Heinrich Brasse

Dr. Heinrich Brasse (retired)

Fachrichtung Geophysik

Freie Universität Berlin

Malteserstr. 74-100

D-12249 Berlin

Germany

Tel.: (+49-30) 838-70830 (secretariat geophysics)

heinrich.brasse (@online.de)

Past working areas:

Geoelectromagnetic and geoelectric methods

Research in the Andes of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile

Trans-European Suture Zone (Pomerania/Poland, NE Germany)

Franconian Lineament (Bavaria/Germany)

Magnetotellurics Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua)

Polarization effects at grain boundaries

Lecture notes

Publications (peer-review and book articles)

ANCORP Working Group (2003): Seismic imaging of an active continental margin and plateau in the central Andes (Andean Continental Research Project 1996 (ANCORP '96)), J. Geophys. Res., 108 (B7), doi:10.1029/2002JB001771.
ANCORP Working Group (1999): Seismic reflection image revealing offset of Andean subduction-zone earthquake locations into oceanic mantle, Nature, 397, 341-344, doi:10.1038/16909.
Araya Varas, J., Meqbel, N.M., Ritter, O., Brasse, H., Weckmann, U., Yañez, G., and Godoy, B. (2019): Fluid Distribution in the Central Andes Subduction Zone Imaged with Magnetotellurics, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2018JB016933.
Brasse, H., Schäfer, A., Díaz, D., Alvarado, G., Muñoz, A. & Mütschard, L. (2015): Deep-crustal magma reservoirs beneath the Nicaraguan volcanic arc, revealed by 2-D and semi 3-D inversion of magnetotelluric data, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 248, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2015.08.004.
Brasse, H. (2011): Electromagnetic Images of the South and Central American Subduction Zones, in: The Earth's Magnetic Interior (eds. E. Petrovsky, E. Herrero-Bervera, T. Harinarayana and D. Ivers), IAGA Special Sopron Book Series 1, 43-81, Springer, Berlin.
Brasse, H., Kapinos, G., Li, Y., Mütschard, L., Soyer, W. & Eydam, D. (2009): Structural electrical anisotropy in the crust at the South-Central Chilean continental margin as inferred from geomagnetic transfer functions, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 173, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2008.10.017.
Brasse, H., Kapinos, G., Mütschard, L., Alvarado, G.E., Worzewski, T., and Jegen, M. (2009): Deep electrical resistivity structure of northwestern Costa Rica, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L02310, doi:10.1029/2008GL036397.
Brasse, H. & Eydam, D. (2008): Electrical conductivity beneath the Bolivian Orocline and its relation to subduction processes at the South American continental margin, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B07109, doi:10.1029/2007JB005142.
Brasse, H. & EMTESZ-Pomerania Team (2006): Probing Electrical Conductivity of the Trans-European Suture Zone, EOS, 2006ES001383, 87(29), doi:10.1029/2006EO290002.
Brasse, H., Lezaeta, P., Rath, V., Schwalenberg, K., Soyer, W. & Haak, V. (2002): The Bolivian Altiplano conductivity anomaly, J. Geophys. Res., 107 (B5), doi:10.1029/2001JB000391.
Brasse, H. & Soyer, W. (2001): A magnetotelluric study in the Southern Chilean Andes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28 (19), 3757-3760, doi:10.1029/2001GL013224.
Brasse, H. (1999-2002): Geoelektrische und elektromagnetische Verfahren, in: Lexikon der Geowissenschaften, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg.
Brasse, H., Burkhardt, H., Fiedler-Volmer, R., Rath, V., Schuster, K. & Troschke, B. (1999): Geophysikalische und geologische Untersuchungen im Es Safya-Graben (Nordwest-Sudan): Ein Beitrag zur Erkundung einer kleinräumigen Struktur, in: Nordost-Afrika: Strukturen und Resourcen (Hg. E. Klitzsch), Wiley-VCH-Verlag, Weinheim, 194-249.
Brasse, H. & Rath, V. (1997): Audiomagnetotelluric investigations of shallow sedimentary basins in Northern Sudan, Geophys. J. Int., 128, 301-314, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb01556.x:.
Brasse, H. (1993): Audiomagnetotellurische Tiefensondierungen in Nordost-Afrika, PhD thesis, Technical University of Berlin.
Brasse, H., Burkhardt, H., Fiedler-Volmer, R., Rath, V. & Schuster, K. (1993): Geophysical and geological investigations in the Es Safya Graben, NW Sudan, in: Geoscientific research in Northeast Africa (eds. U. Thorweihe & H. Schandelmeier), Balkema, Rotterdam, 749-754.
Brasse, H. & Junge, A. (1984): The influence of geomagnetic variations on pipelines and an application for large-scale magnetotelluric depth sounding, J. Geophys., 55, 31-36. Accessible with "mt-fu".
Brasse, H. & Junge, A. (1984): Einfluß erdmagnetischer Variationen auf den kathodischen Schutz von Rohrleitungen, gwf Gas/Erdgas, 125 Jahrg., 4, 194-201. Accessible with "mt-fu".
Budach, I., Brasse, H., and Díaz, D. (2013): Crustal-scale electrical conductivity anomaly beneath inflating Lazufre volcanic complex, Central Andes, J. S. Am. Earth Sci., 42, doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2012.11.002.
Díaz, D., Brasse, H., and Ticona, F. (2012): Conductivity distribution beneath Lascar volcano (Northern Chile) and the Puna, inferred from magnetotelluric data, J. Volc. Geotherm. Res., 217-218, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2011.12.007.
Echternacht, F., Tauber, S., Eisel, M., Brasse, H., Schwarz, G. & Haak, V. (1997): Electromagnetic study of the active continental margin in northern Chile, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 102, Nos. 1-2, 69-88.
Ernst, T., H. Brasse, V. Cerv, N. Hoffmann, J. Jankowski, W. Jozwiak, A. Kreutzmann, A. Neska, N. Palshin, L. Pedersen, M. Smirnov, E. Sokolova, and I. M. Varentsov (2008): Electromagnetic images of the deep structure of the Trans-European Suture Zone beneath Polish Pomerania, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, doi:10.1029/2007GL034610.
Gurmani, S.F., Jahn, S., Brasse, H., and Schilling, F.R. (2011): Atomic scale view on partially molten rocks: Molecular dynamics simulations of melt-wetted olivine grain boundaries, J. Geophys. Res., 116, B12209, doi:10.1029/2011JB008519.
Haberland, C., Rietbrock, A., Schurr, B. & Brasse, H. (2003): Coincident anomalies of seismic attenuation and electrical resistivity beneath the southern Bolivian Altiplano plateau, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 (18), doi:10.1029/2003GL017492.
Habibian, B.D., Brasse, H., Oskooi, B., Ernst, T., Sokolova, E., Varentsov, I., and EMTESZ Working Group (2010): The conductivity structure across the Trans-European Suture Zone from magnetotelluric and magnetovariational data modeling, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 183, 3-4, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2010.08.005.
Kapinos, G., Montahaei, M., Meqbel, N., and Brasse, H. (2015): Three-dimensional electrical resistivity image of the South-Central Chilean subduction zone, Tectonophysics, 666C, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2015.10.016.
Kühn, C., Brasse, H. & Schwarz, G. (2017): Three-Dimensional Electrical Resistivity Image of the Volcanic Arc in Northern Chile - An Appraisal of Early Magnetotelluric Data, Pure Appl. Geophys., doi:10.1007/s00024-017-1764-y.
Kühn, C., Küster, J. & Brasse, H. (2014): Three-dimensional inversion of magnetotelluric data from the Central Andean continental margin, Earth Planets Space, 66 (112), doi:10.1186/1880-5981-66-112.
Lezaeta, P. & Brasse, H. (2001): Electrical conductivity beneath the volcanoes of the NW Argentinian Puna, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28 (24), 4651-4654, doi:10.1029/2001GL013582.
Lezaeta, P., Munoz, M. & Brasse, H. (2000): Magnetotelluric image of the crust and upper mantle in the backarc of the NW Argentinean Andes, Geophys. J. Int., 142, 841-854.doi:10.1046/j.1365-246x.2000.00198.x
Mancini, R., Diaz, D., Brasse, H., Godoy, B., and Hernández, M.J. (2019): Conductivity distribution beneath the San Pedro-Linzor volcanic chain, North Chile, using 3D magnetotelluric modeling, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2018JB016114 .
Mohamed, N.E., Brasse, H., Abdelgalil, M.Y. & Kheiralla, K.M. (2012): Geoelectric and VLF electromagnetic survey on complex aquifer structures, Central Sudan, Comunicações Geológicas, 99, 2, 95-100.
Patro, B.P.K., Brasse, H., Harinarayana, T., and Sarma, S.V.S. (2005): Electrical structure of the crust below the Deccan Flood Basalts (India), inferred from magnetotelluric soundings, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02789.x.
Pavez, M., Brasse, H., Kapinos, G., Díaz, D., Lara, L. & Schill, E. (2023): Magma storage and transfer in the Villarrica volcanic chain, South Chile: MT insights into volcano-tectonic interactions, J. Volc. Geotherm. Res., 107832, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2023.107832.
Pavez, M., Díaz, D., Brasse, H., Kapinos, G., Budach, I., Goldberg, V., Morata, D. & Schill, E.(2022): Shallow and Deep Electric Structures in the Tolhuaca Geothermal System (S. Chile) Investigated by Magnetotellurics, Remote Sensing, 14, doi:10.3390/rs14236144.
Pereyra Quiroga, B., Meneses Rioseco, E., Kapinos, G. & Brasse, H. (2023): Three-dimensional magnetotelluric inversion for the characterization of the Sol de Mañana high-enthalphy geothermal field, Bolivia, Geothermics, 113, doi:10.1016/j.geothermics.2023.102748.
Ruthsatz, A.D., Sarmiento Flores, A., Diaz, D., Salazar Reinoso, P., Herrera, C., and Brasse, H. (2018): Joint TEM and MT aquifer study in the Atacama Desert, North Chile, J. Appl. Geophys.,153, doi:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2018.04.002.
Schäfer, A., Houpt, L., Brasse, H., Hoffmann, N. & EMTESZ Working Group (2011): The North German Conductivity Anomaly revisited, Geophys. J. Int., 187, doi:10.1111/ j.1365-246X.2011.05145.x.
Schilling, F.R., Partzsch, G.M., Brasse, H. & Schwarz, G. (1997): Partial Melting below the Magmatic Arc in the Central Andes Deduced from Geoelectromagnetic Field Experiments and Laboratory Data, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 103, Nos. 1-2, 17-32.
Schilling, F.R., Trumbull, R.B., Brasse, H., Haberland, C., Asch, G., Bruhn, D., Mai, K., Haak, V., Giese, P., Muñoz, M., Ramelow, J., Rietbrock, A., Ricaldi, E., and Vietor, T. (2006): Partial Melting in the Central Andean Crust: A Review of Geophysical, Petrophysical, and Petrologic Evidence, in: The Andes: Active Subduction Orogeny (eds: O. Oncken et al.), Frontiers in Earth Sciences, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 459-474.
Ślęzak, K., Jóźwiak, W., Nowożyński, K., Orinsky, S., and Brasse, H. (2018): 3-D studies of MT data in the Central Polish Basin: Influence of inversion parameters, model space and transfer function selection, J. Appl. Geophys., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2018.11.008.
Ślęzak, K., Jóźwiak, W., Nowożyński, K., and Brasse, H. (2016): 3-D inversion of MT data for imaging deformation fronts in NW Poland, Pure Appl. Geophys., doi:10.1007/s00024-016-1275-2.
Soyer, W. & Brasse, H. (2001): A magneto‐variation array study in the Central Andes of N Chile and SW Bolivia, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28 (15), 3023-3026, doi:10.1029/2000GL012095.
Unsworth, M., Comeau, M.J., Díaz, D., Brasse, H., Heit, B., Favetto, A., Pomposiello, C., Barcelona, H., Peri, G., and Ticona, F. (2023): Crustal structure of the Lazufre volcanic complex and the Southern Puna from 3-D inversion of magnetotelluric data: Implications for surface uplift and evidence for melt storage and hydrothermal fluids, Geosphere, doi:10.1130/GES02506.1.
Worzewski, T., M. Jegen, H. Kopp, H. Brasse, and W. Taylor (2011): Magnetotelluric Image of the Fluid Cycle in the Costa Rican Subduction Zone, Nature Geosci., 4, doi:10.1038/NGEO1041.

Some other papers

Brasse, H. (1994): Magnetotellurische Voruntersuchungen im Dirurba-Becken, Red Sea Hills (Sudan), Prot. Koll. Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung, Höchst im Odenwald, 326-330.
Brasse, H. (1988): Audiomagnetotellurische Untersuchungen in von künstlichen Feldern freien Gebieten in Südägypten und Nordsudan, Prot. Koll. Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung, Königstein/Taunus, 217-232.
Brasse, H., Fischer, G., Leonhardt, F. & Schnegg, P.-A. (1988): Magnetotellurische Untersuchungen an der Fränkischen Linie und im Umfeld der KTB-Lokation, KTB-Report 88-12, 111-128.
Brasse, H. & Galindo, J. (2022): Anomalous induction vectors at the Chilean continental margin – an indication of widespread electrical anisotropy in the forearc crust?, Protokoll zum 29. Schmucker-Weidelt-Kolloquium fuer Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung (eds. J. Börner, P. Yogeshwar & M. Grinat), virtual meeting 29 Sept. - 1 Oct. 2021, 48-52.
Buchner, M., Kühn, C. & Brasse, H. (2017): 3-D appraisal of (very) early MT data from the Central Andean Volcanic Arc, Prot. 27. Koll. Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung (eds. M. Becken and S. Hölz), Breklum, 100.
Budach, I., Brasse, H. & Díaz, D. (2011): Imaging of conductivity anomalies at Lazufre volcanic complex, Prot. 24. Koll. Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung (eds. R.-U. Börner und K. Schwalenberg), Neustadt an der Weinstraße, 27-34.
Burkhardt, H., Brasse, H., Fiedler-Volmer, R., Haußmann, U., Kalkbrenner, K. & Radic, T. (1990): The application of seismic, magnetotelluric and geoelectric methods for tectonic and hydrogeological problems in SW Egypt and NW Sudan, Berliner Geowiss. Abh. (A), 120.1 (eds. E. Klitzsch & E. Schrank), Berlin.
Burkhardt, H., Brasse, H., Fiedler-Volmer, R., Kalkbrenner, M., Radic, T. & Schulz-Ohlberg, J. (1987): Geophysical investigations in SW Egypt and NW Sudan, Berliner Geowiss. Abh. (A), 75.3 (eds. E. Klitzsch & E. Schrank), Berlin.
Bussert, R., Brasse, H., Radic, T. & Reynolds, P.-O. (1990): Sedimentation and structural style of a rift-structure in northern Sudan: The Humar Basin, Berliner Geowiss. Abh. (A), 120.1 (eds. E. Klitzsch & E. Schrank), Berlin.
Eydam, D. & Brasse, H. (2010): Discussion on backarc mantle melting in the central Andean subduction zone, based on results of magnetotelluric studies, Prot. 23. Koll. Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung (eds. O. Ritter und U. Weckmann), Seddiner See, 216-231.
Kapinos, G. & Brasse, H. (2011): Offshore magnetotellurics in the presence of bathymetry, Prot. 24. Koll. Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung (eds. R.-U. Börner und K. Schwalenberg), Neustadt an der Weinstraße, 113-126.
Kapinos, G. & Brasse, H. (2010): Some notes on bathymetric effects in marine magnetotellurics, motivated by an amphibious experiment at the South Chilean margin, Prot. 23. Koll. Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung (eds. O. Ritter und U. Weckmann), Seddiner See, 198-209.
Kapinos, G. & Brasse, H. (2006): An Amphibious Magnetotelluric Experiment at the South Chilean Continental Margin, Prot. 21. Koll. Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung (eds. O. Ritter und H. Brasse), Haus Wohldenberg, Holle, ISSN 0946-7467, 307-314.
Küster, J., Kühn, C. & Brasse, H. (2013): 3-D reinterpretation of magnetotelluric data from the South American continental margin, Prot. 25. Koll. Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung (eds. R.-U. Börner and K. Schwalenberg), Kirchhundem-Rahrbach, 116-123.
Montahaie, M., Brasse, H. and Oskooi, B. (2010): Crustal conductivity structure of a continental margin, from magnetotelluric investigations, J. Earth Space Phys., 36 (2), 21-32.
Patro, B.P.K., Brasse, H., Sarma, S.V.S. & Harinarayana, T. (2003): Electrical characterization of the crust in the Deccan Trap region, India, Prot. Koll. Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung, Königstein, 131-140, .
Rath, V., Schwalenberg, K. & Brasse, H. (2001): A detailed electromagnetic investigation of the Franconian Lineament/Bavaria, Prot. Koll. Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung, Burg Ludwigstein, 335-339.
Ruthsatz, A.D., Sarmiento, A., Díaz, D. & Brasse, H. (2017): TEM and MT aquifer study in the Profeta Basin, North Chile, Prot. 27. Koll. Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung (eds. M. Becken and S. Hölz), Breklum, 93.
Slezak, K., K. Novozynski, K., Jozwiak, W., Martens, D. & Brasse, H. (2013): Three-dimensional MT modelling for the Pomerania region in NW Poland , Prot. 25. Koll. Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung (eds. R.-U. Börner und K. Schwalenberg), Kirchhundem-Rahrbach, 60-64.
Thorweihe, U., Wycisk, P., Sonntag, C, Schulz-Bödeker, K.-U., Radic, T. & Brasse, H. (1990): Studies on Aquifer Properties in the Dongola Area, Berliner Geowiss. Abh. (A), 120.1 (eds. E. Klitzsch & E. Schrank), Berlin.