Prof Dr H.-J. Kuss
Head of the working group
kuss@uni-bremen.de
Tel +49 421 218 65250
CV
since 1991 Professor of Geology, Bremen University
fall 1996 Visiting Professor on DAAD-fellowship, Ain Shams University,
Cairo, Egypt
1989-1991 Researcher (DFG) at Hamburg University and Technical University
Berlin
1988-1989 Habilitation Grant (DFG), Technical University Berlin (Habilitation
accomplished 1989)
1983-1988 Assistant professor, Technical University Berlin
1983 PhD Erlangen University
Current Research Interests
Sedimentary geology, field studies, stratigraphic architecture, microfossils,
stable isotopes past sea level and climate change.
Teaching
Basin analysis
Sequence stratigraphy
Exploration geology
Introduction to plate tectonics
Field-mapping courses
Field excursions
Projects
since 2016 – The Cretaceous critical intervals:
Paleo-environmental implications from black shale of Safaga area, Red
Sea, Egypt, financed by DAAD, Morsy, Kuss, more
since 2012 – Facies control on the stratigraphic
architecture of carbonate secquences (Triassic, Germany), Kuss and Msc-/BSc
students (in co-operation with Geol. L.-A. Thüringen) more...
since 2005 - Platform crises of the Cenomanian Levant
Platform – high-resolution studies of dysoxic sediments ( Central Jordan
): environmental changes, cycles, palaeoecology (DFG project Ku 642/20
in coop. with Stein [Awi, Bremerhaven] more...
2008 - 2012: Paleotectonic and Sedimentary evolution
of the Jurassic and Cretaceous deposits of the Alddaw Basin (Palmyrides,
Syria), financed by DAAD, Kuss, Ghanem, more...
2008 - 2012: 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...
2007 - 2010: Depositional architecture
of a Miocene structurally controlled sub-basin of the Gulf of Suez - a
collaborative project financed by the Egyptian government,
Kuss, Abd-El Naby, Boukhary more...
2007 - 2010: Sequential patterns of a tectonically controlled
basin - the Late Cretaceous hemipelagic Abiod Fm of Tunisia, financed
by DAAD, Kuss, Seloua, Negra 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 in coop. with Reijmer [GEOMAR,
Kiel], Scheibner and Speijer) more...
2000 - 2004: Sedimentary response of drifting histories
on the western Coast of Madagascar (DFG Project Ku 642/18) more...
1999 - 2003: Control parameters on the build up of carbonate
platforms prior and after the Cenomanian/Turonian boundary in Central
Jordan (DFG Project KU 642/16) more...
1999 - 2002: On the genesis of Mesozoic sedimentary
basins in northeast Africa - sedimentologic and paleontologic interrelationships
with tectonic processes (Volkswagen Foundation project) more...
1998 - Sea-level fluctuations of different order - Analysis
of Mesozoic shallow marine sedimentation patterns and their controlling
factors in connection with global signals and climatic change (FNK, Bremen
Project) more...
1998 - 2001: Interaction of geodynamic and biosedimentary
processes of the late Cenomanian - Coniacian southern Tethyan carbonate
shelf, Sinai (DFG, Ku 642/15, in coop. with Dr Steuber/ Bochum) more...
1997 - 2001: Sea-level fluctuations of different order
- Analysis and quantification of shallow marine sedimentation pattern
and their controlling factors within the Cretaceous Tethys (DFG Project
Ku 642/13)
more...
1996 - 2000: Architecture of a carbonate platform-to-basin
transition on a structural high (Campanian-early Eocene, Eastern Desert,
Egypt)-classical and modelling approaches combined (DFG, Grad.-Koll.)
more...
Publications
60. Wendler, J. E., Wendler, I., Vogt, C.,
Kuss, J. (2016): Link between cyclic eustatic sea-level change
and continental weathering: Evidence for aquifer-eustasy in the Cretaceous,
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 441, 430–437.
PDF
59. Lüning, S., Kuss, J. (2014):
Petroleum geology of Jordan. – In: Marlow, L. & Kendall,
C. and Yose, L. (Eds.) Petroleum systems of the Tethyan Margin, AAPG Mem.
106, p. 217-239. PDF
58. Wendler, J.E., Meyers, S.R., Wendler, I., Kuss,
J. (2014): A milllion-year-scale astronomical
control on Late Cretaceous sea-level. Newsletter of Stratigraphy. PDF
57. 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
56. Ghanem, H., Kuss, J. (2013): Stratigraphic
control of the Aptian-Early Turonian sequences of the Levant Platform
(Northwest Syria - Coastal Range) - GeoArabia 18: 85-132 PDF
55. Ghanem, H. Mouty, M. Kuss, J.
(2012): Biostratigraphy and Carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the uppermost
Aptian to Late Cenomanian strata of the Southern Palmyrids, Geoarabia
17: 155-184 PDF
54. Bey, S., Kuss, J., Premoli Silva,
I., Negra, M. H., Gardin, S. (2012): Fault-controlled stratigraphy
of the Late Cretaceous Abiod Formation at Ain Medheker (Northeast Tunisia).-
Cretaceous Research 34: 10-25 PDF
53. 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
52. 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
51. Abd El-Naby A.,Ghanem H., Boukhary M., Abd El-Aal
M., Lüning S., Kuss J., (2010): Stratigraphy
Interpretation of structurally controlled Deposition: Middle Miocene Kareem
Formation, Southwestern Gulf of Suez, Egypt. GeoArabia 15: 129-150
PDF
50. Bachmann, M., Kuss, J., Lehmann,
J. (2010): Controls and evolution of facies patterns in the Upper Barremian–Albian
Levant Platform in North Sinai and North Israel.- In: Homberg & Bachmann
(Eds.) Evolution of the Levant Margin and Western Arabia Platform since
the Mesozoic) Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 341, 99–131.
PDF
49. Heldt., M., Lehmann, J., Bachmann, M., Negra, H.,
Kuss, J. (2010): Increased terrigenous influx but no
drowning: palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Tunisian carbonate platform
margin during the Late Aptian.- Sedimentology 57, 695-719. PDF
48. Wendler, J., Lehmann, J., Kuss, J. (2010):
Orbital time scale, intra-platform basin correlation, carbon isotope stratigraphy
and sea-level history of the Cenomanian–Turonian Eastern Levant
platform, Jordan.- In: (Homberg & Bachmann, Eds.: Evolution of the
Levant Margin and Western Arabia Platform since the Mesozoic) Geological
Society, London, Special Publications, 341, 171-186. PDF
47. Abd El-Naby, A., Abd El-Aal, M., Kuss.
J., Boukhary, M., Lashin, A. (2009): Structural and basin evolution
in Miocene time, southwestern Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für
Geologie und
Paläontologie – Abhandlungen, 251: 331-353.
46. 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.
45. Sepúlveda, J., Wendler, J., Leider, A.,
Kuss, J., Summons, R., Hinrichs, K.-U. (2009): Molecular-isotopic
evidence of marine productivity changes across the C/T boundary in the
Levant platform (Central Jordan). Organic Geochemistry 40, 553-586.
44. Wendler, J., Wendler, I. and Kuss,
J. (2009). Early Turonian shallow marine red beds on the Levant carbonate
platform (Jordan), Southern Tethys. SEPM Special Publication 91, 179-187.
43. Boukhary, M.A., Kuss, J. M. Abdelraouf
(2008): Chattian Larger Foraminifera, northern Sinai, Egypt, and paleogeographic
interpretations. Stratigraphy 5: 179-192. PDF
42. Kuss, J. Boukhary, M.A., (2008): A new upper Oligocene
marine record from northern Sinai (Egypt) and its paleogeographic context.-
Geoarabia 13/1, 59-84. PDF
41. Wendler, J., Kuss, J., Stein,
R., (2006): Expanded platform crises at the MCE and OAE2 (Mid Cenomanian
to Lower Turonian) of the Levent carbonate platform (Jordan). Terra Nostra
2006/3, 103.
40. Schulze, F., Kuss, J., Marzouk,
A. (2005): Platform cofiguration, microfacies and cyclicities of the upper
Albian to Turonian of west-central Jordan. Facies, 50, 505-527. PDF
39. Flügel, E., Thiedig, F., Dolenz, H., Kuss,
J. (2004): Herkunftsbestimmung des frühzeit-lichen Mosaikmaterials
im Bereich des Repräsentantenhauses und in den Unteren A/A Bauten
am Magdalensberg, Kärnten. Rudofinum, Jb. Landesmus. Kärnten
38. Schulze, F., Marzouk, A.M., Bassiouni, M.A., Kuss,
J. (2004): The late Albian-Turonian carbonate platform succession of west-central
Jordan: stratigraphy and crises.- Cretaceous Research, 25, 709-737.
37. Bauer, J., Steuber, T., Kuss,
J., Heimhofer, U. (2004): Distribution of shallow-water benthics: The
Cenomanian – Turonian carbonate platform sequences of Sinai, Egypt.
Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Rudists. Courier Forschungsinstitut
Senckenberg, 247, 207-231.
36. Lüning, S., Schulze, F., Marzouk, A.M., Kuss,
J., Gharaibeh, A. & S. Kolonic (2004): Uranium-enriched horizons refine
stratigraphic framework in Cenomanian-Turonian organic-rich strata in
central Jordan and northern Tuniasia.- Zeitschr. Dt. Geol. Ges., 155/1,
49-60.
35. Bachmann, M., Bassiouni, M.A.A., Kuss,
J. (2003): Stratigraphic modelling, graphic correlation and cyclicities
of mid-Cretaceous platform carbonates - northern Sinai, Egypt. Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 200, 131-162.
34. 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, E., Negra, H., & Skelton, P. (Eds.) North African Cretaceous
Carbonate Platform Systems, Nato Science Series, 171-187.
33. Scheibner, C,. Reijmer, J.J.G., Marzouk, A.M., Speijer, R.P., Kuss,
J. (2003): From platform to basin: The evolution of a Paleocene carbonate
margin (Eastern Desert, Egypt). International Journal of Earth Sciences
/ Geologische Rundschau, 92/4, 624-640. PDF
32. Scheibner, C., Kuss, J., Speijer,
R.P. (2003): Stratigraphic modelling of carbonate platform-to-basin sediments
(Maastrichtian to Paleocene) in the Eastern Desert, Egypt. Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 200/1-4, 163-185. PDF
31. Schulze, F., Lewy, Z., Kuss, J.,
Gharaibeh, A. (2003): Cenomanian-Turonian carbonate platform deposits
in west central Jordan. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 92, 641-660.
PDF
30. Bauer, J., Kuss, J., Steuber,
T. (2003): Sequence architecture and carbonate platform configuration
(Late Cenomanian –Santonian), Sinai, Egypt. Sedimentology 50, 387-414.
29. Bauer, J., Kuss, J., Steuber,
T. (2002): Platform Environments, Microfacies and Systems Tracts of the
Upper Cenomanian – Lower Santonian of Sinai, Egypt. Facies, 47,
1-26.
28. Bauer, J., Marzouk, A.M., Steuber, T., Kuss,
J. (2001): Lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Cenomanian –
Santonian strata of Sinai, Egypt. Cretaceous Research, 22, 497-526.
27. 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
26. 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
25. Kuss, J., Westerhold, T., Groß, U. &
Bauer, J. & Lüning, S. (2000): Mapping of Late Cretaceous stratigraphic
sequences along a Syrian Arc uplift – Examples from the Areif el
Naqa, Eastern Sinai. Middle East Research Center, Ain Shams University.,
Earth Science Series, 14, 171-191.
24. Kuss, J. (2000): Sedimentbecken in Ägypten.
Forschung, 3/2000, 42-44.
23. 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
22. Scheibner, C., Kuss, J. &
Marzouk A. (2000): Slope sediments of a Paleocene ramp-to-basin transition
in NE-Egypt. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 88, 708-724. PDF
21. Kim, J., Wagner, T., Bachmann, M. & Kuss,
J. (1998): Organic facies and thermal maturity of Late Aptian to Early
Cenomanian shelf deposits, Northern Sinai (Egypt). International Journal
of Coal Geology,39, 251-278.
20. Bachmann, M. & Kuss, J. (1998):
The Middle Cretaceous carbonate ramp of the northern Sinai: sequence stratigraphy
and facies distribution. In: V.P. Wright & T.P. Burchette (Ed.): Carbonate
Ramps. Geological Society Special Publication 149, 253-280.
19. Boukhary, M., Kulbrok, F. & Kuss,
J. (1998): New nummulitids from lower Eocene limestones of Egypt (Monastery
of St. Paul, Eastern Desert). Micropaleontology, 44, 99-108. PDF
18. Kunow, R., Bauer, J., Bachmann, M. & Kuss,
J. (1998): Verteilungsmuster benthischer Foraminiferen und Tonmineralassoziationen
im Oberapt des Sinai. In: J. Kuss (ed.), Afrikas Klimageschichte unter
geowissenschaftlichen Aspekten. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie,
Teil I, 1997, 353-371.
17. Kuss, J. (Ed.) (1998): Afrikas Klimageschichte
unter geowissenschaftlichen Aspekten. Zentralblatt für Geologie und
Paläontologie, Teil I, 1997 (1/2), 381 pp.
16. Kuss, J., Lüning, S. & Bachmann, M. (1998):
The Cretaceous downwarp basin of Sinai and early stages of inversion.
In: J. Almond et al. (eds) Gondwana 10: „Event Stratigraphy of Gondwana“.
Journal of African Earth Sciences, 27 (1, Supplement), 225-227.
15. Lüning, S., Kuss, J., Bachmann,
M., Morsi, A.M. & Marzouk, A.M. (1998): Sedimentary response to basin
inversion: Mid Cretaceous – Early Tertiary pre- to syndeformational
deposition at the Areif El Naqa Anticline (Sinai, Egypt). Facies, 38,
103-136.
14. Lüning, S., Marzouk, A.M. & Kuss,
J. (1998): Late Maastrichtian litho- and ecocylces from hemipelagic deposits
of eastern Sinai, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 27, 373-395.
13. Lüning, S., Marzouk, A.M. & Kuss,
J. (1998): The Paleocene of central east Sinai, Egypt: ‘sequence
stratigraphy’ in monotonous hemipelagites. Journal of Foraminiferal
research, 28, 19-39.
12. Lüning, S., Marzouk, A.M., Morsi, A.M. &
J Kuss, J. (1998): Sequence stratigraphy of the Upper
Cretaceous of central-east Sinai, Egypt. Cretaceous Research, 19, 153-196.
11. Geyer, O., Kuss, J. & Bachmann,
M. (1997): On some Albian Ammonites from the Northeastern Sinai (Egypt).
Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 71, 221-229.
10. Bachmann, M., Bandel, K, Kuss,
J. & Willems, H. (1996): Sedimentary processes and intertethyal comparisons
of two Early/Late Cretaceous carbonate ramp systems (NE-Africa and Spain).
In: J. Reitner, F. Neuweiler & F. Gunkel, (Eds), Global and Regional
Controls on Biogenic Sedimentation. II. Cretaceous Sedimentation. Göttinger
Arbeiten für Geologie und Paläontologie, Sonderband 3, 151-163.
9. Kuss, J. & Bachmann, M. (1996): Cretaceous paleogeography
of the Sinai Peninsula and neighbouring areas. Comptes rendus de l'Academie
des Sciences, Serie II, Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes, 322, 915-933.
8. Flint, O., Budziak, D., Stahlhut, B., Schulz, S.
& Kuss, J. (1995): Geological Map 1: 20000 of the
Monastery of St. Anthony (Egypt). Eigenverlag, TFH Berlin.
7. Kuss, J. (1994): Cretaceous (Albian-Turonian) calcareous
algae from Egypt and Jordan - systematics, stratigraphy and paleogeography.
Abandlungen der Geologischen Bundesantalt, 50, 295-317.
6. Kuss, J. & Herbig, H.-G. (1993): Biogeography,
facies and taxonomy of Early Tertiary green algae from Egypt and Morocco.
In: F. Baratollo, P. De Castro & M. Parente (Eds) Bollettino della
Societa Paleontologia d'Italia, Special Volume 1, 249-280.
5. Luger, P. & Kuss, J. (1993): Late Cretaceous
to basal Tertiary shallow-water sedimentation in Northern Somalia. In:
U. Thorweihe & H. Schandelmeier (Eds), Geoscientific Research in Northeast
Africa, 443-447, Balkema, Rotterdam.
4. Kuss, J. (1992): Facies and stratigraphy of Cretaceous
limestones from northeast Egypt, Sinai, and southern Jordan. Geology of
The Arab World, Cairo University, 283-302.
3. Kuss, J. (1992): The Aptian-Paleocene shelf carbonates
of Northeast Egypt and southern Jordan: Establishment and break-up of
carbonate platforms along the southern Tethyan shores. Zeitschrift der
Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 143, 107-132.
2. Kuss, J. & Senowbary-Daryan, B. (1992): Anomuran
coprolites from Cretaceous shallow water limestones of NE Africa. Cretaceous
Research 13, 147-156.
1. Senowbary-Daryan, B. & Kuss,
J. (1992): Anomuren-Koprolithen aus der Kreide von Ägypten. Mitteilungen
aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität
Hamburg, 73, 129-157.