Professor Dr. Thorsten Nagel

Address Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg
Institut für Geologie
Professur für Endogene Geologie und Tektonik
Bernhard-v.-Cotta-Straße 2
09599 Freiberg

Projects

As Applicant
- Completed projects
  - Numerical Modelling of Extension at Convergent Plate Boundaries (Research Fellowships)
  - Spliting continental lithosphere during rifting in the South Atlantic with emphasis on the role of magmatism. (Priority Programmes)
  - Formation, deformation and exhumation of a high-pressure/ultra-high-pressure mélange - the Adula Nappe (Central Alps). (Research Grants)
  - Crustal and lithosheric structure of the subducting Adriatic Plate and the external accretionary wedge in the soutern Dinarides (Research Grants)
As Leader
- Completed projects
  - Noble gas mass spectrometer (Major Research Instrumentation)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Subduction and exhumation of continental crustal rocks in the Monte Rosa-nappe (Western Alps) (Research Grants)
  - Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Western Rhodope complex - a record of multiple continent collision? (Research Grants)
  - Role of extraction faulting and out-of-sequence thrusting in collisional orogeny - the base of the Dent Blanche Nappe in the Alps as an example (Research Grants)
  - Tectonic framework of continental subduction - testing hypotheses and developing criteria (Research Grants)
As Cooperation Partner
- Current projects
  - Unravelling crustal formation in the Early Earth through the mass-dependent stable Ti isotope composition of Archaean Tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorites (TTGs) (Research Grants)
As Co-Investigator
- Current projects
  - Advancing the fission-track method: a practical approach to transparent and reliable fission-track ages and thermal histories (Research Grants)