Dr. Antje Dürkefälden

Education and Career

Scientific Interests

• Igneous geochemistry (major and trace elements, radiogenic isotope systems) and geochronology of submarine rocks
• Plume-ridge interaction and plate tectonic reconstructions, e.g., King’s Trough, Shatsky Rise
• Origin and evolution of intraplate volcanism including Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs), e.g., Caribbean LIP, Discovery Seamounts, Shona hotspot, Shatsky Rise

Research Cruises

• 2021: R/V Meteor “M176 Biscay“, North Atlantic
• 2020: R/V Meteor “M168 King’s Trough“, North Atlantic (chief scientist)
• 2018: R/V Sonne “SO265 Shatsky Evolution”, NW Pacific
• 2014: R/V Sonne “SO233 Walvis II”, South Atlantic

Awards

• Award for outstanding doctoral theses at GEOMAR in the academic year 2018/2019 by the Prof. Werner Petersen foundation

Publications

Articles in a Scientific Journal – peer reviewed

• Dürkefälden, A., Geldmacher, J., Portnyagin, M., Garbe‐Schönberg, D., Werner, R., Müller, D., Hauff, F. and Hoernle, K. (2021). Papanin Ridge and Ojin Rise Seamounts (Northwest Pacific): Dual Hotspot Tracks Formed by the Shatsky Plume. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 22(9). e2021GC009847. DOI 10.1029/2021GC009847.
• Dürkefälden, A., Hoernle, K., Hauff, F., Wartho, J-A., van den Bogaard, P. and Werner, R. (2019). Age and geochemistry of the Beata Ridge: Primary formation during the main phase (~89 Ma) of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province. Lithos 328-329, 69-87. DOI 10.1016/j.lithos.2018.12.021.
• Dürkefälden, A., Hoernle, K., Hauff, F., Werner, R. and Garbe-Schönberg, D. (2019). Second-stage Caribbean Large Igneous Province volcanism: The depleted Icing of the enriched Cake. Chemical Geology 509, 45-63. DOI 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.01.004.
• Schwindrofska, A.*, Hoernle, K., Hauff, F., van den Bogaard, P., Werner, R. and Garbe-Schönberg, D. (2016). Origin of enriched components in the South Atlantic: Evidence from 40 Ma geochemical zonation of the Discovery Seamounts. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 441, 167-177. DOI 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.041.
• Hoernle, K., Schwindrofska, A.*, Werner, R., van den Bogaard, P., Hauff, F., Uenzelmann-Neben, G. and Garbe-Schönberg, D. (2016). Tectonic dissection and displacement of parts of Shona hotspot volcano 3500 km along the Agulhas-Falkland Fracture Zone. Geology 44, 263-266. DOI 10.1130/G37582.1.

• Hastie, A.R., Fitton, J.G., Kerr, A.C., McDonald, I., Schwindrofska, A.* and Hoernle, K. (2016): The composition of mantle plumes and the deep Earth. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 444, 13-25. DOI 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.03.023.

Presentations

• Dürkefälden, A., Geldmacher, J., Portnyagin, M., Werner, R., Hauff, F., Hoernle, K., Garbe-Schönberg, D. and Müller, D. (2022). SO265 - Papanin Ridge and Ojin Rise Seamounts (Northwest Pacific): Dual hotspot tracks formed by the Shatsky mantle plume (Talk). In: Statuskonferenz Forschungsschiffe online, 22.02.-23.02.2022. 
• Dürkefälden, A., Geldmacher, J., Hauff, F., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Portnyagin, M., Lück, T., Werner, R., Müller, D. and Hoernle, K. (2020). Post-plateau volcanic evolution of Shatsky Rise (NW Pacific) – Papanin Ridge and Ojin Rise Seamount Province (Talk). In: Goldschmidt Virtual 2020, 21.06.-26.06.2020. DOI 10.46427/gold2020.625.
• Geldmacher, J., Lück, T., Dürkefälden, A., Hauff, F., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Portnyagin, M., Werner, R. and Müller, D. (2019). Late-stage evolution of Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau (northwest Pacific Ocean) – First results of R/V SONNE expedition SO265 (Poster). In: AGU Fall Meeting, 09.12.-13.12.2019, San Francisco, USA.
• Hoernle, K., Hauff, F., Homrighausen, S., Rohde, J., Dürkefälden, A., Werner, R., Geldmacher, J., Portnyagin, M., Garbe-Schönberg, D., van den Bogaard, P. and Wartho, J.A. (2018). New developments in Understanding the Origin of South Atlantic Intraplate Volcanism (Tristan-Gough-Walvis, Discovery Shona Volcanic tracks) (Invited Talk). In: GeoBonn 2018, 02.09.-06.09.2018, Bonn, Germany.
• Schwindrofska, A.*, Hoernle, K., van den Bogaard, P., Hauff, F. and Werner, R. (2016). Submarine structures of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province: Age and geochemistry of the Beata Ridge and Hess Escarpment (Talk). In: 2^nd European Mineralogical Conference, 11.09.-15.09.2016, Rimini, Italy.
• Dürkefälden, A. and Hansteen, T.H. (2012). Green-core pyroxenes reveal multi-stage evolution of melilitites and nephelinites from the submarine flanks of Fogo, Cape Verde Archipelago (Poster). In: First European Mineralogical Conference, 02.09.-06.09.2012, Frankfurt, Germany.

Reports and Theses

• Dürkefälden, A., Geldmacher, J., Hauff, F. and Werner, R., eds. (2020). Origin and Geodynamic Evolution of King's Trough: The Grand Canyon of the North Atlantic, Cruise No. M168 (GPF 20-3_080), November 08 - December 08, 2020, Emden (Germany) - Emden (Germany) (Cruise Report). METEOR-Berichte, M168. Gutachterpanel Forschungsschiffe, Bonn, Germany, 139 pp. DOI 10.48433/cr_m168.
• Dürkefälden, A. (2019) Insights into the origin and evolution of intraplate magmatism in the Caribbean (initial stage of the Galápagos hotspot) and the South Atlantic (Discovery and Shona hotspot tracks) (PhD/Doctoral Thesis). Kiel University, Germany, XIII, 316 pp.

 

*I temporarily carried the name Schwindrofska due to marriage.