Dr. Manfred Menning
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Funktion und Aufgaben:
1. Guest at GFZ, Senior Scientist
2. Writing papers
3. Work in national and international stratigraphic commissions
Wissenschaftliche Interessen:
1. Integrative numerical calibration of geological time scales:
- Triassic
- Permian
- Carboniferous
- Devonian
2. Correlation charts
- Central Europe: Stratigraphic Tables of Germany (Stratigraphische Tabellen von Deutschland)
- Global: Europe, North America, Asia, Australia
Karriere:
Senior Scientist
Werdegang / Ausbildung:
1966-71 Study of Geology at Humboldt University Berlin and Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald
1971 Diploma in Geology
1974 Dissertation: Secondary orientation of bore cores particularly using palaeomagnetism (Die nachträgliche Orientierung von Bohrkernen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Paläomagnetismus) at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, PhD (Dr. rer.-nat. )
1973-1991 Central Institute for Physics of the Earth Potsdam (CIPE)
1992-2012 Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)
2013 ff Guest at GFZ, Section 4.3 Climate dynamics and landscape evolution
Projekte:
1. Stratigraphie von Deutschland, long-term project of the German Stratigraphic Commission, 1995 ff- Papers on magnetostratigraphy and calibration of the geological time scale for volumes: Rotliegend North Germany (1995), Upper Carboniferous (2005), Lower Carboniferous (2006), Rotliegend Variscides (2012), Buntsandstein (2013), Muschelkalk (2019), www.stratigraphie.de/monographie/index.html
2. Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland 2002 und 2016 (STD 2002, STD 2016)
www.stratigraphie.de/std/index.html
3. Erläuterung zur Stratigraphischen Tabelle von Deutschland 2005 (ESTD 2005)
(Herausgeber, Autor), www.stratigraphie.de/estd/index.html
4. Devonian-Carboniferous-Permian Correlation Chart (DCP) 2001 ff,
global correlation chart Europe - North America - Asia - Australia for 165 million years:
Menning et al. (2006)
5. Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland Kompakt 2012 (STDK 2012)
5. Stratigraphic Table of Germany Compact 2012 (STGC 2012)
- www.stratigraphie.de/aktuelles/index.html
6. Erläuterungen 2017/19 zur Stratigraphischen Tabelle von Deutschland 2016
6. Explanations 2017/19 on the Stratigraphic Table of Germany 2016 (ESTG 2017/19)
(Herausgeber/editor, Autor/author: ZDGG
168 (4), ZDGG
169 (2), ZDGG
170)
in German and English
Wissenschaftliche Gremien:
1. German Stratigraphic Commission (DSK)Chairman 2008-2015, Secretary 2000-2003, webesite 2004 ff
2. German Subcommission on Permian-Triassic Stratigraphy (SKPT)
Chairman 2000-2007, Corresponding Member 1991, Voting Member 1992 ff
3. German Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy (SKS)
Corresponding Member 1991-1995, 2008 ff, Voting Member 1996-2007
4. International Subcommission on Permian Stratigraphy IUGS, Voting Member 1988-2003, Correspoinding Member 2003 ff
5. International Subcommission on Triassic Stratigraphy IUGS, Voting Member 1998 ff
6. International Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy IUGS, Corresponding Member 1992 ff
7. International Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification, Voting Member 2003 ff
8. IGCP Commission of Germany 1990-2018
9. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften DGG (Geologie) - Beirat 2011-2013
Auszeichnungen:
2014: Serge-von-Bubnoff-Medaille der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (DGG)