Simone ZIEGENBALG, Dr.

simone.ziegenbalg@univie.ac.at

Room Number: 2B385
Tel.: +43-1-4277-53443
Fax: +43-1-4277-9534

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Research Interests:

Geobiology, Sulphur and carbonate microbialites, Mineral authigenesis, carbon- and sulphur- cycle, stable carbon-, oxygen- and sulphur- isotopes, molecular fossils

Current professional service activity:

Austrian correspondent of the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS); see also the website of the Austrian Sedimentologists: http://www.univie.ac.at/austrosed/

Project:

Sulphur and carbonate microbialites in sulphate-rich Messinian strata from Sicily

Publications:

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

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

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.

Ziegenbalg SB, Berthold C, Kappler A, Peckmann J (2011) Gypsum whiskers in Messinian evaporites identified by µXRD². Facies 57, 249-253.

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.

Pannike S, Kölling M, Panteleit B, Reichling J, Scheps V, Schulz HD (2006) Influence of hydrogeological parameters on temperature variations due to borehole heat exchangers. Grundwasser 11, 6-18.