Schedule


Early Earth Evolution
DMG Short course: 25-28 March 2025


Monday, 24.03.



  • 17:00 – 20:00 Registration & Icebreaker (Seminarroom Min/Pet, Room 3.101)





Tuesday, 25.03.



  • 8:30 – 9:00 Registration

  • 9:00 – 9:20 Welcome / Intro

  • 9:20 – 10:30 Overview Archean (Thomas Müller & Dominik Sorger)

  • 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

  • 11:00 – 12:30 Bill Moore: Heat transfer and the Early Earth Geodynamics

  • 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

  • 13:30 – 14:00 Matthias Willbold: A modern perspective on the chemical and isotopic composition of the Archean mantle

  • 14:00 – 14:30 Ari Ganbat: Lithospheric Evolution in Early Earth: Insights into tectonic regimes

  • 14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break

  • 15:30 – 17:00 Elis Hoffmann: Continental crust in its infancy - formation processes and secular evolution





Wednesday, 26.03.


Structural Geology & Petrochronology



  • 9:00 – 9:45 Alex Webb: Early Earth models and terranes

  • 9:45 – 10:30 Thomas Müller: Archean metamorphism – Determination of PTXD evolutions

  • 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

  • 11:00 – 11:20 Dominik Sorger: Dating Archean metamorphism: direct and indirect methods - an example from the Isua supracrustal belt

  • 11:20 – 12:00 Thorsten Nagel: Age of metamorphism and deformation in Archean units along the inner Nuup Kangerlua (West Greenland)

  • 12:00 – 12:30 Dominik Sorger: Polyphase metamorphism in metasediments from the Isua supracrustal belt: insights from monazites and garnet dating

  • 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

  • 13:30 – 15:00 Hilmar von Eynatten: The detrital perspective on Early Earth Evolution – inferences from provenance analysis of the sedimentary record.

  • 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

  • 15:30 – 17:00 Poster session

  • 18:30 – 21:00 Dinner at Bullerjahns (https://www.bullerjahn.de)





Thursday, 27.03.


Geochemistry II



  • 9:00 – 9:45 Andreas Pack: Triple oxygen and silicon isotope systematics–application to Precambrian cherts

  • 9:45 – 10:30 Daniel Herwartz: Climate extremes on early Earth–a triple-O perspective

  • 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break



Sedimentology II



  • 11:00 – 12:30 Michael Tatzel: Silica diagenesis, paleo-heat flow and thermometry from O and Si isotopes in chert

  • 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break



Geobiology I



  • 13:30 – 15:00 Jan-Peter Duda: Deep time geobiology: From the dawn of life to the biological forces that have shaped the early Earth

  • 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

  • 15:30 – 17:00 Open questions / discussions with previous speakers





Friday, 28.03.


Geobiology II



  • 9:00 – 10:30 Vanessa Fichtner: Deep time geobiology: Sulfur isotope insights into microbial processes and environmental change on the early Earth

  • 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

  • 11:00 – 12:30 Breakout sessions future projects; Wrap-up