PD Dr. Christian Scheibner
Research Assistant
scheibne@uni-bremen.de
Tel +49 421 218 65252
CV
2010 Habilitation thesis "Carbonate platforms during icehouse and
greenhouse climates"
since 2004 University of Bremen, Assistant Professor
2003 – 2004 University of Potsdam, Post-doc research fellow
2000 – 2002 University of Bremen, Post-doc research fellow
2000 Field Assistant in the project "Devonian stratigraphy and sedimentation"
in cooperation with Dr D. Blomeier from Norsk Polar Institute
2000 Ph.D. Thesis "Architecture of a carbonate platform-to-basin
transition on a structural high (Campanian-Early Eocene, Eastern Desert,
Egypt) - classical and modelling approaches combined
1996 – 2000 University of Bremen, Ph.D student
1992 – 1993 two terms in the School of Ocean Sciences in Bangor
(Wales) in the Master Course "Marine Geotechnics" as an Erasmus
student
1989 – 1996 University of Kiel/GEOMAR
Teaching
Introduction to scientific working
Geological structures and maps
Basin analysis and Sequence Stratigraphy
Field excursion
Mapping course
Sedimentology field course
Highlights
Recent debris-flow in Lomfjorden, NE Spitsbergen, (2004): Videoclip by
H. Forke and C. Scheibner (5MB, 34 Sec) more...
Picture Gallery Svalbard 2004 more...
Picture Gallery Svalbard 2007 (Scalp4) more...
Maastrichtian and Paleocene simulation run more...
Projects
since 2010 - Platform evolution in the Paleogene of
Syria, Scheibner, Cakir, Ghanem
since 2008 - Platform evolution around the Early Eocene
Climatic Optimum (EECO) in a low latitude setting (Egypt) (DFG Project
Ku 642/22) Höntzsch, Kuss, Scheibner, Rasser
more...
since 2004 - Climatic evolution at the northern rim
of Pangea (Svalbard) during Permian/Carboniferous times in Svalbard (DFG
Projects SCHE 685/3-1) more...
and northern Ellesmere Island, Canada (SCHE 685/6-1) more...
2003 – 2004: Linking biocalcification to the global
carbon cycle: carbonate systems during the Paleogene (DFG project MU 2367/3-3)
more...
2000 – 2002: Paleoceanographic processes and crises
during the late Cretaceous and early Tertiary as recorded in basin, slope
and platform series (DFG Project KU 642/19) more...
1996 – 2000: PhD thesis: Architecture of a carbonate
platform-to-basin transition on a structural high (Campanian-early Eocene,
Eastern Desert, Egypt) classical and modelling approaches combined DFG-Graduierten
Kolleg Stoff-Flüsse in marinen Geosystemen more...
1995 – 1996: Diploma thesis within the DFG project
of John Reijmer (GEOMAR) The evolution of Lower Jurassic carbonate platform:
Sequence stratigraphy and sedimentation patterns (Jbel Bou Dahar, High
Atlas, Morocco) DFG Project RE 1051/1 more...
Publications
31. Scheibner, C., Blomeier, D., Forke, H., Gesierich,
K. (2015) From terrestrial to shallow-marine depositional environments:
reconstruction of the depositional environments during the Late Carboniferous
transgression of the Lomfjorden Trough in NE Spitsbergen (Malte Brunfjellet
Formation) Norwegian Journal of Geology Vol 95: 127-152 PDF
30. Özcan, E., Scheibner, C.,
Boukhalfa, K., (2014): Orthophragminids (foraminiferida) across the Paeleocene/Eocene
transition from Galala, Egypt: Taxonomy and paleobiogeographic implications,
Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 44: 203-229 PDF
29. Blomeier, D., Carmohn, A., Forke, H., Scheibner,
C. (2013): Facies analysis and depositional environments of a
storm-dominated, temperate to cold, mixed siliceous-carbonate ramp: the
Permian Kapp Starostin Formation in NE Svalbard, Norwegian Journal of
Geology 93: 75-93 PDF
28. Höntzsch, S., Scheibner, C.,
Brock, J.P., Kuss, J. (2013): Circum-Tethyan carbonate platform evolution
during the Palaeogene: the Prebetic platform as test for climatically-controlled
facies shifts, Turkish Journal of Geology 22: 891-918. PDF
27. Scheibner, C., Hartkopf-Fröder,
C., Blomeier, D., Forke, H., (2012): The Lower Carboniferous in NE Spitsbergen
and a re-evaluation of the Billefjorden Group. Z. dt. Ges. Geowiss. 163:
293-308
26. Speijer, R.P., Scheibner, C.,
Stassen, P., Morsi, A.M.M. (2012): Response of marine ecosystems to deep
time global warming: a synthesis of biotic patterns across the Paleocene-Eocene
thermal maximum. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 105: 6-16 PDF
25. Boukhary, M., Scheibner, C. (2011):
New Paleocene large cassiduline foraminifera (Cassidinidae fam.nov., Miscellanacea)
from Egypt and its phylogeny. Historical Biology 23: 349-366
24. Schulte, P., Scheibner, C., Speijer,
R.P. (2011): Fluvial discharge and sea-level changes controlling black
shale deposition during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Dababiya
Quarry Section, Egypt. Chemical Geology 285: 167-183 PDF
23. Blomeier, D., Carmohn, A., Scheibner,
C., Forke, H. (2011) Environmental change in the Permian of Spitsbergen:
From a warm-water carbonate platform (Templet and Sørfonna members,
Gipshuken Formation) to a temperate, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate ramp
(Vøringen Member, Kapp Starostin Formation). Facies 57: 493-523.
PDF
22. Höntzsch, S., Scheibner, C.,
Guasti, E., Kuss, H.J., Marzouk, A., Rasser, M.W. (2011) Increasing restriction
of the Egyptian shelf during the Early Eocene? – New insights from
a southern Tethyan carbonate platform. Palaegeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology 302: 349-366. PDF
21. Höntzsch, S., Scheibner, C.,
Kuss, H.J., Marzouk, A.M., Rasser, M.W. (2011) Tectonically driven carbonate
ramp evolution at the southern Tethyan shelf: the Lower Eocene succession
of the Galala Mountains, Egypt. Facies 57: 51-72. PDF
20. Hoentzsch, S., Scheibner, C.,
Marzouk, A.M., Rasser, M.W. and Kuss, H.J., (2009): Multiple Early Eocene
thermal maxima at low latitude platform carbonates - The Eocene succession
of the Galala Mountains, Egypt. In: E.M. Crouch, C.P. Strong and C.J.
Hollis (Editors), Climatic and biotic events of the Paleogene (CBEP 2009),
extended abstracts from an international conference in Wellington, New
Zealand, 12-15 January 2009. GNS Science Miscellaneous Series 18, pp.
70-74.
19. Boukhary, M., Scheibner, C. (2009)
On the Origin of Nummulites: Urnummulites schaubi n.gen. n.sp.
from the Late Paleocene of Egypt. Micropalaeontology 55; 413-420 PDF
18. Morsi, A.M.M., Scheibner, C. (2009)
Paleocene – Lower Eocene ostracods from the Southern Galala Plateau
area (Eastern Desert, Egypt): impacts of tectonics and platform evolution
on ostracode distribution. Revue de Micropaleontology 52: 149-192, doi:10.1016/j.revmic.2007.08.009
PDF
17. Blomeier, D., Scheibner, C., Forke,
H. (2009): Facies arrangement and cyclostratigraphic architecture of a
shallow-marine, warm-water carbonate platform: The Late Carboniferous
Ny Friesland Platform in eastern Spitsbergen (Pyefjellet Beds, Wordiekammen
Formation, Gipsdalen Group). Facies, 55: 291-324, doi:10.1007/s10347-008-0163-3
PDF
16. Scheibner, C., Speijer R.P. (2009): Recalibration
of shallow-bentic zonations across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: Evidences
from Egypt, Geologica Acta, 7; 195-214. PDF
15. Scheibner, C., Speijer, R.P. (2008): Decline of
coral reefs during late Paleocene to early Eocene global warming. eEarth,
3: 19-26. PDF
14. Scheibner, C., Speijer, R.P. (2008): Late Paleocene–early
Eocene Tethyan carbonate platform evolution — A response to long-
and short-term paleoclimatic change. Earth-Science Reviews, 90: 71-102.
PDF
13. Scheibner, C., Rasser, M., Mutti, M. (2007) The
Campo section (Pyrenees, Spain) revisited: Implications for changing benthic
carbonate assemblages across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary, Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 248: 145-168. PDF
12. Rasser, M.W, Scheibner, C., Mutti,
M. (2005) A paleoenvironmental standard section for Lower Ilerdian tropical
carbonate factories (Pyrenees, Spain; Corbieres, France), Facies 51, 217-232.
PDF
11. Scheibner, C. Speijer, R. P., Marzouk, A. M. (2005)
Larger foraminiferal turnover during the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum
and paleoclimatic control on the evolution of platform ecosystems, Geology
33: 493-496. PDF
10. Kuss, J., Bassiouni, A., Bauer, J., Bachmann,
M., Marzouk, A., Scheibner, C., Schulze, F. (2003) Cretaceous-Paleogene
sequence stratigraphy of the Levant Platform (Egypt, Sinai, Jordan), in
Gili et al. North African Cretaceous Carbonate platform systems, Nato
Series:171-187
9. Marzouk, A. M., Scheibner, C.
(2003) Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography of
the late Cretaceous-Paleogene of the Galala Mountains, Eastern Desert,
Egypt. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 244: 11-35
8. Scheibner, C., Kuss, J., Speijer, J.P. (2003) Stratigraphic
modelling of Maastrichtian to Paleocene carbonate platform-to-basin sediments,
Eastern Desert, Egypt. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,
200: 163-185 PDF
7. Scheibner, C., Reijmer, J. J. G, Marzouk, A. M.,
Speijer, R. P. and Kuss ,J. (2003) From platform to basin: The evolution
of a Paleocene carbonate margin (Eastern Desert, Egypt). International
Journal of Earth Sciences, 92:624-640 PDF
6. Scheibner, C., Marzouk, A. M., Kuss, J. (2001)
Shelf architectures of an isolated Late Cretaceous carbonate platform
margin, Galala Mountains (Eastern Desert, Egypt). Sedimentary Geology,
145: 23-43 PDF
5. Scheibner, C., Marzouk, A. M., Kuss, J. (2001)
Maastrichtian-Early Eocene lithostratigraphy and Palaeogeography of the
N Gulf of Suez Region, Egypt, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 32: 223-255
PDF
4. Scheibner, C. (2000) Sedimentary budgets and quantification
in marine successions on the northern margin of the African plate (Maastrichtian-lower
Eocene), Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität
Bremen, 160, 220-227
3. Kuss, J., Scheibner C., Gietl,
R. (2000) Carbonate platform to basin transition along an Upper Cretaceous
to Lower Tertiary Syrian Arc Uplift, Galala Plateaus, Eastern Desert,
Egypt, GeoArabia, 5: 405-424 PDF
2. Scheibner, C., Kuss, J., Marzouk A. (2000): Slope
sediments of a Paleocene ramp-to-basin transition in NE-Egypt, Interational
Journal of Earth Sciences, 88:708-724 PDF
1. Scheibner, C., Reijmer, J.J.G (1999): Facies patterns
within a Lower Jurassic upper slope to inner platform transect (Jbel Bou
Dahar, Morocco), Facies, 41:55-80 PDF
Thesis
Scheibner, C, (2009): Carbonate platforms during icehouse
and greenhouse climates. 402 pp University Bremen (Habilitation thesis)
Scheibner, C. (2000): Architecture of a carbonate platform-to-basin
transition on a structural high (Campanian-early Eocene, Eastern Desert,
Egypt)-classical and modelling approaches combined. Berichte aus dem Fachbereich
Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen, Nr. 186 173pp. (Ph.D. thesis)
Scheibner, C. (1995): Geologische Großkartierung
des mittleren Teils des Djebel Bou Dahar, Hoher Atlas (Marokko) mit Beiträge
zum Übergangsbereich Hang-Innere Plattform einer Karbonatplattform
und Beiträgen zur Mikrofazies. 154 pp. Christian Albrechts Universiät
zu Kiel, Germany (Diploma Thesis)
