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FRANK MATTERN

 

Habilitation, Freie Universität Berlin, 1998
Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin, 1988
M.S., Freie Universität Berlin, 1984

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

E-mail frank.mattern@fu-berlin.de  

Phone +49 -30 838 70190 


 

Professional Background

Nov. 2011 – present:

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Lecturer

 

June 1998 – present:

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Privatdozent

 

Jan. 2002 – May 2001:

Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA, Visiting Lecturer

 

Jan. 1999 – Dec. 1999:

Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, Mexico, Profesor-Investigador Interino

 

June 1995 – June 1998:

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Habilitation Candidate

 

Sept. 1996 – Aug. 1997: 

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, DFG Research Fellow

 

Apr. 1996 – Mar. 1997:

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Lehrbeauftragter

 

Apr. 1989 – Mar. 1995:

Universität Hannover, Germany, Akademischer Rat auf Zeit

 

 

 

Courses

Structural Styles –  lecture and lab

Structural Styles of Hydrocarbon Habitats - lecture
Geological Basins –  lecture and lab
Geo-English – seminar

Tectonics of North America – lecture

“Die Erde Teil 1” – field trip

 

 

Research

• Structural Geology/Tectonics •

Kinematic analyses, pluton emplacement, mylonites, strike-slip tectonics, thrust tectonics, strike-slip rifting, mountain building/analysis of orogens, plate tectonic reconstructions, basins, structural styles

• Tectonics and Sedimentation •

Basins studies, rift flank sequences and their tectonic significance, tectonic control of evaporite and clastic deep-sea deposition

• Basin Studies •

Pull-apart basins, transform continental margin basins, continental back-arc basins, lateral escape-related basins, basin reconstruction of allochthonous flysch units

• Ancient Deep-Sea Fans •

System analysis of sand-rich submarine fans, fan processes, lithostratigraphy, facies, paleocurrents, petrography, facies

• Alps •

Calcareous Alps: thrust structure

 

Rhenodanubian Flysch: thrust structure, lithostratigraphy and facies of submarine fans, basin interpretation

 

Penninic region: paleogeodynamics/paleogeography/basin interpretation

• Bohemian Massif •

East Bavarian strike-slip zones (Bayerischer Pfahl, Donaurandbruch, Fränkische Linie): Late Paleozoic kinematics, mylonite zones, pull-apart basin formation, coupled shear pattern and subsidence analyses, “basin families” (Pangean context), dating of volcanic rocks in vein arrays

Elbe zone (Saxony): Late Paleozoic kinematics, pull-apart pluton emplacement, kinematic analysis of mylonite zones

Intrasudetic main fault (W Poland): Late Paleozoic kinematics, mapping

• China •

Kunlun Shan and Kara Kunlun (NW Tibet Plateau, Xinjiang): mountain building/tectonic analysis of orogen, plate tectonic reconstruction, mylonites

Bangong/Nujiang zone (Tibet): rift history, tectono-sedimentary basin evolution, basin destruction

 

Turfan Depression (lowest point in Asia, western Turfan basin, Xinjiang): aspects of subsidence, lateral escape tectonics and sedimentation

SE-China (Anhui): evaporite exploration (Triassic evaporites), collisional shelf basin study

SE-China (Anhui): continental backarc basin evolution, plate tectonic reconstruction (Meso-Cenozoic)

Yanshan (Municipality of Beijing): kinematic analysis of Upper Cretaceous and Cenozoic brittle faults

• Southern Baja California •

Active margin HT/LP metamorphic rocks at the transition forearc/arc, kinematic analysis, reconstruction of Cretaceous plate convergence

 

Publications            · Book ·

                                          MATTERN, F. Geological processes of coasts and beaches (in preparation).

 

 

· Monographs ·

 

MATTERN, F. (1998): Lithostratigraphie und Fazies des Reiselsberger Sandsteins: sandreiche, submarine Fächer (Cenomanium-Turonium, westlicher Rhenodanubischer Flysch, Ostalpen). Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Reihe A, v. 198, p. 1-139, Berlin (Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, FU Berlin).

translation: Lithostratigraphy and facies of the Reiselsberger Sandstein Formation: sand-rich, submarine fans (Cenomanian-Turonian, western Rhenodanubian Flysch, eastern Alps).

 

MATTERN, F. (1988): Die interne Überschiebungstektonik im Flysch (Kreide) der westlichen Bayerischen Alpen. Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Reihe A, v. 101, p. 1-94, Ph.D. thesis, Free University Berlin (D. Reimer).

translation: Internal thrust tectonics of the flysch belt (Cretaceous) in the western Bavarian Alps.

 

 

 

· Reviewed Articles ·

 

MATTERN, F., PEREZ VENZOR, J.A., PEREZ ESPINOZA, J.E. & HIRALES ROCHIN, J. (2010): Cretaceous to Cenozoic sequential kinematics of the forearc-arc transition: effects of changing oblique plate convergence and the San Andreas system with implications to the La Paz fault (southern Baja California, Mexico) International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau), v. 99, p. 83-99, Berlin (Springer).

 

MATTERN, F. & WANG, P.J. (2008): Out-of-sequence thrusts and paleogeography of the Rhenodanubian Flysch Belt (Eastern Alps) revisited. International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau), v. 97, p. 821-833, Berlin (Springer).

 

WANG, P., XIE, X., MATTERN, F., REN, Y., ZHU, D. & SUN, Y.: The Cretaceous Songliao Basin: Volcanogenic Succession, Sedimentary Sequence and Tectonic Evolution, NE China.- Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), v. 81 (6), S. 1002-1011, Beijing (Geological Society of China). 

 

MATTERN, F. (2005): Ancient sand-rich submarine fans: depositional systems, models, identification, and analysis. Earth-Science Reviews, v. 70 (3-4), p. 167-202, Amsterdam (Elsevier).

 

MATTERN, F. (2004): The main internal flysch thrust, thrust tectonic subdivision and structure of the western Rhenodanubian Flysch (eastern Alps). Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, v. 151 (1), p. 11-34, Stuttgart (Schweizerbart).

 

SCHNEIDER, W., MATTERN, F., WANG, P.J. & LI, C. (2003): Tectonic and sedimentary basin evolution of the eastern Bangong/Nujiang zone (Tibet): a Reading cycle. International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau), v. 92, p. 228-254, Berlin (Springer).

 

MATTERN, F. (2002): Amalgamation surfaces, bed thicknesses, and dish structures in sand-rich submarine fans: numeric differences in channelized and unchannelized deposits and their diagnostic value. Sedimentary Geology, v. 150, p. 203-228, Amsterdam (Elsevier).

 

MATTERN, F. (2001): Permo-Silesian movements between Baltica and western Europe: tectonics and “basin families”. Terra Nova, v. 13, p. 368-375, Oxford (Blackwell).

 

MATTERN, F. & SCHNEIDER, W. (2000): Suturing of the Proto- and Paleo-Tethys oceans in the western Kunlun (Xinjiang, China). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 18 (6), p. 637-650, Amsterdam (Elsevier).

 

MATTERN, F. (1999): Mid-Cretaceous basin development, paleogeography, and paleogeodynamics of the western Rhenodanubian Flysch (Alps). Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, v. 149 (4), p. 89-132, Stuttgart (Schweizerbart).

 

MATTERN, F., SCHNEIDER, W., WANG, P. & LI, C. (1998): Continental strike-slip rifts and their stratigraphic signature: application to the Bangong/Nujiang zone (Tibet) and the South Penninic zone (Alps). Geologische Rundschau, v. 87 (2), p. 206-224, Berlin (Springer).

 

MATTERN, F. (1998): The Turfan Depression of the western Turfan basin, Northwest China: Aspects of Subsidence and Relation to Lateral Escape Tectonics. International Geology Review, v. 40 (4), p. 325-334, Columbia (Bellwether).

 

MATTERN, F., SCHNEIDER, W., LI, Y. & LI, X. (1996): A traverse through the western Kunlun (Xinjiang, China): tentative geodynamic implications for the Paleozoic and Mesozoic. Geologische Rundschau, v. 85 (4), p. 705-722, Berlin (Springer).

 

MATTERN, F. (1996): The Elbe zone at Dresden - a Late Paleozoic pull-apart intruded shear zone. Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, v. 147 (1), p. 57-80, Stuttgart (Schweizerbart).

 

MATTERN, F. (1995): The fault(s) of the “Fränkische Linie” (NE Bavaria), interpreted as a Rotliegend sinistral extensional strike-slip duplex. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie Teil I, v. 1993 (9/10), p. 1491-1504, Stuttgart (Schweizerbart).

 

MATTERN, F. (1995): Late Carboniferous to early Triassic shear sense reversals at strike-slip faults in eastern Bavaria. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie Teil I, v. 1993 (9/10), p. 1471-1490, Stuttgart (Schweizerbart).

 

MATTERN, F. (1994): Meso-Cenozoic tectonic development and basin evolution of the lower Yangtze reaches (Anhui Province, China). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen, v. 194 (2/3), p. 413-432, Stuttgart (Schweizerbart).

 

BREITKREUZ, H., MATTERN, F. & SCHNEIDER, W. (1994): Mid-Triassic shallow marine evaporites and a genetic model for evaporation during regional compression (Lower Yangtze Basin, Anhui, China). Carbonates and Evaporites, v. 9 (2), p. 211-222, Troy.

 

 

 

· Further Articles ·

 

SUN, X., WANG, P., MATTERN, F., HAO, F. & GUO, Z. (2004): On Several Key Problems about the Tectonic Evolution of the Tarim Basin. In: SUN, G., MOSBRUGGER, V., ASHRAF, A.R. & SUN, Y.W. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sino-German Symposium on Paleontology, Geological Evolution and Environmental Changes of Xinjiang, China (Urumqi, April 25-30, 2004), p. 79-84, Changchun (Jilin University Press).

 

WANG, P.J., MATTERN, F., CHEN, S.M., LIU, W.Z., CHEN, R.H. & SHAN, X.L. (2003): Influence of Okhotsk Suturing on the Songliao Basin: Evidenced from Volcanic Rocks. In: WANG, Q., ZHANG, Y. & SUN, W. (Eds.), Proceedings for the 5th International Symposium of Geological and Mineragenic Correlation in Contiguous Regions of China, Russia and Mongolia, Changchun, p. 9-17, Changchun (International Center for Geoscientific Research and Education in Northeast Asia, Jilin University).

 

WANG, P., MATTERN, F., SCHNEIDER, W., LIU, W., LI, S., & LI, C. (2003): The Cretaceous of the eastern Bangong-Nujiang zone (Tibet): Tectono-Sedimentation. Journal of Geoscientific Research in Northeast Asia, v. 6, p. 38-44, Changchun (International Center for Geoscientific Research and Education in Northeast Asia, Jilin University).

 

WANG, P., MATTERN, F., SCHNEIDER, W., LIU, W., TIAN, W., & LI, C. (2003): The Cretaceous of the eastern Bangong-Nujiang zone (Tibet): Tectono-Sedimentation. Global Geology, v. 22 (6), p. 129-137, Changchun, (International Center for Geoscientific Research and Education in Northeast Asia, Jilin University) [in Chinese with English abstract].

 

WANG, P., FENG, Z., MATTERN, F., SHAN, X., LIU, W., CHENG, R., QIU, C., TANG, H., ZHANG, Y., LI, Q. & WEN, N. (2003): Reservoir Volcanic Rocks: Geology and Geochemistry, the Mesozoic Non-marine Songliao Basin, NE China. Journal of Geoscientific Research in Northeast Asia, v. 6, p. 129-137, Changchun (International Center for Geoscientific Research and Education in Northeast Asia, Jilin University).

 

WANG, P., SCHNEIDER, W., MATTERN, F. & BIAN, W. (2002): The characteristics of epicontinental basin ingression sequences: comparison between the Triassic of the Central European basin and the Cretaceous of the Songliao basin of China. Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 2 (2), p. 45-53, Chengdu (Chinese Society of Mineralogy and Petrology) [in Chinese with English abstract].

 

WANG, P., SCHNEIDER, W., MATTERN, F., LIU, W. & YIN, X. (2002): Marine Ingressive Events Recorded in Epicontinental Sequences: Example from the Cretaceous Songliao Basin of NE China in Comparison with the Triassic Central Europe Basin of SW Germany. Journal of Geoscientific Research in Northeast Asia. v. 5 (1), p. 35-42, Changchun (International Center for Geoscientific Research and Education in Northeast Asia, Jilin University).

 

MONECKE, K. & MATTERN, F. (1998): Das Kluftsystem im Bereich des Naturdenkmals “Saurierfährten Münchehagen”. In: R. FISCHER (Ed.), Das Naturdenkmal “Saurierfährten Münchehagen”, Mitteilungen aus dem Geologischen Institut der Universität Hannover, v. 37, p. 103-112, Hannover.

translation: The joint system at the nature monument “Dinosaur Tracks Münchehagen”. (location: Lower Saxony).

 

WANG, P., SCHNEIDER, W., MATTERN, F., LIU, W. & LI, C. (1997): Sedimentation of Bangong/Nujiang Suture Zone (BNSZ), northern Tibet, SW China. Journal of Changchun University of Earth Sciences, v. 27, p. 21-26 and 32, Changchun (Changchun University of Earth Sciences) [in Chinese with English abstract].

  

DONG, S., FANG, J., LI, Y., ZHU, H., SCHNEIDER, W., BREITKREUZ, H. & MATTERN, F. (1994): Middle Triassic-Middle Jurassic sedimentary facies and Indosinian movement in the lower Yangtze region. Geological Review, v. 40 (2), p. 111-119, Beijing (Geological Society of China, Geological Publishing House) [in Chinese with English abstract].

 

MATTERN, F., MAYER, M. & MONECKE, K. (1994): Die Klüfte im Sandstein der Bückeberg-Formation (Unterkreide) des Naturdenkmals “Saurierfährten Münchehagen”, Salzstruktur “Rehburg”. Bericht der naturhistorischen Gesellschaft Hannover, v. 136, p. 67-74, Hannover.

translation: The joints in the sandstone of the Bückeberg Formation (Lower Cretaceous) at the site of the “Münchehagen Dinosaur Tracks” nature monument, salt structure “Rehburg”. (location: Lower Saxony).

 

 

 

· Selected Abstracts ·

 

WANG, P., ZHANG, Y., CHEN, R., SUN, X., MATTERN, F. & DU, X. (2004): Sedimentary Facies and Facies Evolution of the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, NW China. In: SUN, G., MOSBRUGGER, V., ASHRAF, A.R. & SUN, Y.W. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sino-German Symposium on Paleontology, Geological Evolution and Environmental Changes of Xinjiang, China (Urumqi, April 25-30, 2004), p. 61-64, Changchun (Jilin University Press).

 

MATTERN, F. (2001): The paleogeographic origin of the eastern Alps’ Rhenodanubian Flysch and related Alpine geodynamics: A basin analysis approach. Geological Society of America 2001 Annual Meeting Boston, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32 (7), p. 200, Boulder.

 

MATTERN, F. (2000): Different sedimentary fabrics in channelized and unchannelized sand-rich submarine fan deposits of the Reiselsberger Sandstein Formation (Cenomanian-Turonian, Alps). Geological Society of America 2000 Annual Meeting Reno, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32 (7), Boulder.

 

WANG, P.-J., SUN, X.-M. & MATTERN, F. (2000): Relationship between Yanshanian orogeny and the evolution of Songliao basin (SB), North/Northeast China. 78. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft Heidelberg, European Journal of Mineralogy (Beihefte), v. 12, p. 229, Stuttgart (Schweizerbart).

 

MATTERN, F., SCHNEIDER, W., LI, Y. & LI, X. (1997): Paleozoic accretionary history of the western Kunlun (Xinjiang; western China). Geological Society of America 1997 Annual Meeting Salt Lake City, Abstracts with Programs, v. 29 (6), p. 469, Boulder [invited talk].

 

MATTERN, F. (1996): Intracontinental strike-slip faults as indicators for changing stress fields (Late Paleozoic of the Bohemian Massif, Germany). American Association of Petroleum Geologists 1996 Annual Convention San Diego, Official Program, v. 5, p. A93, Tulsa [invited talk].

 

 

 

· Unpublished Theses ·

 

MATTERN, F. (1997): Das Sedimentationssystem des Reiselsberger Sandsteins (Cenomanium-Turonium; westlicher Rhenodanubischer Flysch; Ostalpen): tektonisch gesteuerte Progradation sandreicher, submariner Fächer. 239 pp., Berlin (habilitation thesis, Freie Universität Berlin).

translation: The depositional system of the Reiselsberg Sandstone (Cenomanian-Turonian; western Rhenodanubian Flysch; eastern Alps): tectonically controlled progradation of sand-rich, submarine fans.

 

MATTERN, F. (1984): Flysch und Kalkalpin im Bereich des Hengstbachs im Ammergebirge - eine Neuaufnahme. 148 pp., Berlin (master’s thesis, Freie Universität Berlin).

translation: Flysch and Calcareous Alps in the area of the Hengstbach Valley, Ammer Range - a revision. (location: eastern Alps, Bavaria).

 

Last updated: November 1, 2011

 

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