Die Arbeitsgruppe für Geomorphologie & Geochronologie befasst sich vor allem mit der Frage wie physische, biologische und anthropogene Prozesse unsere Erdoberfläche gestalten. Ziel ist es, Prozesszusammenhänge in Sediment-, Boden- und Landschaftssystemen besser zu verstehen, um deren Dynamik im Zuge des globalen Umweltwandels besser vorhersagen zu können. Die AG wird von Professor Dr. Tony Reimann geleitet. Professor Reimann wurde zum Mai 2020 nach Köln berufen, die AG befindet sich derzeit im Aufbau.

Ein Forschungsschwerpunkt der AG ist die Entwicklung Lumineszenz-basierter Methoden zur Altersbestimmung von Sedimenten und der Quantifizierung von Boden- und Landschaftsprozessen. Der Arbeitsgruppe ist ebenfalls das Kölner Lumineszenz Labor (CLL) zugeordnet. Des Weiteren beschäftigt sich die AG mit der Entwicklung von neuen Konzepten, Experimenten und Modellen, um Erdoberflächenprozesse zu quantifizieren.  

Aktuelle Publikationen

2024

Linda A.E. Maßon, Svenja Riedesel, Anja Zander, Mariana Sontag-González, Tony Reimann, 2024. Testing the applicability of standardised growth curves for chemically heterogeneous single-grain feldspars from the Atacama Desert, Chile, Quaternary Geochronology, Volume 83, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2024.101585.

Chamberlain, E. L., Goodbred, S. L., Steckler, M. S., Wallinga, J., Reimann, T., Akhter, S. H., Bain, R., Muktadir, G., Al Nahian, A., Rahman, F. M. A., Rahman, M., Seeber, L., von Hagke, C., 2024. Cascading hazards of a major Bengal basin earthquake and abrupt avulsion of the Ganges River. Nat Commun 15, 4975. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47786-4.

Jaeschke, A., May, S. M., Hakobyan, A., Mörchen, R., Bubenzer, O., Bernasconi, S.M., Schefuß, E., Hoffmeister, D., Latorre, C., Gwozdz, M., Rethemeyer, J., Knief, C., 2024. Microbial Hotspots in a Fog-Dependent Tillandsia Landbeckii Dune of the Atacama Desert. Global and Planetary Change, 234, 104383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104383.

Kehl, M., Seeger, K., Pötter, S., Schulte, P., Klasen, N., Zickel, M., Pastoors, A., and Claßen, E., 2024. Loess formation and chronology at the Palaeolithic key site Rheindahlen, Lower Rhine Embayment, Germany, E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 73, 41–67, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-73-41-2024.

Lie, M. A., Găvan, A., Kienlin, T. L., Röpke, A., Zickel, M., Zerl, T., 2024. Exploring the chronostratigraphy of a Bronze Age settlement through core drilling. Praehistorische Zeitschrift. https://doi.org/10.1515/pz-2023-2026.

Riedesel, S., Jain, M., 2024. Excited state lifetime of electron trapping centres in alkali feldspars. Radiation Measurements 172, 107081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2024.107081.

Sun, X., Amelung, W., Klumpp, E., Walk, J., Mörchen, R., Böhm, C., Moradi, G., May, S.M., Tamburini, F., Wang, Y., Bol, R., 2024. Fog controls biological cycling of soil phosphorus in the Coastal Cordillera of the Atacama Desert. Global Change Biology, 30(1), e17068. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17068.

Wennrich, V., Böhm, C., Brill, D., Carballeira, R., Hoffmeister, D., Jaeschke, A., Kerber, F., Maldonado, A., May, S.M., Olivares, L., Opitz, S., Rethemeyer, J., Reyers, M., Ritter, B., Schween, J.H., Sevinç, F., Steiner, J., Walber-Hellmann, K., Melles, M., 2024. Late Pleistocene to modern precipitation changes at the Paranal clay pan, central Atacama Desert. Global and Planetary Change, 233, 104349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104349.

Zickel, M., Gröbner, M., Röpke, A., and Kehl, M., 2023. MiGIS: micromorphological soil and sediment thin section analysis using an open-source GIS and machine learning approach. E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 73, 69–93, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-73-69-2024.

2023

May, S. M., Brückner, H., Norpoth, M., Pint, A., Wolf, D., Brill, D., Martín, C.L., Stika, H.-P., Suárez Padilla, J., Moret, P, & Marzoli, D., 2023. Holocene coastal evolution and environmental changes in the lower Río Guadiaro valley, with particular focus on the Bronze to Iron Age harbour ‘Montilla’of Los Castillejos de Alcorrín (Málaga, Andalusia, Spain). Geoarchaeology, 38(2), 129-155. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21943.

Riedesel, S., Duller, G.A.T., Ankjærgaard, C., 2023. Time-resolved infrared stimulated luminescence of the blue and yellow-green emissions - Insights into charge recombination in chemically and strucutrally different alkali feldspars. Journal of Luminescence 257, 119724, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2023.119724.

Sun, X., May, S.M., Amelung, W., Tang, N., Brill, D., Arenas, F., Contreras, D., Fuentes, B., Bol, R., Klumpp, E., 2023. Water-dispersible colloids distribution along an alluvial fan transect in the hyperarid Atacama Desert. Geoderma 438, 116650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116650.

Ullmann, T., Jagdhuber, T., Hoffmeister, D., May, S.M., Baumhauer, R., Bubenzer, O., 2023. Exploring Sentinel-1 backscatter time series over the Atacama Desert (Chile) for seasonal dynamics of surface soil moisture. Remote Sensing of Environment 285, 113413, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113413.

Van der Meij, W.M., Temme, A.J.A.M., Binnie, S.A., Reimann, T., 2023. ChronoLorica: introduction of a soil–landscape evolution model combined with geochronometers. Geochronology, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-241-2023.

Vehrs, H.-P., Zickel, M., 2023. Can Environmental Injustices be Addressed in Conservation? Settlement History and Conservation-Induced Displacement in the Case of Lyanshulu in the Zambezi Region, Namibia. Human Ecology 51, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-022-00383-9.

2022

Kudrass, H.R., Hanebuth, T.J.J , Zander, A.M., Linstädter, J., Akther, S.H. , Shohrab, U.M., 2022. Architecture and function of salt-producing kilns from the 8th to 18th century in the coastal Sundarbans mangrove forest, Central Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh, Archaeological Research in Asia, 32, https:\\doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2022.100412.

Kolb, T., Tudyka, K., Kadereit, A., Lomax, J., Poręba, G., Zander, A., Zipf, L., Fuchs, M., 2022. The μDose system: determination of environmental dose rates by combined alpha and beta counting – performance tests and practical experiences, Geochronology, 4, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-4-1-2022.

Rymer, K.G., Rachlewicz, G., Buchwal, A., Temme, A.J.A.M., Reimann, T., Van der Meij, W.M., 2022. Contemporary and past aeolian deposition rates in periglacial conditions (Ebba Valley, central Spitsbergen). Catena, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105974.

Van der Meij, W.M., Meijles, E.W., Marcos, D., Harkema, T.T.L., Candel, J.H.J., Maas, G.J., 2022. Comparing geomorphological maps made manually and by deep learning. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5305.

Brill, D., Ageby, L., Obert, C., Hollerbach, R., Duval, M., Kolb, T., Bartz, M., 2022. IRSL rock surface burial dating of cobble beaches and marine terraces in Northern Chile. Marine Geology 443, 106692, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106692.

Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Socquet, A., Cortés-Aranda, J., Brill, D., Strecker, M., 2022. The cryptic seismic potential of the Pichilemu blind fault in Chile revealed by off-fault geomorphology. Nature Communications 13, 3371, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30754-1.

Medialdea, A., Brill, D., King, G., Zander, A., Lopez-Ramirez, M.R., Bartz, M., Brückner, H., 2022. Violet stimulated luminescence as an alternative for dating complex colluvial sediments in the Atacama Desert. Quaternary Geochronology 71, 101337, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101337.

2021

Hanebuth, T.J.J, Kudrass, H.R., Zander, A.M., Akhter, H.S., Neumann‑Denzau, G., Zahid, A. 2021. Stepwise, earthquake-driven coastal subsidence in the Ganges–Brahmaputra Delta (Sundarbans) since the eighth century deduced from submerged in situ kiln and mangrove remnants. Natural Hazards, doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-05048-2.

Nottebaum, V., Stauch, G., van der Wal, J.L.N., Zander, A., Schlütz, F., Shumilovskikh, L., Reicherter, K., Batkhishig, O., Lehmkuhl, F. 2021. Late Quaternary landscape evolution and paleoenvironmental implications from multiple geomorphic dryland systems, Orog Nuur Basin, Mongolia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 1-23, doi.org/10.1002/esp.5247.

Ageby, L., Angelucci, D.E., Brill, D., Carrer, F., Rades, E.F., Brückner, H., Klasen, N., 2021. Rock surface IRSL dating of dry stone structures related to Alpine pastoralism in Val di Sole, Italy. Quaternary Geochronology 66, 101212, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2021.101212.

Brill, D., May, S.M., Mhammdi, N., King, G., Lehmann, B., Burow, C., Wolf, D., Zander, A., Brückner, H., 2021. Evaluating OSL rock surface exposure dating as a novel approach for reconstructing coastal boulder movement on decadal to centennial timescales. Earth Surface Dynamics 9, 205-234, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-205-2021.

Calitri, F., Sommer, M., Van der Meij, W.M., Tikhomirov, D., Christl, M., Egli, M., 2021. ¹⁰Be and ¹⁴C data provide insight on soil mass redistribution along gentle slopes and reveal ancient human impact. Journal of Soils and Sediments, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-021-03041-7.

Riedesel, S., Kumar, R., Duller, G.A.T., Roberts, H.M., Bell, A.M.T., Jain, M., 2021. Site-selective characterisation of electron trapping centres in relation to chemistry, structural state and mineral phases present in single crystal alkali feldspars. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 54, 385107, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ac10d7.

Seeliger, M., Pint, A., Frenzel, P., Marriner, N., Spada, G., Vacchi, M., Başaran, S., Dan, A., Seeger, F., Seeger, K., Schmidts, T., Brückner, H., 2021. Mid- to late-Holocene sea-level evolution of the northeastern Aegean sea. The Holocene, https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836211025967.

Pop, E., Reidsma, F.H., Reimann, T., Sier, M.J., Arps, C.E.S., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Roebroeks, W., 2021. Identifying heated rocks through feldspar luminescence analysis (pIRIR290) and a critical evaluation of macroscopic assessment. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 4, 13, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-021-00094-5 1.

Berghuis, H.W.K., Veldkamp, A., Adhityatama, S., Hilgen, S.L., Sutisna, I., Barianto, D.H., Pop, E.A.L., Reimann, T., Yurnaldi, D., Ekowati, D.R., Vonhof, H.B., van Kolfschoten, T., Simanjuntak, T., Schoorl, J.M., Joordens, J.C.A., 2021. Hominin homelands of East Java: Revised stratigraphy and landscape reconstructions for Plio-Pleistocene Trinil. Quaternary Science Reviews 260, 106912, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106912.

Kehl, M., Vlaminck, S., Köhler, T., Laag, C., Rolf, C., Tsukamoto, S., Frechen, M., Sumita, M., Schmincke, H.-U., Khormali, F., 2021. Pleistocene dynamics of dust accumulation and soil formation in the southern Caspian Lowlands - New insights from the loess-paleosol sequence at Neka-Abelou, Northern Iran. Quaternary Science Reviews, 253, 106774, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106774.

Riedesel, S., Bell, A.M.T., Duller, G.A.T., Finch, A.A., Jain, M., King, G.E., Pearce, N.J., Roberts, H.M., 2021. Exploring sources of variation in thermoluminescence emissions and anomalous fading in alkali feldspars. Radiation Measurements 141, 106541, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2021.106541.

2020

Brill, D., Cisternas, M., 2020. Testing quartz and feldspar luminescence dating to determine earthquake and tsunami recurrence in the area of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake. Quaternary Geochronology 58, 101080, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2020.101080.

Brill, D., Tamura, T., 2020. Optically stimulated luminescence dating of tsunami and storm deposits. In: Engel, M., Pilarczyk, J., May, S.M., Brill, D., Garrett, E. (Edts). Geological records of tsunamis and other extreme waves. Elsevier.

Brill, D., Seeger, K., Pint, A., Reize, F., Kay Thwe Hlaing, Seeliger, M., Opitz, S., Khin Mi Mi Win, Win Thuuar Nyunt, Nilar Aye, Aung Aung, Kyaw Kyaw, Krass, F., Brückner, H., 2020. Modern and historical tropical cyclone and tsunami deposits at the coast of Myanmar – Implications for their identification and preservation in the geological record. Sedimentology 67, 1431-1459, https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12586.

May, S.M., Callow, J.N., Brill, D., Hoffmeister, D., May, J.-H., 2020. Revealing sediment transport pathways and geomorphic change in washover fans by combining drone-derived digital elevation models and single grain luminescence data. Journal of Geophysical Research. Earth Surface 125, e2020JF005792, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005792.

Frindte, K., Lehndorff, E., Vlaminck, S., Werner, K., Kehl, M., Khormali, F., Knief, C., 2020. Evidence for signatures of ancient microbial life in paleosols. Scientific Reports 10, 1-11, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73938-9.

Riedesel, S., Autzen, M., 2020. Beta and gamma dose rate attenuation in rocks and sediment. Radiation Measurements 133, 106295, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2020.106295.

Van der Meij, W.M., Temme, A.J.A.M., Wallinga, J., Sommer, M., 2020. Modeling soil and landscape evolution - the effect of rain fall and land use on soil and landscape patterns. SOIL 6, 337-358, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-337-2020.