Jörn Peckmann, Prof. Dr.

joern.peckmann@univie.ac.at

Room Number: 2B474
Tel.: +43-1-4277-53470
Fax: +43-1-4277-9534

Research Interests:

• Biosedimentology (carbonates, phosphates, evaporites)

• Mineral authigenesis

• Geomicrobiology of ancient environments

Current Projects:

• Geobiology of ancient and modern methane-seeps

• Sulfur and carbonate authigenesis in hypersaline environments

• Reef microbialites

• Phosphorite authigenesis

• Serpentinization and associated carbonate formation

• Endolithic microorganisms in suboceanic basalt
  
  

Teaching:

• Current Semester
  
• Previous Semester

Editorial Activities:

• Associate Editor of Palaios, since 2006

• Associate Editor of Terra Nova, since 2009

• Co-Editor of Facies, since 2004

• Editorial Board Member of Sedimentary Geology, 2007 - 2011

• Editorial Board Member of The Open Paleontology Journal, since 2007

• Guest editor of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 227 (1-3), 2005 together with James L. Goedert

Publications, since 2007: 

Natalicchio M, Birgel D, Dela Pierre F, Martire L, Clari P, Spötl C, Peckmann J (2012) Polyphasic carbonate precipitation in the shallow subsurface: insights from microbially-formed authigenic carbonate beds in upper Miocene sediments of the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (NW Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, in press

Heindel K, Birgel D, Brunner B, Thiel V, Westphal H, Gischler E, Ziegenbalg SB, Cabioch G, Sjövall P, Peckmann J (2012) Post-glacial microbialite formation in coral reefs of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Chemical Geology, in press

Sandy MR, Lazăr I, Peckmann J, Birgel D, Stoica M, Roban RD (2012) Methane-seep brachiopod fauna within turbidites of the Sinaia Formation, Eastern Carpathian Mountains, Romania. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, in press

Kiel S, Peckmann J, Simon K (2012) Catshark egg capsules from a Late Eocene deep-water methane-seep deposit in western Washington State, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, in press

Kuechler RR, Birgel D, Kiel S, Freiwald A, Goedert JL, Thiel V, Peckmann (2012) Miocene methane-derived carbonates from southwestern Washington, USA, and a model for silicification at seeps. Lethaia, in press

Berndmeyer C, Birgel D, Brunner B, Wehrmann LM, Jöns N, Bach W, Arning ET, Föllmi KB, Peckmann J (2012) The influence of bacterial activity on phosphorite formation in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 317-318, 171-181

Ziegenbalg SB, Birgel D, Hoffmann-Sell L, Pierre C, Rouchy JM, Peckmann J (2012) Anaerobic oxidation of methane in hypersaline Messinian environments revealed by ¹³C-depleted molecular fossils. Chemical Geology 292-293, 140-148

Lazăr I, Panaiotu CE, Grigore D, Sandy MR, Peckmann J (2011) An unusual brachiopod assemblage in a Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) stromatactis mud-mound of the Eastern Carpathians (Hăghimaş Mountains), Romania. Facies 57, 627-647

Treude T, Kiel S, Linke P, Peckmann J, Goedert JL (2011) Elasmobranch egg capsules associated with modern and ancient cold seeps: a nursery for marine deep-water predators. Marine Ecology Progress Series 437, 175-181

Lindtke J, Ziegenbalg SB, Brunner B, Rouchy JM, Pierre C, Peckmann J (2011) Authigenesis of native sulphur and dolomite in a lacustrine evaporitic setting (Hellín basin, Late Miocene, SE Spain). Geological Magazine 148, 655-669

Hoffmann-Sell L, Birgel D, Arning ET, Föllmi KB, Peckmann J (2011) Archaeal lipids in Neogene dolomites (Monterey and Sisquoc Formations, California) – Planktic versus benthic archaeal sources. Organic Geochemistry 42, 593-604

Birgel D, Feng D, Roberts HH, Peckmann J (2011) Changing redox conditions at cold seeps as revealed by authigenic carbonates from Alaminos Canyon, northern Gulf of Mexico. Chemical Geology 285, 82-96

Himmler T, Brinkmann F, Bohrmann G, Peckmann J (2011) Corrosion patterns of seep-carbonates from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Terra Nova 23, 206-212

Ziegenbalg SB, Berthold C, Kappler A, Peckmann J (2011) Gypsum whiskers in Messinian evaporites identified by µ-XRD². Facies 57, 249-253

Peckmann J, Kiel S, Sandy MR, Taylor DG, Goedert JL (2011) Mass occurrences of the brachiopod Halorella in Late Triassic methane-seep deposits, eastern Oregon. Journal of Geology 119, 207-220

De Boever E, Birgel D, Muchez P, Peckmann J, Dimitrov L, Swennen R (2011) Fabric and formation of grapestone concretions within an unusual ancient methane seep system (Eocene, Bulgaria). Terra Nova 23, 56-61

Feng D, Roberts HH, Cheng H, Peckmann J, Bohrmann G, Edwards RL, Chen D (2010) U/Th dating of cold-seep carbonates: An initial comparison. Deep-Sea Research II 57, 2055-2060

Holmkvist L, Arning ET, Küster-Heins K, Vandieken V, Peckmann J, Zabel M, Jørgensen BB (2010) Phosphate geochemistry, mineralization processes, and Thioploca distribution in shelf sediments off central Chile. Marine Geology 277, 61-72

Heindel K, Birgel D, Peckmann J, Kuhnert H, Westphal H (2010) Formation of deglacial microbialites in coral reefs off Tahiti (IODP 310) involving sulfate-reducing bacteria. Palaios 25, 618-635

Himmler T, Bach W, Bohrmann G, Peckmann J (2010) Rare earth elements in authigenic methane-seep carbonates as tracers for fluid composition during early diagenesis. Chemical Geology 277, 126-136

Westphal H, Heindel K, Brandano M, Peckmann J (2010) Genesis of microbialites as contemporaneous framework components of deglacial coral reefs, Tahiti (IODP 310). Facies 56, 337-352

Ziegenbalg SB, Brunner B, Rouchy JM, Birgel D, Pierre C, Böttcher ME, Caruso A, Immenhauser A, Peckmann J (2010) Formation of secondary carbonates and native sulphur in sulphate-rich Messinian strata, Sicily. Sedimentary Geology 227, 37-50

Feng D, Chen D, Peckmann J, Bohrmann G (2010) Authigenic carbonates from methane seeps of the northern Congo fan: Microbial formation mechanism. Marine and Petroleum Geology 27, 748-756

Haas A, Peckmann J, Elvert M, Sahling H, Bohrmann G (2010) Patterns of carbonate authigenesis at the Kouilou pockmarks on the Congo deep-sea fan. Marine Geology 268, 129-136

Eickmann B, Bach W, Kiel S, Reitner J, Peckmann J (2009) Evidence for cryptoendolithic life in Devonian pillow basalts of Variscan orogens, Germany. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 283, 120-125

Eickmann B, Bach W, Rosner M, Peckmann J (2009) Geochemical constraints on the modes of carbonate precipitation in peridotites from the Logatchev Hydrothermal Vent Field and Gakkel Ridge. Chemical Geology 268, 97-106

Peckmann J, Birgel D, Kiel S (2009) Molecular fossils reveal fluid composition and flow intensity at a Cretaceous seep. Geology 37, 847-850

De Boever E, Birgel D, Thiel V, Muchez P, Peckmann J, Dimitrov L, Swennen R (2009) The formation of giant tubular concretions triggered by anaerobic oxidation of methane as revealed by archaeal molecular fossils (Lower Eocene, Varna, Bulgaria). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 280, 23-36

Arning ET, Birgel D, Brunner B, Peckmann J (2009) Bacterial formation of phosphatic laminites off Peru. Geobiology 7, 295-307

Arning ET, Lückge A, Breuer C, Gussone N, Birgel D, Peckmann J (2009) Genesis of phosphorite crusts off Peru. Marine Geology 262, 68-81

Eickmann B, Bach W, Peckmann J (2009) Authigenesis of carbonate minerals in modern and Devonian ocean-floor hard rocks. Journal of Geology 117, 307-323

Feng D, Chen D, Peckmann J (2009) Rare earth elements in seep carbonates as tracers of variable redox conditions at ancient hydrocarbon seeps. Terra Nova 21, 49-56

Haas A, Little CTS, Sahling H, Bohrmann G, Himmler T, Peckmann J (2009) Mineralization of vestimentiferan tubes at methane seeps on the Congo deep-sea fan. Deep-Sea Research I 56, 283-293

Birgel D, Peckmann J (2008) Aerobic methanotrophy at ancient marine methane seeps: A synthesis. Organic Geochemistry 39, 1659-1667

Kiel S, Peckmann J (2008) Paleoecology and evolutionary significance of an Early Cretaceous Peregrinella-dominated hydrocarbon-seep deposit on the Crimean Peninsula. Palaios 23, 751-759

Birgel D, Himmler T, Freiwald A, Peckmann J (2008) A new constraint on the antiquity of anaerobic oxidation of methane: Late Pennsylvanian seep limestones from southern Namibia. Geology 36, 543-546

Arning ET, Birgel D, Schulz-Vogt HN, Holmkvist L, Jørgensen BB, Larson A, Peckmann J (2008) Lipid biomarker patterns of phosphogenic sediments from upwelling regions. Geomicrobiology Journal 25, 69-82

Peckmann J, Bach W, Behrens K, Reitner J (2008) Putative cryptoendolithic life in Devonian pillow basalt, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Germany. Geobiology 6, 125-135

Birgel D, Elvert M, Han X, Peckmann J (2008) ¹³C-depleted biphytanic diacids as tracers of past anaerobic oxidation of methane. Organic Geochemistry 39, 152-156

Himmler T, Freiwald A, Stollhofen H, Peckmann J (2008) Late Carboniferous hydrocarbon-seep carbonates from the glaciomarine Dwyka Group, southern Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 257, 185-197

Kiel S, Peckmann J (2007) Chemosymbiotic bivalves and stable carbon isotopes indicate hydrocarbon seepage at four unusual Cenozoic fossil localities. Lethaia 40, 345-357

Peckmann J, Senowbari-Daryan B, Birgel D, Goedert JL (2007) The crustacean ichnofossil Palaxius associated with callianassid body fossils in an Eocene methane-seep limestone, Humptulips Formation, Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Lethaia 40, 273-280

Senowbari-Daryan B, Gaillard C, Peckmann J (2007) Crustacean microcoprolites from Jurassic (Oxfordian) hydrocarbon-seep deposits of Beauvoisin, southeastern France. Facies 53, 229-238

Peckmann J, Campbell KA, Walliser OH, Reitner J (2007) A Late Devonian hydrocarbon-seep deposit dominated by dimerelloid brachiopods, Morocco. Palaios 22, 114-122