Dr. Martin J. Timmerman
Dr. Martin J. Timmerman
Petrology | Scientific Staff
- +49 331 977 705700
- Campus Golm
Building 27, Room 0.39
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam-Golm
Teaching
Research
Petrogenesis, age and origin of (ultra)mafic, magmatic and metamorphic rocks of the Makran Accretionary Wedge, Southern Makran Zone, SE Iran. In cooperation with Hadi Omrani (Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran), Christina Günter (University of Potsdam).
Provenance study of the Ediacaran metasediments of the northern Brunovistulian Microcontinent, the Małopolska Block (SE Poland) and W Ukraine in combination with U-Pb zircon dating and zircon in sizu Lu-Hf istotope fingerprinting. In cooperation with Stanisław Mazur, Mariusz Paszkowski, Bartosz Budzyń (Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow), Jerzy Żaba (University of Silesia, Sosnowiec), Jiří Sláma (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague), Masafumi Sudo and Edward Sobel (University of Potsdam).
Ediacaran to Jurassic evolution of the Gasht Metamorphic Complex, Alborz Mountains, north Iran. In cooperation with Leila Rezaei, Uwe Altenberger, Christina Günter, Masafumi Sudo (University of Potsdam), Mohssen Moazzen (University of Central Asia, Khorog, Tajikistan), Franziska D. H. Wilke (GFZ, Potsdam) and Jiří Sláma (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague).
Cooling history of amphibolite-facies rocks, and timing of fault gouge within, the Alpine Fault on South Island, New Zealand. In cooperation with Roland Oberhänsli (University of Potsdam), Virginia Toy (University of Otago) and Horst Zwingmann (University of Kyoto).
Provenance study of the Carboniferous clastic sediments in the Hainichen Basin" In cooperation with Jochen Rötzler (GFZ Potsdam), Roland Oberhänsli (University of Potsdam), Birgit Gaitsch (TU Bergakademie Freiberg) and Jiri Bek (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague).
Publications
Krmíčková, S., Krmíček, L., Timmerman, M.J., Sláma, J., Míková, J., 2025. Origin of the Brunovistulian microcontinent: Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Pb–Hf isotope evidence. Precambrian Research 428, 10.1016/j.precamres.2025.107902
Rezaei, L., Timmerman, M.J., Altenberger, U., Moazzen, M., Wilke, F.D.H., Günter, C., Sudo, M., Sláma, J. (2024). Ediacaran to Jurassic geodynamic evolution of the Alborz Mountains, north Iran: geochronological data from the Gasht Metamorphic Complex. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 13, 117. 10.1186/s00015-024-00465-4
Aminov, J., Roperch, P., Dupont-Nivet, G., Cordier, C., Guillot, S., Glodny, J., Timmerman, M.J., Sudo, M., Ruffet, G., Wilke, M., Lagroix, F., Lin, D., Mamadjanov, Y. (2023). Contractional deformation between extensional dome exhumation in Central Pamir at 17–15 Ma constrained by metamorphic and paleomagnetic data from the Bartang volcanic rocks, Tajikistan. Tectonophysics 868, 230080. 10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230080
Rezaei, L., Timmerman, M.J., Moazzen, M., Altenberger, U., Sláma, J., Sudo, M., Günter, C., Wilke, F.D.H., Schleicher, A.M. (2023). Mid-Cretaceous extensional magmatism in the Alborz Mountains, north Iran; geochemistry and geochronology of Gasht-Masuleh gabbros. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 116, 14. 10.1186/s00015-023-00443-2
Timmerman, M.J., Krmíček, L., Krmíčková, S., Sláma, J., Sudo, M., Sobel, E. (2023). Tonian–Ediacaran evolution of the Brunovistulian microcontinent (Czech Republic) deciphered from LA-ICP-MS U–Pb zircon and 40Ar/39Ar muscovite ages. Precambrian Research 387, 106981. 10.1016/j.precamres.2023.106981
Rezaei, L., Moazzen, M., Timmerman, M.J. (2020). Geochemistry and clinopyroxene mineral chemistry of basalts in the Gasht-Masuleh area, Alborz Mountains. Iranian Journal of Crystallography and Mineralogy 28 (3), 609-622. (in Persian with English abstract) ijcm.ir/article-1-1516-en.html
Terbishalieva, B., Timmerman, M.J., Mikolaichuk, A., Altenberger, U., Sláma, J., Schleicher, A.M., Sudo, M., Sobel, E.R., Cichy, S.B. (2020). Calc-alkaline volcanic rocks and zircon ages of the late Tonian : early Cryogenian arc-related Big Naryn Complex in the Eastern Djetim-Too Range, Middle Tianshan block, Kyrgyzstan. International Journal of Earth Sciences,110, 353–375. 10.1007/s00531-020-01956-z
Rötzler, J., Timmerman, M.J. (2020). Geochronological and petrological constraints from the evolution in the Saxon Granulite Massif, Germany, on the Variscan continental collision orogeny. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 39 (1), 3-38. 10.1111/jmg.12559
Krmíček, L., Romer, R.L., Timmerman, M.J., Ulrych, J., Glodny, J. (2020). Long-lasting (65 Ma) regionally contrasting late- to post-orogenic Variscan mantle-derived potassic magmatism in the Bohemian Massif. Journal of Petrology, 61, egaa072. 10.1093/petrology/egaa072
Krmíček, L., Timmerman, M.J., Ziemann, M.A., Sudo, M., Ulrych, J. (2020). 40Ar/39Ar step-heating dating of phlogopite and kaersutite megacrysts from the Železná hůrka (Eisenbühl) Pleistocene scoria cone, Czech Republic. Geologica Carpathica 71, 382-387. 10.31577/GeolCarp.71.4.6
Jamali Ashtiani, R., Hassanzadeh, J., Schmitt, A.K., Sudo, M., Timmerman, M., Günter, C., Sobel, E. (2020). Geochronology and geochemistryof subducted Cadomian basement in central Iran: decompressional anatexis along the Jurassic Neotethys margin. Gondwana Research 82, 254-366. 10.1016/j.gr.2020.01.005
Rezaei, L., Moazzen, M., Timmerman, M.J. (2019). Magmatic characteristics and crystallization condition of the Gasht- Masuleh gabbros (North of Iran) based on clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene composition. Iranian Journal of Petrology, Isfahan 10 (3), 131-148. (in Farsi with English abstract) 10.22108/ijp.2020.119832.1151
Fairey, B.J., Timmerman, M.J., Sudo, M., Tsikos, H. (2019). The role of hydrothermal activity in the formation of karst-hosted manganese depsoits of the Postmasburg Mn field, northern Cape Province, South Arica. Minerals 9(7), 408. 10.3390/min9070408
Meere, P.A., Mulchrone, K.F., McCarthy, D.J., Timmerman, M.J., Dewey, J.F. (2016). Prelithification and synlithification tectonic foliation development in a clastic sedimentary sequence. Geology 44, 291-294. 10.1130/G37587.1
Motuza, G., Sliaupa, S., Timmerman, M.J. (2015). Geochemistry and 40Ar/39Ar age of Early Carboniferous dolerite sills in the southern Baltic Sea. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 64, 1-16. 10.3176/earth.2015
Ennis, M., Meere, P.A., Timmerman, M.J., Sudo, M. (2015). Post-Acadian sediment recycling in the Devonian Old Red Sandstone of Southern Ireland. Gondwana Research 28,1415-1433. 10.1016/j.gr.2014.10.007
Meere, P.A., Mulchrone, K.F., Timmerman, M., 2013. Shear folding in low-grade metasedimentary rocks: Reverse shear along cleavage at a high angle to the maximum compressive stress. Geology 41, 879-882. 10.1130/G34150.1
Lago, M., de la Horra, R., Ubide, T. Galé, C., Galán-Abellán, B., Barrenechea, J.F. López-Gómez, J., Benito, M.I., Arche, A., Alonso-Azcárate, J., Luque, F.J., Timmerman, M.J., 2012. First report of a Middle-Upper Permian magmatism in the SE Iberian Ranges: characterisation and comparison with coeval magmatisms in the western Tethys. Journal of Iberian Geology 38, 331-348.
Faithfull, J.W., Timmerman, M.J., Upton, B.G.J. & Rumsey, M.S., 2012. Mid-Eocene renewal of magmatism in NW Scotland: the Loch Roag Dyke, Outer Hebrides. Journal of the Geological Society, London 169, 115 –118. 10.1144/0016-76492011-117.
Wilke, F.D.H., O’Brien, P.J., Gerdes, A., Timmerman, M.J., Sudo, M. & Khan, M.A., 2010. The multistage exhumation history of the Kaghan valley UHP series, NW Himalaya, Pakistan from U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar ages. European Journal of Mineralogy 22, 703-719. 10.1127/0935-1221/2010/0022-2051
Timmerman, M.J., Heeremans, M., Kirstein, L.A., Larsen, B.T., Spencer-Dunworth, E.-A. & Sundvoll, B., 2009. Linking changes in tectonic style with magmatism in northern Europe during the late Carboniferous to latest Permian. Tectonophysics 473, 375–390. 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.03.011
Perini, G. & Timmerman, M.J., 2008. Permian 40Ar/39Ar ages for post-Variscan minor intrusions in the Iberian Range and Spanish Central System. Geologica Acta 6, 335-344. 10.1344/105.000000261
Timmerman, M.J., 2008. Palaeozoic magmatism. In: McCann, T. (ed.), The Geology of Central Europe. Volume 1: Precambrian and Palaeozoic. Geological Society, London, 665-748. 10.1144/cev1p.12
McCann, T., Pascal, C., Timmerman, M.J., Krzywiec, P., López-Gómez, J., Wetzel, A., Krawczyk, C.M., Rieke, H. & Lamarche, J., 2006. Post-Variscan (end Carboniferous – Early Permian) basin evolution in Western and Central Europe. In Gee, D.G. & Stephenson, R.A. (eds.), European Lithosphere Dynamics. Geological Society of London, Memoirs 32, 355-388.
Daly, J.S., Balagansky, V.V., Timmerman, M.J. & Whitehouse, M.J., 2006. The Lapland-Kola orogen: Palaeoproterozoic collision and accretion of the northern Fennoscandian lithosphere. In Gee, D.G. & Stephenson, R.A. (eds.), European Lithosphere Dynamics. Geological Society of London, Memoirs 32, 579-597.
Henk, A. and Timmerman, M.J., 2005. Permian basins. In: Selley, R.C., Cocks, L.R.M. & Plimer, I.R. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Geology. Elsevier Academic Press, 95-102.
Timmerman, M.J., 2004. Timing, geodynamic setting and character of Permo-Carboniferous magmatism in the foreland of the Variscan Orogen, NW Europe. In: Wilson, M., Neumann, E.-R., Davies, G.R., Timmerman, M.J., Heeremans, M. & Larsen, B.T. (eds.), Permo-Carboniferous Rifting and Magmatism in Europe. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 223, 41-74. 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.223.01.03
Heeremans, M., Timmerman, M.J., Kirstein, L.A. and Faleide, J.I., 2004. New constraints on the timing of the late Carboniferous - early Permian volcanism in the central North Sea. In: Wilson, M., Neumann, E.-R., Davies, G.R., Timmerman, M.J., Heeremans, M. & Larsen, B.T. (eds.), Permo-Carboniferous Rifting and Magmatism in Europe. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 223, 177-193. 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.223.01.08
Neumann, E.-R., Wilson, M., Heeremans, M., Spencer, E.A., Obst, K., Timmerman, M.J. & Kirstein, L., 2004. Carboniferous-Permian rifting and magmatism in southern Scandinavia, the North Sea and northern Germany: a review. In: Wilson, M., Neumann, E.-R., Davies, G.R., Timmerman, M.J., Heeremans, M. & Larsen, B.T. (eds.), Permo-Carboniferous Rifting and Magmatism in Europe. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 223, 11-40. 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.223.01.02
Pracht, M. and Timmerman, M.J., 2004. A late Namurian (318 Ma) 40Ar-39Ar age for kaersutite megacrysts from the syn-tectonic Black Ball Head diatreme: implications for the onset of Variscan deformation in SW Ireland. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 22, 35-45. 10.3318/IJES.2004.22.1.33
von Seckendorff, V., Timmerman; M.J., Kramer, W. and Wrobel, P., 2004. New 40Ar/39Ar ages and geochemistry of late Carboniferous to early Permian lamprophyres and related volcanic rocks in the Saxothuringian Zone of the Variscan Orogen (Germany). In: Wilson, M., Neumann, E.-R., Davies, G.R., Timmerman, M.J., Heeremans, M. & Larsen, B.T. (eds.), Permo-Carboniferous Rifting and Magmatism in Europe. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 223, 335-359. 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.223.01.15
Bridgwater D., Scott D.J., Balagansky V.V., Timmerman M.J., Marker M., Bushmin S.A., Alexeyev N.L. and Daly J.S., 2001. Age and provenance of early Precambrian metasedimentary rocks in the Lapland-Kola Belt, Russia: evidence from Pb and Nd isotopic data. Terra Nova 13, 32-37. 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2001.00307.x
Balagansky V.V., Timmerman M.J., Kozlova N.Ye. and Kislitsyn R.V, 2001. A 2.44 Ga old mafic dyke swarm in the Kolvitsa Belt, Kola Peninsula, Russia: implications for early Palaeoproterozoic tectonics in the north-eastern Fennoscandian Shield. Precambrian Research 105, 269-287. 10.1016/S0301-9268(00)00115-7
Daly, J. S., Balagansky, V.V., Timmerman, M.J., Whitehouse, M.J., de Jong, K., Guise, P., Bogdanova, S., Gorbatschev, R. and Bridgwater, D., 2001. Ion microprobe U-Pb zircon geochronology and isotopic evidence for a trans-crustal suture in the Lapland-Kola Orogen, northern Fennoscandian Shield. Precambrian Research 105, 289-314. 10.1016/S0301-9268(00)00116-9
Kirstein, L.A. and Timmerman, M.J., 2000. Evidence of the proto-Iceland plume in northwestern Ireland at 42 Ma from helium isotopes. Journal of the Geological Society, London 157, 923-927. 10.1144/jgs.157.5.923
Bridgwater, D., Scott, D., Balagansky, V.V., Timmerman, M.J., Marker, M., Bushmin, S.A., Alexeyev, N.L. and Daly, J.S., 1999. Provenance of early Precambrian metasediments in the Lapland-Kola belt as shown by 207Pb/206Pb dating of single grains of zircon and whole rock Sm-Nd isotope studies. Doklady Akademii Nauk 366, No 5, 664-668 (in Russian).
Vetrin, V.R., Kamensky, I.L., Bayanova, T.B., Timmerman, M., Belyatsky, B.V., Levsky, L.K. and Balashov, Yu. A., 1999. Melanocratic inclusions and petrogenesis of alkaline granites of the Ponoysky Massif (Kola Peninsula). Geokhimiya 11, 1178-1190. (in Russian).
Timmerman, M.J. and Daly, J.S., 1995. Sm-Nd evidence for late Archaean crust formation in the Lapland-Kola Mobile Belt, Kola Peninsula, Russia and Norway. Precambrian Research 72, 97-107. 10.1016/0301-9268(94)00045-S
Stel, H., Veenhof, R., Huizenga, J.M., Timmerman, M. and Hartsink, J.M.H., 1989. Infra-supra structure relations of a microcline-granite dome in the Somero area, Svecofennides, SW Finland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland 61, Part 2, 131-134.
Teaching
Bachelor-level courses (in German)
Mineral- and rock determination (hand specimen practical)
Introduction to optics (rock-forming minerals in thin section)
Analytical microscopy of minerals and rocks (metabasite, meta-ultrabasite, metapelites, calc-silicates, plutonic and volcanic rocks)
Field exercise Harz (introduction to geological mapping)
Field exercise Oberpfalz, Bavaria (mapping crystalline rocks)
Field exercise Vogtland and Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria (low- to high-grade metamorphic rocks in the field: metapelite, metabasites, calc-silicate rocks, plutonic rocks)
Master courses (in English)
Advanced geochemistry (of magmatic rocks; with exercises)
Advanced dating methods (U-Pb zircon and in situ Lu-Hf isotope system in zircon)
Field exercise Saxony (Saxon Granulite Complex and Erzgebirge Complex incl. UHT and UHP metamorphic rocks)
Past courses (in German)
Geology of ore deposits (Mineralogie und Rohstoffe / Lagerstättenkunde)
Interpretation of geochemical data (magmatic rocks)
Thermochronology: Ar/Ar dating