Prof. Dr. Reinhard Gaupp
Curriculum Vitae
Reinhard Gaupp received an engineering degree in geodesy, and his Diploma and Ph.D. in geology from the Technical University of Munich. From 1980 to 1983 he worked as a research assistant in petrology at the Technical University of Berlin, then as sedimentologist in the exploration department of BEB Erdgas & Erdöl, Hannover. From 1990 to 1996 he was professor of sedimentary geology at Mainz University; from 1997 to 2014 professor of "Allgemeine und Historische Geology" at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
Memberships in Professional Societies and related activities
Former Functions:
Member Advisory Board Geological Association
Member Executive Council International Association of Limnogeology (IAL)
President of Central European Section of SEPM (Society for Sedimentay Geology)
International Fellow of SEPM
Member International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)
Member American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Member Advisory Board German Geological Society and in various local Geological Associations
Member of the DFG Senate Commission for Joint Geosciences Research (Geokommission)
Elected DFG peer reviewer (member and spokesperson of the Review Board for Geology and Palaeontology)
DFG peer reviewer for the former International Ocean Deep Drilling Programme and for various collaborative research centres, Priority Programmes and Research Training Groups
Reviewer "Geology/Geosciences" for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (ends 2004), German Israeli Foundation
Assessment|assessment report|review for BMBF (e.g. "Geotechnologies"), various funding agencies, peer review (accreditation) of new degree programmes and institutes of higher education in Germany
Liaison lecturer of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
Member of the Institute for Energy Law of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Present membership and award:
Member "SächsischeAkademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig"External link
Honorary member of the German Society for Geosciences Geological Association DGGV
| Completed research projects | |
| 1 | Investigation of geohydraulic, mineralogical, geochemical and biogenic interactions in the underground storage of hydrogen in converted gas reservoirs (H2STORE).
BMBF project (funding number: 03 SF 0434) |
| 2 | Cenozoic sediments of the Tajik Basin: Sedimentology, origin and tectonic signal of the Pamirs
(DFG project, PAK 443: Tien Shan - Pamir Geodynamic Programme (TIPAGE)) |
| 3 | Microfacial, palaeontological and geochemical investigations into the formation of the site of Homo erectus in Bilzingsleben, Thuringia with the support of the State of Thuringia (Thuringian Graduate Scholarship) |
| 4 |
Timing of long term carbonate mobilisation in a limestone aquifer The project is part of the International Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles (IMPRS-gBGC) in cooperation with the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Graduate Academy). |
| 5 | Tight Gas - "Palaeo-oil and gas fields in the Rotliegend of the North German Basin: Effect of hydrocarbon migration on reservoir quality development" DGMK Project 593-8 R. Gaupp1), M. Solms2), C. Baunack1), D. Pudlo1), H. Trappe3), J. Schubarth-Engelschall3), R. Littke4), D. Schwarzer4), O. Oncken5), C. Krawczyk5), D. Tanner5) 1)University of Jena, Institute of Geosciences, 2)Solms Geological Consultant, Lehrte, 3)TEEC, Isernhagen, 4)RWTH Aachen, 5)GFZ Potsdam |
| 6 | Geological and mineralogical investigations of Rotliegend gas reservoirs in the Netherlands and their suitability for CO2 sequestration and EGR
Project funded by SHELL-NAM (Assen, Netherlands) |
| 7 | Studies on facies characterisation and the significance of the mineral-pore interface in fluid-rock reactions in the Rotliegend sandstones of the Altensalzwedel Block, Altmark, Saxony-Anhalt
BMBF project (03G0704G), part of the BMBF joint project "CO2 Largescale EGR in the Altmark Natural-gas field - CLEAN" within the special programme "Geotechnologies" |
| 8 | Coloured sandstone oil in the Upper Rhine Graben Project in co-operation with Gaz de France (Lingen) |
| 9 | Initiation of magmatism of the Jurassic Ferrar Group in Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: Stratigraphy, composition and depositional setting of volcanoclastic and epiclastic sediments of the Beacon Supergroup
DFG project Ga 457/11, 13 (subproject) within the framework of SPP 1158 "Antarctic research with comparative investigations in the Arctic region" |
| 10 | Petroleum Geological Atlas of the Southern Permian Basin Multinational project group (11 E&P companies, 6 national geological services, 25 universities and/or Research Centers, 6 other authorities and 3 consulting companies) R. Gaupp (sub-project); 2005-2009 |
| 11 | Fault-related CO2 fluid migration and its influence on the alteration of accessory rocks and the integrity of CO2 storage rocks - red sandstone of the Hessian depression as a natural analogue for industrial CO2 sequestration (COMICOR)
BMBF project (03G0695) in the framework of the special programme "Geotechnologies" |
| 12 | Long-term influence of CO2 on the stability of mineral components in porous reservoir sandstones - analogue study in natural CO2 reservoir rocks from Central Europe DFG project AD 315/1 D. Pudlo, R. Gaupp, D. Adelmann; 10/2005-06/2009 |
| 13 | Interactions of petroleum components and haematite grain coatings and their influence on diagenesis and pore structure of clastic reservoir rocks DFG project GA 457/10 within the framework of SPP 1135 "Dynamics of Sedimentary Systems under varying Stress Conditions by example of the Central European Basin-System" A. Meier, R. Gaupp; 01/2006-12/2008 |
| 14 | Modification of black pelite surfaces and pore sizes by microbiological activities
PhD project of the Research Training Group "Alteration and element mobility at the microbe-mineral interface" |
| 15 | Geological and mineralogical investigations on the microbially influenced formation of oolitic iron ores, El Bahariya Depression, Western Desert, Egypt
PhD project supported by a DAAD scholarship and the Research Training Group "Alteration and element mobility at the microbe-mineral interface" |
| 16 | Contributions to environmental research using radiometric-geochemical funds
Project of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, Leipzig |
| 17 | Petrography and pore system of sandstones of the Stuttgart Formation (Schilfsandstein, Keuper) from the CO2 test storage well near Ketzin (Brandenburg)
in co-operation with the CO2-SINK consortium |
| 18 | Relationships between seismic signals and storage properties in tight gas reservoir rocks of north-west Germany (Rotliegend sandstones, Permian) with the support of the DGMK P. Abram, R. Gaupp; 2003-2006 |
| 19 | Diagenesis of clastic red sediments in Central Europe: How important is organic maturation and migration?
DFG project Ga 457/8 within the framework of SPP 1135 "Dynamics of Sedimentary Systems under varying Stress Conditions by example of the Central European Basin-System". |
| 20 | Organic and inorganic processes and interactions in deep overpressure deposits of the Central Graben, North Sea DFG project GA 457/9 within the framework of SPP 1135 "Dynamics of Sedimentary Systems under varying Stress Conditions by example of the Central European Basin-System". R. Lippmann, R. Gaupp, in co-operation with GFZ Potsdam: V. Neumann, R. Ondrak, R. di Primio, B. Horsfield, 2002-2005 |
| 21 | Tight gas reservoirs - natural gas for the future
DGMK research project 593-8, in co-operation with GFZ Potsdam, RWTH Aachen, TEEC Isernhagen |
| 22 | Surface quantification of black pelites with different degrees of weathering
Doctoral thesis |
| 23 | The Thuringian freshwater limestones, genesis and distribution with the support of the State of Thuringia (Thuringian Graduate Scholarship) I. Kamradt, R. Gaupp, G. Büchel (Applied Geology); since 2003 |
| 24 | The sedimentary and tectonic history of the Subhercynian Basin in relation to the uplift history of the Harz Mountains
DFG project GA 457/6 |
| 25 | Sedimentary genesis and palaeogeography of the Upper Zechstein up to the base of the Buntsandstein in the Hessian Depression
(doctoral) thesis |
| 26 | The calc-alpine Tratenbach strata (Upper Cretaceous-Palaeogene, Upper Bavaria) - whole rock analyses and petrographic investigations on stratigraphic position and geodynamic significance
(doctoral) thesis |
| 27 | Comparative sedimentological and palaeolimnological investigations of Oligocene lake deposits in the Rhenish Slate Mountains
DFG project GA 457/4 |
| 28 | Sedimentation events in the Lower Muschelkalk
DFG project Lu 544/8 |
Selected Publications
Hesse, R. and Gaupp, R. (2021, in press): Diagenesis of Clastic Sediments - Textbook, Springer-Verlag, Berlin; 513 pages, ISBN 978-3-662-59685-2
Miocic, J. M., Girard, J.-P., Schöner, R., and Gaupp, R. (2020): Mudstone/sandstone ratio control on carbonate cementation and reservoir quality in Upper Permian Rotliegend sandstones, offshore the Netherlands - Marine and Petroleum Geology 115, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104293
Lützner, H., Tikhomirova, M., Käßner, A., and Gaupp, R. (2020): Latest Carboniferous to early Permian volcano-stratigraphic evolution in Central Europe-U-Pb CA-ID-TIMS ages of volcanic rocks in the Thuringian Forest Basin (Germany).- Int. Jour. Earth Sci., https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-020-01957-y
Heinicke, J., Stephan, T., Alexandrakis, C., Gaupp, R., Buske, S. (2019): Alteration as possible cause for transition from brittle failure to aseismic slip: the case of the NW-Bohemia / Vogtland earthquake swarm - Journal of Geodynamics, 124, 79-92
Zidan, W., Bauer, A., Kothe, E., and Gaupp, R. (2019): A comparison between the effect of a filamentous bacterium and a filamentous fungus on the dissolution of two sheet silicate minerals - Int. Jour. Biosci. Bioeng., Volume 1, Issue 2, 002
Augustsson, C., Voigt, T., Bernhart, K., Kreißler, M., Gaupp, R., Gärtner, A., Hofmann, C., Linnemann, U. (2018): Zircon size-age sorting and source-area effect: The German Triassic Buntsandstein Group - Sedimentary Geology 375, 218-231
Kunkel, C., Aehnelt, M., Pudlo, D., Kukowski, N., Totsche, K.-U., Gaupp, R. (2018): Subsurface aquifer heterogeneities of Lower Triassic clastic sediments in central Germany - Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, 97, 209-222
Klocke, M., Voigt, T., Kley, J., Pfeifer, S., Rocktäschel, T., Keil, S., & Gaupp, R. (2015): Cenozoic evolution of the Pamir and Tien Shan mountains reflected in syntectonic deposits of the Tajik Basin.- in Geological Evolution of Central Asian Basins and the Western Tien Shan Range, edited by M.-F. Brunet, T. McCann, and E. R. Sobel, Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ., 427, doi:10.1144/SP427.7
Waldmann, S. & Gaupp, R. (2016): Grain-rimming kaolinite in Permian Rotliegend reservoir rocks - Sedimentary Geology 335, 17-33
Kirstein, J., Hellevang, H., Haile, B.G., Gleixner, G., Gaupp, R. (2016): Experimental determination of natural carbonate rock dissolution rates with a focus on temperature dependency - Geomorphology (2016), 261, 30-40; doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.02.019
Henkel, S., Pudlo, D., Schatzmann, S., Albrecht, D., Reitenbach, V., Ganzer, L. & Gaupp, R. (2016): Geo- and hydrochemical variations induced during CO2 HTHP - autoclave experiments under highly saline conditions - Abstract GHGT-13
Henkel, S., Pudlo, D., Enzmann, F., Reitenbach, V., Albrecht, D., Ganzer,L., and Gaupp, R. (2016): X-ray CT analyses, models and numerical simulations: a comparison with petrophysical analyses in an experimental CO2 study - Solid Earth, 7, 917-927, 2016; www.solid-earth.net/7/917/2016/, doi:10.5194/se-7-917-2016
Roth, V.-N., Dittmar, T., Gaupp, R., Gleixner, G., 2015. The molecular composition of dissolved organic matter in forest soils as a function of pH and temperature. PLoS ONE 10(3): e0119188. doi: 10.1371
Pudlo, D., Henkel, S., Reitenbach, V., Albrecht, D., Enzmann, F., Heister, K., Pronk, G., Ganzer, L., Gaupp, R. (2015): The chemical dissolution and physical migration of minerals induced during CO2 laboratory experiments: their relevance for reservoir quality. Environmental Earth Sciences, 73, 7029-7042
Rusek, M., Buniak, A., Solarska, A., Kowalczak, M., & Gaupp, R. (2015): Piaskowce czerwonego spągowca i ich diageneza na obszarze Wału Pomorskiego (złoże Ciechnowo).- Bull. Pol. Acad. Sc. Earth Sc 37, 49-55
Hilse, U., Aehnelt, M., Meyer, M., Kunkel, C., Voigt, T., Augustsson, C., & Gaupp, R. (2014): New insights into the provenance of the Lower and Middle Buntsandstein in central Germany.Beitr. Geol. Thuringia, N.F. 21, 53 - 66
Salama, W., El Aref, M. M., & Gaupp, R. (2014): Facies analysis and palaeoclimatic significance of ironstones formed during the Eocene greenhouse.- Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/sed.12106
Waldmann, S., Busch, A., van Ojik, K., & Gaupp, R. (2014): Importance of mineral surface areas in Rotliegend sandstones for modelling CO2-water-rock interactions -Chemical Geology 378-379 (2014) 89-109
Salama, W., El Aref, M. M., & Gaupp, R. (2014): Spectroscopic characterisation of iron ores formed in different geological environments using FTIR, XPS, Mössbauer spectroscopy and thermoanalyses - Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2014.10.090
Beyer, D., Kunkel, C., Aehnelt, M., Pudlo, D., Voigt, T., Nover, G. & Gaupp, R. (2014): Influence of depositional environment and diagenesis on petrophysical properties of clastic sediments (Buntsandstein of the Thuringian Syncline, Central Germany).- ZDGG (German J. Geosci.), 165 (3), 345-365
Henkel, S., Pudlo, D., Werner, L., Enzmann, F., Reitenbach, V., Albrecht, D., Würdemann, H., Heister, K., Ganzer, L., and Gaupp, R. (2014): Mineral reactions in the geological underground induced by H2 and CO2 injections; Energy Procedia 63 (2014) 8026 - 8035
Roth, V., Dittmar, T., & Gaupp, R. & Gleixner, G. (2014): Ecosystem specific composition of dissolved organic matter - Vadose Zone Journal, 13,7; doi 10.2136/vzj2013.09.0162
Pudlo, D., Henkel, S., Enzmann, F., Heister, K., Werner, L., Reitenbach, V., Albrecht, D. & Gaupp, R. (2014): The Relevance of Mineral Mobilisation and Dissolution on the Reservoir Quality of Sandstones in CO2 Storage Sites. Energy Procedia, 59, 390-396
L. Ganzer, V. Reitenbach, D. Pudlo, M. Panfilov, D. Albrecht, & R. Gaupp (2013): The H2STORE Project - Experimental and Numerical Simulation Approach to Investigate Processes in Underground Hydrogen Reservoir Storage - SPE 164936, 8 p.
Ganzer, L., Reitenbach, V., Pudlo, D., Albrecht, D., Singhe, A. S., Awemo, K. N., Wienand, J., Gaupp, R. (2013): Experimental and Numerical Investigations on CO2 Injection and Enhanced Gas Recovery Effects in Altmark Gas Field (Central Germany) - Acta Geotechnica, DOI 10.1007/s11440-013-0226-7, 9 p.
Salama, W., El Aref, M., & Gaupp, R. (2013): Mineral evolution and processes of ferruginous microbialite accretion - an example from the Middle Eocene stromatolitic and ooidal ironstones of the Bahariya Depression, Western Desert, Egypt - Geobiology (2013), 11, 15-28
Elsner, M., Schöner, R., Gerdes, A., and Gaupp, R. (2013). Reconstruction of the early Mesozoic plate margin of Gondwana by U-Pb ages of detrital zircons from northern Victoria Land, Antarctica - Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ., 383; http://dx.doi 10.1144/SP383.5
Roth, V.-N.; Dittmar, T.; Gaupp, R. & Gleixner, G. (2013): Latitude and pH driven trends in the molecular composition of DOM across a north south transect along the Yenisei River Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , 123, 93 - 105
Förster, A., Pudlo, D., Kohlhepp, B., Gaupp, R., et al. (2013): Review of Geo-processes.- in M. Kühn and U. Münch (eds.), CLEAN: CO2 Large-Scale Enhanced Gas Recovery in the Altmark Natural Gas Field, Advanced Technologies in Earth Sciences. p53 - 98.; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-31677-7_4
Förster A., Albrecht D., Bauer S., Baumann G., Beyer C., Böttcher N., Braun R., Behrends K., Conze R., De Lucia M., Ganzer L., Gaupp R., Görke U., Gou Y., Henninges J., Hou Z. , Kohlhepp B., Kolditz O., Kühn M., Lempp C., Liedl R., Meyer R., Norden B., Nowak T., Pilz P., Pudlo D., Rateizak M., Reitenbach V., Shams K. M., Shao H., Singh A. K., Stadler S., Stecken L., Taron J., Wang W., Watanabe N., Wienand J., Yoon J., Zimmer M. (2013): Review of Geo-processes, edited by: Kühn M., Münch U.: CLEAN. Advanced Technologies in Earth Sciences (2190-1643). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31677-7_4
Henkel, S., Pudlo, D., Gaupp, R. & H2STORE Team (2013): Research Sites of the H2STORE Project and the Relevance of Lithological Variations for Hydrogen Storage at Depths. Energy Procedia, 40, 25-33
Pudlo, D., Ganzer, L., Henkel, S., Kühn, M., Liebscher, A., De Lucia, M., Panfilov, M., Pilz, P., Reitenbach, V., Albrecht, D., Würdemann, H., and Gaupp, R. (2013): The H2STORE Project: Hydrogen underground storage - a feasible way in storing power in geological media? Proceedings of the 3rd Sino-German Conference "Underground storage of CO2 and Energy", Goslar, Germany, 21-23 May 2013, 395-412
Ciobotă, V., Salama, W., Tarcea, N., Rösch, P., El Aref, M., Gaupp, R. and Popp, J. (2012) Identification of minerals and organic materials of the Middle Eocene ironstones, the Bahariya Depression, Western Desert, Egypt by means of micro-Raman spectroscopy. J. of Raman Spectroscopy, 43, 405-410; DOI 10.1002/jrs.3047Elsner, M., Schöner, R., Gerdes, A., and Gaupp, R. ( 2012). Reconstruction of the early Mesozoic plate margin of Gondwana by U-Pb ages of detrital zircons from northern Victoria Land, Antarctica - Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ.
Fischer C, Dunkl I, von Eynatten H, Wijbrans J, Gaupp R (2012): Products and timing of diagenetic processes in Upper Rotliegend sandstones from Bebertal (North German Basin, Parchim Formation, Flechtingen High, Germany). Geological Magazine.
Gaffert-Kalaitzidis, J., von der Gönna, J., Heikamp, S., Nover, G., Köster, J., Pudlo, D., Gaupp. R. (2012): Changes in petrophysical and chemical parameters of sandstones under the influence of supercritical CO2. - Petroleum Natural Gas Coal, 128, H1, 27-33
Salama, W., Weyer, S., El Aref, M. M., & Gaupp, R. (2012) tracing paleo-weathering with iron isotopes: A case study from the mid-Eocene ironstone of the Bahariya Depression, Western Desert, Egypt.-in prep.
Seifert, A.-G., Kothe, E., Gaupp, R., Gleixner, G. (2012). Influence of microbial population on DOC release and mineral dissolution from black slates.- in prep. Environmental Science and Technology
Wendler, Jens, Köster, Jens, Götze, Jens, Kasch, Norbert, Zisser, Norbert, Kley, Jonas et al. (2012): Carbonate diagenesis and feldspar alteration in fracture-related bleaching zones (Buntsandstein, central Germany): possible link to CO2-influenced fluid-mineral reactions. In: International Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol. 101, H. 1, pp. 159-176.
Arp, G., Back, S., Gaupp, R. et al. (2011): Sedimentary Geology, Status, Significance, Perspectives.-NDGG Geofokus, 44, June 2012, 6-17
Albrecht D, Ganzer L, Gaupp R, Kohlhepp B, Meyer R, Pudlo D, Reitenbach V, Wienand J. (2011) Investigations on the Suitability of Rotliegend Reservoir Sandstones of the German Altmark Natural Gas Field for EGR-Projects. DGMK/ÖGEW-spring meeting 2011, Celle/Germany. Conf. proc., 563- 72.
Ansorge, J., Frenzel, P. & Thomas, M. (2011): Cogs, sand and beer - a palaeontological analysis of medieval ballast sand in the harbour of Wismar (Southwestern Baltic Sea Coast, Germany). - In: Bork, H.-R., Meller, H. & Gerlach, R. (eds.): Umweltarchäologie - Naturkatastrophen und Umweltwandel im archäologischen Befund. - Conferences of the State Museum of Prehistory Halle (Saale), 6: 161-173.
Elsner, M., Schöner, R. and Gaupp, R. (2011): Tectonic setting of the Triassic to Early Jurassic Transantarctic Basin - implications from sandstone analysis from north Victoria Land, Antarctica - Fragile Earth: Geological Processes from Global to Local Scales and Associated Hazards (4-7 September 2011), 38-6; Munich.
Grötsch, J. & Gaupp, R. (2011) Foreword by the editors. In Grötsch, J, and Gaupp, R. (eds.), The Permian Rotliegend of the Netherlands, SEPM Spec. Publ. (in press)
Gaupp, R. & Okkerman, J. (2011): Diagenesis and reservoir quality of Rotliegend sandstones in the Northern Netherlands - a review. In Grötsch, J, and Gaupp, R. (eds.), The Permian Rotliegend of the Netherlands, SEPM Special Publication 98 (in press).
Legler, B., Schneider, J. W., Gebhardt, U., Gaupp, R., Merten, D. (2011): Lake deposits of moderate salinity as sensitive indicators of lake level fluctuations: example from the Rotliegend saline lake (Permian, Northeast Germany) - Sedimentary Geology, 234, 56-69
Mijnlieff, H., van Oijk, K., Nortier, J., Okkerman, J., Gaupp, R. and Grötsch, J. (2011) Rotliegend Core Atlas of the Netherlands. Appendix B: In Grötsch, J, and Gaupp, R. (eds.), The Permian Rotliegend of the Netherlands, SEPM Special Publication (in press).
Pudlo, D., Albrecht, D., Braun, R., De Lucia, M., Ganzer, L., Gou, Y., Hou, M.Z., Kohlhepp, B., Meyer, R., Nowak, T., Rateitzak, M., Reitenbach, V., Stadler, S., Wienand, J., Yoon, J. and Gaupp, R. (2011): Properties of reservoir and caprocks in the Altmark gas field and their potential alteration during CO2-induced EGR processes.
Pudlo D, Albrecht D, Ganzer L, Gaupp R, Kohlhepp B, Meyer R, Reitenbach V, Wienand J (2011a) Petrophysical, Facies and Mineralogical-Geochemical Investigations of Rotliegend Sandstones from the Altmark Natural Gas Field in Central Germany. Energy procedia, 4, 4648-4655.
Pudlo D, Kohlhepp B, Gaupp R (2011b) Alteration of Altmark Rotliegend sandstones during burial diagenesis and its impact on reservoir quality. Kühn, M., Tesmer, M. and Schöbel, B. (eds.): conf. contrib. to the CLEAN Final Conference, 17.05. - 18.05.2011, Potsdam, Germany, p. 16.
Salama, W., El Aref, M., Gaupp, R. (2011): Mineralogical and geochemical investigations of the Middle Eocene ironstones, El Bahariya Depression, Western Desert, Egypt. - Gondwana Research 2011; published online.
van Ojik, K., Mijnlieff, H., Nortier, J., Gaupp, R.,and Grötsch, J. (2011) Rotliegend Core Atlas of the Netherlands. Appendix A: In Grötsch, J, and Gaupp, R. (eds.), The Permian Rotliegend of the Netherlands, SEPM Special Publication (in press).
Voigt, T. & Gaupp, R., Röhling, H.-G. (2011) : Lake deposits of the Early Triassic Buntsandstein in Central Germany: Type localities of oolites and stromatolites.- 5th Int. Limnogeological Congress, Konstanz 2011, Abstract-Volume and Fieldguide, p191 - 211.
Maaß, K., Voigt, T., Gaupp, R. (2010): Aeolian and fluviatile sedimentation in the Lower bUntsandstein (Calvörde Formation) of eastern Thuringia. - Beitr. Geol. Thür. Neue Folge 17: 169-199.
Voigt, T., Grobleben, J., Schöner, R., Gaupp, R. (2010): The thermal maturity of Permo-Carboniferous deposits in Thuringia - Conclusions for the subsidence history of the Thuringian Mulde. - Beitr. Geol. Thür. Neue Folge 17: 83-100.
Wendler, J., Köster, J., Götze, J., Kasch, N., Zisser, N., Kley, J., Pudlo, D., Nover, G., Gaupp, R. (2010). Carbonate diagenesis and feldspar alteration in fault-related bleaching zones (Buntsandstein, Central Germany) - possible link to CO2-influenced fluid-mineral-reactions. Int. J. Earth Sciences, online publ.
Gaupp, R., Möller, P., Lueders, V., di Primio, R. & Littke, R. (2008): Fluids in sedimentary basins: an overview.- In: Littke, R., Bayer, U., Gajewski, D. and Nelskamp, S. (eds.), Dynamics of complex sedimentary basins. The example of the Central European Basin System, 347-365; Berlin, Heidelberg (Springer).
Schöner, R., Lüders, V., Ondrak, R., Gaupp, R. & Möller, P. (2008): Fluid-rock interactions.- In: Littke, R., Bayer, U., Gajewski, D. and Nelskamp, S. (eds.), Dynamics of complex sedimentary basins. The example of the Central European Basin System, 389-410; Berlin, Heidelberg (Springer).
Gaupp, R., Möller, P., Lueders, V., di Primio, R. & Littke, R. (2007): Fluids in sedimentary basins: an overview.- In: Littke, R., Bayer, U., Gajewski, D. and Nelskamp, S. (eds.), Dynamics of complex sedimentary basins. The example of the Central European Basin System, 347-365; Berlin, Heidelberg (Springer).
Schöner, R., Lüders, V., Ondrak, R., Gaupp, R. & Möller, P. (2007): Fluid-rock interactions.- In: Littke, R., Bayer, U., Gajewski, D. and Nelskamp, S. (eds.), Dynamics of complex sedimentary basins. The example of the Central European Basin System, 389-410; Berlin, Heidelberg (Springer).
Beck, M., Gaupp, R., Kamradt, I., Liebermann, C., & Pasda, C. (2007): Bilzingsleben Site Formation Processes - Geoarcheological investigations of a Middle Pleistocene deposit: preliminary results of the 2003-2005 Excavations - Archäolog. Korrespondenzblatt, 37: 1-18.
Fischer, C., Gaupp, R., Dimke, M. & Sill, O. (2007): A 3D high resolution model of bounding surface configuration in aeolian-fluvial sediment - an outcrop analogue study from the Permian Rotliegend, Northern Germany - J. Petrol. Geol., 30(3): 257-274.
Lippmann, R., Gaupp, R., Gleixner, G. & Radke, J. (2007): Petrographic and isotopic chemical investigations (δ18O, δ13C) of the Middle Pechelbronn strata in the Wallau B98/BK5 borehole.Geol. Abh. Hesse, 116: 99-111.
Radtke, G., Lippmann, R. & Gaupp, R. (2007): New occurrence of the Pechelbronn Group in the Mainz Basin (Upper Eocene - deep Lower Oligocene, Germany) - Lithology and sedimentology of borehole Wallau B/98 BK5 and W 07.- Geol. Abh. Hesse, 116: 37-72.
Felder, M. & Gaupp, R. (2006): The d13C and d18O signatures of siderite - a tool to discriminate mixis patterns in ancient lakes.- Z. dt. Ges. Geowiss., 157(3): 387-410.
Hug, N. & Gaupp, R. (2006): Paleogeographic reconstruction in red beds by means of genetically related correlation: results from the upper Zechstein (Late Permian).- Z. dt. Ges. Geowiss., 157(1): 10-120.
Voigt, T., Wiese, F., Eynatten, H., Franzke, H.-J. & Gaupp, R. (2006): Facies evolution of syntectonic Upper Cretaceous deposits in the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin and adjoining areas (Germany).- Z. dt. Ges. Geowiss., 157(2): 203-244.
Bernet, M. & Gaupp, R. (2005): Diagenetic history of Triassic sandstone from the Beacon Supergroup in central Victoria Land, Antarctica - New Zealand J. Geol. Geophys., 48: 447-458.
Fischer, C. & Gaupp, R. (2005): Change of black shale organic material surface area during oxidative weathering: Implications for rock-water surface evolution.- Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 69(5): 1213-1224.
Gaupp, R., Baunack, C., Pudlo, D., Solms, M., Trappe, H., Schubart-Engelschall, J., Samiee, R., Littke, R., Schwarzer, D., Oncken, O., Krawczyk, C.M. & Tanner, D. (2005): Paleo Oil- and Gasfields in the Rotliegend of the North German Basin: effects upon hydrocarbon reservoir quality - DGMK-Forschungsbericht, 593-8:1-242.
Gaupp, R., Liermann, N. & Pusch, G. (2005): Adding value through integrated research to unlock the Tight Gas Potential in the Rotliegendes Formation of North-Germany.- Soc. Petrol. Eng. SPE Europec/EAGE Annual Conference, 13-16 June 2005, Madrid, Spain, paper 94354-MS, 1-9, doi: 10.2118/94354-MS
Pusch, G., Gaupp, R. & Liermann, N. (2005): Integrated research contributions for screening the Tight Gas Potential in the Rotliegendes Formations of North-Germany - Oil Gas European Magazine, 31(4): 187-193.
Radke, J., Bechtel, A., Gaupp, R., Püttmann, W., Schwark, L., Sachse, D. & Gleixner, G. (2005): Correlation between hydrogen isotope ratios of lipid biomarkers and sediment maturity - Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 69 (23): 5517-5530.
Schöner, R. & Gaupp, R. (2005): Contrasting red bed diagenesis: the southern and northern margin of the Central European Basin. - Int. J. Earth Sci., 94: 897-916, doi: 10.1007/s00531-005-0004-3
Felder, M., Gaupp, R., & Wuttke, M. (2004): A special kind of "oil shale": The freshwater carbonates of the Stößchen mine - Nature and Museum, 134(3): 77-84.
Fischer, C. & Gaupp, R. (2004): Multi-scale rock surface area quantification - a systematic method to evaluate the reactive surface area of rocks - Chemistry der Erde/Geochemistry, 64: 241-256.
Gaupp, R. & von Eynatten, H. (2004): Kinematics of thrust nappes as revealed from syntectonic sedimentary documents (Mid Cretaceous, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria).- Festschrift G. Bachmann, Hallesches Jahrb. Geowiss., B 18: 139-150.
Gaupp, R. (2005): Die sedimentäre Haut unseres Planeten.- In: Reitner, J., Weber, K. & Karg, U. (eds.), Das System Erde - was bewegt die Welt? Lebensraum und Zukunftsperspektiven, Akad. d. Wiss. Göttingen, Publ. University Publ. Göttingen, 37-56.
Sachse, D., Radke, J., Gaupp, R., Schwark, L., Lüniger, G. & Gleixner, G. (2004): Reconstruction of palaeohydrological conditions in a lagoon during the 2nd Zechstein cycle through simultaneous use of d18O and d13C values of carbonates - Int. J. Earth Sci., 93: 554-564.
Felder, M. & Gaupp, R. (2003): Zur Genese von Sideritanreicherungen in den See-Sedimenten von Baruth, Sachsen.- Z. dt. Ges. Geowiss., 31(4-6): 313-329.
Pirrung, M., Fischer, C., Büchel, G., Gaupp, R., Lutz, H., & Neuffer, F.-O. (2003): Lithofacies succession of maar crater deposits in the Eifel area (Germany) - Terra Nova, 15: 125-132.
Gaupp, R. & Nickel, B. (2001): The Pechelbronn strata in the Eich-Stockstadt area (Nördlicher Oberrheingraben; sheet 6216 Gernsheim).- Geol. Jb. Hessen, 128: 19-27.
Bauer, A., Velde, B. & Gaupp, R. (2000): Experimental constraints on illite crystal morphology.- Clay Minerals, 35(3): 587-597.
Gaupp, R., Gast, R. & Forster, C. (2000): Late Permian Playa Lake Deposits of the Southern Permian Basin (Central Europe).- In: Gierlowski-Kordesch, E.H. & Kelts, K.R. (eds.), Lake basins through space and time, AAPG Studies in Geology, 46: 75-86.
Hofmann, A., Tourani, A. & Gaupp, R. (2000): Cyclicity of Triassic to Lower Jurassic continental red beds of the Argana Valley, Morocco: Implications for syn-rift sediment accumulation.- In: Stemmerik, L & Trappe, J. (eds.), Pangea - the Late Carboniferous to Late Triassic interval, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 161: 229-266.
Tourani, A., Lund, J., Benaouiss, N., & Gaupp, R. (2000): Stratigraphy of Triassic syn-rift deposition in Western Morocco - In: Bachmann, G. & Lerche, I. (eds.), The Epicontinental Triassic, Zbl. Geol. Palaeont. Part I, 1998: 1193-1215.
Van Wees, J.-D., Stephenson, R.A., Ziegler, P.A., Bayer, U., McCann, T., Gaupp, R., Narkiewicz, M., Nielsen, S. & Scheck, M. (2000): On the origin of the Southern Permian Basin, Central Europe - Marine Petrol. Geol., 17(1): 43-59.
Voigt, T. & Gaupp, R. (2000): Facies development at the boundary between Lower and Middle Buntsandstein in the centre of the Thuringian Basin.- Beitr. Geol. Thüringen, N.F., 7: 55-71.
Gaupp, R., Kött, A. & Wörner, G. (1999): Palaeoclimatic implications of Mio-Pliocene sedimentation in the high-altitude intra-arc Lauca Basin of northern Chile - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 151: 79-100.
Strunck, P., Gaupp, R. & Steffan, E.M. (1999): Reconstruction of the halokinesis of the Zechstein evaporites during the Hardegsen period (Middle Buntsandstein) at the northern margin of the Hunte Threshold (North German Basin).- In: Bachmann, G. & Lerche, I. (eds.), The Epicontinental Triassic, Zbl. Geol. Palaeont. Part I, 1998: 679-699.
von Eynatten, H. & Gaupp, R. (1999): Provenance of Cretaceous synorogenic sandstones in the Eastern Alps: constraints from framework petrography, heavy mineral analysis, and mineral chemistry, Sed. Geol., 124: 81-111.
von Eynatten, H., Schlunegger, F., Gaupp, R. & Wijbrans, J.R. (1999): Exhumation of the Central Alps: evidence from Ar-40/Ar-39 laser probe dating of detrital white micas from the Swiss Molasse Basin - Terra Nova, 11: 284-289.
Zwingmann, H., Clauer, N. & Gaupp, R. (1999): Structure-related geochemical (REE) and isotopic (K-Ar, Rb-Sr, ∂18O) characteristics of clay minerals from Rotliegend sandstone reservoirs (Permian, northern Germany).- Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 63(18): 2805-2823.
Gaupp, R. & Wilke, A. (1998): Zur Sedimentologie der oberoligozänen Fossillagerstätte Enspel/Westerwald.- Hallesches Jb. Geowiss., 20: 97-118.
Zwingmann, H., Clauer, N. & Gaupp, R. (1998): Timing of fluid flow in a sandstone reservoir of the North-German Rotliegend (Permian) by K-Ar dating of related hydrothermal illite.- In: Parnell, J. (ed.), Dating and duration of fluid flow events, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ., 144: 91-106.
von Eynatten, H., Gaupp, R. & Wijbrans, J.R. (1997): Ar-40/Ar-39 laser probe dating of detrital white micas from Cretaceous sedimentary rocks of the Eastern Alps: Evidence for Variscan high-pressure metamorphism and implications for Alpine orogeny: Reply - Geology, 25(8): 766-767.
Gaupp, R. & van de Weerd, A.A. (1996): Surface and subsurface High-Resolution sequence stratigraphy of marine and continental deposits - Preface - Sedimentary Geology, 102, 1-2.
Gaupp, R. (1996): Diagenesis types and their application in diagenesis mapping - Zbl. Geol. palaeont. Part 1, 1994(11/12): 1183-1199.
Neunzert, G.H., Gaupp, R. & Littke, R. (1996): Subsidence and temperature history of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic formations in the Northwest German Basin.- Z. dt. Geol. Ges., 147(2): 183-208.
von Eynatten, H., Gaupp, R. & Wijbrans, J.R. (1996): 40Ar/39Ar laser-probe dating of detrital white micas from Cretaceous sedimentary rocks of the Eastern Alps: Evidence for Variscan high-pressure metamorphism and implications for Alpine orogeny - Geology, 24(8): 691-694.
Kött, A., Gaupp, R. & Wörner (1995): Miocene to recent history of the wester Altiplano in northern Chile revealed by lacustrine sediments of the Lauca Basin.- Geol. Rundsch., 84: 770-780.
Gaupp, R., Matter, A., Platt, J., Ramseyer, K. & Walzebuck, J. P. (1993): Diagenesis and fluid evolution in deeply buried Permian (Rotliegende) gas reservoirs, Northwest Germany - Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., 77(7): 1111-1128.
Gaupp, R. (1991): Zur Fazies und Diagenese des Mittelrhät-Hauptsandsteins im Gasfeld Thönse.- Nds. Akad. Geowiss. Veröfftl., 6: 34-55; Hannover.
Rieken, R. & Gaupp, R. (1991): Fluid inclusion investigations on sandstones of the Thönse gas field - Nds. Akad. Geowiss. Veröfftl., 6: 68-99; Hannover.
Gaupp, R. & Batten, D. J. (1985): Maturation of organic matter in Cretaceous strata of the Northern Calcareous Alps.- N. Jb. Geol. Palaeont. Mh., 1985(3): 157-175; Stuttgart.
Gaupp, R., Möller, P. & Morteani, G. (1984): Tantalum pegmatites - Geological, petrological and geochemical investigations - Monograph Series on Mineral Deposits, 23: 124 pp.; Berlin, Stuttgart, (Gebr. Borntraeger).
Gaupp, R. (1983): Die palaeogeographische Bedeutung der Konglomerate in den Losensteiner Schichten (Alb, Nördliche Kalkalpen).- Zitteliana, 10: 155-171; Munich.
Gaupp, R., Morteani, G. & Möller, P. (1983): Die Aufsuchung und Beurteilung Tantalführender Pegmatite.- Part I: Erzmetall, 36(5): 244-250; Part II: Erzmetall, 36(6): 294-300; Weinheim.
Gaupp, R. & Batten, D.J. (1983): Depositional setting of Middle to Upper Cretaceous sediments in the Northern Calcareous Alps from palynological evidence.- N. Jb. Geol. Palaeont. Mh., 1983(10): 585-600; Stuttgart.
Gaupp, R. (1982): Sedimentation history and palaeotectonics of the Middle Cretaceous (Allgäu, Tyrol, Vorarlberg) - Zitteliana, 8: 33-72; Munich.
Interests
Clastic continental deposits, sandstone petrology, basin analysis:
- Sandstone diagenesis in rift settings (tectonothermal fluid flow, clay mineral authigenesis related to organic maturation, role of organic matter and microbial activities in clastic diagenesis / weathering)
- Sedimentology of saline lakes and playa-mudflats (Devonian, Permian, Triassic, Tertiary / Central European Basin, Orcadian Basin / Scotland, Argana Basin / Morocco, Lauca Basin / Chile, Ili Basin / Kazakhstan)
- Synorogenic thrust-sheet-top sedimentation (Eastern Alps, Cretaceous, provenance analysis, geodynamic evolution, sandstone petrology)
- Late Palaeozoic / Triassic basin evolution of Central Europe