Biography
I was appointed lecturer in Palaeontology in 2005. I studied Geology and Palaeontology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg (Germany), the Université-Louis-Pasteur in Strasbourg (France), the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen/Nürnberg (Germany) and the University of California, Los Angeles (USA). I obtained a degree as Diplom-Geologe (MSc) with a study on the Micropalaeontology and Sedimentology of Lower Carboniferous calciclastic turbidites of the Vosges Mountains (France) in 1996, and a PhD degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in Earth Sciences with a study on the Palynology, Stratigraphy and Geochemistry of the metasedimentary units of the Black Forest Massif (Germany) in 1999. After a brief but very intensive life in the oil industry, I held PostDoc positions at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Centre for Palaeozoic Palaeontology and Palaeogeography, Université de Lille) and the University of Tübingen (Germany) where I was awarded the Higher Doctorate (DSc, Dr. habil., Habilitation) in 2005.
Research and scholarship
My main research interests include the Palaeoecology and Biogeography of selected fossil groups, the ultrastructural analysis of microfossils, fossil extremophiles and their relation to rock formation and deformation, the recent, sub-recent and fossil genesis of stromatolithic structures, Phanerozoic biogeochemical and isotope-biogeochemical signals, the geodynamic evolution of the Variscan Belt, the fragmentation of the Late Precambrian supercontinent Rodinia and associated processes as well as the Sedimentology of extensional basins.
Teaching
Science Foundation Year:
- ESC-00001 Earth Story
Year 1:
- ESC-10002 Introductory Palaeontology and Stratigraphy (Module Leader)
- ESC-10020 This is Planet Earth
- ESC-10024 Earth System & Environmental Concepts
- ESC-10030 Geology Fieldwork and Transferable Skills
Year 2:
- ESC-20031 Advanced Structural Geology & Solid Earth Geophysics
- ESC-20036 Plaeoclimatology and Quarternary Studies
Year 3:
- ESC-30005 Geology Special Project (Supervisor)
- ESC-30025 Micropalaeontology: Principles and Applications (Module Leader)
- ESC-30026 Independent Field Project (Supervisor)
- CHE-30013 Forensic Geoscience
Year 4 (MGeoscience):
- ESC-40004 Geoscience Research Project
- ESC-40005 Research in Context
- ESC-40006 Research Report
- MGeo-40023 Micropalaeontology: Principles and Applications
- MGeo-40039 Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems (Module Leader)
Fieldwork/Excursions:
- ESC-10002 Natural History Museum (Leader)
- ESC-10030 Llangollen field course (Leader)
- ESC-10030 Pembrokeshire field course
- ESC-10030 Wenlock-Ludlow field course (Leader)
- ESC-30025 Wirral fieldtrip (Leader)
- ESC-30026 Cantabria field course
- ESC-40023 Wirral fieldtrip (Leader)
- ESC-40039 Fossil-Lagerstaetten of Central Europe (Leader)
Selected Publications
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Comparative geochemistry of Early Carboniferous marine red beds (MRBs) and their significance for deep time paleoceanographic reconstructions. Sedimentary Geology, 106313. doi> link> full text>2022.
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Montenari M (Ed.). 2021. Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy. (vol. 6: 482 pages). Amsterdam: Academic Press (Elsevier). link>
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Re-assessment of ammonoid specimens from the Early Carboniferous Protocanites Beds of the Badenweiler-Lenzkirch Zone (Schwarzwald, Central Variscan Belt): age constraints for a lithostratigraphic key bed. PALZ. link> doi> full text>2021.
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Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterizations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain. Stratigraphy and Timescales, 677-755, vol. 5. doi> link> full text>2020.
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Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal. NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 489-+, vol. 13(7). link> doi> full text>2020.
Full Publications Listshow
Books
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Montenari M (Ed.). 2022. Integrated Quaternary Stratigraphy. (vol. 7: 324 pages). Amsterdam: Academic Press (Elsevier). link>
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Montenari M (Ed.). 2021. Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy. (vol. 6: 482 pages). Amsterdam: Academic Press (Elsevier). link>
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Montenari M (Ed.). 2020. Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy. (vol. 5: 780 pages). Amsterdam: Academic Press (Elsevier). link>
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Case Studies in Isotope Stratigraphy. (vol. 4: 244 pages). Amsterdam: Academic Press (Elsevier). link>2019.
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Montenari M (Ed.). 2019. Case Studies in Isotope Stratigraphy. (vol. 4: 244 pages). Amsterdam: Academic Press (Elsevier). link>
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Montenari M (Ed.). 2018. Cyclostratigraphy and Astrochronology. (vol. 3: 400 pages). Amsterdam: Academic Press (Elsevier). link>
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Montenari M (Ed.). 2017. Advances in Sequence Stratigraphy. (vol. 2: 454 pages). Amsterdam: Academic Press (Elsevier). link>
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Montenari M (Ed.). 2016. Stratigraphy & Timescales. (vol. 1: 518 pages). Amsterdam: Academic Press (Elsevier). link>
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Montenari M (Ed.). 2016. Stratigraphy & Timescales. (vol. 1: 518 pages). Amsterdam: Academic Press (Elsevier). link>
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Geowissenschaftliche Geländearbeit. Geländearbeit: der Beginn aller Naturwissenschaften. (vol. 8). DMG Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft.2001.
Journal Articles
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Comparative geochemistry of Early Carboniferous marine red beds (MRBs) and their significance for deep time paleoceanographic reconstructions. Sedimentary Geology, 106313. doi> link> full text>2022.
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Re-assessment of ammonoid specimens from the Early Carboniferous Protocanites Beds of the Badenweiler-Lenzkirch Zone (Schwarzwald, Central Variscan Belt): age constraints for a lithostratigraphic key bed. PALZ. link> doi> full text>2021.
- 2020.
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Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterizations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain. Stratigraphy and Timescales, 677-755, vol. 5. doi> link> full text>2020.
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Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal. NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 489-+, vol. 13(7). link> doi> full text>2020.
- 2019.
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Computer modeling of Zircon (ZrSiO4)—Coffinite (USiO4) solid solutions and lead incorporation: Geological implications. Stratigraphy and Timescales, 217-227, vol. 4. doi> link> full text>2019.
- 2018.
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A Facies-Independent Trans-European Anisian–Ladinian Marker Horizon? Significance and Impact for Sequence Stratigraphy and Intra-Tethyan Correlation. Stratigraphy and Timescales, 391-409, vol. 2. doi> link> full text>2017.
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Silicification and organic matter preservation in the Anisian Muschelkalk: Implications for the basin dynamics of the central European Muschelkalk Sea. Central European Geology, 35-52, vol. 60(1). doi> link> full text>2017.
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A three- and two-dimensional documentation of structural elements in schwagerinids (superfamily Fusulinoidea) exemplified by silicified material from the Upper Carboniferous of the Carnic Alps (Austria/Italy): a comparison with verbeekinoideans and alveolinids. Facies, 541-553, vol. 51(1-4). link> doi>2005.
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Biotectonics?. Contributions of the Economic Research Unit, 158-162, vol. 64(3).2005.
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Microanalytical and scanning electron microscopic investigations on the diagenesis of fossil arthropods from “contact metamorphous” sediments – first results. Mitteilungen der Pollichia, 13-20, vol. 91.2005.
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Das “Phänomen Eislingen” - Neues zu den Ausgrabungen und Stand der Forschung. HOHENSTAUFEN/HELFENSTEIN, 203-230, vol. 14.2004.
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Neue Erkenntnisse zum Phänomen „Fischsaurierfriedhof Eislingen“ - die Ausgrabungen der Jahre 2003 und 2004. Hohenstaufen/Helfenstein, 37-59, vol. 13.2003.
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The Acritarcha: their classification, morphology, ultrastructure and palaeoecological/palaeogeographical distribution. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 173-194, vol. 77(1).2003.
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Heterocorallia from the Early Carboniferous of the Moldanubian Southern Vosges Mountains (Alsace, France). NEUES JAHRBUCH FUR GEOLOGIE UND PALAONTOLOGIE-ABHANDLUNGEN, 223-254, vol. 224(2). link>2002.
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Der Ichthyosaurierfriedhof von Eislingen - Freilegung einer paläontologischen Fundstelle mit archäologischen Methoden. HOHENSTAUFEN/HELFENSTEIN, 204-212, vol. 12.2002.
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Evolutionary dynamics and biodiversity of marine phytoplankton,"acritarchs" in the Lower Palaeozoic. ZT DEUTSCHEN GEOLOGISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT, 313-341, vol. 21.2002.
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Acritarchs at the Cambro-Ordovician boundary: biostratigraphy or ecophenotypism?. PALAEONTOL NEWSLETTER, 30-31, vol. 48.2001.
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Geochemistry and provenance of Devono-Carboniferous volcano-sedimentary sequences from the southern Vosges Basin and the geodynamic implications for the western Moldanubian Zone. GEOL SOC LONDON SPEC PUBL, 433-444, vol. 179.2000.
- 1999.
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Lower Palaeozoic (Late Cambrian - Early Ordovician) acritarchs from the metasedimentary Baden-Baden-Zone (Schwarzwald, SW-Germany). ACTA UNIV CAROL GEOL, 243-244, vol. 43(1-2).1999.
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Palynomorphs and single zircon ages from paragneisses of the Schwarzwald (SW Germany): constraints on sedimentation ages. TERRA NOVA, 94-95, vol. 99(1).1999.
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A Middle Devonian faunal assemblage from the Bruche Valley, northern Vosges. NEUES JAHRB GEOL PALAEONT MH, 155-160, vol. 1996(3).1996.
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Die Metamorphen Schiefer der Zone von Badenweiler-Lenzkirch / Südschwarzwald -Paläontologische Altersstellung (Acritarchen und Chitinozoen) und Tektonik. BER NATURFORSCH GES FREIBURG I BREISGAU, 33-79, vol. 84/85.1996.
Chapters
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Upper Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the East European Platform: A proposed regional nannofossil zonation scheme and correlation with foraminifera and radiolarian zones. In Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy. Montenari M (Ed.). (vol. 6). Amsterdam: Academic Press (Elsevier). doi> link>2021.
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The isotopic composition of pedogenic carbonate as a record of pCO2: Insights from the Late Paleozoic of tropical western Pangea. In Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy. Montenari M (Ed.). (vol. 5). Amsterdam: Academic Press (Elsevier). doi>2020.
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Computer modelling of Zircon (ZrSiO4)—Coffinite (USiO4) solid solutions and lead incorporation: Geological implications. In Stratigraphy & Timescales volume 4. Elsevier. doi> full text>
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Soft-tissue Attachment of Midle Triassic Ceratida from Germany. In Cephalopods Present and Past: New Insights and Fresh Perspectives. Springer. doi>2007.
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Geochemie: Saurierknochen, Isotopen und Moleküle. In In einem Meer vor unserer Zeit - das Jurameer vor 181 Millionen Jahren. Rademacher R (Ed.). Eislingen: Eislingen/Fils.2006.
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Klein, aber fein: Wirbellose Meerestiere. In In einem Meer vor unserer Zeit - das Jurameer vor 181 Millionen Jahren. Rademacher R (Ed.). Eislingen: Eislingen/Fils.2006.
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Mikropaläontologie: Kleine Mikrofossilien haben Grosses zu erzählen. In In einem Meer vor unserer Zeit - das Jurameer vor 181 Millionen Jahren. Rademacher R (Ed.). Eislingen: Eislingen/Fils.2006.
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Preface. In In einem Meer vor unserer Zeit - das Jurameer vor 181 Millionen Jahren. Eislingen: Eislingen/Fils.2006.
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Prof. Dr. Friedrich August von Quenstedt (1809 - 1889): Ein Paläontologe von Weltrang und sein schwäbischer Jura. In In einem Meer vor unserer Zeit - das Jurameer vor 181 Millionen Jahren. Eislingen: Eislingen/Fils.2006.
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Prof. Dr. Friedrich Freiherr von Huene (Friedrich Baron Hoyningen genannt Huene, 1875 - 1969): Ein schwäbischer Paläontologe auf Saurierjagd. In In einem Meer vor unserer Zeit - das Jurameer vor 181 Millionen Jahren. Eislingen: Eislingen/Fils.2006.
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Öjokatastrophe - Dem Täter auf der Spur: Was riss die Fischsaurier in den Tod?. In In einem Meer vor unserer Zeit - das Jurameer vor 181 Millionen Jahren. Eislingen: Eislingen/Fils.2006.
Other
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Cantabrian Thrust Belt: basin history of the North Gondwana passive margin – rifting, glaciations? More rifting and collision.
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Permian and Triassic wildfires and atmospheric oxygen levels. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1ST WSEAS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (EG'08) (pp. 179-+). link>2008.
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In einem Meer vor unserer Zeit - das Jurameer vor 181 Millionen Jahren. Stadthalle Eislingen/Fils.
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Anwendung kombinierter mikropalaeontologischer, geologischer, geochemischer und elektronenoptischer Methoden auf geodynamischer Fragestellungen: Beispiele aus dem europaeischen Zentralvariszikum und aehnlichen Gebieten.2005.
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Vom Stein zur Kohle: Wie mit Fossilien und Mineralien Geld verdient wird. Ausstellung am Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen. Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie der Universitaet Tuebingen.
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Alfred EISENACK (13.5.1891 - 19.4.1982). Ausstellung „Das Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen. Stratigraphischen Saal des Instituts und Museums für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen.
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Das Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen. Stratigraphischen Saal des Instituts und Museums für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen.
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Friedrich August von QUENSTEDT (9.7.1809 - 21.12.1889). Ausstellung „Das Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen“. Stratigraphischen Saal des Instituts und Museums für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen.
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Otto Heinrich SCHINDEWOLF (7.6.1896 - 10.6.1971). Ausstellung „Das Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen“. Stratigraphischen Saal des Instituts und Museums für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen.
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Franz M. HILGENDORF (1839-1904) - Ein Tübinger Pionier der Evolutionsforschung. Ausstellung am Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen. Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie der Universitaet Tuebingen.
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Palynologische Untersuchungen an metasedimentaeren Einheiten des Schwarwaldes.1999.
PGR/PGT Students
Past PhD Students
- Steve Rogers. 2015. Pennsylvanian carbonate mud mounds from the sub-aerial to sub-marine transition along a tilted foreland basin, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Keele University.
Resulting paper: Iberian Geol. - Tim Ferriday. 2014. Chemostratigraphical characterisation of lower Silurian black shales from the Formigoso Formation (southern Cantabrian Mountains, Spain). Unpublished PhD Thesis, Keele University.
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