Prof. Dr. Ulrich Heimhofer

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Wissenschaftlicher und beruflicher Werdegang

Auszeichnungen

Forschungsinteressen 

• Stabile Isotopengeochemie und Chemostratigraphie von mesozoischen Sedimentgesteinen

• Ablagerung und Erhaltung von sedimentärem organischem Material

• Stratigraphische Palynologie und Pflanzenevolution

• Paläoklimatologie und Paläozeanographie des Mesozoikums

Aktuelle Forschungprojekte 

 Abgeschlossene Forschungsprojekte 

Publikationen in Zeitschriften mit Begutachtungsverfahren

• Huck, S., Heimhofer, U., Immenhauser, (in review): Early Aptian algal bloom in a neritic proto-North Atlantic setting: Harbinger of global change related to OAE1a?

• Heimhofer, U., Hochuli, P. A., Burla, S., Oberli, F., Adatte, T., Dinis, J., Weissert, H. (in review): Climate and vegetation history of Western Portugal inferred from Albian near-shore deposits (Galé Formation, Lusitanian Basin).

• Huck, S., Heimhofer, U., Rameil, N., Bodin, S., Immenhauser, A. (2011): Strontium and carbon-isotope chronostratigraphy of Barremian-Aptian shoal-water carbonates: Northern Tethyan platform drowning predates OAE 1a. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 304, 547-548.

• Huck, S., Rameil, N., Korbar, T., Heimhofer, U., Wieczorek, T.D., Immenhauser, A. (2010): Latitudinally different responses of Tethyan shoalwater carbonate systems to Early Aptian oceanic anoxic event (OAE1a). Sedimentology, 57, 1585-1614. 

• Heimhofer, U., Hochuli, P. A. (2010): Early Cretaceous angiosperm pollen from a low-latitude succession (Araripe Basin, NE Brazil). Review of Paleobotany and Palynology, 161, 105-126.

• Heimhofer, U., Ariztegui, D., Lenniger, M., Hesselbo, S. P., Martill, D. M. (2010): Deciphering the depositional environment of the laminated Crato fossil beds (Early Cretaceous, Araripe Basin, North-eastern Brazil). Sedimentology, 57, 677-694.

• Burla, S., Oberli, F., Heimhofer, U., Wiechert, U., Weissert, H. (2009): Improved time control of Cretaceous coastal deposits: New results from Sr isotope measurements using laser ablation. Terra Nova 21, 401-409.

• Heimhofer, U., Hesselbo, S. P., Pancost, R. D., Martill, D. M., Hochuli, P. A. and Guzzo, J. V. P. (2008): Evidence for photic-zone euxinia in the Early Albian Santana Formation (Araripe Basin, NE Brazil). Terra Nova, 20, 347-354.

• Heimhofer, U., Adatte, T., Hochuli, P. A., Burla, S. and Weissert, H. (2008): Coastal sediments from the Algarve - Low-latitude climate archive for the Aptian-Albian. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 97 (4), 785-797.

• Martill, D. M., Loveridge, R. F. and Heimhofer, U. (2008): Dolomite pipes in the Crato Formation fossil lagerstätte (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian), of northeastern Brazil. Cretaceous Research, 29, 78-86.

• Burla, S., Heimhofer, U., Hochuli, P. A. and Weissert, H. (2008): Changes in sedimentary patterns of coastal and deep-sea successions from the North Atlantic (Portugal) linked to Early Cretaceous environmental change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 257, 38-57.

• Martill, D. M., Loveridge, R. F. and Heimhofer, U. (2007): Halite pseudomorphs in the Crato Formation (Early Cretaceous, Late Aptian-Early Albian), Araripe Basin, northeast Brazil: further evidence for hypersalinity. Cretaceous Research, 28, 613-620.

• Heimhofer, U., Hochuli, P. A., Burla, S. and Weissert, H. (2007): New records of Early Creteaceous angiosperm pollen from Portuguese coastal deposits: Implications for the timing of the early angiosperm radiation. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology, 144, 39-76.

• Hochuli, P. A., Heimhofer, U., and Weissert, H. (2006): Timing of early angiosperm radiation – recalibrating the classical succession. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 163, 587-594.

• Heimhofer, U., Hochuli, P. A., Herrle, J. O. and Weissert, H. (2006): Contrasting origins of Early Cretaceous black shales in the Vocontian Basin: Evidence from palynological and calcareous nannofossil records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 235, 93-109.

• Heimhofer, U., Hochuli, P.A., Burla, S., Dinis, J. and Weissert, H. (2005): Timing of Early Cretaceous angiosperm diversification and possible links to major paleoenvironmental change. Geology, 33, 141-144.

• Heimhofer, U., Hochuli, P. A., Herrle, J. O., Andersen, N. and Weissert, H. (2004): Absence of major vegetation and palaeoatmospheric pCO2 changes associated with oceanic anoxic event 1a (Early Aptian, SE France). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 223, 303-318.

• Bauer, J., Steuber, T., Kuss, J. and Heimhofer, U. (2004): Distribution of shallow-water benthics (rudists, calcareous algae, benthic foraminifers) in the Cenomanian-Turonian carbonate platform sequences of Sinai, Egypt. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 247, 207-231.

• Heimhofer, U., Hochuli, P.A., Burla, S., Andersen, N. and Weissert, H. (2003): Terrestrial carbon-isotope records from coastal deposits (Algarve, Portugal): a tool for chemostratigraphic correlation on an intrabasinal and global scale. Terra Nova, 15, 8-13.

               

  Weitere Publikationen

• Heimhofer, U. and Martill, D. M. (2007): The sedimentology and depositional environment of the Crato Formation. In: Martill, D. M., Bechly, G. and Loveridge, R. F. (Eds.) The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 624 pp.

• Martill, D. M. and Heimhofer, U. (2007): Stratigraphy of the Crato Formation. In: Martill, D. M., Bechly, G. and Loveridge, R. F. (Eds.) The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 624 pp.