Conference Program

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Field Trips Information

Granulitgebirge (27.3.): 8.15 am,
Institut für Geologie, Bernhard-von-Cotta-Str. 2

Mine Visit (27.3): 9.50 am,
An der Reichen Zeche, Fuchsmühlenweg 9
Optional meeting 9.30 am, Am Donatsturm

Erzgebirge (28.3): 8.15 am,
Institut für Geologie, Bernhard-von-Cotta-Str. 2

23.03.2026 – Monday	Workshops
18:00	Icebreaker and Registration Bernhard-von-Cotta-Straße 2
24.03.2026 – Tuesday
08:00-09:00	Registration Winklerstraße 3
08:30-08:40	Opening Welcome by Organizers
08:40-09:20	Invited talk Anna Rogowitz et al. Interplay of metamorphism and deformation mechanisms in eclogite – Implications on transient mechanical behaviour at convergent settings
09:20-09:40	Jan Pleuger et al. Do quartz-in-garnet Raman spectroscopic data and garnet fabrics reveal a fluid infiltration event in the south of the Adula nappe?
09:40-10:00	Niko Froitzheim et al. Thrust imbrication and Late Cretaceous normal faulting in the western Austroalpine: The Arlui Fault and the Jaggl Mesozoic sediments (Ötztal Nappe, Vinschgau, Italy)
10:00-10:20	Simon Fuhrmann et al. The eastern termination of the Southern Steep Belt (Central Alps)
10:20-10:40	Coffee Break
10:40-11:20	Invited talk Petr Jerabek et al. An extended extent of UHP metamorphism in the Erzgebirge wedge: some thoughts on its final structure and wedge-dome transition
11:20-11:40	Lea Schulze and Uwe Kroner Variscan tectonics of the Elbe Zone – Pervasive strike-slip overprint of a pre-existing accretionary complex
11:40-12:00	Martin Keseberg et al. Tectonometamorphic architecture of the Erzgebirge
12:00-13:40	Lunch Break
13:40-14:20	Invited talk Dominik Sorger et al. Small Inclusions, Big Implications: Tracing the Polymetamorphic Variscan Evolution of the Southern Bohemian Massif
14:20-14:40	Filip Tomek et al. Intrusive and extrusive evolution of two Late Carboniferous calderas in the NW Bohemian Massif
14:40-15:00	Petr Vitouš et al. Late Carboniferous geomagnetic field events captured by Altenberg–Teplice Caldera, Bohemian Massif
15:00-15:30	Posters Presentation (1 min presentations)
15:30-15.45	Coffee Break
15:45-17:30	Poster Session
19:30-21.00	Plenary Talk Jonas Kley Endlagerung atomarer Abfälle – die geologische Sicht
25.03.2026 – Wednesday
09:00-09:20	Armin Zeh et al. A juvenile arc terrane in the Mid-German Crystalline Zone –constraints from zircon U-Pb-Hf isotope data and implications for pre- to syn Variscan evolution
09:20-09:40	Uwe Kroner Plate tectonic evidence for a Late Devonian lithospheric scale strike-slip zone in Central Europe
09:40-10:00	Vanessa Steinritz and Klaus Reicherter Intraplate paleoseismicity in low seismic settings of Central Europe (Germany)
10:00-10:20	Florian Trilsch et al. A virtual KTB (Kontinentale Tiefbohrung): The ultimate benchmark for apatite fission track annealing?
10:20-10:40	Coffee Break
10:40-11:00	Bernd Leiss and David C.P. Peacock Limits of classical geothermal reservoir modelling in the Rhenohercynian Fold and Thrust Belt
11:00-11:20	Alena Broge et al. Glossar geologischer Brüche
11:20-11:40	Chen et al. Diagenetic and detrital controls on the mechanical properties of sandstone
11:40-12:00	Dorina Juhász et al. Stress- and time dependent permeability evolution of claystones and different sealing materials for CO2 storage
12:00-13:40	Lunch Break
13:40-14:20	Invited talk Rebecca Kühn et al. The microstructural record of oceanic core complex serpentinites – interaction of deformation and reaction
14:20-14:40	Larissa Lenz et al. Brittle-ductile deformation of diopsidic clinopyroxene during incipient transformation of granulite to eclogite
14:40-15:00	Rüdiger Kilian Anisotropy of spatial phase distributions. (Replaced Dustin Lang et al. Predicting elastic anisotropy of foliated rocks based on laboratory measurements and macro-/microstructural observations (NW-Tauern Window, Austria))
15:00-15:20	Nick Harpers et al. Microstructural Control of Fault Gouge Behaviour: Insights from Operando 4D Synchrotron Microtomography
15:20-15:40	Coffee Break
15:40-17:30	Poster Session
18:30-22:00	Social Evening Bernhard-von-Cotta-Straße 2
26.03.2026 – Thursday
08:40-09:20	Invited talk Paul Bons and Yuan-Bang Hu Folding of intrinsically anisotropic rocks and ice
09:20-09:40	Iskander Muldashev and Thorsten Nagel Margins, Oceans, and Compression: What Controls Collision Architectures?
09:40-10:00	Michael Stipp et al. Birth, Life and Fate of a Hadal Basin in the Japan Trench – First Results from IODP3-Expedition 503
10:00-10:30	Optional Library Tour
10:00-10:40	Coffee Break
10:40-12.00	TSK General Meeting
12:00-13:40	Lunch Break
27-28.03.2026 – Friday-Saturday	Field Trips

Posters Program

1. Experimental and microstructural study on the effect of second phase particles on compaction mechanisms of halite. Bodenstein Marleen et al.
2. Tectono-Structural Evolution of the Pre-Devonian Basement, Inner Billefjorden, Svalbard. Bülhoff Muriel et al.
3. Development of a polyphase basement: Ograzhden Unit, SW Bulgaria. Jensen Alex et al.
4. Previously unrecognized high-pressure metamorphism in the Erastern Erzgebirge. Keseberg Martin et al.
5. In-Sequence Thrusting and Triangle Zone Development in the External Dinarides: Constraints from 2D Kinematic Forward Modelling of a cross section around the Drežnica Canyon, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Kieckbusch Marah et al.
6. G.O.Joe: A new online tool for LA-ICP-MS data reduction. Krause Joachim et al.
7. Trace element distribution in sulfides of the Kupferschiefer-Type mineralization, Röhrigschacht Wettelrode (Saxony-Anhalt). Lohmann Christian et al.
8. The eastern Ruhla Crystalline Complex: Evidence for multi-directional deformation. Löwe Georg and Peter Hallas
9. Exhumation through vertical extrusion: A Modeling Study of the Rhodope Metamorphic Complex. Muldashev Iskander and Thorsten Nagel
10. Seismic velocity profiles, petrological velocity modeling and the architecture of the crust in Bulgaria. Nagel Thorsten et al.
11. Operando 4D synchrotron tomography reveals transport-controlled multiphase dolomitization in natural carbonate rock. Ng Arthur et al.
12. Influence of initial grain size on quarz deformation and static recovery. Ortmanns Malte et al.
13. Ar-Ar Geochronology I – Applications, limitations, developments and future improvements. Pfänder Jörg et al.
14. Magmatic plumbing systems and their role in continental breakup – an example from Messum, Namibia. Pfänder Jörg et al.
15. Poly-metamorphic evolution of a slice of the Briançonnais terrane: structural and petrographic evidence from the Tambo Nappe (Central Alps). Pigazzi Enrico et al.
16. Do quartz-in-garnet Raman spectroscopic data and garnet fabrics reveal a fluid infiltration event in the south of the Adula nappe?  Pleuger Jan et al.
17. Microanalysis of Shock Experiments on K-Feldspar. Poelchau Michael et al.
18. The Paku Tin Deposit: A Deformed Greisen Mineralization? Raharjanti Nimatul et al.
19. Serpentinization of orthopyroxene in oceanic serpentinites. Reichardt Marie and Rebecca Kühn
20. Microstructural evidence of tectonic overpressure. Rogowitz Anna et al.
21. Spinel-bearing cumulate dunite in garnet-bearing ultramafic rocks of Zöblitz (Erzgebirge) – Implications for the pre-subduction evolution of mantle-derived ultramafic rocks in the Erzgebirge UHP terrane. Rohr Kilean et al.
22. The Miocene tectonic evolution of the western Tauern Window (European Alps): A spatial-temporal restoration. Rudmann Julia et al.
23. (Micro-) tectonics of tin bearing metasedimentary rocks of the Erzgebirge. Sarkar Owishi et al.
24. Magnetite microstructure in oceanic serpentinites. Schlickum Luisa et al.
25. Triaxial testing on rock salt in the context of hydrogen storage in caverns. Schlosser Friedrich et al.
26. Structural field observations of the Rechnitz Window (Austria, Hungary). Sievers Bettina et al.
27. Peak temperatures of metasediments from the Rechnitz Window Group (Austria, Hungary) determined by Raman spectroscopy on carbonaceous matter. Siewert Greta et al.
28. Ar-Ar Geochronology II – Deciphering the code – interpretation of ‘complex’ Ar isotope data. Sperner Blanka et al.
29. Marine Mn redox evolution tracks the Great Oxidation Event. Tsikos Harilaos et al.
30. An isoclinal and boudinaged synformal anticline in the Reckner Nappe of the Tarntal Mesozoic (Lower Austroalpine), Eastern Alps. Ustaszewski Kamil and Philipp Balling
31. Two types of serpentinite from the Saxon Granulite Massif (Bohemian Massif, Germany). Weber Sebastian et al.
32. Multistage vein fracturing and gold mineralization: insights from the Linglong orogenic gold deposit, China. Zhang Peng-Cong et al.