Bernhard GRASEMANN, Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr.

bernhard.grasemann@univie.ac.at

Room Number: 2B445
Tel.: +43-1-4277-53472
Fax: +43-1-4277-9534

Research Interests:

Analytical and numerical modeling of deformation of rocks
Low- and high-angle normal faulting (Greece)
Interaction between deformation and chemical reactions
Evolution of fold-and-thrust belts (Zagros)
Exhumation of rocks in collision orogens (Alps, Himalayas)


Current professional service activities:

Member of the Academic Senat of the University of Vienna
Comitee member of the Österreichische Geologische Gesellschaft
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Virtual Explorer
Member of the editorial advisory board of the Central European Journal of Geosciences


Current Projects:

2011-2014: University of Vienna Doctoral School: DOGMA - Deformation Of Geological Matarials: mechanical-chemical feedback an coupling across scales. PI: R. Abart & B. Grasemann (Univie).
2011-2012: OMV Exploration & Production GmbH: Structural modelling of antiformal hydrocarbonm traps (Lebanon). PI: B. Grasemann (Univie) & R. Bischoff (OMV).
2011-2012: OMV Exploration & Production GmbH: Fold-growth in the Kopeh Dagh (NE-Iran). PI: B. Grasemann (Univie) & R. Bischoff (OMV).
2011-2012: OMV Exploration & Production GmbH: Micromechanical, geochemical and kinematic history of deformation and the evolution of porosity in Habban Field basement reservoir (Yemen). PI: B. Grasemann (Univie) & R. Bischoff (OMV).
2008-2011: OMV Exploration & Production GmbH: Quantitative structural modelling of the Zagros Fold-and-Thrust Belt in NE Iraq. PI: B. Grasemann (Univie), G. Tari & H. Peresson (OMV).
2006-2010: P 18823_N19 FWF Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung: ACCEL - Aegean Core Complexes along an Extended Lithosphere (Western Cyclades, Greece). PI: B. Grasemann (Univie)

Teaching:

Doctoral School: DOGMA - Deformation Of Geological MAtarials

Current Semester
Previous Semester


Selected Publications (since 2005):

BURTSCHER, A., FREHNER, M. & GRASEMANN, B. (in press): Tectonic geomorphological investigations of antiforms using differential geometry (Permam Anticline, Northern Iraq).- AAPG Bulletin.

GRASEMANN, B. & TSCHEGG, C. (in press): Localization of deformation triggered by chemo-mechanical feedback processes.- Geological Society of America Bulletin.

GRASEMANN, B., SCHNEIDER, D. A., STÖCKLI, D. & IGLSEDER, C. (in press): Miocene bivergent crustal extension in the Cyclades (Greece).- Lithosphere. DOI: 10.1130/L164.1.

BRETIS, B., BARTL, N. & GRASEMANN, B. (2011): Lateral fold growth and linkage in the Zagros fold and thrust belt (Kurdistan, NE Iraq).- Basin Research, 23/6, 615-630. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2011.00506.x.

GRASEMANN, B., EXNER, U. & TSCHEGG, C. (2011): High-displacement gradients along ductily deforming brittle faults.- Journal of Structural Geology, 33/11, 1650-1661.

IGLSEDER, C. GRASEMANN, B., PETRAKAKIS, K., SCHNEIDER, D.A., RICE, A.H.N. (2011): Miocene S-directed shear zone and low-angle normal fault evolution; the West Cycladic Detachment System on Kea. Tectonics, 30/ 4, TC4013.

LACOMBE, O., GRASEMANN, B. & SIMPSON, G. (2011): Introduction: geodynamic evolution of the Zagros, Geological Magazine, 148/ 5-6, 689-691.

RATH, A., EXNER, U., TSCHEGG, C., GRASEMANN, B., LANER, R., DRAGANITS, E. (2011): Diagenetic control of deformation mechanisms in deformation bands in a carbonate grainstone.- AAPG Bulletin, 95/ 8, 1369-1381.

REIF, D., GRASEMANN. B. & FABER, R. (2011): Quantitative structural analysis using remote sensing data (Kurdistan, NE Iraq).- AAPG Bulletin, 95/6, 941-956.

SCHNEIDER, D.A., SENKOWSKI, C., VOGEL, H., GRASEMANN, B., IGLSEDER, C. & SCHMITT, A.K. (2011): Eocene tectonometamorphism on Serifos (western Cyclades) deduced from zircon depth- profiling geochronology and mica thermochronology.- Lithos, 125/1-2, 151-172

SPAHIĆ; D., EXNER, U. , BEHM, M, GRASEMANN, B., HARING, A. & PRETSCH, H. (2011): Listric versus planar normal fault geometry: an example from the Eisenstadt-Sopron Basin (E-Austria). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 100/7, 1685-1695.

ERTL, A., DRAGANITS, E., GRASEMANN, B., NTAFLOS, T., GIESTER, G. & TILLMANNS, E. (2011): Synkinematic tourmaline growth on brittle-ductile normal faults (Despotiko Island, Aegean). Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 105-116.

EXNER, U. & GRASEMANN, B. (2010):  Deformation bands in gravels: Displacement gradients and heterogeneous strain. Journal of the Geological Society. 167, 905-913.

PLAN, L., GRASEMANN, B., SPÖTL, C., DECKER, K., BOCH, R. & KRAMERS, J. (2010): Neotectonic extrusion of the Eastern Alps: Constraints from U/Th dating of tectonically damaged speleothems. Geology, 58, 483-486.

SARKARINEJAD, K., SAMANI, B., FAGHIH, A., GRASEMANN, B. & MORADIPOOR, M.  (2010): Implications of strain and vorticity of flow analyses to interpret the kinematics of an oblique convergence event (Zagros Mountains, Iran): Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 38, 34-43.

HABLER, G., THÖNI, M. & GRASEMANN, B. (2009): Cretaceous metamorphism in the Austroalpine Matsch Unit (Eastern Alps): The interrelation between deformation and chemical equilibration processes. Mineralogy and Petrology. 97, 10.1007/s00710-009-0094-x.

TSCHEGG, C. & GRASEMANN, B. (2009): Deformation and alteration of  a granodiorite during low-angle normal faulting (Serifos, Greece).- Lithosphere, 1(3), 139-154.

PLAN, L., DECKER, K., FABER, R., WAGREICH, M. & GRASEMANN, B. (2009): Karst morphology and groundwater vulnerability of high alpine karst plateaus.- Environmental Geology, 58(2), 285-297.

IGLSEDER, C. , GRASEMANN, B. , PETRAKAKIS, K. , MILLER, C. , KLÖTZLI, U., THÖNI, M. , ZAMOLYI, A. & RAMBOUSEK, C. (2009): Tertiary I and S-type Plutonism on Serifos (W-Cyclades, Greece) .- Tectonophysics, 473(1-2), 69-83.

EDWARDS, M. & GRASEMANN, B. (2009): Mediterranean snapshots of accelerated slab retreat; subduction instability in stalled continental collision.- in van Hinsbergen, D., Edwards,  M., Govers, R. (eds.): Collision and collapse at the Africa-Arabia-Eurasia subduction zone. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 311, 155-192.

GRASEMANN, B., EXNER, U., O'CONNOR, A. & WIEMAYR, G. (2008): Offset of markers along slip surfaces in ductile shear zones. In: (Ed.) Declan De Paor, Making Sense of Shear (In honour of Carol Simpson), Journal of the Virtual Explorer, Electronic Edition, ISSN 1441-8142, volume 30, paper 8.

SARKARINEJAD, K., FAGHIH, A. & GRASEMANN, B. (2008): Transpressional deformations within the Sanandaj-Sirjan Metamorphic Belt (Zagros Mountains, Iran). Journal of Structural Geology. 30/7, 818-826.- Top 25 Hottest Articles; Top25 Hottest Article.

DRAGANITS, E., SCHLAF, J., GRASEMANN, B. & ARGLES, T. (2008): Giant submarine landslide grooves in the Neoproterozoic/Lower Cambrian Phe Formation, northwest Himalaya: Mechanisms of formation and palaeogeographic implications. Sedimentary Geology, 205/3-4, 121-141.

BISWAS, S., COUTAND, I., GRUJIC, D., HAGER, C., STÖCKLI, D. & GRASEMANN, B. (2007): Exhumation of the Shillong plateau and its influence on east Himalayan tectonics. Tectonics, 26(TC6013): doi:10.1029/2007TC002125.

GRASEMANN, B. & PETRAKAKIS; K. (2007): Evolution of the Serifos Metamorphic Core Complex. In: (eds.) Lister, G., Forster, M., and Ring, U., Inside the Aegean Metamorphic Core Complexes, Journal of the Virtual Explorer, 28/2, 33-52.

EBNER, M. & GRASEMANN, B. (2006): Divergent and convergent non-isochoric deformation.- Journal of Structural Geology, v. 28, p. 1725-1733. - Top 25 Hottest Articles

BESTMANN, M., PRIOR, D. J. & GRASEMANN, B. (2006): Characterisation of deformation and flow mechanics around porphyroclasts in a calcite marble ultramylonite by means of EBSD analysis. Tectonophysics, 413(3-4), 185-200.

HOELZEL, M., GRASEMANN, B. & WAGREICH, M. (2006): Numerical modelling of clast rotation during soft-sediment deformation: a case study in Miocene delta deposits. International Journal of Earth Sciences, DOI 10.1007/s00531-006-0070-1.

BESTMANN, M., RICE, A.H.N., LANGENHORST, F., GRASEMANN, B., and HEIDELBACH, F. (2006): Subglacial bedrock welding associated with glacial earthquakes: Journal of the Geological Society, v. 163, p. 417-420.

EXNER, U., GRASEMANN, B. & MANCKTELOW, N. (2006): Multiple faults in ductile simple shear: analogue models of flanking structure systems. In: SCHREURS, G. & BUITER, S. (eds.), Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Crustal-Scale Processes, Volume 253: Geological Society, London, Special Publications: London, p. 381-395.

GRASEMANN, B. EDWARDS M.A. & WIESMAYR G. (2006): Kinematic dilatancy effects on orogenic extrusion, in LAW, R., SEARLE, M.P., and GODIN, L., eds., Channel Flow, Ductile Extrusion and Exhumation in Continental Collision Zones, Volume 268: Geological Society, London, Special Publications: London, Geological Society of London Special Publications, p. 183-199.

WIESMAYR, G. & GRASEMANN, B. (2005): Sense and non-sense of shear in flanking structures with layer-parallel shortening: implications for fault-related folds. Journal of Structural Geology 27(2), 249-264.

COELHO, S., PASSCHIER, C. & GRASEMANN, B. (2005): Classification of fault drag. Journal of Structural Geology, 27, 597-606. - TOP 25 Hottest Articles

SÖLVA, H., GRASEMANN, B., THÖNI, M., THIEDE, R. and HABLER, G. (2005): The Schneeberg Normal Fault Zone: First evidence for a normal fault zone associated with Cretaceous SE-directed extrusion (Eastern Alps,, Italy/Austria), Tectonophysics, 401/3-4, 143-166.

PASSCHIER, C., MANCKTELOW, N. S. & GRASEMANN, B. (2005): Flow Perturbations; a tool to study inhomogeneous deformation. Journal of Structural Geology, 27/6, 1011-1026. - TOP 25 Hottest Articles

GRASEMANN, B., MARTEL, S. & PASSCHIER, C. (2005): Reverse and normal drag along a single fault. Journal of Structural Geology, 27/6, 999-1010. - TOP 25 Hottest Articles

DRAGANITS, E., GRASEMANN, B. & HAGER, C. (2005): Conjugate, cataclastic deformation bands in the Lower Devonian Muth Formation (Tethyan Zone, NW India): evidence for pre-Himalayan deformation structures. Geological Magazin 142(4), 1-17, doi:10.1017/S0016756805001093.