Prof. Dr. M. Peter Süss

Born: October, 10th, 1967, Munich

Academic Education:

Dipl. Geol: 1986-1992 Geologisches Institut Universität Bonn/ Institut für Geophysik TU Clausthal
PhD. Geol: 1992-1996 Geologisches Institut Universität Bonn
Post-Doc: 1996-1998 Geologisches Institut Universität Bonn
Postoc: 1998 - 1999 Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellow
Assistant: 1999-2005 University of Tuebingen
Lecturer: 2005 Privatdozent University of Tuebingen
Professor: 2016 Ausserordentlicher Professor University of Tuebingen

Dipl. Thesis: Geologische, Geophysikalische und Geodctische Untersuchungen im Bereich des Global Geoscientific Transect "Blaue Strasse" (EU9). [Geological, geophysical and geodetic investigations along the Global Geoscientific Transect
"Blue Road" (EU9).]

Dipl. Mapping: Geologische Grundgebirgskartierung Kittelfjäll/Grönfjäll Schwedisch-Lappland). [Geologic map of the caledonian basement Kittelfjäll/Grönfjäll (Swedish Lappland).]

Ph.D. Thesis: Sedimentologie und Tektonik des Ruhr-Beckens: Sequenzstratigraphische Interpretation und Modellierung eines Vorlandbeckens der Varisciden. [Sedimentology and tectonics of the Ruhr Basin: Sequence stratigraphic interpretation and modeling of a foreland basin of the Variscides.]

PostDoc [Universiy of Bonn]: Sedimentologie und synsedimentäre Tektonik des Aachen-Erkelenz-Beckens. [ Sedimentology
and synsedimentary tectonics of the Aachen-Erkelenz basin.]

PostDoc [University of Bonn]: Dynamische Entwicklung des variscischen Vorlandes im westlichen Norddeutschland im Oberkarbon. [Dynamic evolution of the variscian foreland in North-Western Germany.]

PostDoc [Harvard University]: Structure, evolution and seismic velocities of the Los Angeles Basin.

PostDoc [University of Tübingen]: Structure, evolution and seismic velocitities of the Los Angeles Basin and the German Molasse Basin.

Habilitation [University of Tübingen]: An integrated basin analysis workflow: approach and applications

Stand: 10/2016

Eskens, L.H.J., Andrić-Tomašević, N.,Süss, M. P., Müller, M., Herrmann, R.,  Ehlers, T.A., 2024, Lithospheric- and crustal scale controls on along-strike variations in foreland basin development: a case study of the Northern Alpine Foreland Basin. Tectonophysics.

Adamolekun, O. J., Busch, B., Oluwajana, O. A., Suess, M. P., Hilgers, C. 2023, Diagenetic evolution of continental to shallow marine Mesozoic–Cenozoic deposits, Eastern Dahomey Basin, Nigeria: Implications for reservoir quality, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 174 (1), 119 – 142. doi:10.1127/zdgg/2023/0378.

Adamolekun, O. J., Busch, B., Suess, M. P., Molenaar, N., Hilgers, C., 2022: Petrography and reservoir quality controls in shallow transitional marine Cretaceous-Paleogene deposits in the Dahomey Basin, Nigeria, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 186, Art.-Nr.: 104437. DOI:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2021.104437.

 Suess, M. P., Tetzlaf, D., 2019, Application of Process Based Stratigraphic Modelling: Methods and Theory, 81st EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2019 Extended Abstract, 10.3997/2214-4609.201901256.

Wolpert, P., Bartenbach, M., Suess, M. P., Rausch, R., Aigner, T., Le Nindre, Y.-M., 2015, Facies analysis and sequence stratigraphy of the uppermost Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous Sulaiy Formation in outcrops of central Saudi Arabia, 2015, Geoarabia, Volume 20/4, 67-122.

 El Jorfi, L., Süss, M.P., Aigner, T., Mhammdi,N., 2015,Triassic – Quaternary sequence stratigraphy of the Tarfaya basin (moroccan atlantic): structural evolution, eustasy and sedimentation, 2015, Journal of Petroleum Geology 01/2015; 38(1). DOI:10.1111/jpg.12599.

 Shaw, J.H., Plesch, A., Tape, C., Suess, M.P., Jordan,T.H, Ely,G., Hauksson,E., Tromp,J., Tanimoto, T., Graves,R., Olsen,K., Nicholson,G., Maechling, P.J., Rivero,J., Lovely,P., Brankman,C.M., Munster, J. ,2015, Unified Structural Representation of the southern California crust and upper mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 04/2015; 415.DOI:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.01.016.

 Suess, M.P., Bartenbach, M., Aigner, T. and Baumhoer, M., 2012, Building High Resolution Microblock-models to Model Upscaling Behaviour of Heterogenous Carbonates. Abstract, First EAGE Integrated Reservoir Modelling Conference - Are we doing it right?. 10.3997/2214-4609.20142855.

Hanitzsch, C., Bresser, G., Heerde, W., Jakob, V., Suess, M.P., Zahran, M.E., Altenkirch, J., A Consistent Workflow From Seismic Acquisition to Well Positioning—For Challenging Data in Block 11, Offshore Qatar. IPTC 2009: International Petroleum Technology Conference extended abstract, DOI:10.2523/IPTC-13413-MS.

 Süss, M.P., Plesch, A., Shaw, J.H. & Mamdouh, Z.. 2009. Paleostrain and fracture potential of deep-seated wrench-fault systems in the post-Hith of Block 11 (Qatar). IPTC 2009: International Petroleum Technology Conference extended abstract, DOI:10.2523/IPTC-13412-MS.

Süss, M.P., Schäfer, A., Drozdzewski, G. & Fischer, K.D., 2008, Modelling Tectonics and Sedimentation of the Late Carboniferous Variscan Foreland in North Western Europe.- Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 159, 6, 671-686.

 Bieg, U, Süss, M.P., Kuhlemann J., 2009, Simulation of Tidal Flow and Circulation Patterns in the Early Miocene (Upper Marine Molasse) of the Alpine Foreland Basin, In: Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Sedimentary Systems: From Understanding to Prediction, 02/2009: pages 145 - 169; , ISBN: 9781444303131.

Kostic, B., Süss, M.P., Aigner, T., 2007, Three-dimensional sedimentary architecture of Quaternary sand and gravel resources: a case study of economic sedimentology (SW Germany). International Journal of Earth Sciences 01/2007; 96(4):743-767. DOI:10.1007/s00531-006-0120-8.

Plesch, A., Shawn, J.H., Benson, C., Bryant, W.A., Carena, S., Cooke, M., Dolan, J., Fuis, G., Gath, E., Grant, L., Hauksson, E., Jordan, T., Kamerling, M., Legg, M., Lindvall, S., Magistrale, H., Nicholson, T., Niemi N., Oskin, M., Perry, S., Planasky, G., Rockwell, T., Shearer, P., Sorlien, C., Suess, M.P., Suppe, J., Treiman, J., Yeats, R. ,2007, Community Fault Model (CFM) for Southern California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 97, No. 6, pp. 1793-1802. ; doi:10.1785/0120050211.

 Süss, M. P., Drozdzewski, G., Schäfer, A., 2007, Sedimentary environment dynamics and the formation of coal in the Pennsylvanian Variscan foreland in the Ruhr Basin (Germany, Western Europe). International Journal of Coal Geology, Volume 69, Issue 4, 1 March 2007, Pages 267–287, DOI:10.1016/j.coal.2006.05.003.

 Süss, M. P., 2005, 3.1 Zyklotheme, Zyklen und Sequenzen – Steuernde Faktoren der Sedimentation im Ruhr-Becken, Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg, 254 (2005) 161-168.

 Komatitsch, D., Liu, Q., Tromp, J, Suess, M.P., Shaw, J.H., 2004, Simulations of Strong Ground Motion in the Los Angeles Basin based upon the Spectral-Element Method., Bulletin Seismological Society of America, 94/1 (2004) 187-206.

 Süss, M.P., Phadnis, V.M., Bieg, U., 2004, Mapping surface deposits from alluvial fan using hyperspectral data: A case study from Death Valley, USA, Zentralblatt Geologie und Paläontologie, 2004, 237/257.

Bieg, U., Thomas, M., Cordero, F., Süss, M. P., Kuhlemann, J. , 2004,Global M2 Simulation for the Lower Miocene delivering border conditions for a Shallow water model of the Burdigalian Seaway (Upper Marine Molasse), Zentralblatt Geologie und Paläontologie, 2004,259/276.

Izart, A., Stephenson R., Vai G.B., Vachard D., Le Nindre, Y., Vaslet D., Fauvel P.J., Süss M.P., Kossovaya O., Chen Z., Maslo A., Stovba S., 2003, Sequence stratigraphy and correlation of the late Carboniferous and Permian in CIS, Europe, Tethyan area, North Africa, Arabia, China, Gondwanaland and USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 196 (2003) 59-84.

Derer, Ch., Kosinowski, M., Luterbacher, H.P., Schäfer, A. & Süss, M.P., 2003, Sedimentary response to tectonics in extensional basins: the Pechelbronn Formation (Late Eocene to Early Oligocene) in the northern Upper Rhine Graben, Germany.- In: McCann, T. & Saintot, A. (eds.): Tracing Tectonic Deformation using the Sedimentary Record.- Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ., 208, 55 - 69, London.

Süss, M.P. & Shaw, J.H., 2003, P wave seismic velocity structure derived from sonic logs and industry reflection data in the Los Angeles basin, California, Journal of Geophysical Research; VOL. 108, NO. B3, 2170, doi:10.1029/2001JB001628.

Hinderer, M., Schäuble H. & Süss, M.P., 2003, Denudation processes at various scales – towards a new GIS-based global model, Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. Teil I, Nr. ¾, 377-397.

Schäfer, A., Drozdzewski, G. & Süss, M.P., 2002, Das Variscische Vorlandbecken. Das Aachener Kohlerevier und das Ruhr-Kohlerevier als geologische Fallstudie eines Ablagerungsraumes im Oberkarbon.- In: Busch, B. (ed.): Erde.- Schriftenreihe Forum, 11, 116 – 125, (Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH) Bonn.

Süss, M.P., Drozdzewski, G. & Schäfer, A., 2002, The Ruhr and Aachen Basins – sedimentary environments, sequence stratigraphic model, and synsedimentary tectonics of Variscan foreland basins (Namurian B/C to Westphalian C, W Germany).In: Len V. Hills, Charles M. Henderson, and E.Wayne Bamber, 2001: Carboniferous and Permian of the World, XIV International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian (M19).Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologist Memoir 19: 208-227.

Izart, A. Vachard,D., Fauvel, P.J., Vaslet, D., Süss, M.P., Kossovaya, O. & Maslo, A., 2002, Sequence Stratigraphy of the Serpukhovian, Bashkirian and Moscovian in Gondwanaland, Western Europe, Eastern Europe And USA. In: Len V. Hills, Charles M. Henderson, and E.Wayne Bamber, 2001: Carboniferous and Permian of the World, XIV International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian (M19). Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologist Memoir 19: 144-188.

 Süss, M.P., Schäfer, A. & Drozdzewski, G. ,2000, Sequenzstratigraphie des kohleführenden Oberkarbons im Ruhr-Becken, Geologisches Jahrbuch A156: 45-106.