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Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesInstitute of Geology and Mineralogy

Publications

2024

  • Zeeden, C.; Paknia, M., Scheidt, S.; Kaboth-Bahr, S.; Vinnepand, M.; Hoselmann, C. (2024): Erste paläomagnetische Ergebnisse der Bohrung ‚Riedstadt-Erfelden‘. Geologisches Jahrbuch Hessen, 141.
  • Ucar, H., Kletetschka, G., Egli, R., Mach, K., Petronis, M. S., Grison, H., Scheidt, S., Schnabl, P. & Kdyr, S. (2024): Enigmatic mixture of magnetite magnetofossils and diagenetic greigite as the magnetic carriers of the Early Miocene lacustrine sediments from the Most Basin in Central Europe. Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, 107216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2024.107216
  • Thew, N., Kälin, D., Cuenca-Bescós, G., Buechi, M. W., Penkman, K., Scheidt, S., Knipping, M., Maier, F., Urresti, I. & Deplazes, G. 2024: The Hasli Formation of the Irchel Plateau – A key record for older Early Pleistocene interglacial sediments in northern Switzerland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 332, 108550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108550
  • Andreev, A.A., Tarasov, P.E., Lenz, M., Lenz, M.M., Scheidt, S., Fedorov, G.B., Wagner, B. and Melles, M. (2024), Environmental changes on the northern Taymyr Peninsula (Russian Arctic) during the last 62 ka inferred from the lacustrine pollen record. Boreas. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12657

2023

  • Obrist-Farner, J., Echkert, A., Douglas, P. M. J., Perez, L., Correa-Metrio, A., Konecky, B. L., Bauersachs, T., Zimmermann, S., Scheidt, S., Brenner, M., Kutterolf, S., Maurer, J., Flores, O., Burberry, C. M., Noren, A., Mybro, A., Lachniet, M., Wattrus, N., Gibson, D. & the LIBRE scientific team (2023): Planning for the Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor (LIBRE) continental scientific drilling project in eastern Guatemala. Scientific Drilling, 32, 85-100. https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-32-85-2023
  • Scheidt, S., Buechi, M.W., Egli, R., Biedermann, A.R., Deplazes, G. (2023): Palaeomagnetic and mineral magnetic analyses of the Deckenschotter of northern Switzerland and southern Germany, Swiss Journal of Geoscience, n/a; n/a (online first), https://doi.org/10.1186/s00015-023-00439-y
  • Nowalczyk, N., Egli, R., Frederichs, T., Kotny, A., Korte, M., Lhuillier, F., Scheidt, S., Schnepp, E., Zeeden, C. (2023): Der neue DGG-Arbeitskreis Geomagnetik, Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, 92: 65-67.

2022

  • Lenz, M. M., Andreev, A., Nazarova, L., Syrykh, L. S., Scheidt, S., Haflidason, H., Meyer, H., Brill, D., Wagner, B., Gromig, R., Lenz, M., Rolf, C., Kuhn, G., Fedorov, G., Svendsen, J. I., and Melles, M. (2022): Climate, glacial and vegetation history of the polar Ural Mountains since c. 27 cal ka bp, inferred from a 54 m long sediment core from Lake Bolshoye Shchuchye, Journal of Quaternary Science, 37(5), 14, 818-835, https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3400
  • Lenz, M., Lenz, M. M., Andreev, A., Scheidt, S., Gromig, R., Lebas, E., Fedorov, G., Krastel, S., Melles, M., and Wagner, B. (2022): Climate and environmental history at Lake Levinson-Lessing, Taymyr Peninsula, during the last 62 kyr, Journal of Quaternary Science, 37(5), 14, 836-850, https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3384
  • Gromig, R., Grunert, P., Scheidt, S., & Melles, M. (2022). Postglacial shelf erosion, riverine input and lake drainage in the eastern Kara Sea, Russia. Marine Geology, 106865. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106865
  • Scheidt, S., Lenz, M., Egli, R., Brill, D., Klug, M., Fabian, K., Lenz, M.M., Gromig, R., Rethemeyer, J., Wagner, B., Federov, G., Melles, M. (2022): A 62-ka geomagnetic palaeointensity record from the Taymyr Peninsula, Russian Arctic, Geochronology, 4(1), 87 - 107, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-4-87-2022

2021

  • J Nett, S Berg, C Zeeden, S Scheidt (2021). What’s my age again? Comparing dating methods in loess. The blog of the Climate: Past, Present and Future (CL) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cl/2021/02/09/whats-my-age-again/

  • Scheidt, S., Zeeden, C., Hambach, U., and Melles, M.: Palaeomagnetism and environmental magnetism, in: The Journey of Modern Humans from Africa to Europe - Culture Environmental Interaction and Mobility, edited by: Litt, T., Richter, J., and Schäbitz, F., Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, Germany, 316-320, 2021.

  • Scheidt, S., Egli, R., Lenz, M., Rolf, C., Fabian, K., & Melles, M. (2021). Mineral Magnetic Characterization of High-Latitude Sediments From Lake Levinson-Lessing, Siberia. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(10), e2021GL093026. doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093026

  • Scheidt, S., Berg, S., Hambach, U., Klasen, N., Pötter, S., Stolz, A., Veres, D., Zeeden, C., Brill, D., Brückner, H., Kusch, S., Laag, C., Lehmkuhl, F., Melles, M., Monnens, F., Oppermann, L., Rethemeyer, J., and Nett, J. J.: Chronological Assessment of the Balta Alba Kurgan Loess-Paleosol Section (Romania) – A Comparative Study on Different Dating Methods for a Robust and Precise Age Model, Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.598448, 2021.

2020

  • Sharifigarmdareh, J., Khormali, F., Scheidt, S., Rolf, C., Kehl, M., Frechen, M. (2020). Investigating soil magnetic properties with pedogenic variation along a precipitation gradient in loess-derived soils of the Golestan province, northern Iran. Quaternary International, 552, 100-110.

  • Diederich, J.L., Wennrich, V., Bao, R., Büttner, C., Bolten, A., Brill, D., Buske, S., Campos, E., Fernández-Galego, E., Gödickmeier, P., Ninnemann, L., Reyers, M., Ritter, B., Ritterbach, L., Rolf, C., Scheidt, S., Dunai, T.J., Melles, M. (2020). A 68 ka precipitation record from the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. Global and Planetary Change 184, 103054.

  • Scheidt, S., Hambach, U., Hao, Q., Rolf, C., Wennrich, V. (2020) Environmental signals of Pliocene-Pleistocene climatic changes in Central Europe: Insights from the mineral magnetic record of the Heidelberg Basin sedimentary infill (Germany). Global and Planetary Change 187, 103112.

2019

  • Giaccio, B., Leicher, N., Mannella, G., Monaco, L., Regattieri, E., Wagner, B., Zanchetta, G., Gaeta, M., Marra, F., Nomade, S., Palladino, D.M., Pereira, A., Scheidt, S., Sottili, G., Wonik, T., Wulf, S., Zeeden, C., Ariztegui, D., Cavinato, G.P., Dean, J.R., Florindo, F., Leng, M.J., Macrì, P., Niespolo, E., Renne, P.R., Rolf, C., Sadori, L., Thomas, C., Tzedakis, P.C. (2019). Extending the tephra and palaeoenvironmental record of the Central Mediterranean back to 430 ka: A new core from Fucino Basin, central Italy. Quaternary Science Reviews 225, 106003. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106003 

  • Scheidt, S. (2019). Magnetic minerals: storytellers of environmental and climatic conditions. The blog of the Climate: Past, Present and Future (CL) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cl/2019/07/09/magnetic_minerals/

2018

  • Scheidt, S. (2018). Environmental magnetism and magnetostratigraphy of the Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments of the Heidelberg Basin. Bayreuth, 2018 . - XII, 164 S.       (Dissertation, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuther Graduiertenschule für Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften - BayNAT)

  • Mannella, G., Giaccio, B., Zanchetta, G., Regattieri, E., Leicher, N., Scheidt, S., Grelle, T., Lehne, C., Rolf, C., Wonik, T. (2018). FUCINO PALAEO-LAKE: TOWARDS THE PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE LAST 430 KA. Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary 31, 137-141. doi.org:10.26382/AIQUA.2018.AIQUAconference

2017

2015

  • Scheidt, S., Hambach, U., & Rolf, C. (2015). A consistent magnetic polarity stratigraphy of late Neogene to Quaternary fluvial sediments from the Heidelberg Basin (Germany): A new time frame for the Plio–Pleistocene palaeoclimatic evolution of the Rhine Basin. Global and Planetary Change, 127, 103-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.01.004

 

Contributions to conferences

2024

  • SCHEIDT, S.; NOWACZYK, N. BRENDRYEN, J.; REGNÉLL, C.; ÓLAFSDÓTTIR, S.;HAFLIDASON, H.; SVENSSON,J.I. (2024): Does the Bolshoye Shchuchye Event exist? – Poster. Castle Meeting, 30.06.-06.07.2024, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  • BOUHDAYAD, F.Z.; MENEZES FREIRE, T.; SCHNEIDER, L.; HERWARTZ, D.; SCHEIDT, S.; PETERSEN, J. NIELSEN, S.N.; RIVADENEIRA, M.M.; GRUNERT, P. (2024): The depositional environment of Upper Miocene to Lower Pliocene diatom rich deposits of the Bahía Inglesa Formation inferred from benthic foraminiferal assemblages. – Poster. TMS-CFFR Foraminifera Spring Meeting 2024, 21-24.05.2024, Cologne, Germany.
  • BOUHDAYAD, F.Z.; MENEZES FREIRE, T.; SCHNEIDER, L.; HERWARTZ, D.; SCHEIDT, S.; PETERSEN, J. NIELSEN, S.N.; RIVADENEIRA, M.M.; GRUNERT, P. (2024): Depositional environment of upper Miocene to lower Pliocene diatom-rich deposits of the Bahía Inglesa Formation inferred from benthic foraminiferal assemblages. – Poster, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2024, 14-19.04.2024, Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-13512
  • FREIRE, T., Bouhdayad, F.Z., AUER, G., CARBALLEIRA, R., LIRER, F., LEICHER, N., WENNRICH, V., ALBERT, R., GERDES, A., BLANCO-ARRUÉ, B. N., YOGESHWAR, P., SCHEIDT, S., PETERSEN, J., NIELSEN, S., RIVADENEIRA, M., GRUNERT, P. (2024): Dating of upwelling archives in the eastern South Pacific: a multiproxy approach in the Late Neogene Bahía Inglesa Formation, North-Central Chile. – Poster, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2024, 14-19.04.2024, Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-6493
  • GRUNERT, P., CARBALLEIRA, R., SCHEIDT, S., MENEZES FREIRE, T., NIELSEN, S., RIVADENEIRA, M. M., Bouhdayad, F.Z., PETERSEN, J. (2024): Early Pliocene coastal upwelling off central Chile (Coquimbo Formation, Tongoy). – Poster, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2024, 14-19.04.2024, Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-6736
  • ZEEDEN, C., PAKNIA,M., SCHEIDT, S., KOBOTH-BAHR, S., VINNEPAND, M., HOSELMANN, C. (2024): Exploring the Plio/Pleistocene stratigraphy of the Upper Rhine Graben from a core taken at Riedstadt/Hesse – Poster, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2024, 14-19.04.2024, Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-18823
  • WENNRICH, V., DIDERICH-LEICHER, J., SCHEIDT, S., RITTER, B., LEICHER, N., ALBERT, R., BLANCO-ARRUÉ, B. N., YOGESHWAR, P., CARBALLEIRA, R., BAO, R., BRILL, D., MEDIALDEA, A., BARTZ, M., CAMPOS SEPÚLVEDA, E., DUNAI, T., MELLES, M. (2024): Miocene to recent precipitation history of the central Atacama Desert as reconstructed from a clay pan record in the Coastal Cordillera, northern Chile. – Poster, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2024, 14-19.04.2024, Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-20073
  • SCHEIDT, S., KOBOTH-BAHR, S., WENNRICH, V., ALBERT, R., DIDERICH-LEICHER, J., BLANCO ARRUÉ, B. N., LEICHER, N., WALLBRECHT, L., YOGESHWAR, P., MELLES, M. (2024): Minimum duration of a Miocene lake phase in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, Chile; – Poster, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2024, 14-19.04.2024, Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-1472

2023

  • WENNRICH, V., VARGAS-MACHUCA, B., LEICHER, N., SCHEIDT, S., RITTER, B., DIEDERICH-LEICHER, J., BRILL, D., BLANCO ARRÚE, B., YOGESHWAR, P., REYERS, M., CARBALLEIRA, R., BAO CASAL, R., ALBERT, R., CAMPOS SEPULVEDA, E.A., MALDONADO, A., J. KERBER, F., DUNAI, T., MELLES, M. (2023): Precipitation changes of the central Atacama Desert since the Miocene - as reconstructed from clay pan records of the Coastal Cordillera/ N Chile. – Talk, XVI Congreso Geológico Chileno, 27.11.-01.12.2023, Santiago de Chile, Chile

  • ZEEDEN, C., SCHEIDT, S., KOBOTH-BAR, S., HOSELMANN, C. (2023):  Exploring the Plio/Pleistocene stratigraphy of a core from Riedstadt/Hesse (Upper Rhine Graben). - Poster. GeoBerlin 2023, 03.-07.09.2023, Berlin, Germany.

  • NETT J.J., PÖTTER S., HAMBACH U., SCHEIDT S., BERG S., ZEEDEN C., LEHMKUHL, F., VERES, D. (2023): The Balta Alba Kurgan loess-paleosol sequence - Chronology and paleoclimate in the northern Lower Danube Basin, Romania. - Poster. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2023, 23-28.04.2023, Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-454

  • BOUHDAYAD, F., FREIRE, T.,  AUER, G., CARBALLEIRA, R., HERWARTZ, D., SCHEIDT, S., LEICHER, N., WENNRICH, V., ROPER, R.A., GERDES, A., PETERSEN, J., NIELSEN, S., RIVADENEIRA, M., GRUNERT, P. (2023): Stratigraphy and depositional environment of Neogene diatom-rich sediments (Bahía Inglesa Formation) at Quebrada Tiburón, northern-central Chile. - Poster. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2023, 23-28.04.2023, Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-9253

2022

  • GROMIG, R., SCHEIDT, S., GRUNERT, P., MELLES, M. (2022): Postglacial evolution of the eastern Kara Sea derived from a sediment core off the northern Taymyr Peninsula, Central Russian Arctic. – Poster, Geological Society of America (GSA) Connects, 09.-12.10-2022, Denver, USA. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2022AM-383394

  • SCHEIDT, S., WENNRICH, V., GRUNERT, P., PETERSEN, J., YOGESHWAR, P., MELLES, M. (2022): Palaeomagnetic analyses in the Atacama Desert - challenges and chances. – Poster, GeoMinKöln 2022 – Annual Conference of the Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft (DMG – The German Mineralogical Society) and the Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft – Geologische Vereinigung (DGGV – The German Geological Society), 11–15.09.2022, Cologne

  • SCHEIDT, S.,  BIEDERMANN, A.R., DEPLAZES, G. (2022). Palaeomagnetic dating of the 'Deckenschotter' ion northern Switzerland and southern Germany. - Poster, 17th Castle Meeting - New Trends on Paleo, Rock and Environmental Magnetism, 29.08.-02.09.2022, Trakošćan, Croatia.

  • SCHEIDT, S., MELLES, M. (2022). The re-established Rock and Palaeomagnetic Laboratory at the University of Cologne. - Poster, 17th Castle Meeting - New Trends on Paleo, Rock and Environmental Magnetism, 29.08.-02.09.2022, Trakošćan, Croatia.

  • SCHEIDT, S., EGLI, R., LENZ, M., LENZ, M.M., KLUG, M.,FEDEROV, G., MELLES, M. (2022). The high-resolution relative palaeointensity record from Lake Levinson-Lessing, northern Central Siberia. - Talk, 17th Castle Meeting - New Trends on Paleo, Rock and Environmental Magnetism, 29.08.-02.09.2022, Trakošćan, Croatia.

2021

  • VON HIPPEL, B., STOOF-LEICHSENRING, K.R., SCHULTE, L., SEEBER, P., EPP, L.S., LENZ, M., SCHEIDT, S.; HERZSCHUH, U. (2021). Fungi and plant co-variation in Arctic Siberia inferred from sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding during the last 45.000 years. – Poster, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2019, 19–30 April 2021, Online event.

2020

  • ZEEDEN, C., LAAG, C. CAMPS, P., GUYODO, Y., HAMBACH, U., JUST, J., LUROCK, P., ROLF, C., SATOLLI, S., SCHEIDT, S., WOUTERS, S. (2020). Towards data interchangeability in paleomagnetism. – Poster, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2020, 19–30 April 2020, Vienna, Austria

2019

  • SCHEIDT, S., PÖTTER, S., BÖSKEN, J., BERG, S., VERES, S., HAMBACH, U., LEHMKUHL, F., RETHEMEYER, J., MELLES, M., BRÜCKNER, H., KLASEN, N. (2019). A multidisciplinary chronology of a SE European last glacial loess archive: comparison of results from magnetic stratigraphy, tephrochronology, OSL dating, and radiocarbon dating. - Poster, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2019, 07.04.-12.04.2019; Vienna, Austria

  • DIEDERICH, J., WENNRICH, V., BRILL, D., FERNANDEZ GALEGO, E., SCHEIDT, S., ROLF, C., BAO, R., NIEMANN, K,. BUSKE, S., DUNAI, T.J., MELLES, M. (2019). A 50 ka precipitation record from the hyperarid Atacama Desert in northern Chile. - Poster, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2019, 07.04.-12.04.2019; Vienna, Austria

2018

  • SCHEIDT, S., HAMBACH, U., ROLF, C. (2018). Magnetic mineralogy of fluvial sediments: challenges and chances. - Poster, 16th Castle Meeting  New trends on Paleo, Rock and Environmental Magnetism. 10.06.-16.06.2018; Chęciny, Poland.

2017

  • SCHEIDT, S. HAMBACH, U., ROLF, C. (2017). A detailed study of Plio-Pleistocene fluvial sediments from the Heidelberg Basin (Germany): magnetostratigraphy, magnetomineralogy, and environmental magnetism. - Poster, International Conference on Rock Magnetism, 10.-14.07.2017 Utrecht, Netherlands

2015

  • SCHEIDT, S., HAMBACH, U., ROLF, C. (2015). Paläomagnetische Untersuchungen an plio-/ pleistozänen Sedimenten des Heidelberger Beckens. - Poster, 75. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Geophysikalischen Gesellschaft, 23.-26.03.2015; Hannover, Deutschland.

2014

  • SCHEIDT, S., ROLF, C., HAMBACH, U. (2014). Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of fluvial sediments from the Heidelberg Basin: a step towards a magnetostratigraphic reference profile for the Plio-Pleistocene of the Upper Rhine Graben?. – Talk, GeoFrankfurt 2014, Earth System Dynamics, 2nd Announcement, 21.-24. September 2014, Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.

  • HEUMANN, G., HOSELMANN, C., SCHEIDT, S. (2014). The Heidelberg Basin Drilling Project: Late Pliocene Palynology and Biostratiggraphy of the research borehole 'Viernheim' (Germany). – Poster, 9th European Palaeobotany - Palynology Conference, 26.-31.08.2014; Padua.

  • SCHEIDT, S. HAMBACH, U. ROLF, C. (2014). A consistent magnetic polarity stratigraphy of Plio-Pleistocene fluvial sediments from the Heidelberg Basin (Germany). – Talk, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, 28.04.-02.05.2014; Vienna, Austria

  • SCHEIDT, S., ROLF, C., HAMBACH, U. (2014). Potentials and limitations of magnetic polarity stratigraphy in fluvial sediments: results from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Heidelberg Basin. – Talk, 74. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Geophysikalischen Gesellschaft, 10.-13.03.2014; Karlsruhe.

2013

  • SCHEIDT, S. ROLF, C. HAMBACH, U. (2013). Magnetostratigraphic investigations on drill cores from the Heidelberg Basin: a time frame for Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments. – Talk, Sedimentary Basin, 23.-25.09.2013; Jena.

  • SCHEIDT, S. HAMBACH, U. ROLF, C. (2013). Magnetic polarity stratigraphy in fluvial systems: an example from the Upper Rhine Graben, Germany. – Talk, Joint Meeting (DMG, GV & Sediment), 16.-20.09.2013 in Tübingen.

2012

  • SCHEIDT, S., ROLF, C. & HAMBACH, U. (2012). Magnetostratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments of the Heidelberg Basin. - Poster, DEUQUA, 16.-20.09.2012; Bayreuth.