Prof. Dr. Heinrich Bahlburg
(senior professor)

• Tsunami und Tsunamiablagerungen
• Liefergebiets- und Terraneanalyse
• Plattentektonische und klimatische Steuerungsfaktoren der Entwicklung von Sedimentbecken

Academic Education

06.1990

Habilitation, Fachbereich Bergbau und Geowissenschaften, TU Berlin

06.1986

Promotion, Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, TU Berlin

05.1984

Diplom, Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Universität Hamburg

Positions

since 04.1997

Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, WWU Münster

10.1992 – 03.1997

Akademischer Rat und Kustos, Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg

09.1991 – 09.1992

PostDoc, Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA

06.1984 – 09.1990

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, TU Berlin

Honors

1991

Forschungsstipendium – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Appointments

05.2008

Ruf, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Texas A&M University

08.1996

Ruf, Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, WWU Münster
University of Münster – accepted

• The evolution of the European Crust – U-Pb, Pb, Hf, and O isotope systematics of detrital zircon, rutile and K-feldspar from the sediments of major European rivers – EuroCrust (2018 – 2024)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: BA 1011/47-1
• Rift systems at continental margins: A case study of facies evolution and provenance of the sedimentary-volcanic facies evolution of the Permotriassic Mitu Group (Central Andes, Peru) (2016 – 2019)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: BA 1011/45-1
• SPP 527 SP - Provenance of the Neogene to Holocene sediments drilled by IODP Expedition 341 in the Gulf of Alaska. A single grain geochemical and geochronological study of the glacially influenced denudation history of the evolving St. Elias Orogen using heavy minerals (2017)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: BA 1011/43-2
• SPP 527 Subprojekt - Provenance of the Neogene to Holocene sediments drilled by IODP Expedition 341 in the Gulf of Alaska. A single grain geochemical and geochronological study of the glacially influenced denudation history of the evolving St. Elias Orogen using heavy minerals (2014 – 2016)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: BA 1011/43-1
• Sedimentological post-tsunami survey of the deposits formed by the September 16, 2015 Illapel tsunami in central Chile (2015 – 2016)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: BA 1011/46-1
• The onshore tsunami record in southern Chile - historical and beyond: Sedimentology, geochemistry, stratigraphy and regional correlation (2013 – 2016)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: 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 (2011 – 2012)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: 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 (2010 – 2012)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: BA 1011/37-1
• SPP 1006 - Subproject: 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 (2011 – 2012)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: BA 1011/35-2
• SPP 1006 - Subproject: 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 (2008 – 2011)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: 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 (2006 – 2009)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: 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 (2007 – 2008)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: BA 1011/28-4
• Sedimentological analysis of the deposits of the 17.07.2006 Java tsunami: hydrodynamical parameters of run-up and backflow in comparison to the 2004 Sumatra tsunami (2006 – 2007)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: BA1011/33-1
• Numerical simulation of generation, propagation and landfall of impact-related tsunami caused by the KT-boundary meteorite impact at Chicxulub, Yucatán, Mexico (2000 – 2006)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: 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 (2004 – 2006)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: BA 1011/28-4

• Bahlburg, H, and Zimmermann, U. 2025. “Multi-sample detrital zircon provenance variation within a single turbidite complex – The Ordovician Puna Turbidite Complex in the Puna retroarc foreland basin of northwestern Argentina.” Preprint. Geological Magazine 162 (e52): 1–15. doi: 10.1017/S001675682510037X.
• Bahlburg, H, Kemp, AIS, Fanning, CM, and Martin, L. 2025. “The Hf and O isotope record of long-lasting accretionary orogens: The example of the Proterozoic and Paleozoic-Triassic central South America.” Earth-Science Reviews 262: 1–21. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2025.105068.
• Panca, F, Bahlburg, H, Cárdenas, J, Berndt, J, Lünsdorf, N.K, and Gerdes, A. 2024. “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: 10.1111/bre.12864.
• Bahlburg, H. 2022. “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.
• Bahlburg, H. 2022. “A Silurian-Devonian active margin in the proto-Andes – New data on an old conundrum.” Preprint. International Geology Review 2022: 1–20. doi: 10.1080/00206814.2021.2012719.
• Castillo, P., Bahlburg, H., Fernandez, R., Fanning, C.M., and Berndt, J. 2022. “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: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104145.
• Huber, B, and Bahlburg, H. 2021. “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.
• Spiske, M, Tang, H, and Bahlburg, H. 2020. “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.
• Bahlburg, H, Zimmermann, U, Matos, R, Berndt, J, Jiménez, N, and Gerdes, A. 2020. “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 (2): 1–27.
• Dunkl I, von Eynatten H, Andò S, Lünsdorf K, Morton A, Alexander B, Aradi L, Augustsson C, and Bahlburg H, and 60 others. 2020. “Comparability of heavy mineral data – The first interlaboratory round robin test.” Earth-Science Reviews 211: 103210.. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103210.
• Mende, K, Linnemann, U, Nesbohr, H-D, Militzer, A, Jansen, U, Königshof, P, Bahlburg, H, Hofmann, M, Gerdes, A, Berndt, J, and Nawrat, J. 2019. “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.
• Bahlburg, H., Nentwig, V., and Kreutzer, M. 2018. “The September 16, 2015 Illapel tsunami, Chile - Sedimentology of tsunami deposits at the beaches of La Serena and Coquimbo.” Marine Geology 396 (null): 43–53. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2016.12.011.
• Huber, B, Bahlburg, H, Berndt, J, Dunkl, I, and Gerdes, A. 2018. “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: 10.1086/699740.
• Huber, B, Bahlburg, H, and Pfänder, J. 2018. “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.
• Nentwig, V, Bahlburg, H, Górecka, E, Witkowski, A, Huber, B, Bellanova, P, and Encinas, A. 2018. “Multi-proxy analysis of tsunami deposits – the Tirúa, Chile, example.” Geosphere 14 (3): 1067–1086. doi: 10.1130/GES01528.1.
• Hülscher, J, Bahlburg, H, and Pfänder, J. 2018. “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.
• Bahlburg, H., Berndt, J., and Gerdes, A. 2016. “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.lithos.2016.03.018.
• Bellanova, P., Bahlburg, H., Nentwig, V., and Spiske, M. 2016. “Microtextural analysis of quartz grains of tsunami and non-tsunami deposits – A case study from Tirúa (Chile).” Sedimentary Geology 343 (null): 72–84. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.08.001.
• Bahlburg, H., and Berndt, J. 2016. “Provenance from zircon U-Pb age distributions in crustally contaminated granitoids.” Sedimentary Geology 336: 161–170. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.08.006.
• Nentwig, V., Bahlburg, H., and Monthy, D. 2015. “Sedimentology of Coastal Deposits in the Seychelles Islands—Evidence of the Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004.” Pure and Applied Geophysics 172 (null): 641–656. doi: 10.1007/s00024-014-0990-9.
• Augustsson, C., Augustsson, C., Rüsing, T., Niemeyer, H., Kooijman, E., Berndt, J., Bahlburg, H., Zimmermann, U., and Zimmermann, U. 2015. “0.3 byr of drainage stability along the palaeozoic palaeo-pacific gondwana margin; a detrital zircon study.” Journal of the Geological Society 172 (2): 186–200. doi: 10.1144/jgs2014-065.
• Nentwig, V., Tsukamoto, S., Frechen, M., and Bahlburg, H. 2015. “Reconstructing the tsunami record in Tirúa, Central Chile beyond the historical record with quartz-based SAR-OSL.” Quaternary Geochronology 30 (null): 299–305. doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2015.05.020.
• Bahlburg, H., and Spiske, M. 2015. “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 (null): 33–44. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.06.009.
• Reimann, Zumsprekel C., Bahlburg, H., Carlotto, V., Boekhout, F., Berndt, J., and Lopez, S. 2015. “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 (null): 94–115. doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2015.08.013.
• Gulick, S., Jaeger, J., Mix, A., Asahi, H., Bahlburg, H., Belanger, C., Berbel, G., Childress, L., Cowan, E., Drab, L., Forwick, M., Fukumura, A., Ge, S., Gupta, S., Kioka, A., Konno, S., LeVay, L., Marz, C., Matsuzaki, K., McClymont, E., Moy, C., Muller, J., Nakamura, A., Ojima, T., Ribeiro, F., Ridgway, K., Romero, O., Slagle, A., Stoner, J., St-Onge, G., Suto, I., Walczak, M., Worthington, L., Bailey, I., Enkelmann, E., Reece, R., and Swartz, J. 2015. “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 (49): 15042–15047. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1512549112.
• Gulick, S, Jaeger, J, Mix, A, Asahi, H, Bahlburg, H, Belanger, C, Berbel, G, Childress, L, Cowan, E, Drab, L, Forwick, M, Fukumura, A, Ge, S, Gupta, S, Kioka, A, Konno, S, LeVay, L, März, C, Matsuzaki, K, McClymont, E, Moy, C, Müller, J, Nakamura, A, Ojima, T, Ribiero, F, Ridgway, K, Romero, O, Slagle, A, Stoner, J, St-Onge, G, Suto, I, Davies-Walczak, M, Worthington, L, Bailey, I, Enkelmann, E, Reece, R, and Swartz, J. 2014. “Southern Alaska Margin.” Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program 341. doi: 10.2204/iodp.proc.341.2014.
• Spiske, M., Bahlburg, H., and Weiss, R. 2014. “Pliocene mass failure deposits mistaken as submarine tsunami backwash sediments - An example from Hornitos, northern Chile.” Sedimentary Geology 305 (null): 69–82. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2014.03.003.
• Zimmermann, U., Bahlburg, H., Mezger, K., Berndt, J., and Kay, S.M. 2014. “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 (4): 1023–1036. doi: 10.1007/s00531-014-1020-y.
• Gartner, C., Bahlburg, H., Melezhik, V.A., and Berndt, J. 2014. “Dating Palaeoproterozoic glacial deposits of the Fennoscandian Shield using detrital zircons from the Kola Peninsula, Russia.” Precambrian Research 246 (null): 281–295. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2014.03.014.
• Krippner, A, and Bahlburg, H. 2013. “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 (3): 917–932. doi: 10.1007/s00531-012-0842-8.
• Spiske, M, Piepenbreier, J, Benavente, C, Kunz, A, Bahlburg, H, and Steffahn, J. 2013. “Historical tsunami deposits in Peru: Sedimentology, inverse modeling and optically stimulated luminescence dating.” Quaternary International 2013 (305): 31–44. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.02.010.
• Spiske, M., Piepenbreier, J., Benavente, C., and Bahlburg, H. 2013. “Preservation potential of tsunami deposits on arid siliciclastic coasts.” Earth-Science Reviews 126 (null): 58–73. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.07.009.
• Bahlburg, H., Spiske, and M.. 2012. “Sedimentology of tsunami inflow and backflow deposits: key differences revealed in a modern example.” Sedimentology 59 (4): 1063–1086. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01295.x.
• Bahlburg, H., and Breitkreuz, C. 2012. Grundlagen der Geologie. 4. erweiterte und überarbeitete Auflage Springer Spektrum.
• Bahlburg, H, Vervoort, JD, Andrew, DuFrane S, Carlotto, V, Reimann, C, and Cárdenas, J. 2011. “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 (3): 196–209. doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2011.07.002.
• Bahlburg, H. 2011. “Mantle-controlled mountains.” Nature Geoscience 4: 280–282.
• Spiske, Michaela, Bahlburg, and Heinrich. 2011. “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.
• Maletz, J, Reimann, C, Spiske, M, Bahlburg, H, and Brussa, ED. 2010. “Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) graptolite faunas of the Sandia Region, southern Peru.” Geological Journal 45 (4): 397–411.
• Bahlburg, H, Spiske, M, and Weiss, R. 2010. “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 (1-2): 77–80. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.03.006.
• Spiske, M, Weiss, R, Bahlburg, H, Roskosch, J, and Amijaya, H. 2010. “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 (1-4): 29–37. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.12.005.
• Reimann, C, Bahlburg, H, Kooijman, E, Berndt, J, Gerdes, A, Carlotto, V, and Lopez, S. 2010. “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: 10.1016/j.gr.2010.02.002.
• Bahlburg, H, Weiss, R, and Wünnemann, K. 2010. “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.
• Bahlburg, H, Vervoort, J, and DuFrane, S.A. 2010. “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: 10.1016/j.gr.2009.11.007.
• Bahlburg, H, Vervoort, J, DuFrane, SA, Bock, B, Augustsson, C, and Reimann, C. 2009. “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.
• Spiske, M, Borocz, Z, and Bahlburg, H. 2008. “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 (3-4): 384–396. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.01.030.
• Keller, M, Bahlburg, H, and Reuther, C-D. 2008. “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.
• Augustsson, C, and Bahlburg, H. 2008. “Provenance of Late Palaeozoic sediments of the Patagonian palaeo-Pacific margin (southernmost Chile and Argentina).” International Journal of Earth Sciences 97: 71–88. doi: 10.1007/s00531-006-0158-7.
• Keller, M, Bahlburg, H, Reuther, C-D, and Weh, A. 2007. “Flexural to broken foreland basin evolution as a result of Variscan collisional events in northwestern Spain.” in The 4D Framework of Continental Crust, Vol. 200 of Geological Society of America Memoir, edited by RD Jr Hatcher, MP Carlson, JH McBride and Catalán J R Martínez. Boulder, CO, USA: Geological Society of America. doi: 10.1130/2007.1200(25).
• Dobrzinski, N, and Bahlburg, H. 2007. “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.
• Bahlburg, H, and Weiss, R. 2007. “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.
• Weiss, R, and Bahlburg, H. 2007. “A note on the preservation of offshore tsunami deposits.” Journal of Sedimentary Research 76: 1267–1273. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2006.110.
• Bahlburg, H, and Breitkreuz, C. 2007. Grundlagen der Geologie. 3. überarbeitete Auflage Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
• Spiske, M, Reimann, C, Bahlburg, H, and Carlotto, V. 2006. “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.
• Bahlburg, H, Carlotto, V, and Cárdenas, J. 2006. “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.
• Weiss, R, Wünnemann, K, and Bahlburg, H. 2006. “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.
• Augustsson, C, Münker, M, Bahlburg, H, and Fanning, M. 2006. “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.
• Weiss, R, and Bahlburg, H. 2006. “The Coast of Kenya Field Survey after the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.” Earthquake Spectra 22: S235–S240.
• Kleine, T, Mezger, K, Zimmermann, U, Munker, G, and Bahlburg, H. 2004. “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 (5): 503–520. doi: 10.1086/422663.
• Dobrzinski, N, Bahlburg, H, Strauss, H, and Zhang, QR. 2004. “Geochemical climate proxies applied to the Neoproterozoic glacial succession on the Yangtze Platform, South China.” in The extreme Proterozoic: Geology, Geochemistry and Climate, Vol. 146 of American Geophysical Union Monograph Series, edited by G.et al. Jenkins. American Geophysical Union.
• Bahlburg, H, and Breitkreuz, C. 2004. Grundlagen der Geologie. 2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
• Martin, U., Reischmann, Th., Bahlburg, H., Schatz, M., Tait, J., and Bachtadse, V. 2003. “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 (4): 839–858.
• Zimmermann, U., and Bahlburg, H. 2003. “Provenance analysis and tectonic setting of the Ordovician clastic deposits in the southern Puna Basin, NW Argentina.” Sedimentology 50 (6): 1079–1104.
• Augustsson, C., and Bahlburg, H. 2003. “Cathodoluminescence spectra of detrital quartz as provenance indicators for Paleozoic metasediments in southern Andean Patagonia.” Journal of South American Earth Sciences 16 (1): 15–26. doi: 10.1016/S0895-9811(03)00016-6.
• Augustsson, C., and Bahlburg, H. 2003. “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).” in Tracing tectonic deformation using the sedimentary record, Vol. 208 of Geological Society Special Publication, edited by Timothy McCann. doi: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.208.01.12.
• Schatz, M., Reischmann, T., Tait, J., Bachtadse, V., Bahlburg, H., and Martin, U. 2002. “The early palaeozoic break-up of northern Gondwana, new palaeomagnetic and geochronological data from the Saxothuringian Basin, Germany.” International Journal of Earth Sciences 91 (5): 838–849. doi: 10.1007/s00531-002-0261-3.
• Keppie, J.D., and Bahlburg, H. 1999. “Puncoviscana Formation of northwestern and central Argentina: Passive margin or foreland basin deposit?” in Laurentia-Gondwana connections before Pangea, Vol. 336 of Special Paper of the Geological Society of America, edited by Victor A. Ramos, Keppie and Duncan J. doi: 10.1130/0-8137-2336-1.139.
• Bahlburg, H, and Breitkreuz, C. 1998. Grundlagen der Geologie Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke Verlag.
• Bahlburg, H. 1998. “The geochemistry and provenance of Ordovician turbidites in the Argentine Puna.” in The Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana, Vol. 142 of Geological Society Special Publication, edited by Robert J Pankhurst and Carlos W Rapela. doi: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.142.01.07.
• Bahlburg, H., and Herve, F. 1997. “Geodynamic evolution and tectonostratigraphic terranes of northwestern Argentina and northern Chile.” Geological Society of America Bulletin 109 (7): 869–884. doi: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)1090869:GEATTO>2.3.CO;2.
• Bahlburg, H., and Furlong, K.P. 1996. “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.

Supervised Doctoral Studies

• Nentwig, Vanessa (2017): The onshore tsunami record in southern Chile – historical and beyond: Sedimentology, geochemistry, stratigraphy and regional correlation
• Reimann, Cornelia (2015): 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 (2015): 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 (2010): Biozonation and biostratigraphic limits of the Tarbur Formation around Shiraz (SW of Iran)

  Further Supervisors

  Klemme, Stephan

  Becker, Ralph Thomas

• Spiske, Michaela (2009): Sedimentology and hydrodynamics of high-energy wave events
• Dobrzinski, Nicole (2005): Das Paradoxon äquatornah abgelagerter, glazialer Sedimentabfolgen: Sedimentologische und geochemische Klimaindizien von der neoproterozoischen Yangtze Plattform (Südchina)
• Weiß, Robert (2005): Modeling of Generation, propagation and runup of tsunami waves caused by oceanic impacts
• Augustsson, Carita (2003): Provenance of Late Paleozoic sediments in the southern Patagonian Andes: age estimates, sources, and depootional setting

Supervised Postdoctoral Study

• Spiske, Michaela (2016): The depositional record of tsunamis