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Dipl.-Geol. Tobias Himmler
Name: | Dipl.-Geol. Tobias Himmler | |
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Department: | Marine Geology | |
Phone: | +49 421 218 - 65061 | |
Fax: | +49 421 218 - 65099 | |
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Research interests
- Carbonate sedimentology
- Carbonate geochemistry
- Marine geology and early diagenesis
- Cold-seeps and geomicrobiology

Current research
- Rare earth elements in authigenic cold-seep carbonates (in collaboration with the working group POC of Prof. Bach)
- Petrography and geochemistry of cold-seep carbonates from mud volcanoes (eastern Mediterranean Sea)
- Rare earth elements in methane-seep pore waters (together with Brian Haley at the W. M. Keck Collaboratory for Plasma Spectrometry, Corvallis, Oregon)

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

Diploma thesis
- Late Carboniferous hydrocarbon-seep carbonates from the glaciomarine Dwyka Group, southern Namibia (Prof. Freiwald & Prof. Stollhofen, Erlangen)
- Geological map (1:10000) of the Los Barrios de Luna area, Cantabrian Mountains (northern Spain) (Prof. Keller, Erlangen)











