The Petroleum Institute - Petroleum Geosciences

Faculty

Dr. Thomas Steuber
Professor & Chairman of Petroleum Geosciences

Email: tsteuber@pi.ac.ae
Phone: +971 2 607 5599

Habilitation in Geology/Paleontology, Univ. Cologne, Germany, 1996
PhD, Univ. Cologne, 1989
Dipl.-Geol., Univ. Cologne, 1987

Experience:

2008-present	Professor of Geology, Petroleum Institute
2005-2008	Associate Professor of Geology, Petroleum Institute
1999-2005	Associate Professor of Sedimentology and Isotope Geology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
1996-1999	Heisenberg Fellow of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Erlangen University, Germany
1989-1995	Assistant Professor, University of Cologne, Germany

Professional:

Experience in Cretaceous carbonate platforms, Cretaceous chemostratigraphy, geochemical diagenesis of carbonates, environmental isotope geochemistry.
Over 60 publications on geochemistry, paleoclimatology, stratigraphy and paleontology.

Selected publications:

Lokier, S. and Steuber, T., in press, Quantification of carbonate ramp sedimentation and progradation rates for the late Holocene Abu Dhabi shoreline: Sedimentology; doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00988.
Mutterlose, J., Pauly, S., and Steuber, T., in press, Temperature controlled deposition of early Cretaceous (Barremian - early Aptian) black shales in an epicontinental sea: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology; doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.04.026.
Steuber, T., Oezer, S., Schlueter, M., and Sari, B.,2009, Description of Paracaprinula syriaca Piveteau, and a revised age for ophiolite obduction on the African-Arabian Plate in southeastern Turkey: Cretaceous Research, 30, 41-48; doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2008.04.001.
Lokier, S., and Steuber, T., 2008, Large scale intertidal polygonal features of the Abu Dhabi coastline: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 78, 423-431; doi: 10.2110/jsr.2008.049.
Schlüter, M., Steuber, T., Parente, M. and Mutterlose, J., 2008, Evolution of a Maastrichtian – Paleocene tropial shallow-water carbonate platform (Qalhat, NE Oman): Facies, 54, 513-527; doi: 10.1007/s10347-008-0150-8.
Schlüter, M., Steuber, T. and Parente, M., 2008, Chronostratigraphy of Campanian-Maastrichtian platform carbonates and rudist asociations of Salento (Apulia, Italy): Cretaceous Research 29: 100-114; doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2007.04.005.
Steuber, T., Parente, M., Hagmaier, M., Immenhauser, A. van der Kooij, B., and Frija, G., 2007, Latest Maastrichtian species-rich rudist associations of the Apulian margin of Salento (S Italy) and the Ionian Islands (Greece): Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), Special Publication; Tulsa.
Masse, J.-P. and Steuber, T., 2007, Strontium isotope stratigraphy of Lower Cretaceous rudist bivalves: Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), Special Publication 87: 159-165.
van der Kooij, B., Immenhauser, A., Steuber, T., Hagmaier, M., Bahamonde, J.R., Samankassou, E., Merino Tomé, O., 2007, Marine red staining of a Pennsylvanian carbonate slope: environmental and oceanographic significance: Journal of Sedimentary Research 77, 1026-1045; doi: 10.2110/jsr.2007.092.
Steuber, T., and Buhl, D., 2006, Calcium-isotope fractionation in modern and ancient marine carbonates: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70, 5507-5521.
Steuber, T., Korbar, T., Jelaska, V., and Gušić, I., 2005, Strontium–isotope stratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous platform carbonates of the Island of Brač (Adriatic Sea, Croatia) - Implications for global correlation of platform evolution and biochronostratigraphy: Cretaceous Research 26, 741-756.
Steuber, T., and Rauch, M., 2005, Evolution of the Mg/Ca ratio of Cretaceous seawater - Implications from the composition of biological low-Mg calcite: Marine Geology 217, 199-213.
Steuber, T., Rauch, M., Masse, J.-P., Graaf, J., and Malkoč, M., 2005, Low-latitude seasonality of Cretaceous temperatures in warm and cold episodes: Nature 437, 1341-1344.
Bauer, J., Steuber, T., Steuber, T., Kuss, J. & Heimhofer, U., 2004, Distribution of shallow-water benthics (rudists, calcareous algae, foraminifera) in Cenomanian-Turonian carbonate platform sequences of Sinai, Egypt: Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 247, 207-231.
Steuber, T., 2003, Strontium isotope chemostratigraphy of rudist bivalves and Cretaceous carbonate platforms, in E. Gili, M.H. Negra, and P.W. Skelton, eds., North African Cretaceous carbonate platform systems: NATO Science Series, Earth and Environmental Sciences 28, 229-238, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht.
Ricken, W., Steuber, T., Steuber, T., Hirschfeld, M., Freitag, H., and Niedenzu, B., 2003, Recent and historical discharge of a large European river system - oxygen isotopic composition of river water and skeletal aragonite of Unionidae in the Rhine: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 193, 73-86.
Steuber, T., 2002, Plate tectonic control on the evolution of Cretaceous platform-carbonate production: Geology 30, 259-262.
Steuber, T., Mitchell, S.F., Buhl, D., Gunter, G., and Kasper, H.U., 2002, Catastrophic extinction of Caribbean rudist bivalves at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: Geology 30, 999-1002.
Steuber, T., and Veizer, J., 2002, Phanerozoic record of plate tectonic control of seawater chemistry and carbonate sedimentation: Geology 30, 1123-1126.