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Dr. Silke Schmidt, Dipl.-Geol.

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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Quaternary dating methods (especially cosmogenic nuclide exposure and OSL dating)
  • Active Tectonics (especially Neotectonics and Paleoseismology)
  • Metamorphic petrology

Academic Education

06/2008 - 11/2011Doctoral student at the Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
10/2002 - 05/2008Studies of Geology and Paleontology, Rheinisch Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Work Experience

since 04/2012Postdoc at the Institut de Physique du Globe, Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, University of Strasbourg, France
07/2008 - 03/2012Research Associate at the Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, WWU Münster

Publications

Repeated folding during late Holocene earthquakes on the Cal thrust fault near Mendoza city (Argentina)
Salomon, E., Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Mingorance, F., Hampel, A. (2013)
In: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 103, 936-949. doi:10.1785/0120110335
Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
Optical dating of alluvial deposits at the orogenic front of the Andean Precordillera (Mendoza, Argentina).
Schmidt, S., Tsukamoto, S., Salomon, E., Frechen, M. & Hetzel, R. (2012)
In: Geochronometria, 39(1), 62-75. doi:10.2478/s13386-011-0050-5
Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
A note of caution on the use of boulders for exposure dating of depositional surfaces.
Schmidt S., Hetzel R., Kuhlmann J., Mingorance F. & Ramos V.A. (2011)
In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 302, 60-70. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.11.039
Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
The exposed base of a collapsing wedge – the Nestos Shear Zone (Rhodope Metamorphic Province, Greece).
Nagel T.J., Schmidt, S., Janák, M., Froitzheim, N., Jahn-Awe, S. & Georgiev, N. (2011)
In: Tectonics, 30, TC4009. doi:10.1029/2010TC002815
Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
Coseismic displacements and Holocene slip rates for two active thrust faults at the mountain front of the Andean Precordillera (~33°S).
Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Mingorance, F., Ramos V.A. (2011)
In: Tectonics, 30. doi:10.1029/2011TC002932
Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
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Projects

Rates of thrust faulting at the front of the Precordillera in western Argentina: Implications for the seismic hazard in Mendoza city from surface exposure…
Duration: 01/05/2008 - 30/04/2011
Funded by: DFG - Individual Grants Programme
Type of project: Individual project

Prizes

Preis der Hildegard und Karl-Heinrich Heitfeld Stiftung 2012 in der Kategorie: Herausragende Dissertation
Awarded by: Hildegard und Karl-Heinrich Heitfeld Stiftung
Award given to: Bermingham, Katherine; Schmidt, Silke
Date of awarding: 15/11/2012
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction

Doctorates

Holocene rates of thrust faulting at the front of the Andean Precordillera (Mendoza, Argentina) revealed by geomorphologic, paleoseismologic and geochronologic…
Candidate: Silke Schmidt | Supervisors: Hetzel, Ralf
Period of time: 01/06/2008 - 10/11/2011
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster