Rafael Ferreiro Mählmann

Prof. Rafael Ferreiro Mählmann
Technische Petrologie, Niedrigtemperatur Petrologie
Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften
Technische Universität Darmstadt
B2/01 122
Schnittspahnstrasse 9
DE-64287 Darmstadt
Germany


Phone: ++49 (0) 6151 16 20707
Phone2: ++49 (0) 6151 16 20709
Fax: ++49 (0) 6151 16 20428
E-mail: ferreiro(at)geo.tu-darmstadt.de
URL Institution: www.iag.tu-darmstadt.de/
Personal URL: link


Additional functions:
Advisory Member of the conference Scientific Committee, 17th International Clay Conference 2021 (17th ICC2021) Istanbul, Turkey.
SEG lecture about Coal Petrology & Palaeogeothermics. Society of Economic Geology (SEG) Workshop Munich, Student Chapter Technical University München. 8th and 9th of June, TU München, Germany (2018).
Guest editor with Hans Albert Gilg, Stephen Hillier and Emilio Galán. Special issue about “Clay mineral indices in palaeo-geothermal studies, hydrocarbon and geothermal prospection”. Including the proceedings of the third Frey-Kübler Symposium. Applied Clay Sciences, v. 134, P3 (2016).
Member of the Scientific Program Committee at the 5th Mediterranean Clay Meeting (MCM), Ilica Çesme, Izmir, Turkey (2016).
ERASMUS short course about „Coal Petrology and Paleo-Geothermics“ at Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey (2016).
CUSO lecture at the Université De Genève, Section of Earth and Environmental Sciences „Maturation of Carbonaceous Matter: Methods and Applications“, Geneva (2016).
ERASMUS lecture about „Applying different clay mineral and organic matter indices to determine rock maturity and grade of diagenesis to incipient metamorphism focused on correlation problems“ at Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais. France (2016).
Guest editor with Ralf Littke and Ronan Le Bayon. Special issue about “Organic petrology, organic geochemistry and mineralogy in sedimentary basin research”. International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 157/1(2016).
Member of the Scientific Program Committee at the 68th International Committee for Coal and Organic Petrology Meeting (ICCP), Potsdam, Germany (2015).
Member of the Scientific Program Committee at the 9th European Coal Conference, Gliwice, Poland (2013).
Guest editor with Ömer Bozkaya, Sebastién Potel and Fernando Nieto. Special issue about “Clay mineral diagenesis and very low-grade metamorphic processes. Proceedings of the 2011 Frey-Kübler symposium”. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, v. 105/2 (2012).
ERASMUS lectures about “Clay, Clay Minerals and Applied Clay Mineralogy” at St. Kliment Ohridski University Sofia, Bulgaria (2010).
Guest editor with Susanne Th. Schmidt (Mineralogisch-Petrographisches Institut, Universität Basel, Switzerland). Special issue about “Diagenesis and Low-Grade Metamorphism”. Schweizerische Mineralogische Petrographische Mitteilungen, v. 82/2 (2002).



Key Publications of Rafael Ferreiro Mählmann (up to ten) :
ARAQUE GONZALEZ, R., ASMUS, B., BAPTISTA, P., MATALOTO, R., PANIEGO DÍAZ, P., RAMMELSKAMMER, V., RICHTER, A., VINTRICI, G. and FERREIRO MÄHLMANN, R. (2023): Stone-working and the earliest steel in Iberia: Scientific analyses and experimental replications of final bronze age stelae and tools. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 152. 18 p., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105742
MULLIS,, J., FERREIRO MÄHLMANN, R. and WOLF, M. (2017): Fluid inclusion microthermometry to calibrate vitrinite reflectance (between 50 and 270 °C), illite Kübler-Index and the diagenesis/anchizone boundary in the external parts of the Central Alps. Applied Clay Science, v. 143/2, p. 307-319.
FERREIRO MÄHLMANN, R. and LE BAYON, R. (2016): Vitrinite and vitrinite like solid bitumen reflectance in thermal maturity studies: Correlations from diagenesis to incipient metamorphism in different geodynamic settings. International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 157/1, p. 52-73.
WARR, L.N. and FERREIRO MÄHLMANN, R. (2015): Recommendation for Kübler Index standardization. Clay Minerals, v. 50/3, p. 282-285.
NGUYEN-THANH, L., HERBERT, H.J., KASBOHM, J., HOANG-MINH, T. and FERREIRO MÄHLMANN, R. (2014). Effects of chemical structure on the stability of smectite in short-term alteration experiments. Clays and Clay Minerals, v. 62/5, p. 425-446.
FERREIRO MÄHLMANN, R., BOZKAYA, Ö., POTEL, S., Le BAYON, R., SEGVIC, B. and NIETO, F. (2012): The pioneer work of Bernard Kübler and Martin Frey in very low-grade metamorphic terranes: paleo-geothermal potential of variation in Kübler-Index/ organic matter reflectance correlations. A review. DOI: 10.1007/s00015-012-0115-3, Swiss Journal of Geosciences, v. 105/2, p. 121-152.
FERREIRO MÄHLMANN, R. and FREY, M. (2012): Standardisation, calibration and correlation of the Kübler-index and the vitrinite/bituminite reflectance: an inter-laboratory and field related study. DOI: 10.1007/s00015-012-0110-8, Swiss Journal of Geosciences, in press, v. 105/2, p. 153-170.
SEGVIC, B., SESELJ, L., SLOVENEC, D., LUGOVIC, B. and FERREIRO MÄHLMANN, R. (2012): Composition, Technology of Manufacture, and Circulation of Hellenistic Pottery from the Eastern Adriatic: A Case Study of Three Archaeological Sites along the Dalmatian Coast, Croatia. Geoarchaeology, v. 27, p. 63 – 87.
LE BAYON, R., BREY, G.P.; ERNST, W.G. and FERREIRO MÄHLMANN, R. (2011): Experimental kinetic study of organic matter maturation: Time and pressure effects on vitrinite reflectance at 400 °C, Organic Geochemistry, v. 42, p. 340-355.
FERREIRO MÄHLMANN, R. (2001): Correlation of very low-grade data to calibrate a thermal maturity model in a nappe tectonic setting, a case study from the Alps. – Tectonophysics, v. 334, p. 1-33.


Expertise of Rafael Ferreiro Mählmann:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeExpert Type
Scientific / Fundamental Research
Topic LithosphereLithosphere
Geochemical Processes
Tectonics
Sediments: Formation, Dynamics, Metamorphism
Time FrameTime Frame
Past: Cretaceous
Past: Jurassic
Past: Triassic
Past: Palaeozoic
MethodsMethod
Data Collection - Measurement
Data Analysis
Modeling

Specialties of Rafael Ferreiro Mählmann:
Coal Petrology, Clay Mineralogy, Low Temperature Petrology

Last update: 12/7/23
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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