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Acknowledgements
It was very challenging to have the chance to visit and study the “roof of the
world”, like the Pamirs are called. This thesis wouldn’t have come to an end without
the support of many persons. The first ones to be sincerely thanked are my two
supervisors, Prof. Dr. Lothar Ratschbacher (TU Bergakademie Freiberg) and Prof. Dr.
Wolfgang Frisch (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen). Both revised ideas and
manuscripts and encouraged me to visit international conferences.
I also want to thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for financial support
in the frame of the project Fr 610/11 “Tertiäre und quartäre Strukturentwicklung im
östlichen Pamir: Kontinentdeformation vor der Spitze des indischen Indenters”. A
“Jubiläumsstiftung“ grant from the University of Würzburg enabled the second
travelling to the Pamirs.
During field work I benefited from logistical and geological support of the Russian
colleagues Sergei Semiletkin, Micha Kornilov, and Sascha Zamouryev. Physical
conditions were kept up in the best field kitchen I ever experienced under the
leadership of Irina. Field time was partly joined by other working group members like
Manfred Strecker, Ramon Arrowsmith, Peter Blisniuk, Martin Waldhör, and Achim
Kuhlemann - we had many stimulating discussions or just relaxing humorous evenings.
Numerous kindly help from colleagues and friends of the Institut für Geowissenschaften
der Universität Tübingen are gratefully acknowledged. Gerlinde Höckh,
Dagmar Kost, Doris Mühlbayer-Renner, Ulrich Alt-Epping, Steffi Braun and Thomas
Piepenbrink are thanked for the preparation of rocks. I sincerely thank I. Gill-Kopp and
J. Mällich for the preparation of thin sections, as well as M. Schumann and G.
Bartholomä for the XRF analyses. H.P. Meier (Mineralogisches Institut, Universität
Tübingen) and M. Westphal (Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Tübingen)
introduced me into the application of the microprobe for analyses of apatites and
zircons. The Activation Laboratory Ltd. in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada is thanked for
providing the INAA data. Istvan Dunkl taught me the fission track dating method,
whereas Wolfgang Siebel and Fokun Chen guided me in the application of the U/Pb
dating method. I thank Yury D. Pushkarev from the Institute of Geology and
Geochronology of the Precambrian, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia
for K/Ar dating. Lothar Ratschbacher is thanked for providing me the SHRIMP and
Ar/Ar data. Mass spectrometer measurements of Rb, Sr, Nd were done by Elmar Reitter
and Wolfgang Siebel.
During my work I benefited many times from discussions or enjoyed the friendly and
pleasant atmosphere created also by the other colleagues like Petra Angelmaier,
Achim Brügel, Ines Dünkel, Radu Girbacea, Kirsten Gräfe, Dieter Hubich, Achim
Kuhlemann, Andreas Läufer, Franz Moser, Thomas Most, Renato Pagliuca, John
Reinecker, Cornelia Spiegel, and Britta Trautwein. During the time of finishing our
theses motivation was kept up by weekly meetings with Siegfried Kraft and Martin
Staiger. I’m thankful for this mutual support. Arndt Peterhänsel, Cornelia Spiegel, Britta
Trautwein and Gregor Markl are thanked for their constructive review of parts of the
manuscript.
Last but not least, I thank all those people who never lost interest in the progress of
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