PD Dr. Olaf Elicki
Freiberg University, Geological Institute

Department of Palaeontology D-09599 Freiberg Bernhard-von-Cotta street 2 phone: +49 (0)3731-39-2435 fax: +49 (0)3731-39-12435 email: Olaf.Elicki(at)geo.tu-freiberg.de

For descriptions and for supplementary material (scripts) of the lessons, for organizational and special data of recent and future field trips, and for any handouts to these events, please, use the Palaeontology in Freiberg homepage and its subunit Lehre (in German; elaborately) respectively Education (short English version).

Basics in Micropalaeontology (lectures & practices)	Cambrian microfossils
Basics in Palaeontology (practices & seminars)
Paleoecology (lectures, practices & seminars)
Applied Palaeontology & Stratigraphy (lectures, sporadicly)
Palaeobiology (lectures)
Evolution of System Earth (2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-2010: lectures)
Field trip: Marine Biotops (2 days)
Field trip: Precambrian-Cambrian of Lusatia (2 days)
Field trip: Northern Bohemia (Eger-Rift Graben), (2 days)
Field trip: Applied Palaeontology & Stratigraphy (2 days)	education and training in the field
Field trip: Palecology (2 days)
First- and second-year-mapping-courses (2 weeks)
Field course: North Sea & Baltic Sea - Stratigraphy and Facies Patterns (2 weeks)
Field course: Palaeontology/Biostratigraphy/Biofacies (2 to 3 weeks)
Other field trips: Geological abroad excursions (Jordan, Israel, Sardinia: sporadicly, about 3 weeks)

Current offers of BSc- and MSc-projects (thesis in German or English):

• BSc: Facies analysis of early post-Panafrican sedimentary successions at the northern margin of the Arabo-Nubian Shield (southern Jordan).
  
  
  
• BSc: Cambrian successions in SW-Sardinia (Italy). (various topics)
  
  
• BSc: Documentation and interpretation of the type section of the early Cambrian Zwethau-Formation (drill core Zwethau 1/65).
  

  
  
• BSc: Database-driven palaeo-biodiversity analysis of Cambrian facies realms of Sardinia (Italy) and Cantabria (Spain).
  
  
• BSc: Palaeontology and sedimentlogy of a carbonate lake succession in the early Palaeozoic of southern Sardinia (Italy).
  

Supervised Phd-projects:

• Facies architecture and depositional history of the Cambro-Ordovician "Qarqaf Group" in the type area with special focus on the Cambrian Hasawnah Formation (Al Qarqaf Uplift, SW Libya).
  Muftah M. Altumi, 2009-
  
  
• The Early-Middle Cambrian Láncara Formation (Cantabrian Zone, NW-Spain): Micropalaeontology and Facies Evolution of a Perigondwanan Ramp Depositional System.
  Thomas Wotte, 2003-07

Supervised diploma/MSc-projects:

• Sedimentation processes and palaeoecological analysis of the Lower Triassic near Beesenlaublingen and the Permian - Triassic transition.
  Frank Scholze, 2010-
  
  
• Documentation of the glacial-interglacial variations in deep water ventilation on sediment cores of the Amerasian Basin (Arctic Ocean).
  Stefanie Kaboth, 2009-
  
  
• Fossile Ascidien: fossil record, Sklerit-Anatomie und paläoökologische Schlussfolgerungen.
  (Fossil ascidians: fossil record, sclerite anatomy and palaeoecological conclusions)
  Grit Benedix, 2010
  
  
• Trace fossils and sedimentary environments of the "middle" Cambrian Hanneh Member, Southern Dead Sea (Burj Formation, Jordan).
  Richard Hofmann, 2008
  
  
• Faziesanalyse und paläoökologische Rekonstruktion der Oberen Láncara Fm. (Unter-/Mittelkambrium, Kantabrisches Gebirge, NW-Spanien) und Erstellung einer internetfähigen Datenbank-Anwendung zur Erfassung des taxonomischen Inventars.
  (Facies analysis and palaeoecological reconstruction of the Upper Láncara Formation (Early to Middle Cambrian, Cantabrian Mountains, NW-Spain) and generation of an Internet-compatible database application for recordation of the taxonomic content)
  Thomas Biener, 2005
  
  
• Die Oberflächenverteilung benthischer Foraminiferen auf einem Tiefwasser-Korallen-Karbonat-Hügel in der Porcupine Seabight (SW Irland).
  (Surface distribution pattern of bentic foraminifera on a deep-water coral carbonat mound of the Porcupine Seabight (SW Irland))
  Steffi Schmidt, 2005
  
  
• Mikroskopische und röntgenographische Untersuchungen an Phylliten im Raum Blankenstein (Sachsen): Methodik, Stratigraphie und regionalgeologische Interpretation.
  (Microscopic and x-ray investigation on phyllites of the Blankenstein area (Saxony): methodology, stratigraphy, and regional interpretation)
  Matthias Zeidler, 2004
  
  
• Paläo-Ökologie und Environment-Rekonstruktion mittelkambrischer Abfolgen SW-Sardiniens (Campo Pisano Formation).
  (Paleoecology and environment reconstruction of middle Cambrian successions of SW-Sardinia - Campo Pisano Fm.)
  !!! 2004 winner of the "BERND RENDEL Award" of the German Research Council !!!
  Yvonne Hamann, 2004
  

• Litho- und Biofaziesanalyse eines Zechsteinriffes am S-Rand des Ruhlaer Kristallins.
  (Litho- and biofacies of a Zechstein reef at the southern end of the Ruhla crystallin complex)
  Stephan Brauner, 2003
  

• Beziehungen zwischen Sedimentologie, Morphologie und Karstphänomenen in einem Zechsteinriff.
  (Relations between sedimentology, morphology and carstic phenomena within a Zechstein reef)
  Kerstin Fohlert, 2003
  
  
• Faziesarchitektur und environment-Analyse ausgewählter paläozoischer reef mounds.
  (Facies architecture and environment analysis of selected Palaeozoic reef mounds)
  Thomas Wotte, 2003
  

• Faziesanalyse an unter- bis mittelkambrischen Karbonaten im Bereich des nördlichen Toten Meeres (Jordanien).
  (Facies analysis of early to middle Cambrian carbonates of the northern Dead Sea region/Jordan)
  Muftah M. Altumi, 2002
  

• Litho- und biofazielle Charakteristik einer kollabierenden Karbonatplattform (Mittelkambrium, SW-Sardinien).
  (Lithological and biofacies characteristics of a drowning carbonate platform - middle Cambrian/SW Sardinia)
  Petra Münzberger, 2002
  

• Frühvariszischer Riftvulkanismus und biogene Sedimentation im Oberdevon des Vogtlandes.
  (Early variscan rift volcanism and bio-sedimentation in the upper Devonian of the Vogtland area)
  Andreas Torn, 2000
  

• Diagenese und Sedimentologie von Zechsteinkarbonaten (Ca2) - untersuchungsmethodische Ansätze.
  (Diagenesis and sedimentology of upper Permian carbonates (Ca2) - methodical approache)
  Jens Wendler, 1997
  

• Mikrofaziesanalyse an Zechsteinkarbonaten (Staßfurt-Karbonat) der Lausitz und Thüringens.
  (Microfacies analysis on upper Permian carbonates (Stassfurt Carbonate) of Lusatia and Thuringia)
  Ines Flatter, 1997
  
  

Supervised BSc-projects:

• Facies analysis of early post-Panafrican sedimentary successions at the northern margin of the Arabo-Nubian Shield (Sinai Peninsula).
  Anne Leuschke, 2010
  
  
• Devonische Karbonate und Siliciklastika vom Geisersberg bei Kunnersdorf (Lausitz): Mikrofazies und Ablagerungsmodell.
  (Devonian carbonates and siliciclastics from the Geisersberg section (Kunnersdorf, Lusitia): Microfacies and depositional model.)
  Anne Förster, 2010
  
  
• Palynologie und Sedimenttationsdynamik des Ordoviziums von Unterhermsgrün (Vogtland).
  (Palynology and sedimentary dynamics of the Ordovician of Unterhermsgrün [Vogtland area])
  Marcel Hübner, 2010
  
  
• Conodonten-Biostratigraphie und Dünnschliffanalyse oberdevonischer Karbonate des Rheinischen Schiefergebirges.
  (Conodont biotratigraphy and thin section analysis on Late Devonian carbonates of the Rheinish Slate Mountain [Rheinisches Schiefergebirge])
  Julia Beckert, 2010
  
  
• Polarisationsmikroskopische, Kathodolumineszenz- und bildanalytische Untersuchungen zur Sedimentpetrographie kambrischer Siliziklastika im Gebiet des Al Qarqaf Uplift (Hasawnah Formation, Zentral Libyen).
  (Petrographic investigation of Cambrian siliciclastics of the Al Qarqaf Uplift [Hasawnah Formation, Central Libya]: Microscopy, CL and image analysis)
  Christine Wendler, 2009

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