University Bremen – Faculty of Geosciences

At the Faculty of Geosciences together with MARUM currently five working groups have their focus in sedimentary geology: Sedimentology and Paleoceanography (Heinrich), Geochronology and Basin Analysis (Kuss), Modelling of Sedimentation Processes (Huhn-Frehers), Marine Sedimentology (Hebbeln) and and Sediment Geochemistry (Zabel).

Currently the following research topics are covered in Bremen

• Characterisation and temporal evolution of modern and Quaternary shelf and deep sea depositional systems

• Ocean and Climate: carbonate production/dissolution; coccolithophorid fluxes/ecology/morphometric features

• Submarine mass movements, canyon systems and contourites

• Facies analysis of Alpine Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous strata

• Facies analysis and sequence stratigraphy of Paleozoic and Mesozoic carbonate platforms

• Interpretation of depositional processes on micro- to basin scale

• Reservoir characterisation (carbonates)

• Porosity/Permeability studies of carbonate rocks

 
Analytical equipment in the field of sedimentary geology

• REM

• Sedigraph / Atterberg / laser granulometer

• Leco (TOC, CaCO3)

• Radiographies / Nuclear Tomography

• Mass spectrometry

• XFR Analyzer

• Saw / thin section laboratory

• Loose sediment preparation

• X-ray diffractometer

Regional focus of sedimentary geology research

Rhenish Slate Mountains, Northern Calcareous Alps as well as deep sea, shelves and continental margins (North Sea , Baltic Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean)


Study offer
B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Geosciences, M.Sc. in Marine Geosciences
 
 
Service
Grain size analysis (sieving, sedigraph); carbonate and total organic carbon measurements (Leco); thin section preparation

Contact

www.geo.uni-bremen.de