Fachbereich Geowissenschaften

Master's Thesis Topics in Geosciences

Research topics geosciences students recently focused on in their Master's thesis, sorted by work groups (year)

Applied Mineralogy

  • Methodische Beschreibung von PVD abgeschiedenen Ti35Al55Si10N-Dünnschichten (2020)

Biogeology

  • Paleoecological Reconstruction of Messel & Schöningen Fauna using stable Isotopes (δ13C, δ15N & δ15NGlu, δ15NPhe) (2021)
  • Isotopic Paleoecology of Bovids and Cervids from Southeast Asia (2022)
  • Paleoecology and Phylogeny of Secondarily Terrestrial Crocodile-Relatives (2023)

Environmental Biotechnology

  • Optimization of the open-culture chain elongation mechanisms via the reverse β-oxidation pathway in bottle experiments (2020)

Environmental Systems Analysis

  • Large wood in the rivers of low mountain ranges in BW - A missing component in risk assessment (2022)

Environmental Mineralogy

  • Geogene Hintergrundgehalte von Arsen und Schwermetallen in Böden im Großraum Stuttgart (2020)

Environmental Physics

  • Wind estimation using unmanned, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (2021)

Experimental Mineralogy

  • A feasibility study on bimodal magma injection experiments: chances and limitations in the experimental and analytical procedure (2021)
  • H2O Phase Separation in Iron- and Polyvalent Ion-free Phonolitic Melts (2022)
  • Experimentelle Untersuchung der Bildung von Magnetit-Nanolithen in einer rhyolitischen Schmelze (2022)

Geology & Geodynamics

  • Influence of geology, climate and vegetation on catchment-wide erosion rates in Patagonia (42°S - 54°S) determined from cosmogenic nuclides (2022)
  • Downscaling of orographic precipitation in complex Norwegian terrain (2022)
  • Different rockfall event parameters and their influences on rockwall retreat rates (2022)
  • Rockfall risk prediction with an orientation-independent model (2022)
  • Local Rainfall as Trigger for Landslides at the Escarpment of the Swabian Alb, Germany (2022)
  • A comparison of various software approaches for estimating the grain size distribution of rockfall using digital images from the Fils valley (2023)
  • Assessment of the Erosion in Southwestern Germany using Sediment Thickness Reconstructions and Apatite Thermochronology (2023)
  • Topographic factors steering erosion during the 2021 Eifel flood (2023)
  • Getting the most out of a single grain: Cooling history reconstruction of sigle apatite crystals from LA-ICP-MS in-situ (U-Th-Sm)He measurements (2023)

Geomicrobiology

  • The influence of environmental conditions on the formation of biogenic magnetite (2021)
  • Combined impact of elevated atmospheric CO2 and soil Cd on the nitrogen cycle in agricultural soils (2022)
  • Mineralogy and Geochemistry of iron microbialites from an extremely acidic environments, Rio Tinto, Spain (2023)

Hydrogeochemistry

  • Chemische und physikalische Charakterisierung des Oberen Muschelkalkes anhand eines Bohrkernes aus Baisingen (2022)

Hydrogeology

  • Einzugsgebietsbestimmung der Bad Dürrheimer Mineralbrunnen (2022)

Invertebrate Palaeontology

  • Identification of trace fossil samples from the Lower Jurassic of Southern Germany using surface scanned 3D-models (2022)
  • Säulenpermeametermessungen und numerische Modellierungen von Karbonaten aus der Unterkreide Katars (2022)
  • Facies analysis and paleoenvironmental reconstructions of a middle-upper eocene carbonate succession of Monti Berci, Italy (2022)
  • Central Adriatic Core POS514-33-11GC off Croatia: Sedimentation, Coarse Fraction Analysis and Preliminary Age Model (2023)

Isotope Geochemistry

  • Coupled δ56Fe and δ98Mo measurements of the Hotazel Banded Iron Formation - Implications for the Paleoproterozoic ocean oxygenation state (2022)
  • Evaporative stable Cr and Fe isotope signals in 3.2 Ga old impact spherule layers from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa (2022)
  • Geochemical Signatures in Ocean Island Basalts: Comparison between Canary Islands and French Polynesia (2023)

Micropaleontology

  • Constraining 40.000 years of environmental change at Lake Nakuru, Kenya (2021)

Near-Surface Geophysics

  • Seismic refraction tomography survey to determine internal structures of the Grabfeld-Formation in the Ammer valley, Tübingen (2022)
  • Towards detection of the groundwater table using phase-sensitive radar (2022)

Petrology and Mineral Resources

  • Untersuchung von Sulfid-Silikat-Texturen der Sulfiderzlagerstätte Silbergerg des Bodenmais (2022)
  • Emulsions-Texturen magmatischer Sulfide in Sora (Oberlausitz) (2023)
  • Melt inclusions in alkaline rocks of the Gardiner (Greenland) and Oka (Canada) complexes (2023)
  • Melt inclusions in alkaline rocks of the Kovdor (Russia) and Oka (Canada) complexes (2023)
  • Variations in Pyroxenites of the Palabora Igneous Complex, South Africa (2023)

Structural Geology

  • Textural analysis of the RECAP ice core regarding the recently developed step model (2021)
  • Petrophysical Characterization of the Well Logs and Modeling of the Meletta Sandstones in the Upper Rhein Graben for deep Geothermal Heat Storage Systems (2022)
  • Microstructural analysis of an ice core from a fast-flowing Greenlandic ice stream regarding deformation and recrystallization processes (2023)

Terrestrial Palaeoclimatology

  • Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Late Miocene of Staniantsi (Bulgaria) (2020)

Terrestrial Sedimentology

  • The Interplay of Vegetation, Sediments, and Earth-Surface Processes on Alpine Hillslopes (Valais, Switzerland) (2023)