MY RESEARCH
My research interests are the characterization of clay minerals and their transformation processes during low grade metamorphism and hydrothermal alteration.
My PhD project aims to analyze clay mineral associations and the rank or coalification of carbonaceous material in the upper Jurassic to the Tertiary stratigraphic record of the fault-and-thrust belt of Patagonia in southern Chile. The thermal evolution and the complex prograde and retrograde clay mineral associations related to burial, thrusting, overburden, the source area and the hydrothermal activity of the well-investigated intrusive Torres del Paine Complex will be studied using the illite and chlorite crystallinity techniques. It is anticipated to constrain a carefully selected suite of clay minerals by applying the K/Ar and Ar/Ar techniques to learn about time constraints during the formation of thrust- and fault belts.Within the frame of this project we are currently set up a ClayLab using state-of-the-art-procedures for clay characterization.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Süssenberger, A., Brito Neves B., B., Wemmer K, 2014. Dating the low grade metamorphism and deformation of the Chapada Diamantina (Bahia, NE Brazil): a K/Ar fine fraction study. Brazilian Journal of Geology (44), pp. 207-220.
Pack, A., Gehler, A., Süssenberger, A., 2013. Exploring the usability of isotopically anomalous oxygen in bones and teeth as paleo-CO2- barometer. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Act (102), pp. 306‐317.
Abstracts
Süssenberger, A., Schmidt S.T., 2014. Dating low grade deformation of the Patagonian fold-and-thrust belt in the Torres del Paine area, Chile 51° 30’ S: first resultsDating. 12th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Fribourg.
Šegvić B., Süssenberger A., Ugarković M., Moscariello A., 2014. Mineralogy and cultural heritage – introducing QEMSCAN® automative technology to the study of ancient artefacts. 12th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Fribourg.
Süssenberger, A., Wemmer K., Brito Neves, B.B., 2011. Dating the deformation and very low grade metamorphism of the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, NE Brazil, 22nd Colloquium on Latin American Earth Sciences, 30.3.‐ 1.4. Heidelberg.
Pack, A., Süssenberger, A., Gehler, A., and Wotzlaw, J., 2009. Tracing the oxygen triple isotopic composition of tropospheric molecular oxygen in biogenic apatite – a new tool for palaeoclimatology. Geophysical Research Abstracts 11 EGU, 19.‐24. 4. Vienna .
Pack, A., Süssenberger, A., Wotzlaw, J., Przybilla, R., and Bischoff, A., 2008. High‐precision analyses of Δ17O by laser fluorination: application to terrestrial and meteoritic samples. European Planetary Science Congress, 21.‐26. 9. Münster.
