Dr. Andreas Möller

Andreas Möller
  • Chair of Graduate Admission for Geology
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Geology

Contact Info

Office Phone:
785-864-1447
Department Phone:
785-864-4974
Fax:
785-864-5276
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 —

Gürsu, S., Möller, A., Köksal, F., Köksal, S., Küçük, A., Göncüoğlu, M. (2023). Tracing the protoliths of the garnet amphibolites and retrogressed eclogites in the Central Menderes Massif, Turkey: New data from LA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon and rutile geochronology. Journal of Geology - Issue 9-10 | Volume 135. https://doi.org/doi.org//10.1130/B36339.1.
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., Moeller, 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.
Joeckel, R., Ludvigson, G., Moeller, 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.
Joeckel, R., Ludvigson, G., Möller, A., Hotton, C., Suarez, M., Suarez, C., Sames, B., Kirkland, J., Hendrix, B. (2019). Chronostratigraphy and Terrestrial Palaeoclimatology of Berriasian-Hauterivian Strata of the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA. Cretaceous Climate Events and Short-Term Sea-Level Changes (eds.: M. Wagreich, M. B. Hart, B. Sames and I. O. Yilmaz). Geological Society London Special Publications.
Cioffi, C., Campos Neto, M., Moeller, 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.
Oalmann, J., Duesterhoeft, E., Moeller, A., Bousquet, R. (2019). Constraining the pressure–temperature evolution and geodynamic setting of UHT granulites and migmatitic paragneisses of the Gruf Complex, Central Alps. International Journal of Earth Sciences - Issue 3 | Volume 108. https://doi.org/10.1007/S00531-019-01686-X.
Rösel, D., Zack, T., Moeller, A. (2019). Interpretation and significance of combined trace element and U–Pb isotopic data of detrital rutile: a case study from late Ordovician sedimentary rocks of Saxo-Thuringia, Germany. International Journal of Earth Sciences - Issue 1 | Volume 108. https://doi.org/10.1007/S00531-018-1643-5.
Roberts, J., Olcott, A., Mclean, N., Baker, G., Moeller, A. (2018). Demonstrating the impact of classroom transformation on the inequality in DFW rates (“D” or “F” grade or withdraw) for first-time freshmen, females, and underrepresented minorities through a decadal study of introductory geology courses. Journal of Geoscience Education - Issue 4 | Volume 66. https://doi.org/10.1080/10899995.2018.1510235.
Bidgoli, T., Tyrrell, J., Moeller, A., Walker, J., Stockli, D. (2018). Conodont thermochronology of exhumed footwalls of low-angle normal faults: A pilot study in the Mormon Mountains, Tule Springs Hills, and Beaver Dam Mountains, southeastern Nevada and southwestern Utah. Chemical Geology - Volume 495. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CHEMGEO.2018.06.026.
Rocha, B., Moraes, R., Moeller, A., Cioffi, C. (2018). Magmatic inheritance vs. UHT metamorphism: Zircon petrochronology of granulites and petrogenesis of charnockitic leucosomes of the Socorro–Guaxupé nappe, SE Brazil. Lithos - Volume 314-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.LITHOS.2018.05.014.
Condit, C., Mahan, K., Curtis, K., Moeller, A. (2018). Dating Metasomatism: Monazite and Zircon Growth during Amphibolite Facies Albitization. Minerals - Issue 5 | Volume 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/MIN8050187.
Staisch, L., Kelsey, H., Sherrod, B., Moeller, A., Paces, J., Blakely, R., Styron, R. (2018). Miocene–Pleistocene deformation of the Saddle Mountains: Implications for seismic hazard in central Washington, USA. The Geological Society of America Bulletin - Issue 3-4 | Volume 130. https://doi.org/10.1130/B31783.1.
Gürsu, S., Mueller, P., Sunkari, E., Moeller, A., Köksal, S., Kamenov, G., Cemal Göncüoğlu, M. (2018). Nd, Pb, Hf isotope characteristics and provenance of glacial granitic pebbles from Late Ordovician diamictites in the Taurides, S Turkey. Gondwana Research - Volume 54. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.GR.2017.11.003.
Wohlgemuth-Ueberwasser, C., Schuessler, J., Von Blanckenburg, F., Moeller, A. (2018). Matrix dependency of baddeleyite U–Pb geochronology by femtosecond-LA-ICP-MS and comparison with nanosecond-LA-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry - Issue 6 | Volume 33. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7JA00403F.
Smith, J., Ludvigson, G., Layzell, T., Moeller, A., Harlow, R., Turner, E., Platt, B., Petronis, M. (2017). Discovery of Paleogene Deposits of the Central High Plains Aquifer In the Western Great Plains, U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research - Issue 8 | Volume 87. https://doi.org/10.2110/JSR.2017.48.
Rocha, B., Moraes, R., Moeller, A., Cioffi, C., Jercinovic, M. (2017). Timing of anatexis and melt crystallization in the Socorro–Guaxupé Nappe, SE Brazil: Insights from trace element composition of zircon, monazite and garnet coupled to U Pb geochronology. Lithos - Volume 277. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.LITHOS.2016.05.020.
Gürsu, S., Moeller, A., Usta, D., Köksal, S., Ateş, ş., Sunkari, E., Göncüoğlu, M. (2017). Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry U-Pb Dating of Detrital and Magmatic Zircons of Glacial Diamictites and Pebbles in Late Ordovician Sediments of the Taurides and Southeast Anatolian Autochthon Belt, Turkey: Indications for Their Arabian-Nubian Provenance. The Journal of Geology - Issue 2 | Volume 125. https://doi.org/10.1086/690199.
Ross, J., Ludvigson, G., Moeller, A., Gonzalez, L., Walker, J. (2017). Stable isotope paleohydrology and chemostratigraphy of the Albian Wayan Formation from the wedge-top depozone, North American Western Interior Basin. Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences - Issue 1 | Volume 60. https://doi.org/10.1007/S11430-016-0087-5.
Cioffi, C., Campos Neto, M., Moeller, A., Rocha, B. (2016). Tectonic significance of the Meso- to Neoarchean complexes in the basement of the southern Brasília Orogen. Precambrian Research - Volume 287. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.PRECAMRES.2016.10.009.
Hippe, K., Moeller, A., Von Quadt, A., Peytcheva, I., Hammerschmidt, K. (2016). Zircon geochronology of the Koraput alkaline complex: Insights from combined geochemical and U–Pb–Hf isotope analyses, and implications for the timing of alkaline magmatism in the Eastern Ghats Belt, India. Gondwana Research - Volume 34. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.GR.2015.02.021.
Cioffi, C., Campos Neto, M., Moeller, A., Rocha, B. (2016). Paleoproterozoic continental crust generation events at 2.15 and 2.08 Ga in the basement of the southern Brasília Orogen, SE Brazil. Precambrian Research - Volume 275. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.PRECAMRES.2016.01.007.
Harley, S., Kelly, N., Möller, A. (2007). Zircon behaviour and the thermal histories of mountain chains. Elements - Volume 3. https://doi.org/10.2113/gselements.3.1.25.

Selected Presentations —

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).
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).
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).
A major Proterozoic terrane boundary in North America: combined O2 - Lu/Hf - U/Pb analyses on magmatic zircon - GSA Annual Meeting. Location: Seattle, WA (USA). (10-22-2017).
A new approach to date paleosols in terrestrial strata: a case study using U-Pb zircon ages for the Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation of eastern Utah - GSA Annual Meeting. Location: Baltimore, USA. (11-01-2015).

Awards & Honors —

<div class="fp-award fp-container"><div class="aca-award">Visiting Professor. Karl-Franzens Universität Graz, Austria. Received: 7-31-2019.</div><div class="aca-award">Herbette Foundation Fellowship. University of Lausanne. Received: 12-31-2016.</div></div>

Service —

Dr. Möller is currently president of the International Faculty and Staff Council at KU. He is Associate Editor for MINERALOGY and PETROLOGY, and has been providing peer-reviews for more than 20 scientific journals and more than 10 different funding and scholarship agencies.