Dr. Gerold Zeilinger
Contact
University of Potsdam,
Institute of Earth and Environmental Science
Dr. Gerold Zeilinger
Building 27, Room 2.27
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam-Golm
- E-mail:
- zeilinger@geo.uni-potsdam.de
- Phone:
- +49 331 977 5839
- Fax:
- +49 331 977 5700
- Biography
- Research
- Teaching
- Publications
Biography
- 2002
- Doctor degree (Dr. sc. nat.) Doctoral thesis: Structural and Geochronological Study of the lowest Kohistan Complex, Indus Kohistan Region in Pakistan, NW Himalaya. Supervisor: Prof. J.-P. Burg, ETH Zurich
- 1997 - 2001
- PhD - student, Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- 1997
- Diploma in Geology/Paleontology Diploma thesis: The Tamsweg Tertiary in the Lungau region (Austria): Facies and deformation of an intramontane basin. Supervisor: Prof. W. Frisch, University of Tübingen
- 1994 - 1997
- Student of Geology, Institute of Geoscience, Eberhard - Karls University Tübingen, Germany
- 1991 - 1994
- Student of Geology, Institute of Geology/Paleontology, Westf. Wilhelms University Münster, Germany
Research
| Professional Experience | |
| since 09/'05 | Research Associate, Institute of Department of Geoscience, University of Potsdam |
| 01/'05 - 08/'05 | Project collaborator at the Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Scientific Exhibition "Welten des Wissens" |
| 11/'02 - 12/'04 | Research Associate at the Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern |
| 07/'02 - 10/'02 | Research Associate, Département de Mineralogie, Université de Genève |
| 01/'02 - 06/'02 | Research Associate, Geological Institute, ETH-Zurich |
| since 06/'02 | Co-Editor and Administrator of DIoGeneS (Digital Images of Geologic nice Structures), an interactive database for Structural images (www.diogenes.ethz.ch) |
| since 01/'06 | Map Collection Administrator of the Department of Geosciences, University of Potsdam (internal). |
| since 01/'07 | responsible person for GIS infrastructure in Geology ( List of available facilities) |
| since 05/'11 | responsible person for 3D Visualization Lab |
| since 05/'11 | responsible person for Riegl Z620 Laser-Scanner / Analysis Software |
| Current Research | |
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1) Andean Project
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A) We showed how surface erosion focused strain accumulation on the Oxaya Anticline in northern Chile. The detailed reconstruction of the deformation mechanisms and of the chronology of strain accumulation in relation to the spatial and temporal pattern of surface erosion rates of the rivers that cross this fold. This study emphasizes the potential of simple systems for exploring possible feedback mechanisms between surface erosion and strain accumulation, but it also points out the limits that are set by the resolution of the data from natural systems. B) It has been proposed that focused incision might initiate elastic and/or non-elastic rebound in association with an increase in the depth of dissection. Uplift is then localized and recorded as permanent deformation, which in turn, exerts a positive feedback on erosion. The Eastern Cordillera of the Bolivian Andes represent such as situation of focused erosional unloading. The morphometry of the La Paz drainage basin can be considered to partly result from the feedback mechanism between erosion and crustal bending. This feedback explains why all drainages beyond the watershed disperse their waters to the Altiplano. It also provides an explanation for the presence of the highest peaks just next to the location where the La Paz River cuts into the bedrock across the Cordillera Real. Finally, this feedback mechanism is considered to be responsible to inhibit a headward shift of the section where bedrock incision is efficient. However, it is unclear at the moment through which process, and at what time, opening of the La Paz drainage and hence initiation of these feedback mechanisms occurred. |
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2) Himalaya Project (finished)
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This research work aimed at elucidating two main questions: (1) Is there a fabric in the mid-crustal plutons that is related to the kinematics of the subduction system and (2) which deformation mechanisms were involved during the arc evolution. To constrain the geological setting, detailed mapping and structural traverses were carried out in the Indus region of NW Pakistan. Petrological and geochemical analyses were conducted on key lithologies to identify the magma origin and the metamorphic evolution. Geochronological measurements were carried out to provide time constraints on the magmatic (U/Pb on zircon) and exhumation (Fission Track on zircon and apatite) histories. Structural analysis of shear zones and paleostress analysis on faults document the deformation history of the southern (and former lower) part of the KAC. |
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3) Alpine Project (finished)
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The Tamsweg basin has been filled during Karpathian times by conglomerates, gradually upward fining clastics, and finally silty lacustrine sediments. Pebbles of Upper-Austroalpine provenance were supplied from the N and NE, later from the W. Basin formation started within negative flower structures along the sinistral Seetal fault. Synsedimentary tectonic activity is indicated by local layers of cobbles at fault scarps, turbiditic lake sediments with slumps and coarse clastic mass flows, and ductile deformation of peat which has later been transformed into coal. Due to tectonic denudation of the Tauern window a rollover basin developed and sedimentation extended to the S onlapping onto a hilly paleosurface (Nock area). Dextral compressive reactivation of the Seetal fault at the beginning of the late Miocene induced basin inversion, in line with the end of lateral extrusion of the Eastern Alps. NNE-SSW directed compression and sinistral displacement is separating the basin since then into differentially uplifting blocks. |
| Reviews |
| Gemorphology, International Journal of Earth Sciences, Tectonics |
Teaching
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Publications
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2011 Schlunegger, F., Norton, K.P., Zeilinger, G., 2011 Climatic Forcing on Channel Profiles in the Eastern Cordillera of the Coroico Region, Bolivia. Journal of Geology, Vol. 119, No. 1, p. 97-107. DOI: 10.1086/657407 2010 Schlunegger, F., Kober, F., Zeilinger, G., von Rotz, R., 2010 Sedimentology-based reconstructions of paleoclimate changes in the Central Andes in response to the uplift of the Andes, Arica region between 19 and 21 S latitude, northern Chile. Int. J. Earth Sci. (Geol Rundsch), DOI 10.1007/s00531-010-0572-8 Mora, A., Parra, M., Strecker, M.R., Sobel, E.R., Zeilinger, G., Jaramillo, C., Ferreira Da Silva, S., Blanco, M., 2010 The eastern foothills of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia: An example of multiple factors controlling structural styles and active tectonics. Geological Society of America Bulletin 2010 doi: 10.1130/B30033.1 Parra, M., Mora, A., Jaramillo, C., Torres, V., Zeilinger, G., Strecker, M.R., 2010 Tectonic controls on Cenozoic foreland basin development in the north-eastern Andes,Colombia. Basin Research (2010) doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00459.x 2008 Kober, F., Ivy-Ochs, S., Zeilinger, G., Schlunegger, F., Kubik, P. W., Baur, H., Wieler, R., 2008 Complex multiple cosmogenic nuclide concentration and histories in the arid Rio Lluta catchment, northern Chile. ESPL, DOI: 10.1002/esp.1748 Wipf, M., Zeilinger, G., Seward, D., and Schlunegger, F., 2008 Focused subaerial erosion during ridge subduction: impact on the geomorphology in south-central Peru: Terra Nova, v. 20, p. 1-10. 2007 Zeilinger, G., Seward, D. & Burg, J.P. 2007. Exhumation across the Indus Suture Zone: a record of back sliding of the hanging wall. Terra Nova, 19, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00767. Zeilinger, G. & Schlunegger, F., 2007. Possible flexural accommodation on the eastern edge of the Altiplano in relation to focused erosion in the Rio La Paz drainage system. Terra Nova, 19, 373–380. 2006 Kober, F., Schlunegger, F., Zeilinger, G. and Schneider, H., 2006: Surface uplift and climate change: The geomorphic evolution of at the Western Escarpment of the Andes of northern Chile between the Miocene and present. Tectonics, Climate and Landscape evolution 398 (GSA Special Paper) Willett, S., Hovius, N., Fisher, D. and Brandon, M. (eds.) : 75-86 Garrido, C.J., Bodinier, J.L., Burg, J.P., Zeilinger, G., Hussain, S., Dawood, H., Chaudhry, N.M., Gervilla, F., 2006. Petrogenesis of Mafic Garnet Granulite in the Lower Crust of the Kohistan Paleo-arc Complex (Northern Pakistan): Implications for Intra-crustal Differentiation of Island Arcs and Generation of Continental Crust. Journal of Petrology, doi:10.1093/petrology/egl030 Advance Access Schlunegger, F., Zeilinger, G., Kounov, A., Kober, F. Hüsser, B., 2006. Scale of relief growth in the forearc of the Andes of Northern Chile (Arica latitude, 18°S), Terra Nova, 18, p. 217-223. 2005 Burg, J.P., Arbaret, L., Chaudhry, N.M., Dawood, H., Hussain, S., Zeilinger, G., 2005. Shear strain localization from the upper mantle to the middle crust of the Kohistan Arc (Pakistan). In: High-Strain Zones: Structure and Physical Properties. Geological Society Special Publication, 245, p. 25-38. Burlini, L., Arbaret, L., Zeilinger, G., Burg, J.P., 2005. High-temperature and pressure seismic properties of a lower crustal prograde shear zone from the Kohistan Arc, Pakistan. In: High-Strain Zones: Structure and Physical Properties. Geological Society Special Publication, 245, p. 187-202. Zeilinger, G., Schlunegger, F., Simpson, G., 2005, The Oxaya anticline (northern Chile): a buckle enhanced by river incision? Terra Nova, v. 17, p. 368-375. 2002 Schaltegger, U., Zeilinger, G., Frank, M. Burg, J.-P. 2002. Multiple mantle sources during island arc magmatism: U-Pb and Hf isotopic evidence from the Kohistan arc complex, Pakistan. Terra Nova 14(6), 461-468. 2000 Zeilinger, G., Burg, J. P., Chaudhry, N., Dawood, H. Hussain, S. 2000. Fault systems and paleo-stress tensors in the Indus suture zone (NW Pakistan). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 18(5), 547-559. Arbaret, L., Burg, J. P., Zeilinger, G., Chaudhry, N., Hussain, S. Dawood, H. 2000. Pre-collisional anastomosing shear zones in the Kohistan Arc, NW Pakistan. In: Tectonics of the Nanga Parbat syntaxis and the western Himalaya. Geological Society Special Publication, 170, p. 295-311. 1999 Zeilinger, G., Kuhlemann, J., Reinecker, J., Kazmer, M. Frisch, W. 1999. The Tamsweg Tertiary in the Lungau region (Austria): Facies and deformation of an intramontane basin. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie-Abhandlungen 214(3), 537-569. |
| Invited Meeting and Kolloquium Talks | ||
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University of Kabul, Afghanistan, Geoscience Faculty, 5th September 2010 Geological Survey of Iran, The 26th Symposium on Geosciences, and ECO - Meeting, 18th Feb. 2008 University of Tehran, Mining Engineering Faculty, 6th of March 2007
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Biography
- 2002
- Doctor degree (Dr. sc. nat.) Doctoral thesis: Structural and Geochronological Study of the lowest Kohistan Complex, Indus Kohistan Region in Pakistan, NW Himalaya. Supervisor: Prof. J.-P. Burg, ETH Zurich
- 1997 - 2001
- PhD - student, Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- 1997
- Diploma in Geology/Paleontology Diploma thesis: The Tamsweg Tertiary in the Lungau region (Austria): Facies and deformation of an intramontane basin. Supervisor: Prof. W. Frisch, University of Tübingen
- 1994 - 1997
- Student of Geology, Institute of Geoscience, Eberhard - Karls University Tübingen, Germany
- 1991 - 1994
- Student of Geology, Institute of Geology/Paleontology, Westf. Wilhelms University Münster, Germany
Research
| Professional Experience | |
| since 09/'05 | Research Associate, Institute of Department of Geoscience, University of Potsdam |
| 01/'05 - 08/'05 | Project collaborator at the Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Scientific Exhibition "Welten des Wissens" |
| 11/'02 - 12/'04 | Research Associate at the Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern |
| 07/'02 - 10/'02 | Research Associate, Département de Mineralogie, Université de Genève |
| 01/'02 - 06/'02 | Research Associate, Geological Institute, ETH-Zurich |
| since 06/'02 | Co-Editor and Administrator of DIoGeneS (Digital Images of Geologic nice Structures), an interactive database for Structural images (www.diogenes.ethz.ch) |
| since 01/'06 | Map Collection Administrator of the Department of Geosciences, University of Potsdam (internal). |
| since 01/'07 | responsible person for GIS infrastructure in Geology ( List of available facilities) |
| since 05/'11 | responsible person for 3D Visualization Lab |
| since 05/'11 | responsible person for Riegl Z620 Laser-Scanner / Analysis Software |
| Current Research | |
|
1) Andean Project
|
A) We showed how surface erosion focused strain accumulation on the Oxaya Anticline in northern Chile. The detailed reconstruction of the deformation mechanisms and of the chronology of strain accumulation in relation to the spatial and temporal pattern of surface erosion rates of the rivers that cross this fold. This study emphasizes the potential of simple systems for exploring possible feedback mechanisms between surface erosion and strain accumulation, but it also points out the limits that are set by the resolution of the data from natural systems. B) It has been proposed that focused incision might initiate elastic and/or non-elastic rebound in association with an increase in the depth of dissection. Uplift is then localized and recorded as permanent deformation, which in turn, exerts a positive feedback on erosion. The Eastern Cordillera of the Bolivian Andes represent such as situation of focused erosional unloading. The morphometry of the La Paz drainage basin can be considered to partly result from the feedback mechanism between erosion and crustal bending. This feedback explains why all drainages beyond the watershed disperse their waters to the Altiplano. It also provides an explanation for the presence of the highest peaks just next to the location where the La Paz River cuts into the bedrock across the Cordillera Real. Finally, this feedback mechanism is considered to be responsible to inhibit a headward shift of the section where bedrock incision is efficient. However, it is unclear at the moment through which process, and at what time, opening of the La Paz drainage and hence initiation of these feedback mechanisms occurred. |
|
2) Himalaya Project (finished)
|
This research work aimed at elucidating two main questions: (1) Is there a fabric in the mid-crustal plutons that is related to the kinematics of the subduction system and (2) which deformation mechanisms were involved during the arc evolution. To constrain the geological setting, detailed mapping and structural traverses were carried out in the Indus region of NW Pakistan. Petrological and geochemical analyses were conducted on key lithologies to identify the magma origin and the metamorphic evolution. Geochronological measurements were carried out to provide time constraints on the magmatic (U/Pb on zircon) and exhumation (Fission Track on zircon and apatite) histories. Structural analysis of shear zones and paleostress analysis on faults document the deformation history of the southern (and former lower) part of the KAC. |
|
3) Alpine Project (finished)
|
The Tamsweg basin has been filled during Karpathian times by conglomerates, gradually upward fining clastics, and finally silty lacustrine sediments. Pebbles of Upper-Austroalpine provenance were supplied from the N and NE, later from the W. Basin formation started within negative flower structures along the sinistral Seetal fault. Synsedimentary tectonic activity is indicated by local layers of cobbles at fault scarps, turbiditic lake sediments with slumps and coarse clastic mass flows, and ductile deformation of peat which has later been transformed into coal. Due to tectonic denudation of the Tauern window a rollover basin developed and sedimentation extended to the S onlapping onto a hilly paleosurface (Nock area). Dextral compressive reactivation of the Seetal fault at the beginning of the late Miocene induced basin inversion, in line with the end of lateral extrusion of the Eastern Alps. NNE-SSW directed compression and sinistral displacement is separating the basin since then into differentially uplifting blocks. |
| Reviews |
| Gemorphology, International Journal of Earth Sciences, Tectonics |
Teaching
|
|
|
Publications
|
2011 Schlunegger, F., Norton, K.P., Zeilinger, G., 2011 Climatic Forcing on Channel Profiles in the Eastern Cordillera of the Coroico Region, Bolivia. Journal of Geology, Vol. 119, No. 1, p. 97-107. DOI: 10.1086/657407 2010 Schlunegger, F., Kober, F., Zeilinger, G., von Rotz, R., 2010 Sedimentology-based reconstructions of paleoclimate changes in the Central Andes in response to the uplift of the Andes, Arica region between 19 and 21 S latitude, northern Chile. Int. J. Earth Sci. (Geol Rundsch), DOI 10.1007/s00531-010-0572-8 Mora, A., Parra, M., Strecker, M.R., Sobel, E.R., Zeilinger, G., Jaramillo, C., Ferreira Da Silva, S., Blanco, M., 2010 The eastern foothills of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia: An example of multiple factors controlling structural styles and active tectonics. Geological Society of America Bulletin 2010 doi: 10.1130/B30033.1 Parra, M., Mora, A., Jaramillo, C., Torres, V., Zeilinger, G., Strecker, M.R., 2010 Tectonic controls on Cenozoic foreland basin development in the north-eastern Andes,Colombia. Basin Research (2010) doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00459.x 2008 Kober, F., Ivy-Ochs, S., Zeilinger, G., Schlunegger, F., Kubik, P. W., Baur, H., Wieler, R., 2008 Complex multiple cosmogenic nuclide concentration and histories in the arid Rio Lluta catchment, northern Chile. ESPL, DOI: 10.1002/esp.1748 Wipf, M., Zeilinger, G., Seward, D., and Schlunegger, F., 2008 Focused subaerial erosion during ridge subduction: impact on the geomorphology in south-central Peru: Terra Nova, v. 20, p. 1-10. 2007 Zeilinger, G., Seward, D. & Burg, J.P. 2007. Exhumation across the Indus Suture Zone: a record of back sliding of the hanging wall. Terra Nova, 19, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00767. Zeilinger, G. & Schlunegger, F., 2007. Possible flexural accommodation on the eastern edge of the Altiplano in relation to focused erosion in the Rio La Paz drainage system. Terra Nova, 19, 373–380. 2006 Kober, F., Schlunegger, F., Zeilinger, G. and Schneider, H., 2006: Surface uplift and climate change: The geomorphic evolution of at the Western Escarpment of the Andes of northern Chile between the Miocene and present. Tectonics, Climate and Landscape evolution 398 (GSA Special Paper) Willett, S., Hovius, N., Fisher, D. and Brandon, M. (eds.) : 75-86 Garrido, C.J., Bodinier, J.L., Burg, J.P., Zeilinger, G., Hussain, S., Dawood, H., Chaudhry, N.M., Gervilla, F., 2006. Petrogenesis of Mafic Garnet Granulite in the Lower Crust of the Kohistan Paleo-arc Complex (Northern Pakistan): Implications for Intra-crustal Differentiation of Island Arcs and Generation of Continental Crust. Journal of Petrology, doi:10.1093/petrology/egl030 Advance Access Schlunegger, F., Zeilinger, G., Kounov, A., Kober, F. Hüsser, B., 2006. Scale of relief growth in the forearc of the Andes of Northern Chile (Arica latitude, 18°S), Terra Nova, 18, p. 217-223. 2005 Burg, J.P., Arbaret, L., Chaudhry, N.M., Dawood, H., Hussain, S., Zeilinger, G., 2005. Shear strain localization from the upper mantle to the middle crust of the Kohistan Arc (Pakistan). In: High-Strain Zones: Structure and Physical Properties. Geological Society Special Publication, 245, p. 25-38. Burlini, L., Arbaret, L., Zeilinger, G., Burg, J.P., 2005. High-temperature and pressure seismic properties of a lower crustal prograde shear zone from the Kohistan Arc, Pakistan. In: High-Strain Zones: Structure and Physical Properties. Geological Society Special Publication, 245, p. 187-202. Zeilinger, G., Schlunegger, F., Simpson, G., 2005, The Oxaya anticline (northern Chile): a buckle enhanced by river incision? Terra Nova, v. 17, p. 368-375. 2002 Schaltegger, U., Zeilinger, G., Frank, M. Burg, J.-P. 2002. Multiple mantle sources during island arc magmatism: U-Pb and Hf isotopic evidence from the Kohistan arc complex, Pakistan. Terra Nova 14(6), 461-468. 2000 Zeilinger, G., Burg, J. P., Chaudhry, N., Dawood, H. Hussain, S. 2000. Fault systems and paleo-stress tensors in the Indus suture zone (NW Pakistan). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 18(5), 547-559. Arbaret, L., Burg, J. P., Zeilinger, G., Chaudhry, N., Hussain, S. Dawood, H. 2000. Pre-collisional anastomosing shear zones in the Kohistan Arc, NW Pakistan. In: Tectonics of the Nanga Parbat syntaxis and the western Himalaya. Geological Society Special Publication, 170, p. 295-311. 1999 Zeilinger, G., Kuhlemann, J., Reinecker, J., Kazmer, M. Frisch, W. 1999. The Tamsweg Tertiary in the Lungau region (Austria): Facies and deformation of an intramontane basin. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie-Abhandlungen 214(3), 537-569. |
| Invited Meeting and Kolloquium Talks | ||
|
University of Kabul, Afghanistan, Geoscience Faculty, 5th September 2010 Geological Survey of Iran, The 26th Symposium on Geosciences, and ECO - Meeting, 18th Feb. 2008 University of Tehran, Mining Engineering Faculty, 6th of March 2007
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