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Prof. Dr. Michael Stipp

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Prof. Dr. Michael Stipp DH / Professor

Vice Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences III & Head of the Department of Geodynamics Geodynamics

Mail: michael.stipp@geo.uni-halle.de Tel: +49 (0)345 55 26111 (Sekretariat) Room: H3 1.29 Consultation hours: by appointment

Research

Ansprechpartner*in: Michael Stipp, Rebecca Kühn

 

Mit dem Bau des Brenner-Basis-Tunnels (BBT) ergibt sich die einmalige Möglichkeit die tektonische Entwicklung dieses Teils der Ostalpen entlang der BBT Transects neu zu bearbeiten.
Durch die Proben der assoziierten Erkundungsbohrungen können wir die vorliegenden Gesteine und ihre Eigenschaften direkt mit den seimischen Informationen nahegelegener Profile verbinden. In Kooperation mit dem Leibniz-Institut für Geophysik Hannover und der Universität Hannover werden neue tektonische Profile in 2D und 3D erstellt. Das Projekt ist Teil des SSP 4DMountainbuilding.

Publications

  • Dürkefälden, A., Geldmacher, J., Hauff, F., Stipp, M., Garbe‐Schönberg, D., Frick, D.A., Jicha, B., Pinto Ribeiro, L., Gutjahr, M., Schenk, J. and Hoernle, K. (2025): Origin of the King’s Trough Complex (North Atlantic): Interplay between a transient plate boundary and the early Azores mantle plume. – Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 26/12, doi: 10.1029/2025GC012616.
  • Johnson, S.E., Song, W.J., Anderson, E.K., Gerbi, C.C., Vel, S.S., Prior, D.J., and Stipp, M. (2025): EBSD‐based calibration of differential stress from experimentally deformed Black Hills Quartzite using the perimeter‐area fractal dimension. – Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth 130, e2024JB030866, doi: 10. 1029/2024JB030866.
  • Rudmann, J., Tanner, D.C., Stipp, M., Pomella, H. and Brandes, C. (2025): Geometrical analysis of the 3-D structure of the western Tauern Window (European Eastern Alps). – International Journal of Earth Sciences 114, (1-22), doi: 10.1007/s00531-025-02528-9.
  • Rudmann, J., Tanner, D.C., Stipp, M., Pomella, H. and Brandes, C. (2025): 2-D kinematic restoration of the western Tauern Window, Eastern Alps using thermochronological and P-T constraints. – Tectonics 44/7 (1-22), doi: 10.1029/2024TC008371.
  • Schnapperelle, S., Stipp, M., Mezger, J.E., Zieger-Hofmann, M., Zieger, J. and Linnemann, U. (2025): Long‐lasting plutonism during orogenic cycles: Incremental emplacement of the Variscan Bassiès Pluton (Central Pyrenees, France). – Terra Nova (1-8), doi: 10.1111/ter.12780.
  • Kuehn, R., Kilian, R., Lang, D., Morales, L.G., Grendal, O.G. and Stipp, M. (2024): Clay alignment takes place during early stages of sedimentation. – Nature Comm. Earth Environ. 5/1, 696-701, doi: 10.1038/s43247-024-01866-x.
  • Piette-Lauzière, N. Larson, K.P., Kellett, D.A., Kilian, R., Stipp, M., Graziani, R. and Therriault, I. (2024): Defining shear zone deformation and alteration gradients: Pocologan Kennebecasis shear zone, Canadian Appalachians. – Tectonophysics 885, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230371.
  • Beirau, T., Kilian, R., Stipp, M. and Ewing, R.C. (2023): Probing structural disorder in zircon by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD): Radiation damage and Kikuchi pattern. – Journal of Nuclear Materials 581, doi: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2023.154440.
  • Kuehn, R., Behrmann, J.H., Stipp, M., Kilian, R., Leiss, B. (2021): Deformation, CPO and Elastic Anisotropy in Low-Grade Metamorphic Serpentinites, Atlantis Massif Oceanic Core Complex. Geophysical Research Letters 48, e2021GL092986. doi: 10.1029/2021GL092986
  • Goddard, R.M., Hansen, L.N., Wallis, D., Stipp, M., Holyoke, C.W.III., Kumamoto, K.M. and Kohlstedt, D.L. (2020): A subgrain-size piezometer calibrated for EBSD. – Geophysical Research Letters 47/23, doi: 10.1002/2020GL090056
  • S.Schnapperelle, J.E.Mezger, M.Stipp, M.Hofmann, A.Gärtner, U.Linnemann: Polyphase magmatic pulses along the Northern Gondwana margin: U-Pb zircon geochronology from gneiss domes of the Pyrenees. Gondwana Research 81, May 2020, 291-311, doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.11.013
  • Greve, A., Kars, M., Zerbst, L., Stipp,M., Hashimoto, Y. (2020): Strain partitioning across a subduction thrust fault near the deformation front of the Hikurangi margin, New Zealand: A magnetic fabric study on IODP Expedition 375 Site U1518. EPSL 542, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116322.
  • R. Kuehn, M. Stipp, B. Leiss (2019) Texture development of clay-rich sediments across the Costa Rica subduction zone. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2018JB016838.
  • Appel, P., Stipp, M., Friedel, C.-H., Fiedrich, A., Kraus, K.
    and Berger, S. (2019): U-Th-total Pb ages of monazite from the
    Eckergneiss (Harz Mountains, Germany): evidence for Namurian to
    Westfalian granulite facies metamorphism at the margin of Laurussia.
    International Journal of Earth Sciences. 108, 1741-1753, doi:
    10.1007/s00531-019-01735-5.
  • Hashimoto, Y., Stipp, M., Lewis, J. and Wuttke, F. (2019):
    Paleo-stress orientations and magnitudes from triaxial testing and
    stress inversion analysis in Nankai accretionary prism sediments. –
    Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 6, Art.-No. 3.
  • Stipp, M. (2018): Comment on „Quartz grainsize evolution
    during dynamic recrystallization across a natural shear zone boundary“
    by Haoran Xia and John P. Platt. – Journal of Structural Geology 117,
    237-239, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2018.09.009.
  • Kurzawski, R.M., Niemeijer, A.R., Stipp, M., Charpentier, D.,
    Behrmann, J.H. and Spiers, C.J. (2018): Frictional properties of
    subduction input sediments at an erosive convergent continental margin
    and related controls on décollement slip modes – the Costa Rica
    Seismogenesis Project (CRISP). – Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid
    Earth, doi: 10.1029/2017JB015398.
  • Keppler, R., Behrmann, J.H. and Stipp, M. (2017): Textures of
    eclogites and blueschists from Syros island, Greece: inferences for
    elastic anisotropy of subducted oceanic crust. – Journal of Geophysical
    Research: Solid Earth 122/7, 5306-5324, doi: 10.1002/2017JB014181.
  • Cross, A.J., Prior, D., Stipp, M. and Kidder, S. (2017): The
    Recrystallized Grain Size Piezometer for Quartz: An EBSD-based
    calibration. – Geophysical Research Letters 44/13, doi:
    10.1002/2017GL073836.
  • Kurzawski, R.M. Stipp, M., Niemeijer, A.R., Spiers, C.J. and
    Behrmann, J.H. (2016): Earthquake nucleation in weak subducted
    carbonates. – Nature Geoscience 9, 717–722, doi: 10.1038/ngeo2774.
  • Keppler, R., Stipp, M., Behrmann, J.B. Ullemeyer, K. and
    Heidelbach, F. (2016): Deformation inside a paleosubduction channel –
    Insights from microstructures and crystallographic preferred
    orientations of eclogites and metasediments from the Tauern Window,
    Austria. – Journal of Structural Geology 82, 60-79, doi:
    10.1016/j.jsg.2015.11.006.
  • Völker, D. and Stipp, M. (2015): Water input and water release
    from the subducting Nazca Plate along southern Central Chile
    (33°S-46°S). – Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16/6, doi:
    10.1002/2015GC005766.
  • Keppler, R., Ullemeyer, K., Behrmann, J.B. and Stipp, M.,
    Kurzawski, R.M. and Lokajíček, T. (2015): Crystallographic preferred
    orientations of exhumed subduction channel rocks from the Eclogite Zone
    of the Tauern Window (Eastern Alps, Austria), and implications on rock
    elastic anisotropies at great depths. – Tectonophysics 647-648, 89-104, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.02.011.
  • Lindhorst, K., Krastel S., Reicherter, K. Stipp, M., Wagner,
    B. and Schwenk, T. (2015): Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of Lake
    Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania). – Basin Research 27/1, 84–101, doi:
    10.1111/bre.12063.
  • Schumann, K., Behrmann, J.H., Stipp, M., Yamamoto, Y.,
    Kitamura, Y. and Lempp, C. (2014): Geotechnical behavior of mudstones
    from the Shimanto and Boso accretionary complexes, and implications for
    the recently active Nankai Accretionary Prism. – Earth, Planets, Space 66, 129, doi:10.1186/1880-5981-66-129   
  • Schumann, K., Stipp, M., Leiss, B. and Behrmann, J.H. (2014):
    Texture development in naturally compacted and experimentally deformed
    silty clay sediments from the Nankai Trench, Japan (NanTroSEIZE, IODP
    Expeditions 315, 316, 333). – Tectonophysics 636, 125-142, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.08.005.
  • Keppler, R., Ullemeyer, K., Behrmann, J.B. and Stipp, M.
    (2014): Application of full pattern fit methods to texture analysis of
    geological materials, based on time-of-flight neutron diffraction data. –
    Journal of Applied Crystallography 47, 1520–1534, doi:
    10.1107/S1600576714015830.
  • Schumann, K., Stipp, M., Behrmann, J.H., Klaeschen, D. and
    Schulte-Kortnack, D. (2014):   P and S wave velocity measurements of
    water-rich sediments from the Nankai Trough, Japan. – Journal of
    Geophysical Research 119, 787-805, doi: 10.1002/2013JB010290.
  • Stipp, M., Rolfs, M., Kitamura, Y., Behrmann, J.H., Schumann,
    K., Schulte-Kortnack, D. and Feeser, V. (2013): Strong sediments at the
    deformation front, and weak sediments at the rear of the Nankai
    accretionary prism, revealed by triaxial deformation experiments. –
    Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 14/11, doi: 10.1002/ggge.20290.
  • Speckbacher, R., Stipp, M., Behrmann, J.H. and Heidelbach, F.
    (2013): Fluid-assisted fracturing, cataclasis, and resulting plastic
    flow in mylonites from the Moresby Seamount detachment, Woodlark Basin. –
    Journal of Structural Geology 56, 156-171, doi:
    10.1016/j.jsg.2013.10.001.
  • Vannucchi, P., Sak, P.B., Morgan, J.P., Ohkushi, K., Ujiie, K. and IODP Expedition 334 Shipboard Scientists
    (2013): Rapid pulses of uplift, subsidence, and subduction erosion
    offshore Central America: Implications for building the rock record of
    convergent margins. – Geology 41/9, 995-998, doi: 10.1130/G34355.1.
  • Vannucchi, P., Ujiie, K., Stroncik, N., Malinverno, A., Arroyo, I.,
    Barckhausen, U., Conin, M.J., Foley, S.M., Formolo, M.J., Harris, R.N.,
    Heuret, A., Huftile, G.J., Kameda, J., Kim, G.Y., Kutterolf, S.O.,
    Martino, A.J., McCay, G.A., Nuzzo, M., Ohkushi, K., Saito, S., Sak,
    P.B., Solomon, E.A., Stipp, M., Torres, M.E., Tsutsumi, A., Uno,
    M., Usui, Y., Vadakkeyakath, Y., Yamamoto, Y., Zhao, X., Zhu, J.,
    Saltman, J. (2013): IODP expedition 334: An investigation of the
    sedimentary record, fluid flow and state of stress on top of the
    seismogenic zone of an erosive subduction margin. – Scientific Drilling 15, 23-30.
  • Pomella, H., Stipp, M. and Fügenschuh, B. (2012): Thermochronological
    record of thrusting and strike-slip faulting along the Giudicarie fault
    system (Alps, Northern Italy). – Tectonophysics 579, 118-130, doi:
    10.1016/j.tecto.2012.04.015.
  • Speckbacher, R., Behrmann, J.H., Nagel, T.J., Stipp, M. and
    Mahlke, J. (2012): Fluid flow and metasomatic fault weakening in the
    Moresby Seamount detachment, Woodlark Basin, offshore Papua New Guinea. –
    Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13/11, Q11016, doi:
    10.1029/2012GC004407.
  • Keller, L.M. and Stipp, M. (2011): The single-slip hypothesis
    revisited: Crystal-preferred orientations of sheared quartz aggregates
    with increasing strain in nature and numerical simulation. – Journal of
    Structural Geology 33, 1491-1500, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2011.07.008.
  • Völker, D., Grevemeyer, I., Stipp, M., He, J. and Wang, K.
    (2011): Thermal control of the seismogenic zone – a comparison of
    thermal model results and measured interplate seismicity for Southern
    Central Chile. – Journal of Geophysical Research 116, B10305, doi:10.1029/2011JB008247   
  • Grujic, D. Stipp, M. and Wooden, J. (2011): Thermometry of
    Quartz Mylonites: Importance of dynamic recrystallization on
    Ti-in-quartz re-equilibration. – Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
    12/6, Q06012, doi:10.1029/2010GC003368   
  • Speckbacher, R., Behrmann, J.H., Nagel, T., Stipp, M. and
    Devey, C.W. (2011): Splitting a continent: Insights from submarine high
    resolution mapping of the Moresby Seamount Detachment, offshore Papua
    New Guinea. – Geology 39/7, 651–654, doi:10.1130/G31931.1   
  • Pomella, H., Klötzli, U., Scholger, R., Stipp, M. and Fügenschuh, B.
    (2011): The Northern Giudicarie and the Meran-Mauls fault (Alps,
    Northern Italy) in the light of new paleomagnetic and geochronological
    data from boudinaged Eo-/Oligocene tonalites. – International Journal of
    Earth Sciences 100/8, 1827-1850, doi: 10.1007/s00531-010-0612-4.
  • Stipp, M., Tullis, J., Scherwath, M. and Behrmann, J.H. (2010): A new
    perspective on paleo-piezometry: Dynamically recrystallized grain size
    distributions indicate mechanism changes. – Geology 38, 759-762, doi:
    10.113O/G31162.1.
  • Ullemeyer, K., Leiss, B. and Stipp, M. (2010): Textures and
    Microstructures in Peridotites from the Finero Complex (Ivrea Zone,
    Alps) and their Influence on the Elastic Rock Properties. – Solid State
    Phenomena 160, 183-188, doi: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.183.
  • Stipp, M. and Kunze, K. (2008): Dynamic recrystallization near
    the brittle-plastic transition in naturally and experimentally deformed
    quartz aggregates. – Tectonophysics 448, 77-97, TECTO124034, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.041   
  • Stipp, M., J. Tullis, and H. Behrens (2006): Effect of water
    on the dislocation creep microstructure and flow stress of quartz and
    implications for the recrystallized grain size piezometer. – Journal of Geophysical Research 111, B04201, doi:10.1029/2005JB003852   
  • Stipp, M., Fügenschuh, B., Gromet, L.P., Stünitz, H. and Schmid, S.M.
    (2004): Contemporaneous plutonism and strike-slip faulting: A case
    study from the Tonale fault zone north of the Adamello pluton (Italian
    Alps). – Tectonics 23, TC3004, doi:10.1029/2003TC001515   
  • Stipp, M. and Tullis, J. (2003): The recrystallized grain size piezometer for quartz. – Geophysical Research Letters 30(21), 2088, doi:10.1029/2003GL018444   
  • Stipp, M., Stünitz, H., Heilbronner, R. and Schmid, S.M.
    (2002b): Dynamic recrystallization of quartz: correlation between
    natural and experimental conditions. In: De Meer, S., Drury, M.R., De
    Bresser, J.H.P. & Pennock, G.M. (eds.): Deformation Mechanisms,
    Rheology and Tectonics: Current Status and Future Perspectives. – Geological Society of London, Special Publications 200, 171-190.
  • Stipp, M., Stünitz, H., Heilbronner, R. and Schmid, S. M.
    (2002a): The eastern Tonale fault zone: A “natural laboratory” for
    crystal plastic deformation of quartz over a temperature range from
    250°C to 700°C. – Journal of Structural Geology 24, 1861-1884.
  • Vollbrecht, A., Stipp, M. and Olesen, N. Ø. (1999):
    Crystallographic orientation of microcracks in quartz and inferred
    deformation processes: a study on gneisses from the German Continental
    Deep Drilling Project (KTB). – Tectonophysics 303, 279-297.