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Z. Dt. Ges. Geowiss. (J. Appl. Reg. Geol.), 172 (4), p. 395–399, 1 fig. Article
Published online October 2021 Open Access
The Central European Basin III: Sedimentology, Facies, (Bio-)Stratigraphy,
and Applied Geology
Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Klaus-Werner Tietze (1937–2019)
Michael R.W. Amler1, Heinz-Gerd Röhling2, Günter Kauffmann3, Heiner Heggemann4,
Dirk Radies5 & Achim Wehrmann6*
Amler, M.R.W., Röhling, H.-G., Kauffmann, G., Heggemann, H., Radies, D. & Wehrmann, A. (2021): The Central European
Basin III: Sedimentology, Facies, (Bio-)Stratigraphy, and Applied Geology – Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Klaus-Werner Tietze
(1937–2019). – Z. Dt. Ges. Geowiss., 172: 395–399, Stuttgart.
This volume of the ZDGG (Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ge-
sellschaft für Geowissenschaften / Journal of Applied and
Regional Geology), “The Central European Basin III: Sedi-
mentology, Facies, (Bio-)Stratigraphy, and Applied Geol-
ogy”, is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Klaus-Werner Tietze (1937–
2019) (see also Amler et al. 2021a, this volume).
Klaus-Werner Tietze was born in Stettin on August 3, 1937.
At that time, the family lived in Altdamerow, a small Po-
meranian village. His father, who died as a soldier in 1944,
was pastor there. Due to the Second World War, the Tietze’s
had to leave Pomerania; after several stopovers, they finally
found a new home in Eschwege in northern Hesse. There,
Klaus-Werner finished his school days with an Abitur (higher
education qualification).
After completing his military service from 1958 to 1959,
Klaus began studying geology/palaeontology with the minor
subjects mineralogy and zoology in 1959. For this study, he
chose the Geological-Palaeontological Institute at Philipps
University of Marburg, which was headed by Carl-Walter
Kockel. For the exchange semester, which was then still
compulsory, Klaus-Werner chose the Technical University
of Munich. The subject of his combined diploma and doc-
toral thesis was the geology of the Greek island of Chios. Prof. Dr. Klaus-Werner Tietze on a geological city tour in Freiburg
The fieldwork for this project was carried out from 1962 to i. Br. at the annual meeting of the German Subcommission on Per-
1964, the study of the collected material in Marburg lasted mian-Triassic stratigraphy in 2015 (Photograph: H.-Gerd Röhling).
*Addresses of the authors:
1Universität zu Köln, Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie, Abt. Paläontologie und Historische Geologie, Zülpicher Str. 49a, 50674
Köln, Germany (michael.amler@uni-koeln.de)
2Erich-Baron-Weg 100, 12623 Berlin, Germany (corresponding author; roehling-geologie@gmx.de)
3Beethovenstr. 16, 35043 Marburg, Germany
4Hessisches Landesamt für Naturschutz, Umwelt und Geologie,Geologische Grundlagen G1, Dezernatsleitung, Rheingaustraße 186,
65203 Wiesbaden, Germany (heiner.heggemann@hlnug.hessen.de)
5Rothweg 10, 34599 Neuental, Germany (dradies@web.de)
6Senckenberg am Meer Wilhelmshaven, Marine Research Department, Südstrand 40, 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany (achim.
wehrmann@senckenberg.de)
© 2021 The authors
DOI: 10.1127/zdgg/2021/0306 E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, Germany, www.schweizerbart.de396 Michael R.W. Amler
until 1967. Initially, the work in Greece was supervised by The increased demand for applied geoscientists on the
Carl-Walter Kockel, and after his death in 1966 this task was labour market led Klaus-Werner Tietze to another field of
taken over by Volker Jacobshagen. In 1967, Klaus-Werner activity, the remediation of contaminated sites (Stadtallen-
Tietze received his Diploma in Geology and in 1969 his PhD dorf) and to the foundation of GFM (Geo-Forschungsgruppe
with the thesis “Geology of Central Chios” (Tietze 1969). Marburg) by K.-W. Tietze, F. Diederich and F. Lemmer in
From 1967 to 1969, Klaus-Werner Tietze was employed March 1996, a consultancy firm for subsoil, groundwater,
as administrator of an assistant position at the Geological- mineral water and other projects.
Palaeontological Institute in Marburg. From 1969 to 1971, The working group of the Laboratory for Experimental
he was a scientific assistant with teaching assignments in Sedimentology was one of the most active of the Marburg
sedimentology. At the end of 1969, a new building for the Institute of Geosciences. Under Klaus-Werner’s guidance,
institute, located on the Lahn Hills, was included in the ex- 29 diploma theses and 6 dissertations originated (see Amler
pansion program of the university. Planning for the new et al. 2021a, this volume). After 36 years employed at Mar-
building, which would also contain a large laboratory for ex- burg University, Klaus was farewelled with a festive collo-
perimental sedimentology, started in 1971. Klaus-Werner quium on 31 October 2003. At that time, the closure of
was entrusted with the planning, and he was given leave of the Faculty of Geosciences in 2006 was already decided, and
absence in 1972/73 for a research stay at the Engineering Re- unfortunately, during the following years Klaus-Werner
search Center of Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Tietze had to witness how his excellently running laboratory
Colorado, U.S.A., to study the construction and operation of was finally wound up and dismantled in 2018.
larger flow and wave tanks. In June 1979, after five years of On January 23, 2019, Klaus-Werner Tietze passed away
construction, the new laboratory was inaugurated with a cel- in Marburg at the age of 81.
ebratory colloquium, and in September 1979, during the 131st
general meeting of the German Geological Society (DGG,
today DGGV), it was presented to the geological experts. The contributions dedicated to
Klaus-Werner Tietze
Klaus-Werner Tietze’s main areas of interest and work were
on the one hand the geology of the Lower Triassic Buntsand- The present volume is the third in a series devoted to the
stein with all its facets and on the other hand the sedimentary geology of the Central European Basin. Whereas the first
processes of tidal coasts, especially at the northern coast of two volumes (Röhling et al. 2016; Röhling et al. 2019) deal
Brittany (France). The Lower Triassic Buntsandstein – ubiq- with structural geology, stratigraphy, basin evolution, and
uitous in and around Marburg – was the subject of his lec- natural resources (e.g. hydrocarbons), the papers submitted
tures and excursions, of diploma theses (15) and disserta- for this volume focus on topics of Klaus-Werner’s interest.
tions (2) as well as of reports on landfill plans (Arzbachtal His favourite subjects were undoubtedly the sedimentology
1991) and drinking water wells (Stadtallendorf 1995). Since of high-energy coasts, the stratigraphy and sedimentology of
the mid-1980s Klaus-Werner Tietze had also been an active the Permian and Triassic strata in Central Europe, especially
member of the Sub-Commission Permian-Triassic (SKPT) in Hesse, as well as the applied geology. The papers contrib-
of the German Stratigraphic Commission (DSK). There he uting to this volume were written with this focus.
was mainly involved in the Buntsandstein working group,
but also provided advice to other working groups on sedi- Bungenstock et al. provide a detailed analysis of the bio-
mentological issues. sedimentary facies of the Wadden Sea coast. The study is
His interest in the sedimentary processes on the high-en- based on a decade of field mapping covering the coherent
ergy tidal coast of Brittany was aroused during a fieldtrip to system of four back-barrier tidal basins. The spatial distribu-
Brittany organised by the Marburg Geological Institute in tion of biosedimentary facies shows a complex pattern on a
1968. From 1975 onwards, he played a key role in a research local scale, which superimposes the shore-normal energy
project on geomorphological and sedimentary processes on gradient on a regional scale. The main controlling factors are
the northern coast of Brittany, combined with annual field hydrodynamic energy, the relative position to tidal channels,
exercises near Roscoff. In 1979, he completed his habilita- the duration of emergence and organism-sediment interac-
tion with a thesis on “Dynamics and sediment balance of a tion. Additionally, external drivers, such as sea-level rise and
tidal lagoon on the north coast of Brittany” (Tietze 1979). invasive species, have a significant impact on the system. By
After working as a lecturer with focus on sedimentology defining the facies types, the authors focus on trace-making
since 1971, he was appointed “Privatdozent” and “Akade- organisms combined with abiotic parameters. Thus, the bio-
mischer Oberrat” as well as head of the Laboratory for Ex- sedimentary facies pattern of the study can be transferred
perimental Sedimentology in 1980. In the winter semester into multidimensional facies analyses of sedimentary rocks
1981/82 and the summer semester 1986 he replaced Prof. Dr. deposited along ancient tidal coasts following an actualistic
E. Seibold at the University of Kiel. After almost 20 years of approach.
lecturing and supervising diploma and doctoral students at In their regional study of the western Jade Bay, Karle et
Marburg University, Klaus-Werner was appointed honorary al. describe the significance of early Holocene palaeochan-
professor in 1987 and was allowed to give an “inaugural lec- nels on the impact of younger stormflood events. Using
ture” on June 29, 1988. lithostratigraphic and sedimentological core data togetherThe Central European Basin III: Sedimentology, Facies, (Bio-)Stratigraphy, and Applied Geology 397
with radiocarbon dating, the Holocene deposits of the west- Triassic Plattensandstein in the Röttbach Quarry (Bavaria).
ern Jade Bay region were investigated, focusing on the posi- The fluvial sandstones are characterised by bleached inter-
tion and timing of tidal channels and potential erosional fea- vals, which coincide with high reservoir quality sections
tures. The maximum extent of the tidal environment in the governed by early cementation and reduced compaction dur-
western Jade Bay was reached between the 12th and 16th Cen- ing burial.
turies, when a series of consecutive storm events eroded vast In their second contribution “Lateral variations of detri-
areas of former peatland by reopening and reactivating the tal, authigenic and petrophysical properties in an outcrop
palaeochannels, which consequently resulted in a landward analogue of the fluvial Plattensandstein, Lower Triassic, S-
expansion of the intertidal area. Germany” Schmidt et al. highlight lateral reservoir quality
Amler et al. describe and illustrate the taphonomic pro- variations within a stacked bar to channel sandstone system
cess of abrasion in shells of the Recent pectinoid bivalves related to the content of detrital micas and authigenic illite,
Aequipecten opercularis and Mimachlamys varia from sev- enhancing compaction and reducing intergranular volume
eral west-European high-energy macrotidal sandy beaches. during burial.
This contribution ties on studies about information loss The Permian-Triassic boundary is well known as a major
caused by abrasion and its impact on taxonomy and system- extinction event in earth history. Less known is how the re-
atics in heterodont and taxodont taxa to further expand ob- lated environmental perturbations affected erosion and sedi-
servations on pteriomorphian bivalves, not considered in ment supply, and how the Buntsandstein can be imbedded in
previous studies. The authors demonstrate that taxonomi- such a scenario. Mansouri & Hinderer quantified sediment
cally relevant morphological characters are reduced, altered volumes and sediment flux in the Germanic Basin across the
or even obliterated by abrasive processes that can impede Permian-Triassic Boundary. The outcome is that the Bunt-
correct identification of the respective specimens. Fracture sandstein represents a significant rise in sediment supply by
specimens of abraded and non-abraded shells are analysed to 3 to 8 which cannot be explained conclusively by tectonic
test the role of shell microstructure in the abrasion process. forcing. The paper presents the first basin-wide sediment
Examples of abrasion in fossil pectinoids are compared with budget for the Permian-Triassic transition.
the Recent material. The contribution “Marine-terrestrial depositional envi-
Several papers deal with the Lower Triassic Buntsand- ronments of the Early Triassic Buntsandstein in the North
stein of Central Europe. The paper “Äolische Sandebenen, German Basin” of Franz et al. addresses the question of a
Fluss- und Playa-Ablagerungen in der Hessischen Senke: marine or terrestrial palaeoecology of the Lower and Middle
Die Detfurth-Formation (Mittlerer Buntsandstein) zwischen Buntsandstein. The application of sedimentological and pa-
Marburg und Hessisch-Lichtenau” submitted by Hug- laeontological methods to cores and outcrops in northern
Diegel focusses on aeolian deposits of the Middle Bunt- Germany resulted in a comprehensive data set that provides
sandstein (Lower Triassic) in the western and northern Hes- insights into the evolution of a brackish-marine inland sea,
sian Depression, which was one of Klaus-Werner Tietze’s which occupied the North German Basin in early Triassic
favourite fields of research and teaching. In this region, aeo- times, and its depositional environments. As the contribution
lian sandstones are found not only in the lower part of the is pending, it will be published in an upcoming volume of
Detfurth Formation, but most similarly also between the this journal.
limnic Detfurth Claystone and the fluvial Hardegsen Sand- Hug-Diegel & Kowalczyk present the core of the drill
stone, giving reason for stratigraphic discussions. Nicola hole Bad Vilbel Kurpark 2005 that penetrated the fluvial Vil-
Hug-Diegel combines detailed sedimentary analyses of the bel facies of the Rotliegend (Permian) of the Wetterau Basin
cored drill Remsfeld GWM 6 (2017) and other, hitherto un- north of Frankfurt (Hesse). Sedimentary facies analysis veri-
published cores, with gamma-log correlation. This leads to fied the sedimentary environment of braided rivers, but also
the interpretation of aeolian, fluvial, and limnic facies of the elaborated variations in accommodation (base level) and in
Detfurth Formation and their spatial relationships, clearly supply from the two contrasting source regions of the Rhe-
deviating from a “layer-cake geometry” with synchronous nohercynian in the north and the Mid-German Crystalline
facies boundaries. A facies model is proposed that demon- Zone in the south. Last but not least, the Bad Vilbel borehole
strates that the aeolianites of the lower Detfurth Formation reached Pre-Permian “greywackes” that can be assigned to
and those at its top are part of the same facies belt and can the complex of the Giessen Nappe, giving a precious clue to
be combined to the same lithostratigraphic unit (subforma- the Variscan basement north of Frankfurt.
tion), which is important for applied geoscientific purposes. The contribution by Koslowski & Tietze† is a thirty
Lastly, considerations on the temporal development of ac- years-old unpublished and recently updated manuscript on
commodation and supply, and the preservation potential of mud playa sediments from the Permian-Triassic transition
aeolian deposits lead to a sequence-stratigraphic concept for period of the central German “Hessian Depression” formerly
the sediments of the Detfurth Formation in the Hessian De- known as “Bröckelschiefer Formation”. Today, this sedi-
pression. mentary sequence of up to 50 metres of red beds is consid-
In the contribution “Compaction and cementation control ered as a facies type of the Ohre, Friesland and Fulda forma-
on bleaching in Triassic fluvial red beds, S-Germany” tions of the topmost Zechstein (upper Permian). The authors
Schmidt et al. show the effects of compaction and localised reconstruct the main direction of the drainage system from
fluid-rock interactions on reservoir properties in the Lower west to east in the “Bröckelschiefer facies” to a strictly398 Michael R.W. Amler
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