Prof. Dr. Maria Mutti
Prof. Dr. Maria Mutti
Sedimentary Geology | Chair, Group Leader
- +49 331 977 705700
- Campus Golm
Building 27, Room 1.34
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam-Golm
CV
2007- Professor (W3), Sedimentology, University of Potsdam, Germany
2002-2007 Professor (C3), Sedimentology, University of Potsdam, Germany
Summer 2002 Visiting Professor, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
1999-2002 Professor (C3), Historical Geology and Paleontology, University of Stuttgart, Germany
1997-1999 Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
1996-1997 International Liaison, JOIDES Office (OPD Science Planning)
1996-1997 Guest Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
1992-1996 Research Associate, ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zürich, Switzerland
1992 Ph.D. Earth Sciences, University of Milan, Italy
1990 M.S. Geology. University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
1987 Laurea in Earth Sciences (B.S and M.S. equivalent), University of Bologna, Italy
Research
- Carbonate Sedimentology and Earth History, Processes controlling carbonate production, Biosphere response to critical intervals of climate change,
- Applied Sedimentology: carbonate reservoir surface 3D analogues studies, core and seismic studies with focus on reservoir facies and porosity evolution, carbonate diagenesis and petrophysics
Teaching
BSc Modules
- BScP01 Geosciences 1/Geowissenschaften 1 (team-teaching)
- BScP02 Geosciences 2/Geowissenschaften 2 (team-teaching)
- BScP12 Sedimentäre Systeme/Sedimentary Systems
- Special Topics in Sedimentology
MSc Modules
- MGEP05 Sedimentary Basins (winter semester, every year)
- MGEW02 Modern Carbonates (winter semester, every second year)
- MGEW04 Events in Earth History (winter semester, every second year)
- MGEW07 3D geological modeling (winter semester, every year)
- MGEW08 Special Problems in Basin Analysis (summer semester, every second year)
- Große Geländeübung (Dolomites)
Publications
2014
- Frijia G., Parente M., Di Lucia M., and Mutti M. (in press) - Carbon and Strontium isotope stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Campanian) shallow-water carbonates of southern Italy: chronostratigraphic calibration of larger foraminifera biostratigraphy. Cretaceous Research , v. 53, p. 110-139
- Agada, S., Chen, F., Geiger, S., Toigulova, G., Agar, S., Shekhar, R.; Benson, G., Hehmeyer, O., Amour, F., Mutti, M., Christ, N. and Immenhauser, A., (2014) Numerical simulation of fluid-flow processes in a 3D high-resolution carbonate reservoir analogue. Petroleum Geoscience, v. 20, p. 125-142.
- Shekhar, R., Sahni, I., Benson, G.S., Agar, S.M., Amour, F., Tomás, S., Christ, N., Alway, R., Mutti, M., Immenhauser, A., and Kabiri, L. (2014) Modelling and simulation of a Jurassic carbonate ramp outcrop, Amellago, High Atlas Mountain, Morocco. Petroleum Geosciences, v. 20, p. 125-142.
- Whitaker, FF, Felce, GP, G, B, Amour, F, Mutti, M & Smart, PL. (2014) Simulating fluid flow through forward sediment model stratigraphies: insights into climatic control reservoir quality in isolated carbonate platforms. Petroleum Geoscience, February 2014, v. 20, p. 27-40.
2013
- Tomás, S., Homann, M., Mutti, M., Amour, F., Christ, N., Immenhauser, A., Agar, S. and Kabiri, L. (2013). Environmental significance of microbial mounds in a Bajocian oolitic ramp (High Atlas, Morocco). Sedimentary Geology, v. 97, p. 845–871.
- Hammes, U. , M. Krause, and M.Mutti (2013), Unconventional Reservoir Potential of the Upper Permian Zechstein Formation: A Slope to Basin Sequence Stratigraphic and Sedimentological Evaluation of Carbonates and Organic-Rich Mudrocks, Northern Germany: Environmental Earth Sciences.
- Amour, F., Mutti, M., Christ, N., Immenhauser, A., Benson, G.S., Agar, S.M., Tomás, S., and Kabiri, L. (2013) Outcrop analogue for an oolitic carbonate ramp reservoir: a multi-scale geological modeling approach. AAPG Bulletin, v. 97, p. 845–871.
2012
- Amour, F., Mutti, M., Christ, N., Immenhauser, A., Agar, S., Benson, G., Tomás, S., Alway, R. and Kabiri, L. (2012) Capturing and modeling metre scale spatial facies heterogeneity in a Jurassic ramp setting (Central High Atlas, Morocco). Sedimentology, 59, 1158-1189.
- Christ, N., Immenhauser, A., Amour, F., Mutti, M., Tomás, S., Agar, S., Alway, R. and Kabiri, L. (2012) Characterization and interpretation of discontinuity surfaces in a Jurassic ramp setting (High Atlas, Morocco). Sedimentology, 59, 249-290
- Di Lucia M., Trecalli A., Mutti M. and Parente M. (2012) Bio‐chemostratigraphy of the Barremian−Aptian shallow‐water carbonates of the southern Apennines (Italy): pinpointing the OAE1a in a Tethyan carbonate platform, Solid Earth, 3, 789-838.
- Frijia G., Di Lucia M., Vicedo V., Gunter C., Ziemann M. A. and Mutti M. (2012) An extraordinary single-celled architect: a multi-techniques study of the agglutinated shell of the larger foraminifer Mesorbitolina from the Lower Cretaceous of southern Italy. Marine Micropaleontology., 90-91, 60-71.
- Christ,N., A. Immenhauser, F. Amour, M. Mutti, R. Preston, F.F. Whitaker, A. Peterhäansel, S.O. Egenhoff, P.A. Dunn, and S.M. Agar (2012) Triassic Latemar cycle tops - Subaerial exposure of platform carbonates under tropical arid climate. Sed. Geol., 265–266, 1-29
- Sayago J., Di Lucia M., Mutti M., Cotti A., Sitta A., Broberg K., Przybylo A. and Zimina O. (2012) Integrating core analysis, seismic stratigraphy and multi-attribute seismic facies classification to characterize paleokarst in the Loppa High, Barents Sea. AAPG Bulletin, v. 9, No. 10, 1843-1866.
- Zamagni, J. Mutti, M. Ballato, P. and Kosir, A. (2012) The Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) in shallow-marine successions of the Adriatic Carbonate Platform (SW Slovenia). Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B30553.1
2011
- Amour, F., Mutti, M., Christ, N., Immenhauser, A., Agar, S.M., Benson, G.S., Alway, R. and Kabiri, L. (2011) Capturing and modelling metre-scale spatial facies heterogeneity in a Jurassic ramp setting (Central High Atlas, Morocco). Sedimentology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01299.x
- Christ, N., Immenhauser, A., Amour, F., Mutti, M., Tomas, S., Agar, S.M., Alway, R. and Kabiri, L. (2011) Characterization and interpretation of discontinuity surfaces in a Jurassic ramp setting (High Atlas, Morocco). Sedimentology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01251.x
2010
- Horsfield, B., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Krautz, H.J., Mutti, M. (2010) Geoenergy: From visions to solutions. Chemie der Erde - Geochemistry, Volume 70, Supplement 3, Pages 1-202.
- Benisek, M.-F., Marcano, G., Betzler, C., Mutti, M. (2010) Facies and stratigraphic architecture of a Miocene warm-temperate to tropical fault-block carbonate platform in Sardinia (Central Mediterranean Sea.). IAS Spec. Publ. 42, 129-148.
- Tomas, S., Zitzmann, M., Homann, M., Rumpf, M., Amour, F., Benisek, M., Marcano, G.,Mutti, M., Betzler, C., 2010. From ramp to platform: building a 3D model of depositionalgeometries and facies architectures in transitional carbonates in the Miocene, northern Sardinia. Facies, Volume 56, Number 2, Pages 195-210
- Mutti, M., Piller, W.E., Betzler, C., 2010, Miocene Carbonate Systems: an Introduction. IAS Spec. Publ. 42, vii-xii.
- Tomás, S., Szurlies, M. and Mutti, M. [eds] (2010): SEPM-CES – GV (Sektion Sedimentologie) Sediment 2010. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (SDGG), 72, 88 pp.
2009 and older (selected)
- Zamagni, J., Kosir, A., Mutti, M., 2009.The first microbialite-coral mounds in the Cenozoic (uppermost Paleocene) from the northern Tethys (Slovenia); environmentally-triggered phase shifts preceding the PETM? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 274, Issue 1-2, pp. 1-17
- Benisek, M.-F., Betzler, C., Marcano, G., Mutti, M., 2009. Coralline-algal assemblages of a Burdigalian platform slope: implications for carbonate platform reconstruction (northern Sardinia, western Mediterranean Sea). Facies, Volume 55, Number 3, Pages 375-386
- Zamagni, J., Mutti, M. Kosir, A., 2008, Evolution of shallow benthic communities during the Late Paleocene–earliest Eocene transition in the Northern Tethys (SW Slovenia), v. 54, n. 1, p. 25-43.
- Baaske, U. P., Mutti, M., Baioni, F., Bertozzi, G., Naini, M. A., 2007, Using multi-attribute neural networks classification for seismic carbonate facies mapping; a workflow example from Mid-Cretaceous Persian Gulf deposits.Geological Society Special Publications, Vol. 277, pp. 105-120
- Scheibner, C.,Rasser, M. W., Mutti, M., 2007, The Campo section (Pyrenees, Spain) revisited; implications for changing benthic carbonate assemblages across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 248, Issue 1-2, pp. 145-168
- Iryu, Y., Matsuda, H., Machiyama, H., Piller, W. E., Quinn, T. M., Mutti, M., 2007,The COral-REef Front (COREF) Project. Scientific Drilling, Vol. 5, pp. 70-72
- Halfar, J, Godinez-Orta, L., Mutti, M., Valdez-Holguin, J.E., Borges, J.M., 2006. Carbonates calibrated against oceanographic parameters along a latitudinal transect in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Sedimentology, Vol. 53, p. 297–320.
- Knoerich A.C. and Mutti, M, 2006. Missing aragonitic biota and the diagenetic evolution of heterozoan carbonates; a case study from the Oligo-Miocene of the Central Mediterranean. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 76, 871-888.
- Iryu, Y., Matsuda, H., Machiyama, H., Piller, W. E., Quinn, T. M., Mutti, M., 2006, The COREF Project; coral reef front migration in the Ryukyu Islands. Island Arc, Vol. 15, Issue 4, pp. 393-406
- Mutti, M., John, C., Knoerich, A., 2006, Chemistratigraphy in Miocene heterozoan carbonate settings; applications, limitations and perspectives.Geological Society Special Publications, Vol. 255, pp. 307-322
- John, C.M., Adarre, T., Mutti, M., 2006, Regional trends in clay mineral fluxes to the Queensland margin and ties to middle Miocene global cooling. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 233, Issue 3-4, pp. 204-224
- Knoerich, A.C. and Mutti, M., 2006, Epitaxial calcite cements in Earth history; a cooler-water phenomenon during aragonite-sea times? Geological Society Special Publications, 2006, Vol. 255, pp.323-335
- Halfar, H., and Mutti, M., 2005, Global dominance of coralline red algal facies - a response to mid Miocene oceanographic events. Geology, 33, 481–484.
- John, C.M., Mutti, M., 2005, Relative control of paleoceanography, climate, and eustasy over heterozoan carbonates; a perspective from slope sediments of the Marion Plateau (ODP Leg 194) Journal of Sedimentary Research, Vol. 75, Issue 2, pp.216-230
- Rasser, M.W., Scheibner, C., Mutti, M., 2005, A paleoenvironmental standard section for early Ilerdian tropical carbonate factories (Corbieres, France; Pyrenees, Spain). Facies, 2005, Vol. 51, Issue 1-4, pp. 227-242
- Halfar, H., Godinez-Orta, L., Mutti, M., Valdez-Holguin, J.E., and Borges, J.M., 2005. Nutrients and temperature controls on modern carbonate production: an example from the Gulf of California, Mexico. Geology, 32, 213–216
- Mutti, M., Droxler, A.W., Cunningham, A.D., 2005, Evolution of the northern Nicaragua Rise during the Oligocene-Miocene; drowning by environmental factors. Sedimentary Geology, April 15, 2005, Vol. 175, Issue 1-4, pp. 237-258
- Mutti, M. and Hallock, P., 2003, Carbonate systems along nutrient and temperature gradients: a review of sedimentological and geochemical constraints. International Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 92 (4), 465-475
- John, C.M., Mutti, M., Adatte, T., 2003, Middle Miocene coupling of continental processes, atmospheric circulation and global climate -A North African margin record, GSA Bulletin Vol. 115 , pp. 217 229.
- Knoerich, A.C. and Mutti, 2003, Controls of facies and sediment composition on the diagenetic pathway of shallow-water Heterozoan carbonates; the Oligocene of the Maltese Islands. International Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol. 92, Issue 4, pp.494-510
- Spezzaferri S, Mutti M, Spiegler D., 2001, Integrated planktonic foraminifera, Bolboforma and carbon isotope stratigraphy in a mid/early late Miocene carbonate ramp setting from the Acreide area (Sicily). Marine Microplaoentology, v. 43, Issue 3-4, pg. 223-238
- Lampert SA, Lowrie W, Hirt AM, Bernoulli D, Mutti M, 1997, Magnetic and sequence stratigraphy of redeposited upper Cretaceous limestones in the Montagna della Maiella, Abruzzi, Italy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 150, Issue 1-2, pg. 79-93.
- Mutti, M., Eberli, G.P. , Bernoulli, D. and Vecsei, A. , 1996, Depositional geometries and facies associations in an Upper Cretaceous prograding platform margin (Orfento supersequence, Maiella, Italy). Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. B66, n. 3, p. 749-765.
- Mutti, M. and Weissert, H., 1995, Climate cyclicity and monsoons in the Triassic Pangea: the sedimentological and isotopic record from Ladinian-Carnian carbonate platforms (Southern Alps, Italy). Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. B65, n. 3, p. 357-367.