "Sedimentary features of tsunami backwash deposits in a shallow marine Miocene setting, Mejillones Peninsula, northern Chile" by G. Cantalamessa and C. Di Celma [Sedimentary Geology 178 (2005) 259-273].’ Sedimentary Geology 228, Nr. 1-2: 77–80. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.03.006.
- . . ‘The TsuSedMod inversion model applied to the deposits of the 2004 Sumatra and 2006 Java tsunami and implications for estimating flow parameters of palaeo-tsunami.’ Sedimentary Geology 224, Nr. 1-4: 29–37. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.12.005.
- 10.1016/j.gr.2010.02.002. . ‘Geodynamic evolution of the early Paleozoic Western Gondwana margin 14°-17°S reflected by the detritus of the Devonian and Ordovician basins of southern Peru and northern Bolivia.’ Gondwana Research 18: 370–384. doi:
- . . ‘Low energy sedimentary infill of the Chicxulub crater during the impact to post-impact transition.’ Earth and Planetary Science Letters 295: 170–176. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.03.037.
- 10.1016/j.gr.2009.11.007. . ‘Plate tectonic significance of middle Cambrian and Ordovician siliciclastic rocks of the Bavarian Facies, Armorican Terrane Assemblage, Germany – U-Pb and Hf isotope evidence of detrital zircons.’ Gondwana Research 17: 223–235. doi:
- . . ‘Timing of accretion and crustal recycling at accretionary orogens: Insights learned from the western margin of South America.’ Earth-Science Reviews 97: 227–253. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.10.006.
- . . ‘The role of porosity in discriminating between tsunami and hurricane emplacement of boulders - A case study from the Lesser Antilles, southern Caribbean.’ Earth and Planetary Science Letters 268, Nr. 3-4: 384–396. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.01.030.
- . . ‘The transition from passive to active margin sedimentation in the Cantabrian Mountains, Northern Spain: Devonian or Carboniferous?’ Tectonophysics 461: 414–427. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.06.022.
- 10.1007/s00531-006-0158-7. . ‘Provenance of Late Palaeozoic sediments of the Patagonian palaeo-Pacific margin (southernmost Chile and Argentina).’ International Journal of Earth Sciences 97: 71–88. doi:
- . . ‘Flexural to broken foreland basin evolution as a result of Variscan collisional events in northwestern Spain.’ In The 4D Framework of Continental Crust, edited by , 489–510. Boulder, CO, USA: Geological Society of America. doi: 10.1130/2007.1200(25).
- . . ‘Sedimentology and environmental significance of the Cryogenian successions of the Yangtze platform, South China block.’ Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 254: 100–122. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.043.
- . . ‘Sedimentology of the December 26, 2004, Sumatra tsunami deposits in eastern India (Tamil Nadu) and Kenya.’ International Journal of Earth Sciences 96: 1195–1209. doi: 10.1007/s00531-006-0148-9.
- . . ‘A note on the preservation of offshore tsunami deposits.’ Journal of Sedimentary Research 76: 1267–1273. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2006.110.
- . . Grundlagen der Geologie. 3. überarbeitete Auflage. Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
- . . ‘Sedimentology and facies analysis of the Ordovician San José and Sandia Formations in the Sandia region, Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru.’ Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica del Peru 101: 121–138.
- . . ‘Evidence of Early to Middle Ordovician arc volcanism in southern Peru, Ollantaytambo Formation and Umachiri beds.’ Journal of South American Earth Sciences 22: 52–65. doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2006.09.001.
- . . ‘Numerical modeling of generation, propagation and run-up of tsunamis caused by oceanic impacts.’ Geophysical Journal International 167: 77–88. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.02889.x.
- . ‘Provenance of Late Palaeozoic metasediments of the SW South American Gondwana margin from combined U-Pb ages and Hf isotope compositions of single detrital zircons.’ Journal of the Geological Society, London 163: 983–995.
- . . ‘The Coast of Kenya Field Survey after the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.’ Earthquake Spectra 22: S235–S240.
- . . ‘Crustal evolution along the Early Ordovician proto-Andean margin of Gondwana: Trace element and isotope evidence from the Complejo Igneo Pocitos (northwest Argentina).’ Journal of Geology 112, Nr. 5: 503–520. doi: 10.1086/422663.
- . . ‘Geochemical climate proxies applied to the Neoproterozoic glacial succession on the Yangtze Platform, South China.’ In The extreme Proterozoic: Geology, Geochemistry and Climate, edited by , 13–32. American Geophysical Union.
- . . Grundlagen der Geologie. 2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
- . ‘The early Palaeozoic break-up of northern Gondwana: Sedimentology, physical volcanology and geochemistry of a submarine volcanic complex in the Bavarian facies association, Saxothuringian basin, Germany.’ Gondwana Research 6, Nr. 4: 839–858.
- . ‘Provenance analysis and tectonic setting of the Ordovician clastic deposits in the southern Puna Basin, NW Argentina.’ Sedimentology 50, Nr. 6: 1079–1104.
- 10.1016/S0895-9811(03)00016-6. . ‘Cathodoluminescence spectra of detrital quartz as provenance indicators for Paleozoic metasediments in southern Andean Patagonia.’ Journal of South American Earth Sciences 16, Nr. 1: 15–26. doi:
- In Tracing tectonic deformation using the sedimentary record, edited by , 253–268. doi: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.208.01.12. . ‘Active or passive continental margin? Geochemical and Nd isotope constraints of metasediments in the backstop of a pre-Andean accretionary wedge in southernmost Chile (46°30′-48°30′S).’
- 10.1007/s00531-002-0261-3. . ‘The early palaeozoic break-up of northern Gondwana, new palaeomagnetic and geochronological data from the Saxothuringian Basin, Germany.’ International Journal of Earth Sciences 91, Nr. 5: 838–849. doi:
- In Laurentia-Gondwana connections before Pangea, edited by , 139–143. doi: 10.1130/0-8137-2336-1.139. . ‘Puncoviscana Formation of northwestern and central Argentina: Passive margin or foreland basin deposit?’
- . . Grundlagen der Geologie. Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke Verlag.
- In The Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana, edited by , 127–142. doi: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.142.01.07. . ‘The geochemistry and provenance of Ordovician turbidites in the Argentine Puna.’
- 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)1090869:GEATTO>2.3.CO;2. . ‘Geodynamic evolution and tectonostratigraphic terranes of northwestern Argentina and northern Chile.’ Geological Society of America Bulletin 109, Nr. 7: 869–884. doi:
- . ‘Lithospheric modeling of the Ordovician foreland basin in the Puna of NW-Argentina: on the influence of arc loading on foreland basin formation.’ Tectonophysics 259: 245–258.
Betreute Arbeiten
Promotionen
Nentwig, Vanessa The onshore tsunami record in southern Chile – historical and beyond: Sedimentology, geochemistry, stratigraphy and regional correlation Reimann, Cornelia Geodynamic evolution of the Early Paleozoic Gondwana margin in southern Peru and northern Bolivia – sedimentary facies and provenance analysis of the Ordovician basin in Cordillera Oriental and Sierras Subandinas Gärtner, Claudia The Archean to Paleoproterozoic transition as recovered in the FAR DEEP cores: LA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology of detrital zircons and accompanying provenance analysis of siliciclastic sedimentary rocks Afghah, Massih Biozonierung und biostratigraphische Grenzen der Tarbur-Formation nahe Shiraz (SW-Iran) Spiske, Michaela Sedimentology and hydrodynamics of high-energy wave events Dobrzinski, Nicole Das Paradoxon äquatornah abgelagerter, glazialer Sedimentabfolgen: Sedimentologische und geochemische Klimaindizien von der neoproterozoischen Yangtze Plattform (Südchina) Weiß, Robert Modeling of Generation, propagation and runup of tsunami waves caused by oceanic impacts Augustsson, Carita Provenance of Late Paleozoic sediments in the southern Patagonian Andes: age estimates, sources, and depootional setting Habilitation
Spiske, Michaela The depositional record of tsunamis