Dr. Lukas Gegg

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Research

Motivation and scope

I am Quaternary geologist / sedimentologist by training, with a broad range of interests. My research focus is the recent geological history of the Alpine realm in the widest sense. I investigate landscape modifications, sediment transport and depositional environments from the mountain range over the (especially northern) Alpine foreland to distal settings such as the Upper Rhine Graben. 

Current projects

• Investigating Early-Stage Quaternary Overdeepening in Oberschwaben (as part of ICDP DOVE)
  07/2023 - 06/2026
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) project no. 517980590
• Quaternary lithostratigraphy in the Upper Rhine Graben
  (05/2023 - 05/2024: palynological analyses funded by Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Freiburg)
• Quaternary lithostratigraphy in the Verbano glacial amphitheatre (as part of ICDP DIVE)
• Geotechnical properties of glacigenic sediments

Selected publications (link to full list)

• Gegg, L., Anselmetti, F. S., Deplazes, G., Fuelling, A., Madritsch, H., Mueller, D., Preusser, F., and Buechi, M. W., 2025, Glaciations and landscape change in the Lower Aare Valley (northern Switzerland) through the Middle Pleistocene: Quaternary Research, FirstView.
• Bamford, C. A., Pomper, J. E., Hergarten, S., Preusser, F., Sprafke, T., and Gegg, L., 2024, New insights into one of the oldest glacial deposits in the northern Alpine foreland (Höchsten, SW Germany): Boreas, Early View.
• Gegg, L., Jacob, L., Moine, O., Nelson, E., Penkman, K.E.H., Schwahn, F., Stojakowits, P., White, D., Wielandt-Schuster, U., and Preusser, F., 2024, Climatic and tectonic controls on deposition in the Heidelberg Basin, Upper Rhine Graben, Germany: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 345, 109018.
• Gegg, L., and Preusser, F., 2023, Comparison of overdeepened structures in formerly glaciated areas of the northern Alpine foreland and northern central Europe: E&G Quaternary Science Journal, v. 72, p. 23–36.
• Gegg, L., Deplazes, G., Keller, L., Madritsch, H., Spillmann, T., Anselmetti, F. S., and Buechi, M. W., 2021, 3D morphology of a glacially overdeepened trough controlled by underlying bedrock geology: Geomorphology, v. 394, 107950.

Teaching

Bachelor courses

• Exogene Geologie: Wasserkreislauf, Verwitterung, Erosion, Karst, Angewandte Geologie
• Geowissenschaftliche Analytik: Sedimentologische Labormethoden
• Exkursionen Mittelrhein-Eifel, Limberg/Kaiserstuhl

Master courses

• Earth Management: Recycling and disposal sites, river management, climate mitigation
• Engineering Geology: Soil classification, soils and water, exploration methods, foundations, pits, tunnels
• Sedimentary Geology: Glacial geology, fluvial geology, practical exercises

Students' theses

If you are interested in a Bachelor's or Master's project in the above-mentioned context, feel free to contact me.

Curriculum vitae