Lectures and exercises


  • Trace elements in magmatic systems
    (Lecture with exercises, each summer term)
          Overheads: here (check for updates regularly!!)
          Supplementary information: here (check for updates regularly!)
          Data tables: here
          References: here

  • Plate tectonics and magmatic processes
    (Lecture with exercises, each summer term)
          SCRIPT and related overheads
          Updated overheads (note that the numbering is in part incompatible with the script)
          Handouts (tables and supplementary material)

  • Thermochronology
    (Lecture, each summer term)
          Part I: Ar-Ar Geochronology: overheads and associated SCRIPT
          Part II: Fission track, U-Th-He and Raman-Geochronology (by Raymond Jonckheere)

  • Kompaktkurs 40Ar/39Ar Geochronologie, mit Praktikum
          (5 Tage, nach Rücksprache)

  • Übungen: "Einführung in die Geowissenschaften" (Kurs J. Pfänder)
          Overheads Chapter 1 (Introduction & Magmatic rocks)
          Overheads Chapter 2 (Sedimentary rocks)
          Overheads Chapter 3, SCRIPT (Metamorphic rocks), and Handouts
          Check this Link: PETROgraph (by FU Berlin)

  • Übungen: "Einführung in die Geowissenschaften" (Kurs P. Maissenbacher)
          Download overheads of Chapter 1 (Introduction & Magmatic rocks)
          Download overheads of Chapter 2 (Sedimentary rocks)
          Download overheads of Chapter 3 (Metamorphic rocks)

Field exercises


  • Sizilien und Äolische Inseln 2018 (Auslandsexkursion)
          Vorankündigung: here
         

  • OMAN Exkursion 2017 (Auslandsexkursion)
          Vorankündigung: here
         

  • NAMIBIA Exkursion 2014 (Auslandsexkursion)
          Vorankündigung: here
          Literatur: here
         

  • OMAN Exkursion 2013
          Literatur zum Seminar: here
         

  • OMAN Exkursion 2011 (25.02.2011 - 15.03.2011)
          Seminarprogramm: here
          A brief field report can be found here (in german)
         

Miscellaneous


  • "Ophiolithe und ozeanische Kruste - Struktur, Petrologie, Geochemie & Genese" (Uni Münster, summer term 2003)

  • Short lecture: Trace element fractionation: Implications for geochronology and isotope geochemistry
          Download overheads here

  • Short lecture: Extinct radionuclides - timing and reconstruction of Early Earth evolution
          Download overheads here

External LINKs


  • PETROgraph - an interactive learning tool for rocks and minerals (in german, by FU Berlin): PETROgraph

  • eMIK - an interactive petrographic microscope (in german, by FU Berlin): eMIK

  • Igneous textures seen through a petrographic microscope: click

  • John D. Winter's PETROLOGY overheads: click

  • 3D visualisation of minerals and rocks (By Uni Freiburg): click