Prof. Dr. Andreas Mulch

Qualification

2004	Université de Lausanne, Switzerland (Dr. ès sciences in Geochemie)
1999	Universität Giessen Diplom in Geologie (Dipl. Geol.)

Career progression

since 2007	Geschäftsführender Leiter des Instituts für Geologie
2006 - 2007	Leibniz Universität Hannover, Professor
2005 - 2006	Stanford University, Research Associate
2004 - 2005	University of Minnesota & Stanford University Post-doctoral researcher

Interests

• Paläoaltimetrie


• Rekonstruktion terrestrischer Paläoklima- und -niederschlagsentwicklung


• Anwendung isotopengeochemischer Verfahren im Bereich "Interaktion Tektonik & Klima"


• Isotope als Fluidtracer in Scherzonen

Projects

• Stable isotope paleoaltimetry and paleoclimate reconstructions of Late Cenozoic surface uplift of the Anatolia Plateau ESF-DFG TopoEurope (2008-2011)


• Stable isotope paleoaltimetry amd surface uplift of the Neogene Alps ESF-DFG TopoEurope (2008-2011)


• Cenozoic Migration of Topography in the North American Cordillera Recorded in Coupled Basin-Detachment Systems U.S. NSF EAR (2006-2010)


• How is rifting exhuming the youngest high-pressure and ultrahigh-pressure rocks on earth? U.S. NSF Continental Dynamics (coord. S. Baldwin, Syracuse)

Professional Activities

2009	Associate Editor American Journal of Science
2009	Beirat der Geologischen Vereinigung

 

Publications

• Mulch A., Uba, C., Strecker, M.R., Schönberg, R., Chamberlain, C.P. (in review): Stable and radiogenic isotope records of late Miocene climate variability and surface elevation in the central Andes


• Doebbert A., Carroll, A.R., Mulch, A., Chetel, L., Chamberlain, C.P. (in review): Geomorphic Controls On Lacustrine Isotopic Compositions: Evidence From The Laney Member, Green River Formation (Wyoming).


• Cecil M.R. Ducea, M., Reiners, P., Gehrels, G., Mulch, A., Allen, C., Campbell, I. (in review): Paleotopography of the Sierra Nevada from detrital zircon geochronology.


• Davis, S.J., Mulch, A., Carroll, A.R., Chamberlain C.P. (2009): Paleogene landscape evolution of the central North American Cordillera: Developing topography and hydrology in the Laramide foreland. Geological Soc. America Bulletin, 121, 100-116.


• Garzione, C.N., Hoke, G.D., Libarkin, J.C., Withers, S., MacFadden, B., Eiler, J., Mulch, A. (2008): The Rise of the Andes. Science, 320, 1304-1307.


• Mulch, A., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.S., Perkins, M.E., Chamberlain C.P. (2008): A Miocene to Pliocene climate and elevation record of the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin region. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, 19, 6819-6824.


• Agosta, F., Mulch, A., Chamberlain, C.P., and Aydin, A. (2008): Geochemical Evidence for CO2 emission from normal fault zones in central Italy. Geophysical Journal International 174, 758-700.


• Mulch, A. and Chamberlain, C.P. (2007): Stable Isotope Paleoaltimetry in Orogenic Belts - The silicate record in surface and crustal geological archives. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 66, 89-118.


• Mulch, A., Teyssier, C., Cosca, M.A., Chamberlain, C.P. (2007): Stable isotope paleoaltimetry of Eocene Core Complexes in the North American Cordillera. Tectonics. doi:10.1029/2006TC001995


• Person, M., Mulch, A., Teyssier, C. (2007): Isotope Transport and Exchange During the Formation of the Shuswap Metamorphic Core Complex, British Columbia. American Journal of Science 307, 555-589.


• Monjoie, P., Bussy, F., Schaltegger, U., Mulch, A., Lapierre, H., Pfeifer, H.R. (2007): Episodic magmatic activity in the Permian layered Mafic Complex of Mont Collon (Western Alps, Switzerland): Evidence from U/Pb zircon and 40Ar/39Ar amphibole dating. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 100, 125-135.


• Kent-Corson, M.L., Sherman, L.S., Mulch, A., and Chamberlain, C.P., (2006): Cenozoic topographic and climatic response to changing tectonic boundary conditions in western North America. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 252, 453-466.


• Mulch, A., Graham, S.A., and Chamberlain, C.P. (2006): Hydrogen Isotopes in Eocene River Gravels and Paleoelevation of the Sierra Nevada. Science 313, p. 87-89.


• Mulch, A. and Chamberlain, C.P. (2006): The rise and growth of Tibet. Nature 439, p. 670.


• Mulch, A., Teyssier, C., Cosca, M.A., and Vennemann, T. (2006): Thermomechanical analysis of strain localization in a detachment zone. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, doi:10.1029/2005JB004032.


• Mulch, A., Cosca, M.A., Fiebig, J., and Andresen, A. (2005): Time scales of mylonitic deformation and meteoric fluid infiltration during extensional detachment faulting: an integrated in situ 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and stable isotope study of the Porsgrunn-Kristiansand Shear Zone (Southern Norway). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233, 375-390.


• Mulch, A., Teyssier, C., Cosca, M.A., Vanderhaeghe, O., and Vennemann, T. (2004): highlighted in Science 305, 19 and Geology Today 20, 5, 118-119.


• Mulch, A., Teyssier, C., Cosca, M.A., Vanderhaeghe, O., and Vennemann, T. (2004): Reconstructing paleoelevation in eroded orogens. Geology, 32, 6, 525-528.


• Mulch, A. and Cosca, M.A. (2004): Recrystallization or cooling ages? - In situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of muscovite in mylonitic rocks. Journal of the Geological Society London 161, 573-582.


• Mulch, A., Cosca, M.A., and Handy, M. R. (2002): In-situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of a micaceous mylonite - an example of defect-enhanced argon loss. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 142, 738-752.


• Mulch, A., Rosenau, M. R., Dörr, W., and Handy, M. R. (2002): The age and structure of dikes along the tectonic contact of the Ivrea-Verbano and Strona-Ceneri Zones (southern Alps, Northern Italy, Switzerland). Swiss Bulletin of Mineralogy and Petrology 82, 55-76.


• Handy, M.R., Mulch, A., Rosenau, M., and Rosenberg, C.L. (2001): The role of fault zones and melts as agents of weakening, hardening and differentiation of the continental crust: a synthesis. in: Holdsworth R.E., Strachan, R.A., Magloughlin, J.F., and Knipe, R.J. (eds.): The Nature and Tectonic Significance of Fault Zone Weakening. Geological Society London, Special Publications 186, 305-332.