Daniel Rutte
Daniel Rutte
Doctoral April 2011 - Jul 2015
now at Berkeley Geochronology Center & University of California, Berkeley
Structural Geology and Geochronology
TU Bergakademie FreibergBernhard-von-Cotta-Str. 209599 FreibergGermany
Daniel and field assistant in the Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan
My project: Cenozoic crustal thickening and gneiss-dome exhumation in the Central Pamir
Methodologic work: The irradiation parameter 'J'
I am trying to better understand the irradiation parameter 'J' in Ar-Ar dating, Neutron fluence gradients and find alternative fluence monitors.
The methods I am using to answer my research questions:
- Classical field geology including mapping and structural analysis
- Microtectonic analysis
- Ar-Ar thermochronology
- U-Pb zircon geochronology
- beta and gamma-spectroscopy
Scientific work
Publications:
Stearns, M.A., Hacker, B.R., Ratschbacher, L., Rutte, D., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C.(submitted) Titanite petrochronology of the Pamir gneiss domes: Implications for mid–deep crust exhumation and titanite closure to Pb and Zr diffusion, Tectonics
Rutte, D., Pfänder, J. A., Koleška, M., Jonckheere, R., and Unterricker, S. (2015) Radial fast-neutron fluence gradients during rotating 40Ar/39Ar sample irradiation recorded with metallic fluence monitors and geological age standards. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. doi: 10.1002/2014GC005611
Stübner, K. Ratschbacher, L., Rutte, D., Stanek, K., Minaev, V., Wiesinger, M., Gloaguen, R. (2013) The giant Shakhdara migmatitic gneiss dome, Pamir, India-Asia collision zone: 1. Geometry and kinematics. Tectonics, 32, doi: 10.1002/tect.20057
Stübner, K., Ratschbacher, L., Weise, C., Chow, J,. Hofmann, J., Khan, J., Rutte, D., Sperner, B., Pfänder, J.A., Hacker, B.R., Dunkl, I., Tichomirowa, M., Stearns, M.A., Bahram, I., Gadoev, M., Gloaguen, R., Jonckheere, R., Kanaev, E., Minaev, V., Oimahmadoc, I., Rajabov, N., Stanek, K.P. (2013) The giant Shakhdara migmatitic gneiss dome, Pamir, India–Asia collision zone, II: Timing of dome formation. Tectonics, 32, doi: 10.1002/tect.20059
Conference Abstracts/Participations (only first authored):
Rutte, D., Ratschbacher, L., Khan, J., Stübner, K., Stearns, M.A., Pfänder, J.A., Schneider, S. 2014 Compression and syn-compressional extension - exhuming the Cenozoic Central Pamir Gneiss domes, Tajikistan. Poster presentation at EGU 2014, Vienna
Rutte, D., Ratschbacher, L., Khan, J., Stübner, K., Stearns, M.A., Pfänder, J.A., Schneider, S. 2014 Cenozoic Extensional Exhumation of the Muskol and Shatput
Gneiss Domes During Orogenwide Contraction (Pamir, Tajikistan). Poster presentation at Symposium on Tectonics, Structural Geology and Geology of Crystalline Rocks, Potsdam
Rutte, D., Unterricker, S., Pfänder, J.A., Jonckheere, R. 2013 Monitoring the 40Ar/39Ar irradiation parameter 'J' without using geological age standards. Poster presentation at Goldschmidt conference, Florence
Rutte, D., Ratschbacher, L., Stearns, M.A., Khan., J., Pfänder. J.A., 2013 Miocene exhumation of the eastern Central Pamir gneiss domes (Tajikistan). Oral presentation at Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet workshop, Tübingen
Rutte, D., Stearns, M.A., Ratschbacher, L. 2013. The eastern Central Pamir Gneiss Domes: temporal and spatial geometry of burial and exhumation. Oral presentation at EGU 2013, Vienna
Rutte, D., Stearns, M.A., Ratschbacher, L., Hacker, B. 2012. Miocene gneiss-domes in the Central Pamir: burial and exhumation. Poster presentation at Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet workshop, Kathmandu
Rutte, D. et al. 2012. Geodynamics: Central Asia projects of the Freiberg group – focus on the Central Pamir. Oral presentation at DARIUS workshop Milan on Cimmerian evolution of Iran and Central Asia, Milano
Rutte, D., Ratschbacher, L. and Hacker, B. 2011. Cenozoic structure of the Central Pamir. Poster presentation at European Geosciences Union Vienna
Thesis
Masterthesis „First-order Cenozoic structure of the Central Pamir“, supervised by Prof. Dr. Lothar Ratschbacher and Dr. Richard Gloaguen;
Bachelorthesis: “Petrographic, thermobarometric and microstructural results from the Jinsha suture, Yushu area, Northeast Tibet”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Lothar Ratschbacher and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schulz;
Grants/Programs:
Participation in the DAAD RISE program
DAAD travel grant for the Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet workshop, Kathmandu 2012
DAAD travel grants for fieldwork in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013
Student support grant for European Geosciences Union conference, Vienna 2011
Fulbright Scholarship for an exchange semester at the Colorado School at Mines and an academic training with Bradley Hacker at the University of California, Santa Barbara 2008/2009
Some impressions from my field area:


