Dr Guido Meinhold
- Title
- Lecturer
- Location
- William Smith: WS1.39a
- Phone
- +44 (0)1782 7 33617
- g.meinhold@keele.ac.uk
Biography
Guido studied Geology at the University of Jena, Germany, receiving a Diplom (M.Sc.) in Geology in 2002. After working in various projects at the University of Jena and as a freelancer for the Geological Survey of Thuringia, he became a doctoral student in the DFG-funded Graduate School 392 (Composition and Evolution of Crust and Mantle) at the University of Mainz in 2003. He obtained a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in Geology in 2007 with a study on the provenance of sedimentary rocks from the Internal Hellenides of Greece. In 2008, Guido joined CASP in Cambridge, UK, as a geologist exploring during several field campaigns remote parts of the Sahara Desert in southern Libya. In 2010, he took a position as a lecturer (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit) at the University of Göttingen. Guido was awarded the Hans-Cloos-Prize by the German Geological Society (Geologische Vereinigung) in 2013 for his "outstanding contributions to the palaeogeographic and tectonic reconstruction of Northern Gondwana and the Palaeotethys by means of sedimentary provenance analysis". Guido gained his Habilitation (Facultas Docendi) in Geology from the University of Göttingen in 2016. He was appointed as a lecturer in Geoscience at Keele University in 2017.
Research and scholarship
Guido's research interests are broad and include mainly aspects of sedimentary provenance analysis, tectonics and sedimentation, basin analysis, regional geology, and palaeogeography. At present, his main research themes are:
- Palaeogeographic and geodynamic evolution of North Gondwana and its periphery throughout the Phanerozoic
- Palaeogeographic and geodynamic evolution of Baltoscandia with focus on the late Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic
- Environmental changes at the dawn of animal life
- Testing the reliability and improving methods and tools in sedimentary provenance analysis
- Research towards exploration of natural resources
Past and present study and field areas of his research are in North and Northeast Africa (Ethiopia, Libya), Middle East (Iran, Saudi Arabia), Eastern Mediterranean (Greece, Turkey), Northern India (Jammu and Kashmir state), Central Europe (Austria, Germany), and Baltoscandia (Norway, Sweden), among others.
Guido is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London (GSL) and a regular member of the Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft ‒ Geologische Vereinigung (DGGV) and the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS), among other societies. Guido is one of the three founding members of the annual international "Sedimentary Provenance Analysis" Short Course, which is held at the Geoscience Center of the University of Göttingen since 2011. He is a member of the Basin Dynamics Research Group and a member of the Editorial Board of "Geological Magazine" and "International Journal of Earth Sciences".
Selected Publications
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2021. Detrital zircon provenance of north Gondwana Palaeozoic sandstones from Saudi Arabia. Geological Magazine, 442-458, vol. 158. doi> full text>
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2020. Heavy minerals as provenance indicator in glaciogenic successions: An example from the Palaeozoic of Ethiopia. JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES, Article ARTN 103813, vol. 165. link> doi> full text>
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2020. Evolution of the Palaeotethys in the Eastern Mediterranean: A multi-method approach to unravel the age, provenance and tectonic setting of the Upper Palaeozoic Konya Complex and its Mesozoic cover sequence (south-central Turkey). International Geology Review, 389-414, vol. 62. doi> full text>
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2019. First record of carbonates with spherulites and cone-in-cone structures from the Precambrian of Arctic Norway, and their palaeoenvironmental significance. PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH, 99-110, vol. 328. link> doi> full text>
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2019. A historical account of how continental drift and plate tectonics provided the framework for our current understanding of palaeogeography. Geological Magazine, 182-207, vol. 156(2). doi> link> full text>
Full Publications Listshow
Journal Articles
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2021. Detrital zircon provenance of north Gondwana Palaeozoic sandstones from Saudi Arabia. Geological Magazine, 442-458, vol. 158. doi> full text>
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2021. Reply to comment on “Deep subduction of felsic rocks hosting UHP lenses in the central Saxonian Erzgebirge: Implications for UHP terrane exhumation”. Gondwana Research. doi> full text>
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2020. Acritarchs from the Duolbagaisa Formation (Cambrian Series 2, Miaolingian) on the Digermulen Peninsula, Finnmark, Arctic Norway: towards a high-resolution Cambrian chronostratigraphy. GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, 2051-2066, vol. 157(12). link> doi> full text>
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2020. Deep subduction of felsic rocks hosting UHP lenses in the central Saxonian Erzgebirge: Implications for UHP terrane exhumation. Gondwana Research, 320-329, vol. 87. doi> full text>
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2020. U-Pb dating of calcite in ancient carbonates for age estimates of syn- to post-depositional processes: a case study from the upper Ediacaran strata of Finnmark, Arctic Norway. GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, 1367-1372, vol. 157(8). link> doi> full text>
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2020. Permian-Triassic magmatism in response to Palaeotethys subduction and pre-Late Triassic arrival of northeast Gondwana-derived continental fragments at the southern Eurasian margin: Detrital zircon evidence from Triassic sandstones of Central Iran. GONDWANA RESEARCH, 118-131, vol. 83. link> doi> full text>
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2020. Heavy minerals as provenance indicator in glaciogenic successions: An example from the Palaeozoic of Ethiopia. JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES, Article ARTN 103813, vol. 165. link> doi> full text>
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2020. Evolution of the Palaeotethys in the Eastern Mediterranean: A multi-method approach to unravel the age, provenance and tectonic setting of the Upper Palaeozoic Konya Complex and its Mesozoic cover sequence (south-central Turkey). International Geology Review, 389-414, vol. 62. doi> full text>
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2020. Introduction: special issue commemorating the 155th anniversary of Geological Magazine Preface. GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, 1-4, vol. 157(1). link> doi> full text>
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2020. Provenance of Ordovician-Silurian and Carboniferous-Permian glaciogenic successions in Ethiopia revealed by detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology. JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 141-152, vol. 177(1). link> doi> full text>
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2019. Organically-preserved multicellular eukaryote from the early Ediacaran Nyborg Formation, Arctic Norway. Sci Rep, 14659, vol. 9(1). link> doi> full text>
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2019. A late Caledonian tectono-thermal event in the Gaissa Nappe Complex, Arctic Norway: evidence from fine-fraction K-Ar dating and illite crystallinity from the Digermulen Peninsula. GFF, 289-294, vol. 141(4). doi> full text>
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2019. Diamond and coesite inclusions in detrital garnet of the Saxonian Erzgebirge, Germany. GEOLOGY, 715-718, vol. 47(8). link> doi> full text>
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2019. First record of carbonates with spherulites and cone-in-cone structures from the Precambrian of Arctic Norway, and their palaeoenvironmental significance. PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH, 99-110, vol. 328. link> doi> full text>
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2019. OH in detrital quartz grains as tool for provenance analysis: Case studies on various settings from Cambrian to Recent. SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY, 121-126, vol. 389. link> doi> full text>
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2019. Sediment provenance of Triassic and Jurassic sandstones in central Mexico during activity of the Nazas volcanic arc. JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES, 329-349, vol. 92. link> doi> full text>
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2019. A historical account of how continental drift and plate tectonics provided the framework for our current understanding of palaeogeography. Geological Magazine, 182-207, vol. 156(2). doi> link> full text>
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2019. Introduction: Advances in Palaeogeography PREFACE. GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, 179-181, vol. 156(2). link> doi> full text>
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2018. A multivariate discrimination scheme of detrital garnet chemistry for use in sedimentary provenance analysis. SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY, 14-26, vol. 375. link> doi> full text>
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2018. Provenance and tectonic setting of Carboniferous-Triassic sandstones from the Karaburun Peninsula, western Turkey: A multi-method approach with implications for the Palaeotethys evolution. SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY, 232-255, vol. 375. link> doi> full text>
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2018. Provenance of sandstones in Ethiopia during Late Ordovician and Carboniferous-Permian Gondwana glaciations: Petrography and geochemistry of the Enticho Sandstone and the Edaga Arbi Glacials. SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY, 188-202, vol. 375. link> doi> full text>
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2018. New occurrences of Palaeopascichnus from the Stahpogieddi Formation, Arctic Norway, and their bearing on the age of the Varanger Ice Age. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, 1253-1261, vol. 55(11). link> doi> full text>
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2018. Early Mesozoic sedimentary-tectonic evolution of the Central-East Iranian Microcontinent: Evidence from a provenance study of the Nakhlak Group. CHEMIE DER ERDE-GEOCHEMISTRY, 340-355, vol. 78(3). link> doi> full text>
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2018. Scratch circles from the Ediacaran and Cambrian of Arctic Norway and southern Africa, with a review of scratch circle occurrences. Bulletin of Geosciences, 287-304, vol. 93(3). doi> link> full text>
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2018. Provenance information recorded by mineral inclusions in detrital garnet. SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY, 32-49, vol. 376. link> doi> full text>
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2018. Evidence from detrital chrome spinel chemistry for a Paleo-Tethyan intra-oceanic island-arc provenance recorded in Triassic sandstones of the Nakhlak Group, Central Iran. JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES, 242-252, vol. 143. link> doi> full text>
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2018. Tracing ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism at the catchment scale. Sci Rep, 2931, vol. 8(1). link> doi> full text>
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2017. High-resolution seismic imaging of Paleozoic rocks in the Mora area, Siljan Ring structure, central Sweden. GFF, 260-275, vol. 139(4). link> doi> full text>
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2017. OH defects in quartz as monitor for igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary processes. AMERICAN MINERALOGIST, 1832-1842, vol. 102(9). link> doi> full text>
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2017. Franz Kossmat - Subdivision of the Variscan Mountains - a translation of the German text with supplementary notes. HISTORY OF GEO- AND SPACE SCIENCES, 29-51, vol. 8. doi> full text>
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2017. Palaeotethys-related sediments of the Karaburun Peninsula, western Turkey: constraints on provenance and stratigraphy from detrital zircon geochronology. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, 2771-2796, vol. 106(8). link> doi> full text>
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2017. Provenance of a large Lower Cretaceous turbidite submarine fan complex on the active Laurasian margin: Central Pontides, northern Turkey. JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES, 309-329, vol. 134. link> doi> full text>
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2017. Early Paleozoic tectonic reconstruction of Iran: Tales from detrital zircon geochronology. LITHOS, 87-101, vol. 268. link> doi> full text>
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2016. Heavy minerals and garnet geochemistry of stream sediments and bedrocks from the Almklovdalen area, Western Gneiss Region, SW Norway: Implications for provenance analysis. SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY, 96-105, vol. 336. link> doi> full text>
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2016. Petrography and geochemistry of Palaeozoic quartz-rich sandstones from Saudi Arabia: implications for provenance and chemostratigraphy. ARABIAN JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES, Article ARTN 400, vol. 9(5). link> doi> full text>
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2016. New insights into the provenance of Saudi Arabian Palaeozoic sandstones from heavy mineral analysis and single-grain geochemistry. SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY, 100-114, vol. 333. link> doi> full text>
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2017. Comment on Maravelis et al. "Accretionary prism-forearc interactions as reflected in the sedimentary fill of southern Thrace Basin (Lemnos Island, NE Greece)". INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, 387-388, vol. 106(1). link> doi> full text>
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2016. Heavy-mineral and garnet compositions of stream sediments and HP–UHP basement rocks from the Western Gneiss Region, SW Norway. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 7-17, vol. 96(1). doi> full text>
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2016. The search for 'hot shales' in the western Kufra Basin, Libya: geochemical and mineralogical characterisation of outcrops, and insights into latest Ordovician climate. ARABIAN JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES, Article ARTN 62, vol. 9(1). link> doi> full text>
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2005. Revision der Unterkarbonstratigraphie der Mehltheuerer Mulde (Vogtland, Saxothuringikum). Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen von Thüringen, 51-70, vol. 12.
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2005. Unterkarbon und Rotliegend von Gera (Ostthüringen). Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen von Thüringen, 71-78, vol. 12.
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2004. Stratigraphie und Geochemie der Grauwacken und Schiefer vom Eleonorental bei Bad Köstritz und der Bohrung Eisenberg 1/65 (Thüringisches Schiefergebirge). Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen von Thüringen, 71-81, vol. 11.
Chapters
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2014. Insights into crust formation and recycling in North Africa from combined detrital zircon U–Pb, Lu–Hf and O isotope data from Devonian sandstone of southern Libya. In Sediment provenance studies in hydrocarbon exploration and production. Scott RA, Smyth HR, Morton AC, Richardson N (Eds.). (vol. 386). Geological Society of London. doi>
Other
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2018. Das Ende des Bergbaus in den Steinkohlenrevieren von Nordrhein-Westfalen: Konsequenzen für die paläontologische Bodendenkmalpflege.
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2010. Geological fieldwork in the Libyan Sahara.
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2005. Stratigraphie und Deformation im nördlichen Vogtland.
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2004. Stratigraphie und Deformation im Unterkarbon des Ziegenrück-Teuschnitz-Synklinoriums (ZTS) und des Vogtlandes.
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