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Dr. Stefan Höntzsch (moved to Kali plus Salz)
PhD
stefanho@uni-bremen.de
Tel +49 421 218 65253
CV
2011 May: PhD thesis finished
2008-2011 PhD student at University Bremen
Project: “Platform evolution around the Early
Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO) in a low latitude setting (Egypt)”
Höntzsch, Kuss, Scheibner, Rasser more...
2001-2007 Studies in Geology and Paleontology at TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Thesis: “3d-parasequence stacking and accommodation-driven
facies distribution in an extensional basin – The Cretaceous succession
in the Elbe Valley, SE Germany” – Basin analysis and 3D basin
modelling with GoCAD
In cooperation with Dr. Marcus Apel (Statoil, Norway) and Prof. Dr.
Sven Egenhoff (Colorado State University, USA)
Practical experience
2006 Research stay at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA Supported
by DAAD scholarship
2004 Research mapping in Oslo, Norway
In cooperation with Dr. Joerg Maletz (University at Buffalo, USA)
and Prof. Dr. Sven Egenhoff (Colorado State University, USA)
Diploma mapping: “Petrology and Volcanology of the volcano complex
“Bosetti” in the Main Ethiopian Rift” – Satellite-supported
exploration and mapping of volcanic rocks
In cooperation with the University of Addis Ababa
Internships: Vattenfall Europe Mining, Deutsche Steinkohle AG, esco – European Salt Company, K+S – Kali und Salz AG
Publications
5. Höntzsch S., Brock J.P., Scheibner C., Kuss J. (subm.): Circum-Tethyan carbonate platform evolution during the Palaeogene – the Prebetic platform as test case for climatically-controlled facies shifts.
4. Maletz J, Egenhoff SO, Böhme M, Asch R, Borowski K, Höntzsch S, Kirsch M, Werner M (in press) A Tale of Both Sides of Iapetus – Upper Darriwilian (Ordovician) Graptolite Faunal Dynamics on the Edges of Two Continents. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
3. 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
2. 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
1. Höntzsch S, Scheibner C, Marzouk AM, Rasser MW, Kuss HJ (2009) Multiple Early Eocene thermal maxima at low latitude platform carbonates – The Eocene succession of the Galala Mountains, Egypt. In: Crouch EM, Strong, CP, Hollis CJ, (eds.) (2009) 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.
Abstracts
Höntzsch S, Scheibner C, Kuss HJ (2011): Multiple
Pulses of Syrian Arc Uplift in the Early Palaeogene – New High Resolution
Data from the Galala Mountains, Egypt. In: Belopolsky A, Craig J, Iliffe
J, Tari G (2011) New and Emerging Plays in the Eastern Mediterranean,
Geological Society London, 23. – 25 .2 .2011, Abstract Volume with
Program, pp. 26-27, London (UK).
Höntzsch S, Scheibner C, Kuss HJ (2010): Larger
benthic foraminifera in the Early Eocene hothouse and their impact to
tectonic and climatic perturbations – a case study from Egypt. In:
Langer M (2010) Forams 2010, Bonn, September 5 – 10 2010, Abstracts
with Program, p. 107, Bonn (Germany).
Höntzsch S, Apel M, Egenhoff SO (2009): 3D lithofacies modeling in the Saxonian Cretaceous Basin: a correlation tool and its limitations. In: Roehling HG, Linnemann U, Lange JM (eds.) GeoDresden 2009, Geologie der Böhmischen Masse – Regionale und angewandte Geowissen-schaften in Mitteleuropa, September 30–October 2, 2009, Abstract Volume, SDGG 63, p. 45.
Höntzsch S, Scheibner C, Kuss HJ, Rasser MW, Marzouk AM (2009): Early Eocene shallow-benthic communities – interactions between environment, climate and tectonics. In: Pascucci V & Andreucci S (eds.) Abstract book, 27th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Alghero, September 20-23, 2009, p. 206, Sassari (Italy).
Maletz, J., Egenhoff, S., Boehme, M., Asch, R., Borowski, K., Hoentzsch, S., Kirsch, M. (2007): The Elnes Formation of southern Norway: Key to the Middle Ordovician biostratigraphy & biogeography, Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, Special Volume, 10th International Symposium on the Ordovician System, Nanjing 2007.
Buchwitz, M., Hoentzsch, S., Goerner, A., Jolie, E.,
Gloaguen, R. (2006): Exploration of tectonically and magmatically active
regions by means of remote sensing methods - some examples from the northern
Main Ethiopian Rift, Geomonitoring in the Energy and Mineral Resources
Industry Using Remote Sensing Methodologies, proceedings of the 57. Berg-
und Hüttenmännischer Tag - Freiberger Forschungsforum, Freiberg,
06/2006.