Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Chemisch-Geowissenschaftliche Fakultät
Institut für Geowissenschaften
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07749 Jena
Deutschland
GERiT
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07749 Jena
Projects
Infrastructure Priority Programmes
Current projects
Decrypting tidal- and Milankovitch-driven sedimentary rhythms in nearshore strata of the Archean Moodies Group, South Africa
(Applicants
Gugliotta, Marcello
;
Heubeck, Christoph
;
De Vleeschouwer, Ph.D., David
)
Did borehole BASE 3 encounter an Archaean, microbially colonized hot springs field in a tidal flat ?
(Applicant
Heubeck, Christoph
)
Completed projects
Alteration of basaltic glass from the North Pond area, Mid-Atlantic Ridge 22°46'N, 46°05'W, Expedition 336
(Applicant
Bach, Wolfgang
)
Drilling Earth's early surface environments: Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
(Applicant
Heubeck, Christoph
)
Facies analysis of the Mapepe Foreland Basin, Barberton Greenstone Belt, by well-to-well correlation
(Applicant
Heubeck, Christoph
)
Geochemical and mineralogical studies of impact glasses: drill core samples from the Bosumtwi impact crater and related distal ejecta
(Applicant
Langenhorst, Falko
)
Initiation des Magmatismus der jurassischen Ferrar Gruppe in Nord Viktoria Land, Antarktis: - stratigraphisches Alter, Zusammensetzung und Ablagerungsmilieu der vulkaniklastischen und epiklastischen Sedimente der Exposure Hill und Section Peak Formation, Beacon Supergruppe
(Applicant
Gaupp, Reinhard
)
Initiation of Jurassic Ferrar Group Magmatism in North Victoria Land, Antarctica: - stratigraphic age, composition and depositional environment of volcaniclastic and epiclastic sediments of the Exposure Hill and Section Peak Formation, Beacon Supergroup
(Applicants
Gaupp, Reinhard
;
Schneider, Jörg W.
;
Viereck, Lothar
)
Interpretation of gravimetric and magnetic data in the region of North-Victoria-Land, Antarctica, concerning the structure of the crust and the lay-out of major fault systems
(Applicants
Jahr, Thomas
;
Läufer, Andreas
)
Mineralogical and geochemical studies of impact melt products from the Chesapeake Bay and the Lake Bosumtwi impact structures (ICDP)
(Applicants
Deutsch, Alexander Gustav Josef
;
Langenhorst, Falko
)
Mineralogical and geochemical studies of impact melt products from the Chesapeake Bay impact structure
(Applicants
Deutsch, Alexander Gustav Josef
;
Langenhorst, Falko
)
Modellierung des thermohydraulischen Feldes im Bereich des Blake Ridge (ODP Leg 164)
(Applicant
Kukowski, Nina
)
Monitoring and interpretation of hydrologically induced deformations at the KTB location
(Applicant
Jahr, Thomas
)
Quantifizierung der thermischen Vorgeschichte vulkanischer Effusiva durch Entgasungsexperimente
(Applicant
Heide, Klaus
)
Resource fluctuations and niche separation in plant communities: Can land-use effects on soil moisture explain observed patterns in plant diversity?
(Applicant
Dormann, Carsten
)
Shock effects in sulfates: nature - experiments - modeling
(Applicant
Langenhorst, Falko
)
Spatial and temporal seismic imaging of fluid migration through the crust in the W-Bohemia/Vogtland earthquake swarm area
(Applicants
Korn, Michael
;
Wegler, Ulrich
)
The Permo-Carboniferous of North Victoria Land, Antarctica: continental despositional systems and paleo-environmental evolution of a high-latitude Gondwana basin
(Applicant
Gaupp, Reinhard
)
Research Grants
Current projects
Between Westerlies and the Intertropical Convergence Zone: a high-resolution paleoclimate and paleoenvironment study of Holocene sediments of the Layla lakes, Saudi Arabia
(Applicants
Hinderer, Matthias
;
Pint, Anna
;
Schwalb, Antje
)
Improving the proxy value of Quaternary Ostracoda
(Applicant
Frenzel, Peter
)
Sensitivity of seismic velocity towards tidal induced stress changes
(Applicant
Eulenfeld, Tom
)
Completed projects
Analysis of seismic attenuation in the earthquake swarm area near Werdau
(Applicant
Wegler, Ulrich
)
Ca-Si-Fe-Perowskite mit Sauerstoff-Defekten: Strukturen, Stabilität, Eigenschaften
(Applicant
Seifert, Friedrich A.
)
Cenozoic sediments of the Tajik basin: sedimentology, provenance, and the tectonic record of the Pamir
(Applicants
Gaupp, Reinhard
;
Schneider, Jörg W.
)
Development and model-based test of a SQUID-based high-resolution superconducting gravimeter (HR-1D-SG)
(Applicants
Jahr, Thomas
;
Löffler, Frank H.W.
;
Stolz, Ronny
)
Die Funktion quartärer Talsedimente für den Austrag von Schwermetallen/Radionukliden nach der Flutung des Ronneburger Reviers
(Applicant
Büchel, Georg
)
Dynamics of active and recent accretion in the cascadia subduction zone
(Applicant
Klaeschen, Dirk
)
Dynamische Modellierung der Andenorogenesek eingebettet in ein 3D Kugelschalenmodell des Erdmantels
(Applicant
Kley, Jonas
)
Earth´s earliest mappable ecosystem
(Applicant
Heubeck, Christoph
)
Elastische Energietransfertheorie zur Modellierung von Seismogrammeinhüllenden für Raum- und Oberflächenwellen
(Applicant
Korn, Michael
)
Entmischungstextur von Orthopyroxenen - Schlüsselfaktor für die Mg, Fe2+-Platzverteilung?
(Applicant
Langenhorst, Falko
)
Evolution of a thick-skinned thrust system and associated basins, Northern Tien Shan, Kzakhstan
(Applicant
Kley, Jonas
)
Experimental determination of mantle rheology
(Applicant
Frost, Daniel J.
)
Experimental simulation of silica melting and amorphization under extreme shock conditions
(Applicant
Langenhorst, Falko
)
Exploiting a very-high-resolution Archean surface record
(Applicant
Heubeck, Christoph
)
First occurrence of stromatolites in the Early Archean Moodies Group (3.22 Ga), Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
(Applicant
Heubeck, Christoph
)
Formation and dynamics of organo-mineral associations in redoximorphic soils
(Applicants
Eusterhues, Karin
;
Müller, Carsten Werner
;
Rennert, Thilo
)
Geodynamische Modellierung des rezenten Spannungs- und Deformationsfeldes zur Seismotektonik sowie der wesentlichen Phasen der geologischen Entwicklung im Vogtland mit der Finiten-Element-Methode (FEM)
(Applicant
Jahr, Thomas
)
Geodynamische Signale in der Schwere im Periodenbereich zwischen 3 h und 2 Jahren
(Applicant
Kroner, Corinna
)
Gravimetrische Modellierungen und Untersuchungen zum Schwerefeld des Vogtlandes und seiner Umgebung
(Applicant
Jahr, Thomas
)
Gravimetrische und geodynamische Untersuchungen von hydrologischen Einflüssen in Schwerefeldbeobachtungen und deren Reduktion
(Applicant
Hofmann, Yvonne
)
Gravimetrische und geodynamische Untersuchungen zu hydrologischen Einflüssen
(Applicant
Jahr, Thomas
)
Holocene climatic events in Northern Arabia - Environmental changes and human response
(Applicants
Engel, Max
;
Frenzel, Peter
;
Plessen, Birgit
)
Laboratory-scale NEXAFS spectroscopy for the investigation of Fe oxides and organic matter in soil
(Applicants
Eusterhues, Karin
;
Mann, Klaus R.
)
Long-term impact of CO2 on the stability of mineral assemblages in porous reservoir sandstones - Analogue study in natural CO2 reservoirs form Central Europe
(Applicant
Gaupp, Reinhard
)
Magnetic properties and microfabrics of shocked minerals and their influence on the magnetic anomalies in the Ries, Vredefort and Manicouagan impact structures
(Applicants
Gilder, Stuart Alan
;
Trepmann, Claudia
)
Mikrostrukturelle und mikrochemische Untersuchungen an Ca,Al-reichen Einschlüsse (CAIs) und interstellaren Körnern in primitiven Meteoriten
(Applicant
Bischoff, Addi
)
Modellierung des Einflusses von Lithologie und strukturgeologischen Merkmalen auf Deformationen der Erdkruste
(Applicant
Kroner, Corinna
)
Monitoring spatio-temporal variation in the Earth's crust using seismic coda and ambient noise
(Applicant
Wegler, Ulrich
)
Oxidationszustand und Verteilung der Übergangsmodelle Ti und Cr im unteren Erdmantel: Hochdruckexperimente - Elektronen-Energieverlust-Spektroskopie - Modellierung
(Applicant
Langenhorst, Falko
)
Quellen und Übertragungsmechanismen des seismischen Rauschens im Frequenzbereich von 0.01 bis 10 mHz
(Applicant
Kroner, Corinna
)
Quellen und Übertragungsmechanismen des seismischen Rauschens im Frequenzbereich von 0.01 bis 10 mHz
(Applicant
Westerhaus, Malte
)
Rekonstruktion greenscher Funktionen durch Unruhe-Korrelationen am Gräfenberg-Array und dem deutschen seismologischen Regionalnetz
(Applicant
Wegler, Ulrich
)
Sedimentary and tectonic response to the exhumation of the Harz mountains
(Applicant
Gaupp, Reinhard
)
Sedimentary Environments and Biodiversity of Ichnofaunas at the pC/C-Boundary of the Yangtze Platform: Palaoecologic and Biostratigraphic Significance
(Applicant
Heubeck, Christoph
)
Stochastic modeling of seismic wave propagation beneath island-arcs and volcanoes
(Applicant
Korn, Michael
)
The marine sector of the North German Basin and the Tornquist Zone: Structural evolution and fluid flow
(Applicants
Hübscher, Christian
;
Noack, Vera
)
Untersuchung der Ausbreitung von Oberflächenwellen mittels mode matching, partitioned waveform inversion und Born-Inversion
(Applicant
Malischewsky, Peter
)
Untersuchung kleinräumiger Inhomogenitäten der Erdkruste unter Deutschland mit lokalen und teleseismischen Ereignissen unter Verwendung der Energietransfertheorie
(Applicant
Wegler, Ulrich
)
Vergleichende gravimetrische, geomagnetische und geologische Untersuchungen im Bereich des Diatrems von Ebersbrunn und der Triasscholle bei Greiz
(Applicants
Jahr, Thomas
;
Kämpf, Horst
)
Vergleichende sedimentologische und paläolimnologische Untersuchungen an oligozänen Seeablagerungen im rheinischen Schiefergebirge
(Applicant
Gaupp, Reinhard
)
Verwitterung organischer Komponenten in paläozoischen Sedimenten als Quelle wasserlöslicher organischer Substanzen und deren Rolle beim Transport von Schwermetallen
(Applicant
Heide, Klaus
)
Wasserabgabe- und Kristallisationsverhalten von Silicatgläsern und -schmelzen
(Applicant
Heide, Klaus
)
Weltweiter Vergleich von Schwarmbeben-Gebieten hinsichtlich seismologischer Besonderheiten und geophysikalischer Mechanismen: Gemeinsamkeiten - Widersprüche
(Applicant
Jahr, Thomas
)
Priority Programmes
Current projects
Local pathways to the Fluvial Anthroposphere at Echaz (Rhine) and Eger (Danube). A comparative analysis from c. AD 1100 to 1800
(Applicants
Frenzel, Peter
;
Hirbodian, Sigrid
;
Kühn, Peter
;
Schenk, Gerrit Jasper
;
Werban, Ulrike
;
Werther, Lukas
;
Zielhofer, Christoph
)
Completed projects
Crystal chemistry of hibonite as indicator for oxygen fugacities during solar nebula condensation
(Applicants
Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana
;
Langenhorst, Falko
)
Diagenesis of red bed clastic reservoirs in the Central European Basin: how important is organic maturation and migration?
(Applicant
Gaupp, Reinhard
)
Formation mechanisms of high-pressure phases in Martian meteorites
(Applicant
Bläß, Ulrich W.
)
Integrated MOdelling of Satellite and Airborne Gravity data of Active plate margins
(Applicants
Götze, Hans-Jürgen
;
Jentzsch, Gerhard
;
Pail, Roland
)
Mechanisms of metal-silicate segregation during formation of the Martian core
(Applicant
Rubie, David
)
Metal-related mineral assemblages as probes into protoplanetary gas-solid interactions
(Applicant
Harries, Dennis
)
Microfossils as indicators of aquatic ecosystem evolution and monsoon dynamics
(Applicants
Frenzel, Peter
;
Mischke, Steffen
;
Schwalb, Antje
)
Microfossils as indicators of aquatic ecosystem evolution and monsoon dynamics
(Applicants
Frenzel, Peter
;
Mischke, Steffen
;
Schwalb, Antje
)
Oxygen solubility in Fe-Ni-S alloy at high pressure and implications for the formation and compositions of planetary cores
(Applicants
Langenhorst, Falko
;
Rubie, David
)
Reactions of petroleum compounds with hematite grain-coatings and their effects on diagenesis and pore structure of clastic reservoir rocks
(Applicants
Gaupp, Reinhard
;
Krooß, Bernhard M.
)
Reactions of petroleum compounds with hematite grain-coatings and their effects on diagenesis and pore structure of clastic reservoir rocks
(Applicant
Krooß, Bernhard M.
)
Rock-fluid interactions in deep overpressured basinal settings of the Central Graben, North Sea: organic and inorganic considerations
(Applicant
di Primio, Rolando
)
Rock-fluid interactions in deep overpressured basinal settings of the Central Graben, North Sea: Organic and inorganic considerations
(Applicant
Gaupp, Reinhard
)
Stability and structures of hydrous minerals in the transition zone of the Martian mantle
(Applicants
Frost, Daniel J.
;
Langenhorst, Falko
)
Sub-seismic deformation on different scales in the North German Basin
(Applicants
Gaupp, Reinhard
;
Kukla, Ph.D., Peter
;
Oncken, Onno
)
Systematics of the post-spinel tranisition in Fe-bearing compositions
(Applicants
Frost, Daniel J.
;
Langenhorst, Falko
;
Woodland, Alan Butler
)
Temporal And Spatial Multiscale Assessment of mass transport by combination of Gravity Observations from GRACE and terrestrial stations
(Applicants
Förste, Christoph
;
Güntner, Andreas
;
Ihde, Johannes
;
Jentzsch, Gerhard
)
Thermochemical Evolution of Mars and Earth
(Applicant
Walzer, Uwe
)
The role of early Archean Terrestrial Environments in Weathering, Sediment Transport, and the Colonization of Land
(Applicant
Heubeck, Christoph
)
The role of Partial Convective Overturn in the Barberton Greenstone Belt: Linking deep crustal-mantle and surface processes through integrated sedimentary and structural analysis of the syntectonic Moodies Group
(Applicant
Heubeck, Christoph
)
Research Units
Completed projects
Ecological and environmental change recorded through stratigraphy and sedimentology at selected Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary sections in East and Central Asia
(Applicant
Heubeck, Christoph
)
FOR 736: The Precambrian-Cambrian Biosphere (R)evolution: Insights from Chinese Microcontinents
(Spokesperson
Heubeck, Christoph
)
FOR 1451: Exploring Mechanisms Underlying the Relationship between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
(Spokesperson
Eisenhauer, Nico
)
FOR 2285: Debris Disks in Planetary Systems
(Spokesperson
Krivov, Alexander
)
Linking biological drivers and water transport to understand biodiversity effects on C and N storage in soils
(Applicants
Gleixner, Gerd
;
Hildebrandt, Ph.D., Anke
)
Microscale shock processes in sandstone
(Applicants
Langenhorst, Falko
;
Reimold, Wolf Uwe
)
Project P7: Impact experiments at high speeds and fragment distributions
(Applicant
Langenhorst, Falko
)
Structure and formation of shatter cones in experimental and natural impact craters
(Applicants
Kenkmann, Thomas
;
Langenhorst, Falko
;
Wünnemann, Kai
)
The interaction between plant functional diversity and soil hydrological conditions - an ecohydrological process model approach
(Applicants
Hildebrandt, Ph.D., Anke
;
Schröder-Esselbach, Boris
)
The Precambrian-Cambrian Biosphere (R)evolution: Insights from Chinese Microcontinents
(Applicant
Heubeck, Christoph
)
Collaborative Research Centres
Current projects
Evolution of Water and Matter Cycles Within the Earth’s Critical Zone
(Project Heads
Hildebrandt, Ph.D., Anke
;
Reichstein, Markus
)
Integrated Research Training Group AquaDiva
(Project Heads
Hildebrandt, Ph.D., Anke
;
Küsel, Kirsten
;
Totsche, Kai Uwe
;
Trumbore, Susan
)
Completed projects
3 D patterns of mass transfer and deformation resulting from oblique vonvergence along the Chilean forearc
(Project Heads
Dresen, Georg
;
Götze, Hans-Jürgen
;
Janssen, Christoph
;
Kukowski, Nina
;
Oncken, Onno
)
Coordination an Management and Integration of geological, geophysical and remote sensing data towards a synoptic digital model of the Central andes
(Project Heads
Burger, Heinz
;
Heubeck, Christoph
;
Munier, Kerstin
;
Wigger, Peter J.
)
Errosiver und akkretionärer Massentransfer und die Deformation des Forearcs
(Project Heads
Kukowski, Nina
;
Oncken, Onno
)
Interaction of magmatism and deformation in the southern Altiplano and northwestern Puna
(Project Heads
Heubeck, Christoph
;
Scheuber, Ekkehard
)
Kinematisch-strukturelle Modellierung von Deformation im Altiplano-Plateau
(Project Heads
Gaedicke, Christoph
;
Kukowski, Nina
)
Neogene evolution of the Chaco foreland basin, Bolivia and Argentina
(Project Heads
Heubeck, Christoph
;
Scheuber, Ekkehard
)
Scientific Networks
Completed projects
Young scientist network on hydrological and meteorological data assimilation (HyMeDAs network)
(Applicant
Hildebrandt, Ph.D., Anke
)
Research Training Groups
Completed projects
GRK 1257: Alteration and Element Mobility at the Microbe-mineral Interface
(Spokesperson
Kothe, Erika
)
Graduate Schools
Completed projects
GSC 214: Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC)
(Spokesperson
Brakhage, Axel
)
Clusters of Excellence (ExStra)
Current projects
EXC 2051: Balance of the Microverse
(Spokespersons
Brakhage, Axel
;
Küsel, Kirsten
)
