Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Museum

Dr.

Wencke Wegner

Position: Operator for microanalysis

Function: Electron microprobe
Scanning electron microscope

Wencke Wegners ORCID record:

https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3844-7723

Contact:

wencke.wegner@nhm.at
Phone: +43 1 52177-630

Frau mit kurzem, blonden Haar, türkisfarbenem Pullover mit weißen Kordeln und Sonnenbrille auf dem Kopf, lächelt
direkt in die Kamera. (KI-generierter Alt-Text, erstellt mit GPT-4.1-mini)

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Education:

11/2011 Dr. rer. nat. (University of Göttingen): "History and geochemical evolution of igneous rocks forming the Panama land bridge since Late Cretaceous"
09/2004 Dipl.-Geow. (University of Göttingen): “Growth history of sanidine crystals in Taapaca dacites (Northern Chile)”
05/2002 BSc (University of Göttingen): "Crystal size distribution in El Misti andesites: a CSD study"

Professional background:

Since 05/2020 supervision of central microanalysis, Natural History Museum Vienna
09/2019 - 04/2020 Project researcher MicroMus: Unlocking the Microcosm - Micro-CT Analyzes in Museum Collections, Natural History Museum Vienna
04/2012 - 07/2019 PostDoc University of Vienna Dep. for lithospheric research (supervision of the clean room and TIMS laboratory)
02/2010 - 11/2011 Doctoral studies at the University of Göttingen, Geochemistry Department
07/2005 - 01/2010 research assistant at the University of Göttingen, Dept. Geochemistry (Geology and evolution of the volcanic basement of the Chagres Basin (DFG WO362 / 27-2))

Academic teaching:

2018-2019 Geochemical evolution of the Earth (University of Vienna)
2014-2015 Radiogenic Isotopes (University of Innsbruck)
2013 Geochronology (University of Vienna)
2003 NAT working project of the Robert Bosch Foundation with the Humboldt Gymnasium Berlin (University of Göttingen)

Original articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals

PITTARELLO, L., LEVI, N., WEGNER, W. & STEHLIK, H. (2022): The pseudotachylytes at the base of the Silvretta Nappe: A newly discovered recent generation and the tectonomometamophic evolution of the Nappe. – Tectonophysics, 822: 229185. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229185.

FERRIÈRE, L., CRÓSTA, A. P., WEGNER, W., LIBOWITZKY, E., IWASHITA, F., & KOEBERL, C. (2021). Distinguishing volcanic from impact glasses—The case of the Cali glass (Colombia). Geology, 49(12), 1421-1425. doi:10.1130/G48925.1

ÚJVÁRI, G., KLÖTZLI, U., HORSCHINEGG, M., WEGNER, W., HIPPLER, D., KISS, G. I., & PALCSU, L. (2021). Rapid decomposition of geological samples by ammonium bifluoride (NH4HF2) for combined Hf-Nd-Sr isotope analyses. Rapid Communications In Mass Spectrometry, 35(11), e9081. doi:10.1002/rcm.9081

CUCCINIELLO, C., SHETH, H., DURAISWAMI, R. A., WEGNER, W., KOEBERL, C., DAS, T., & GHULE, V. (2020). The Southeastern Saurashtra dyke swarm, Deccan Traps: Magmatic evolution of a tholeiitic basalt–basaltic andesite–andesite–rhyolite suite. Lithos, 376-377, 105759. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105759

D'SOUZA J., SHETH H., XU Y., WEGNER W., NARAGA P., SHARMA K.K., KOEBERL C. (2020). Neoarchaean crustal reworking in the Aravalli Craton: Petrogenesis and tectonometamorphic history of the Malola granite, Bhilwara area, northwestern India. Geological Journal. 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3927

PATEL V., SHETH H., CUCCINIELLO C., JOSHI G., WEGNER W., SAMANT H., SEN B., KOEBERL C. (2020) Geochemistry of Deccan tholeiite flows and dykes of Elephanta Island: Insights into the stratigraphy and structure of the Panvel flexure zone, western Indian rifted margin. Geosciences, 10(4), 118; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10040118

RIEDER, M., WEGNER, W., HORSCHINEGG, M., KLACKL, S., PRETO, N., BREDA, A., GIER, S., KLOETZLI, U., BERNASCONI, S. M., ARP, G. & MEISTER, P., 31 Jul 2019, Precipitation of dolomite from seawater on a Carnian coastal plain (Dolomites, northern Italy): evidence from carbonate petrography and Sr isotopes (2019). Solid earth, 10(4), 1243-1267.

SINNESAEL, M., MONTANARI, A., FRONTALINI, F., COCCIONI, R., GATTACCECA, T., SNOECK, C., WEGNER, W., KOEBERL, C., MORGAN, L., DE WINTER, N., DEPAOLO, D. J. & CLAEYS, P., (2019). Multiproxy Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary event stratigraphy: an Umbria-Marche basin-wide perspective. Geological Society of America, Special Papers, 542.

ÚJVÁRI, G., WEGNER, W., KLÖTZLI, U., HORSCHINEGG, M., & HIPPLER, D. (2018). Sr-Nd-Hf Isotopic Analysis of <10 mg Dust Samples: Implications for Ice Core Dust Source Fingerprinting. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19(1), 60-72.

WEGNER, W., & KOEBERL, C. (2016). Strontium and neodymium isotope systematics of target rocks and impactites from the El'gygytgyn impact structure: Linking impactites and target rocks. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 51(12), 2347-2365.

SCHULZ, T., LUGUET, A., WEGNER, W., VAN ACKEN, D., & KOEBERL, C. (2016). Target rocks, impact glasses, and melt rocks from the Lonar crater, India: Highly siderophile element systematics and Sr-Nd-Os isotopic signatures. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 51(7), 1323-1339.

MUNDL, A., NTAFLOS, T., ACKERMAN, L., BIZIMIS, M., BJERG, E. A., WEGNER, W., & HAUZENBERGER, C. A. (2016). Geochemical and Os-Hf-Nd-Sr Isotopic Characterization of North Patagonian Mantle Xenoliths: Implications for Extensive Melt Extraction and Percolation Processes. Journal of Petrology, 57(4), 685-715.

EBERLEI, T., HABLER, G., WEGNER, W., SCHUSTER, R., KOERNER, W., THOENI, M., & ABART, R. (2015). Rb/Sr isotopic and compositional retentivity of muscovite during deformation. Lithos, 227, 161-178.

WEGNER, W., WOERNER, G., HARMON, R. S., & JICHA, B. R. (2011). Magmatic history and evolution of the Central American Land Bridge in Panama since Cretaceous times. Geological Society of America. Bulletin, 123(3-4), 703-724.

WÖRNER, G., HARMON, R. S., WEGNER, W. (2009). Geochemical Evolution of igneous rock and changing Magma Sources during the Evolution and Closure of the Central American Landbridge. In: Kay SM, Ramos VA, Dickinson WR (eds) Backbone of the Americas: Shallow Subduction, Plateau Uplift, and Ridge and Terrane Collision. Geological Society of America Memoir 204: 183-196.