Department of Geology
Department of Geology
Research at the Department of Geology focuses on pure and applied research into both ductile/brittle lithospheric and Earth-surface processes. Field-based geology and quantitative modeling of geodynamic processes form the foundation of academic and applied Earth sciences research, in particular in petroleum geology and seismology. A close collaboration between research groups focuses on integrated geodynamics/tectonics and sedimentology/stratigraphy.
Head: Michael Wagreich, Bernhard Grasemann (Dep.), Daniel Le Heron (Dep.)
News and Events
May 2024
Earth Sciences Colloquium
Next Talk: 16 May, 17:00 c.t., HS 2
Rüdiger Killian (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
March 2024
New Publication in SCIENCE
Energiebilanz von Erbeben anhand von fossilem Gestein erhoben
Michel Bestmann
On-fault earthquake energy density partitioning from shocked garnet in an exhumed seismic midcrustal fault
February 2024
Ö1 Radiokolleg Anthropozän
Anthropozän - Das Zeitalter des Menschen (2)
Diana Hatzenbühler, Michael Weißl
February 2024
Article/Press
„Menschenzeitalter“ bleibt umstritten
Michael Wagreich, Christian Köberl
January 2024
New Publication/Press
New Publication in „Sedimentology“:
Stephanie Neuhuber, Susanne Gier, Erich Draganits, Peter Steier, Monika Bolka, Franz Ottner, Christoph Spötl, Dorothee Hippler, Patrick Meister: Radiocarbon ages of microcrystalline authigenic carbonate in Lake Neusiedl (Austria) suggest millennial-scale growth of Mg-calcite and protodolomite. (doi: 10.1111/sed.13161)
Dezember 2023
Neue Schneckenart
Eine neu entdeckte Schneckenart aus dem Miozän, die pseudotorinia grasemanni, wurde nach Bernhard Grasemann benannt.
November 2023
Visiting Professor
Andrea Mindszenty, Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical and Applied Geology at Eötvös L. University, Budapest, visits our Department from November until December.
October 2023
Article/Press
Die Donau als stille Zeugin des Anthropozäns
Michael Weissl, Diana Hatzenbühler, Michael Wagreich
October 2023
Emerging Field Grant
Michael Wagreich, Daniel Le Heron and Ronald Pöppl receive the emerging field grant for the project "Microplastics as Anthropocene markers and proxies for sediment connectivity in fluvial systems".
September 2023
Science Prize
Erich Draganits was awarded the Science Prize of the Province of Burgenland - Recognition award! Congratulations!