Project Details

Dr. Axel Gerdes

Address Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Institut für Geowissenschaften
Facheinheit Mineralogie
Abteilung Petrologie und Geochemie
Altenhöferallee 1
60438 Frankfurt am Main

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Evolution of the Terminal Ediacaran–earliest Cambrian ecosystems in the southern Nama Basin (GRIND-ECT drilling project): When, why, and how? – A multidisciplinary approach (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
As Project Head
- Current projects
  - Dating of supergene minerals - Insights from Gypcrete, Silcrete, Calcrete and Supergene Copper Deposits into the evolution of aridity in the Atacama and Namib Deserts (Collaborative Research Centres)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
As Cooperation Partner
- Completed projects
  - Are zircons forever? On the problem of survival of inherited zircons in juvenile crust and lithospheric mantle (Research Grants)
  - Assembly and break-up of the Kaapvaal Craton between 3.0 and 2.0 Ga – new constraints from the U-Pb-Hf detrital zircon record (Research Grants)
As Co-Investigator
- Current projects
  - Petrography, geochemistry, and geochronology of the Kohistan Batholith granitoids from the Central Kohistan Magmatic Arc, Northern Swat, Pakistan (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Rutile_zircon_melt assemblages, key to understand processes in mafic layered intrusions: examples from the Bushveld Complex, South Africa (Research Grants)
  - Terrane spotting – Testing models for the evolution of Earth’s first continents (Priority Programmes)
  - Magma evolution of the East Eifel volcanic field from a perspective based on detrital zircon in modern river sediment (Research Grants)

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Dr. Axel Gerdes

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Dr. Axel Gerdes

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