Dr. Andreas Möller
- Chair of Graduate Admission for Geology
- Associate Professor
- Department of Geology
Contact Info
Slawson Hall, room #170G
Biography —
Undergraduate and graduate education in geology/paleontology and mineralogy at the universities of Hamburg and Kiel (Germany).
Post-doctoral research and teaching fellow positions in Sydney, Mainz and Potsdam.
Native of northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein, the home state of Eutin, the sister city of Lawrence, KS).
Research —
Dr. Möller and his students use geochronology and thermobarometry to study the history of ancient mountain belts, and the source regions and deposition ages of sediments. Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=PCgPcVsAAAAJ&hl=en
Research interests:
- Geochronology
- Metamorphic Petrology
- Chronostratigraphy
- Isotope Geochemistry
Teaching —
I teach introductory geology, igneous and metamorphic petrology, geochronology, several lab-based graduate level classes for the laser-ablation ICP-MS laboratory I direct, and independent studies for undergraduate research. I co-teach the geochemistry and tectonics seminar and the KU Geology Field Camp.
Teaching interests:
- Petrology
- Geochronology
- The Way the Earth Works
- Earth History
- Field Camp
Selected Publications —
Herms, P., Raase, P., Giehl, C., Aradi, L., Fußwinkel, T., Rohrbach, T., Möller, A. (2023). High-pressure melting in metapelites of a 2 Ga old subducted oceanic crust (Usagaran belt, Tanzania): implications from melt inclusions, fluid inclusions and thermodynamic modelling. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology - Issue 11 | Volume 178. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1007/s00410-023-02063-3.
Joeckel, R., Suarez, C., Mclean, N., Moeller, A., Ludvigson, G., Suarez, M., Kirkland, J., Andrew, J., Kiessling, S., Hatzell, G. (2023). Berriasian–Valanginian geochronology and carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Yellow Cat Member, Cedar Mountain Formation, Eastern Utah, USA. Geosciences - Volume 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13020032.
Gürsu, S., Köksal, S., Möller, A., Kamenov, G., Cemal Göncüoğlu, M., Hefferan, K., Mueller, P., Kozlu, H. (2022). Combined U-Pb ages and Lu-Hf systematics of detrital zircons from Early Cambrian Gondwanan siliciclastic rocks in S Turkey: Provenance and correlations with coeval successions in peri-Gondwanan terranes. Gondwana Research - Volume 107. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.GR.2022.04.010.
Moeller, A. (2021). Sediment routing and provenance of shallow to deep marine sandstones in the Late Paleozoic Oquirrh Basin, Utah. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology - Volume 578. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110582.
Joeckel, R., Ludvigson, G., Möller, A., Hotton, C., Suarez, M., Suarez, C., Sames, B., Kirkland, J., Hendrix, B. (2020). Chronostratigraphy and Terrestrial Palaeoclimatology of Berriasian–Hauterivian Strata of the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA. Geological Society, London, Special Publications - Issue 1 | Volume 498. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP498-2018-133.
Cioffi, C., Campos Neto, M., Möller, A., Rocha, B. (2019). Titanite petrochronology of the southern Brasília Orogen basement: Effects of retrograde net-transfer reactions on titanite trace element compositions. Lithos - Volume 344-345. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.LITHOS.2019.06.035.
Selected Presentations —
Monazite and garnet U-Pb dating reveals amphibolite facies metamorphism in Central Colorado as Mesoproterozoic - GSA Connects Annual Meeting. Location: Denver, CO. (10-12-2022).
Improving the age constraints on Cretaceous carbon isotope excursions: a combined U-Pb dating approach using paleosol cryptotephra and pedogenic carbonates - GSA Annual Meeting. Location: Portland, OR. (10-13-2021).
Is DZ driving you(r) MAD? Volcanogenic zircon in mature paleosols better determine the maximum age of deposition - Goldschmidt 2019. Location: Barcelona, Spain. (8-19-2019).
Service —
Dr. Möller is Associate Editor for MINERALOGY and PETROLOGY, he has been providing peer-reviews for more than 20 scientific journals and more than 10 different funding and scholarship agencies.