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‚Where to land the next Mars rover?‘ and ‚How much drugs are in our soils?‘ – to answer these questions, we must look at the fundamental processes at the mineral…

Geologically located in the Northeast German Basin, Berlin and most parts of Brandenburg are known to be potentially suitable for deep geothermal energy usage. This source of energy is not…

The Rb-Sr isotope system is sensitive to secondary processes that disturb or even completely reset the age signal in datable minerals like mica or feldspars. To interpret age signatures correctly,…

Der Braunkohleausstieg führt zu Veränderungen in allen Bereichen der Wasserwirtschaft. Im Rheinischen Revier werden sich nach dem Ende des Bergbaus einige der größten deutschen Seen bilden. Der Grundwasserspiegel steigt und…

The deep Southern Ocean (SO) circulation is of major significance for understanding of the ocean´s impact on Earth’s climate as uptake and release of CO­­­2 strongly depend on the redistribution…

Despite their well-known economic potential, the genesis of deposits associated with magmatic-hydrothermal fluids derived from granitic plutons is still not fully understood. The Cornubian batholith (SW England) represents an example…

The short-lived isotope systems 146Sm-142Nd and 182Hf-182W were active during the first ca. 500 Ma and 50 Ma after solar system formation. As a result of recent analytical advances, it…

Reconstructing the earliest evolution of the silicate Earth remains a major geological challenge because of the scarcity and incomplete preservation of rocks older than 3.8 Ga. Isotope variations produced by…

Der Beginn des systematischen, wissenschaftlichen Sammelns von Mineralen und Fossilien in Berlin ist eng verknüpft mit der Gründung der Berliner Bergakademie durch Friedrich II. Ab 1801 erhielt diese Sammlung die…

The analysis of Coulomb stress changes has become an important tool for seismic hazard evaluation because such stress changes may trigger or delay next earthquakes. Processes that can cause significant…

The Hils Syncline is located in the south of the Lower Saxony Basin, Lower Cretaceous and Jurassic rocks crop out in its center. The Cretaceous and Jurassic sedimentary sequences in…

The area of the Upper Rhine Graben (URG) is known for its geothermal potential. However, the recent interest for lithium co-production from geothermal brines raises questions about the quantification and…

“Digital sedimentary petrology” models represent the microstructure of clastic rocks in 3D and use forward process models to simulate diagenesis in response to evolving burial conditions. This modeling approach predicts…

For some years now, the Hessian Agency for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology (HLNUG) is focusing its 3D-modeling activities on urban areas, aiming to contribute to both integrated modeling and…

The „Central Oder“ sub-catchment in Germany is the first of three areas for which structural models of the surficial aquitards down to the latest Elsterian till are being constructed as…

Detailed crustal structures and causative kinematic processes in the Alps continue to be a matter of ongoing research. Of particular interest is the crustal structure of the Adriatic indenter, the…

Attributed 3D volumetric models are important tools for geothermal exploration, subsurface storage of natural gases and waste and for risk management (e.g. contamination of ground water or induced seismicity). Of…

Geophysical measurement procedures are currently tested in the western Erzgebirge as part of the GeoMetEr project in order to optimize the surface exploration of potential nuclear waste repositories. The research…

Geoscience teaching has not kept up with technology. The ability to visualize objects in 3D is fundamental in geology, and yet we have hardly integrated any 3D tools in our…

In-mine seismics provide a better resolution and spatial coverage than surface exploration methods such as 2D or 3D seismics, enhancing the exploration around underground facilities. Over the past decades, seismic…

Brandenburg contributes to a transnational 3D-velocity model of the North German Basin. This 3D velocity model is embedded in the framework of TUNB velo 2.0 where the State Geological Surveys…

Most high-grade metamorphic gneiss units in Germany exhibit a strong late-Variscan thermal imprint recorded by the presence of migmatites and granitic intrusions. A nuclear waste repository in this setting is…

Gypsum group minerals in the Atacama Desert occur in pedogenic profiles or as primary lacustrine sediments and are subject to complex redistribution processes. The 87Sr/86Sr composition of gypsum is a…

Fossil deep-sea macrobenthos is scarce due to the rarity of onshore deep-sea sediments. Therefore, hypothesized migrations of shallow shelf taxa into the deep-sea after phases of mass extinction or oceanic…

The Atacama Desert in Chile is known to be one of the driest deserts on Earth, with dominating hyperaridity since the Miocene. During recent times, however, especially the southern part…

182W deficits in terrestrial rocks are currently strongly debated since their origin can be ascribed to different processes. These include (1) core-mantle interaction, (2) grainy late accretion, and (3) early…

Modern hydrothermal vents provide diverse environments for microorganisms. Here there is a large phylogenetic and physiological diversity of bacteria and archaea, occurring in a wide range habitats. An assumption is…

Little is known about the build-up of Mediterranean cold-water coral mounds at the scale of multiple interglacial-glacial cycles. This study concentrates on the long-term development of coral mounds within the…

Earthquakes are a direct response to the Earth’s state of stress, which is one of the key ingredients controlling the lithosphere rheological behavior. To first order, the total in-situ stress…

Australia is the driest inhabited continent on the planet, with its moisture mostly sourced from the tropical monsoon in the north and the southern westerlies in the south. The continent…

Annual lake sediments are excellent high-resolution archives for reconstructing historical pollution. Usually, pollution reconstructions date back to the beginning of industrialization in the early 19th century. Here, we present a…

In this study, we introduce an open-source benchmark gallery for a systematic verification of numerical simulations of coupled multi-field processes in geological storage and sequestration. Here, the focus lies on…

Magma contains information on its source and on the processes the magma experienced en route to the surface. This information is, however, locked in the chemical and isotopic composition of…

The restrictions in place due to the COVID epidemic have forced us to develop non-traditional solutions to teach field geology in the last few months, such as virtual field excursions,…

The Andean region possess a wealth of mineral resources, such as copper and lithium, which are increasingly in demand by various industries and sectors, including renewable energy, electronics, and transportation….

The late Carboniferous–Early Triassic Krkonoše Piedmont Basin in the northern Bohemian Massif was initiated as a fault-controlled basin during the waning stages of the Variscan orogeny and its transition to…

The DEKORP (Deutsches Kontinentales Reflexionsseismisches Programm) initiative, conducted from 1984 to 1997, was Germany’s national reflection seismic program. DEKORP aimed at resolving the deep crustal and upper mantle structure, employing…

The provenance of objects –in terms of chronology of ownerships – in museums and collections is a cutting-edge topic discussed especially among art historians, historians and ethnologists. Until now, the…

Large magnitude (Mw ∼ ≥6) earthquakes in extensional settings are often associated with simultaneous rupture of multiple normal faults as a result of static and/or dynamic stress transfer.Here, we report…

We conducted the first study on Ga-Al systematics in Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic banded iron formations (BIFs). Adjacent Fe oxide, metachert and mixed-type bands were analysed comparatively with solution-based SF-ICP-MS and…

The swelling of clay-sulfate rocks is a well-known phenomenon often causing threats to the success of different projects, for instance, geothermal drillings triggered swelling and ground heave with dramatic damages…

Cosmogenic nuclide analysis in sediment from the Earth’s largest rivers yields mean denudation rates of the sediment-producing areas that average out local variations commonly found in small rivers. Using this…

Carbonatites crystallize from mantle-derived carbonate- and volatile-rich melts that exsolve large amounts of fluids during their ascent through and emplacement into the crust. A global review of available fluid inclusion…

To achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of maximum global warming by 2 degrees, CO2 reduction is indispensable. Space heating for residential, service and industrial buildings amounts to 26% of EU’s…

Laminated sediments of lake Stadtsee, located next to the city Bad Waldsee, provide a unique archive of socio-economic and environmental history since Medieval times. In this study we explored the…

Sandy alluvial-, deltaic-, and tidal-facies sediments of the Paleoarchean Moodies Group (ca. 3,220 Ma) are preserved several km thick in the central Barberton Greenstone Belt, interspersed with diverse units representing…

Many attempts up to today exist to transfer geosciences to the general public. Some started at the beginning of the 20th century. It is surprising that only since the beginning…

Deep geological repositories with a multi-barrier concept are foreseen by various countries for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste. Advanced simulation tools based on a detailed process understanding need to…

We discuss the structures associated with the Eichsfeld-Altmark-Swell (EAS) in Central Germany, using observations from published cross-sections, outcrops, few boreholes and reflection seismics in a some 200 kilometres long swath…

In a trench along the central part of the Peel Boundary fault zone (PBFZ), Roer Valley Rift System (RVRS), southeastern Netherlands, evidence was found for a large faulting event that…

Monitoring local seismic events is among the responsibilities of the German Federal Seismic Survey. This entity comprises a seismological subdepartment responsible for overseeing the operations of the German Regional Seismic…

One of the most important observables characterizing the packing and flowability of particulate systems is the angle of repose, i.e., the angle between the horizontal and the sloping side of…

Severe flooding in July 2021 has caused massive erosion of arable land located close to the village of Erftstadt-Blessem, Germany. Backward incision formed local drainage networks, evacuating Quaternary sediments towards…

Oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2 emissions induced global seawater pH decrease by 0.1 since the Industrial Revolution by altering ocean chemistry with the reduction of carbonate ion concentrations and the…

Exploration for buried mineralised pegmatites is challenging because of their lack of distinctive geophysical signatures. The GREENPEG project (project GA869274, EU HORIZON 2020 programme) has developed a multi-method toolset based…

Within the feasibility study regarding the construction of the Einstein – Telescope (ET), at a depth of 200 – 350 m in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregio, various seismic methods are used…

Quartz crystallographic preferred orientations (CPOs) in natural mylonites can vary to such an extent that they apparently give opposite senses of shear within a single thin section. Many qualitative explanations…

Modelling of subsurface temperatures is based on various approaches, which typically focus on interpolation or numerical simulation procedures. Mostly, they are based on few single measurements and do not take…

Detection of small variations in triple oxygen isotope ratios (Δ’17O) of rocks, minerals, and water has opened new applications in the field of isotope geochemistry (1,2). A long-standing problem is…

Water isotopes are key tools to understand the dynamics of the global hydrological cycle. A well constrained hydrological model requires a precise definition of isotopic diffusion and equilibrium fractionation factors…

The high-energy processes during the Elsterian glacial stage have formed a diverse relief of the base Quaternary with buried tunnel valleys, which are cut between a few tens of meters…

After the devastating Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction, several new groups of large predators invaded the sea in the early part of the Triassic, including sauropterygians, ichthyosauromorphs and thalattosaurs. Among these predators,…

Dissolved silica (DSi) is an essential nutrient for marine silicifiers, and its cycling is closely linked to the biological pump and carbon cycle. The biological uptake of DSi and subsequent…

The redox state of the upper mantle in the Archaean through to the Proterozoic is a key parameter as it would have buffered atmospheric composition and interacted with the ocean-atmosphere…

Fracture dimensions largely control rock properties like strength and permeability. Thus, knowing their statistical distributions is of great importance in many applied fields of the geosciences e.g., in geothermics, mineral…

Malayaite, the tin analogue of titanite, has been shown to develop an incommensurately modulated phase with a modulation vector of q=0.26b* at a temperature of 20K [1]. The occurence of…

Great subduction earthquakes cause Coulomb stress changes that can trigger intense aftershock seismicity, including strong earthquakes in the upper plate. The Coulomb stress changes are commonly computed assuming that the…

Seeing Geology is hard! To build an intuitive understanding of complex 3 dimensional structures in the subsurface requires a lot of training. To make this experience more accessible, we present…

The current challenges in our society regarding digital, energy, and circular economy transition have made the recycling and recovery of materials from waste streams a hot topic since they have…

Ferricretes are hard iron layers forming in semi-arid to subtropical environments. We can observe them in i.e. Africa, Australia or Brazil. They are an important part of regional geomorphology, capping…

The utilization of geothermal energy comes with a high economic risk. Many of the parameters that control the quality of a geothermal reservoir are heterogeneously distributed and therefore difficult to…

The width of fluvial valley-floors is a key parameter to quantifying the morphology of mountain regions. Valley-floor width is relevant to diverse fields including sedimentology, fluvial geomorphology, and archaeology. The…

The Oman Ophiolite is the largest and best-investigated piece of ancient oceanic lithosphere on our planet. This ophiolite was target of the Oman Drilling Project (OmanDP) within the frame of…

The selection procedure to identify the site “best possible” to host Germany’s repository for the final disposal of its high activity nuclear waste considers claystone, rock salt and crystalline rock…

The activation of methanogenic Archaea in the context of subsurface hydrogen storage may lead to permanent hydrogen conversion to methane. The objective of this proof-of-concept study is to experimentally investigate…

As the world warms due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations, the Earth system moves toward climate sthistoricalhout historic precedent, challenging societal adaptation. One way to investigate these unprecedented conditions is…

Field observations across the globe show that drainage reversal toward a cliff is a common type of drainage reorganization. Drainage reversal occurs when a channel reverses its flow direction by…

Landslide induced tsunamis are a well-known phenomenon and have been reported many times in the international literature. The research has focused so far on the investigation of individual case studies…

Landslide induced tsunamis are a well-known phenomenon and have been reported many times in the international literature. The research has focused so far on the investigation of individual case studies…

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a key climate mitigation technology available to meet the Paris Agreement goal for limiting global warning. The goal of CCS projects is to separate,…

The CTC-Trail (“Coast-to-Carpathians”) is a conceptual educational geo-trail that is being created to guide visitors through a transect from the southern parts of the western Black Sea area grasslands through…

The site selection procedure for a high-level radioactive waste repository in Germany is based on the Repository Site Selection Act (StandAG, 2017) and comprises three phases. Commissioned by the Bundesgesellschaft…

The sauropodomorph-bearing localities from the Norian-Rhaetian of Europe have been traditionally interpreted as monospecific, attributing the morphological disparity in Plateosaurus to intraspecific variability. The Norian and Rhaetian stages are currently…

The digitization of geological data is becoming increasingly important in the assessment of the subsurface geology, and 3D visualization offers new possibilities. To extend the visualization of the subsurface geology…

In the Southern Ocean microfossil records from marine sediments indicate large shifts in species assemblages and nutrient cycling in response to changing climatic conditions and sea-ice extent during the Late…

The geological exposures of the Jurassic Coast of North East England cover a variety of depositional systems, from both continental and marine settings, and provide an excellent opportunity for field…

The Wren’s Nest National Nature Reserve, situated in the West Midlands, UK, is well known for its exposures of Silurian (Wenlock and Ludlow Series) carbonates. The Wren’s Nest was first…

The largest contiguous former opencast lignite mining district in the EU is located in Lusatia (Germany). Hydrochemical contaminations such as acid mine drainage from opencast mines as well as increased…

Science is not good, not bad, or neutral. It is socially built by the subject who operates the research object based on subjectivity (individual and collective).The reduction of reality to…

Access to top research equipment facilitates top research. However, the research equipment needed may not always be available within individual institutes, while access to external facilities may not in all…

To investigate the interior structure, dynamics and evolution of terrestrial planets, numerical models of varying complexity have become an essential tool for many researchers. Modelers often struggle with outreach and…

All rocky materials originating from small and undifferentiated bodies of the Solar System have similar and close to solar abundances of refractory elements and are depleted to various degrees in…

A coordinated and effective use of the subsurface requires in-depth knowledge and easily accessible and uniformly described data. The 2022 Action Plan supports the securing of future investments in the…

Promoting quality education implies that teachers are reflective professionals, agents of innovation and change leaders, able to train students with critical thinking skills, problem-solving, creativity, collaborative work, and communication. In…

Utrecht University, The Netherlands In order to improve student learning during lectures on location, students can be actively engaged by giving short class-exercises. Class exercises are just one of the…

Current tectonic activity in the eastern Southern Alps is driven by the ongoing collision of Adria with Europe at a rate of ca. 2-3 mm/yr. While the South Alpine Front…

Nowadays, applications of nanomaterials increasingly demand for monodisperse nanoparticles (NPs), since their defined properties form the basis for a wide range of applications. Gold NPs are of special interest due…

In the past two decades, pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) have been identified as environmental contaminants of considerable concern due to their significant hazard potential. The anticonvulsant drug carbamazepine…

Geothermal heat flow (GHF) is essential for evaluating the thermal states and energy balances of the lithosphere, playing a crucial role in geophysics and geothermal energy research. In this study,…

The presentation provides an overview of BGR’s deep-sea mineral resource exploration and informs on recent developments in deep-sea mining. Metals such as copper, nickel and cobalt play a vital role…

Paleo-CO2 reconstructions are integral to understanding the evolution of Earth system processes and their interactions given that atmospheric CO2 concentrations are intrinsically linked to planetary function. Furthermore, past periods of…

The use of carbonate-based paleoclimate archives has gained increasing importance to obtain reliable and detailed information on past climate and environmental variability in order to better understand the modern climate…

This session addresses the dynamics of sedimentary basins at different temporal and spatial scales and aims to bring together a wide range of studies focusing on geodynamics, tectonics and sediment…

Machine learning approaches are increasingly used to predict groundwater levels, with local models for single monitoring wells currently being state of the art. Global models enable training and forecasting at…

Astronomical insolation forcing is well established as the underlying metronome of Quaternary ice ages and Cenozoic climate changes. However, its effects on earlier eras (Mesozoic, Paleozoic, and pre-Cambrian) are less…

This talk focusses on the Detfurth Formation of the Hessian Depression and aims to point out a modern way of subdividing the sedimentary record, serving as a profound basis in…

The Halle Volcanic Complex includes several laccoliths emplaced during Carboniferous-Permian flare-up (Breitkreuz & Kennedy, 1999). Previous dating of the laccoliths yielded a range of ages from 301±3 Ma (Landsberg) to…

To understand the evolution of lake basins, a robust age-depth model is essential. Usually, such model is created based on core material using various dating techniques (e.g. radiometric dating, magnetostratigraphy,…

The Sibela Mountains of Bacan island in eastern Indonesia contain one of the Earth’s youngest metamorphic complexes, now exposed at elevations up to 2000 m. Exhumed basement consists of Permo-Triassic…

Until now, the BGR’s geological general map series of different scales were not connected to each other in terms of data technology. Accordingly, the GK1000 (Geological Map of the Federal…

As part of project D-AERO Finsterwalde, the “Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe” (BGR) carried out an airborne geophysical study in a former opencast lignite mining area in summer 2021. The…

Diffusion studies in minerals are a fundamental tool for understanding the rheological properties of Earth’s mantle. Previous theoretical studies on deformational strain rates show that the key mechanism for deformation…

This presentation focuses on technical ceramics from various early Modern dumping contexts ranging from a well to latrine and surface fills within in the former city walls of Mannheim. Additionally…

The injection of mafic magma into a hydrous felsic magma chamber is a potential trigger mechanism for bimodal explosive volcanism. Contact of hot mafic magma with cooler, H2O-rich rhyolitic magma…

Different controls and couplings between tectonics and climate-driven erosion have been suggested to explain the topographic and structural architecture of the Andes. One aspect of controversial discussions is the late…

The Adula nappe in the Swiss-Italian Central Alps is a continental basement nappe from the former European margin that was subducted to depths indicating (ultra)-high-pressure conditions. Many studies were performed…

This session is thematically broad and include all topics related to research on the hydrosphere of alpine regions of the world both in humid and arid climate. We welcome contributions…

Despite the amount of research focused on the Alpine orogen, different hypotheses still exist regarding varying seismicity distribution patterns throughout the numerous crustal blocks of different physical properties that comprise…

The analysis of solid-fluid interactions in nature is crucial for our understanding of material fluxes and sub-surface stability. However, there is still a significant quantitative and qualitative difference between dissolution…

The post-Variscan nonconformity formed due to the denudation of the Variscan orogen which had taken place between Devonian and early Permian. The widespread post-Variscan nonconformity in central Europe represents an…

The United Nations Framework Classification for Resources (UNFC) is an assessment tool for mineral resource endowments, originally developed for side-projects concerning geogenic resources, such as mines. Given the integration of…

Provenance studies in the Central European Basin are challenged by the complex geology of source areas. The Variscan orogen represents a puzzle of Cadomian terranes, Variscan-aged domains and Palaeozoic sediments…

The tribosphenic molar presents phylotypic stage of the mammalian dental evolution. A study of its enamel microarchitecture in several clades (Chiroptera, Afrosoricida, Eulipotyphla, Didelphomorhia, Cetartiodactyla) revealed, apart of considerable taxon-specific…

Albite-spodumene pegmatite are considered to be the product of extreme fractionation of melts or fluids deriving from large alkaline granite intrusions. Anatectic melts deriving from partially molten metasediments are in…

Speleothems are secondary cave carbonate deposits and an established terrestrial paleoclimate archive. Moreover, they have the potential to record conditions in the ecosystem overlying the cave, particularly the vegetation and…

Sauropterygia was a taxonomically and ecomorphologically diverse clade of Mesozoic marine reptiles spanning the Early Triassic to the Late Cretaceous. Sauropterygians are traditionally divided into two groups representing two markedly…

Energy generated from geothermal systems is a good alternative to non-renewable fossil fuels and plays an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Geothermal energy is generated from the inner…

Defining patterns of environmental or ecological change on different spatio-temporal scales is key to tracking and addressing present and future biodiversity changes, which is particularly important considering the rapidly changing…

The Axial Zone of the Pyrenees represents a window into the Variscan evolution of the northern Gondwana margin. One enigma of this evolution is the origin of the many and…

The number of zircon age studies being published from all regions of the planet is consistently growing, as is for continental or global zircon ages databases. Unfortunately, a considerable amount…

The number of zircon age studies being published from all regions of the planet is consistently growing, as is for continental or global zircon ages databases. Unfortunately, a considerable amount…

This presentation gives an overview of the advantages combining thin-section optical petrography with X-ray microdiffractometry (µ-XRD2) and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) for the analysis of well…

Landslide Susceptibility Assessment Tools – Project Manager Suite (LSAT PMS), an open-source, user-friendly program written in Python developed and released at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR)….

Deep geothermal power plants are baseload-capable and can serve as substitutes for fossil fuel power plants. In the Ruhr region of Germany, a densely populated area with high energy demand,…

In the end of 2020, an approx. 650 m deep core was drilled at Prees in Shropshire, England, as part of the ICDP project JET (Integrated Understanding of the Early…

Future glaciations are considered as a major challenge for the long-term safety of repositories for highly active radioactive waste, which has to be assessed for up to one million years….

Mining and post-mining processes have a significant impact on the environment. An important current task and challenge is therefore the continuous monitoring of mining areas. The project „Digital Twin –…

Geological maps are important products of geological work that display results of generations of field geologists’ work. Most original geological maps are generated and utilized at local scales. At regional…

For successful and safe underground CO2 storage, a profound knowledge of the subsurface and its geological structures characterizing the selected reservoir is essential. Besides robust geological models and storage capacity…

During the last decades, one hard coal mine in Germany after the other stopped production and entered the post-mining phase. The last pits that terminated active mining were Ibbenbüren and…

After operation of hard coal mines has been terminated in Germany, many of the mines are being flooded. In the project “FloodRisk: Earthquakes, uplift, and long-term liabilities – risk minimization…

The deep geothermal reservoir potential in North Rhine-Westphalia was assessed in Devonian carbonates (Massenkalk) in the Steltenberg Quarry in Western Germany. The karstification phenomena of the carbonates were recorded utilising…

High-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage (HT-ATES) is a heat storage technology utilising the subsurface, which can reduce greenhouse gas emissions in renewable-dominated heating sectors. Since the temperature difference between the…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the chemical composition of red iron pigments based on waste iron sulfate. As a model waste, waste iron(II) sulfate from Grupa Azoty…

Tsunamis generated by submarine or coastal landslides are a growing area of scientific interest. Events like the 2018 tsunami in Palu, Indonesia, have highlighted their destructive potential. Landslides can generate…

The Neogene uplift of the Andes strongly influenced environments, geography, and climate through time. In combination with global climate, sea level change and dynamic topography, this process (re)shaped the biogeography…

The lower parts of the evaporite cycles of the Zechstein Formation within the North German Basin comprise large deposits of several 10 to 100 meters thick sulphates, intercalated with carbonate,…

Anatomy and internal structure of the Alpine orogen are difficult to decipher as structural information is usually limited to surface and seismic data. Seismic results very much depend on the…

The Late Permian mass extinction (LPME) was the most catastrophic extinction of marine life during the Phanerozoic. Widespread marine deoxygenation associated with the eruption of the Siberian Traps is considered…

The reconstruction of past Antarctic sea ice coverage through the application of diatom assemblages is often hampered in near coastal environments due to silica dissolution effects. The more recently established…

The ever-increasing application of rare earth elements and yttrium (REY) in diverse sectors has led to their emergence as environmental contaminants. In this study of the Oder and Vistula rivers…

In the last decades, many trace elements that were hitherto only used as geochemical proxies gained societal and economic importance due to their increasing use in high-technology applications including medicine…

Brandenburg’s surface geology predominantly consists of Quaternary sediments, with sequences averaging 50 to 80 meters (locally up to 500 meters) in thickness. Research up to 2008 on heavy mineral composition…

As an important component of natural science education, popular palaeontology education developed rapidly worldwide. Traditional offline public lectures, guide tours and peripheral products represent the main implementations. With the appearance…

In-situ U-Pb-He double-dating of detrital zircon provides information regarding formation and cooling ages of source rocks. Its advantage over conventional dating methods is the unique ability to obtain a high…

The hydrology and hydrogeology of the German Lusatian mining district has strongly been impacted by open pit lignite mining. During active mining, mines are dewatered to lower the groundwater tables…

The United Nations Framework for the Classification of Resources (UNFC) is a generic tool that can be used for all types of resources, including anthropogenic resources. Compared to the primary…

Geochronological tools may play an important role in understanding the coupled evolution of biosphere and Earth surface processes. Intermittent wet periods in arid and hyper-arid environments drive mineral precipitation and…

Over the last decades, 3D geological modelling has become a standard in hydrocarbon exploration and production, has been adopted and is developing towards a systematic effort by geological surveys, and…

Anthropogenic fallout radionuclides (FRNs), in particular 137Cs, are frequently measured to investigate Anthropocene sediment or soil particle redistribution patterns and rates. However, applications of 137Cs can be complicated due to…

Field trips are essential for geologists and engineers to develop interpretation skills and to get a sense of scale. Unfortunately, attendance to field trips has become less frequent due to…

Metadata, i.e. ‚data about data‘, are fundamental for making research data findable, usable and understandable by researchers and all interested parties now and in the future. Moreover, with the advent…

Adapting nature offers a wide variety of opportunities to create advanced materials in the laboratory that find their templates in natural minerals. Materials, which are nowadays gaining increasing importance, are…

Understanding the evolution of lower latitude climate from the most recent glacial period of the latest Pleistocene to post glacial warmth in the continental tropical regions has been obstructed by…

Within the KONATES project, an Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) system is planned in the scientific park of Leipzig, where the groundwater is contaminated with chlorinated volatile organic compounds (Cl-VOCs)….

Radon (Rn)is a naturally occurring, radioactive gas that is considered an indoor air pollutant. Due to its negative effects on human health, a Germany-wide „Radon Potential Action Plan“ was implemented…

To accomplish the energy transition, new methodologies and technical solutions for the storage of renewable energies need to be developed. A fundamental challenge lies in the fact that energy production…

The Thirty Years‘ War (1618-1648) had significant consequences for both human populations and natural ecosystems in Europe. To gain a better understanding of its impact on the local aquatic environment,…

The continental crust was formed predominantly by magmatism at subduction zones. Peaks in the age distribution of detrital zircons derived from the continental crust have been interpreted to indicate that…

Archaean greenstone belts offer the opportunity to study the dynamic conditions on early Earth. The Singhbhum Craton of India hosts several volcano-sedimentary greenstone sequences that preserve Archaean rocks locally exceeding…

Recent debates around the recognition (or otherwise) of an Anthropocene, and the impact of climate change on the human experience emphasize the fact that ‘we humans’ are an integral part…

The transition from subduction to collision marks a pivotal geological transformation as tectonic plates cease their subduction, giving rise to intense collisions that reshape landscapes and foster the creation of…

A sustainable use of soil resources is urgently required to cope with the increasing demand for agricultural products. Advanced soil cultivation methods like subsoiling were suggested but analytical tools to…

Shell carbonates of marine molluscs are a widely used archive for paleo-environmental reconstructions. However, their use for temperature reconstructions may be impeded by species-specific vital effects and/or a lack of…

The culture around sharing our data and software is evolving. Funders are starting to provide more clarity and requirements. Institutions are working to provide support and incentives. And journals are…

The Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia is an extensive treeless area (ca. 200,000 km2), almost devoid of surface water, reflecting the modern expression of Plio-Pleistocene aridification. The rapid climatic shift…

The formation of crystallographic preferred orientations (CPO/texture) in sediments is often attributed to rigid grain rotation of minerals and aggregates, plastic-brittle deformation and dissolution-precipitation processes. Especially, clay minerals have a…

Geological hazards or Geohazards, natural or human-induced disruptions of the earth surface that may trigger landslides, sinkholes, or earthquakes, present serious threats to communities, cost extensive damage to infrastructure and…

With its successful application in diverse disciplines, Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially Machine Learning, has recently also become more and more popular in geosciences, particularly in the advent of increasingly affordable…

Geosciences face a dramatic increase of high quality data as well as of powerful artificial intelligence approaches. These new techniques, however, have mostly been limited to applications to pre-existing research…

The application of geothermometry has been used for the last six decades for geothermal reservoir temperature estimation. A steady evolution of conventional geothermometers to multicomponent tools as well as application…

The BMBF-funded research project “RECBest” aims at developing reliable methods for the detection and removal of hazardous building materials before demolition and at enhancing the resulting recycling material (RCM) through…

Construction waste (CW) from demolished buildings delivers a vast amount of resources for recycling material (RCM). RCM can be used as gravel, recycling-concrete or potentially for more precious applications. Hazardous…

Two significant potash-bearing basins occur within Central Asia. The Pricaspian Basin refers to an approximately 600 km wide (east-west) structure at the northern end of the Caspian Sea. This structure…

Hydrocarbon seepage is widespread distributed at the southern Gulf of Mexico. During several research cruises in 2003, 2006, and 2015 (SO174, M67/, and M114) we used multidisciplinary approaches, including multi-beam…

Aim of the project is the collection of data sets of solid material and groundwater physical and chemical properties for suitable host rocks such as claystone and various crystalline rocks….

The project “Groundwater Quality Monitoring Network Improvement 2021/2022” aimed to assess and improve the groundwater quality monitoring network of the Environmental Agency of the State of Brandenburg, Germany. This comprised…

Oxygen isotope compositions in enamel bioapatite are considered as robust proxy archives for ingested drinking water, body temperature and physiology of fossil vertebrates. However, only few alteration experiments have tested…

Shifts in the hydrological cycle, such as the location and magnitude of seasonal precipitation, are changing as a result of current climate change. The Eocene, as the warmest epoch during…

New approaches to coastal protection measures become increasingly important to protect for or to mitigate sea level rise (SLR) worldwide. Measures that involve only the heightening of dykes or revetments…

The reconstruction of Mesozoic seawater temperature is valuable to further understand the link between atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and earth surface temperature variation. Belemnites are an effective archive for this…

Vegetation cover poses a significant challenge in geological surveys. Utilizing plant chemistry to detect underlying geological features offers a non-invasive exploration tool. Here, we employ a novel approach in biogeochemical…

Heat production from low permeability reservoirs is believed to be significantly aided by the presence of open natural fractures (e.g. Upper Rhine Graben). However, in hot sedimentary aquifer studies these…

Microbialites are organosedimentary deposits formed by benthic microbial communities that mediate mineral precipitation. They have received particular attention since they are found throughout the geological record up to 3.43 billion…

In recent decades, mining-related activities in the Lusatian lignite mining area have led to an extensive pyrite weathering, contributing thereby to the elevation of sulfate and iron concentrations in the…

Seismic activity and consistently high CO2 fluxes make the Eger Rift in Western Bohemia (CZ) a rare subsurface ecosystem and scientifically relevant location to study microbial behavior and assess how…

In the discussion about the future role of geothermal in the energy transition policy, the topic of underground heat storage became recently more and more prominent. High Temperature Aquifer Storage…

While the share of renewable energy in the electricity sector is steadily increasing, it has stagnated in the heat supply, despite the fact that in Berlin, for example, more than…

In late 2020, an approximately 650 m long core was drilled at Prees within the Cheshire Basin, England, as part of the ICDP project JET (Integrated Understanding of the Early…

Large-scale banded iron formations (BIFs) were deposited during Neoarchean to early Paleoproterozoic and have been mainly linked to hydrothermal plume activity and the rise of oxygen in the ocean and…

Groundwater plays an essential role in global water cycles via feedback between groundwater and climate systems. However, the geologic history of groundwater activity remains unclear due to limited data. Sphalerite…

The topography of the Rhenish Massif is known to be affected by Late Cenozoic uplift. Recent GNSS studies imply surface uplift rates of up to 1 mm/a, likely controlled by…

In the soils of the Atacama Desert its evolutionary history is buried and thus memorized. This is because of the extreme and prolonged dryness, which enabled the preservation of organic…

The discovery and characterization of Earth-sized planets that are in, or near, a tidally-locked state are of crucial importance to understanding terrestrial planet evolution, and for which Venus is a…

Analysis of Au in geological materials has been proven useful for understanding geological processes related to the formation of various Au-rich ore deposits. However, the Au concentration in the source…

Today, research data is widely available in digital form, datasets are easily accessible online and the dataset creator should consider it advantageous as this leads to greater uptake. However, the…

Compositional data on heavy minerals is fundamental in sedimentary provenance analysis. Typically, this data is gathered by optical microscopy and more recently, by mineral chemical analysis (MLA, QEMSCAN) or Raman…

Living benthic foraminifera are used as environmental proxies to evaluate the quality of marine ecosystems. This evaluation is usually based on diversity indices and/or on a group of indicative species…

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has recently published a guideline for processing coastal imagery acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on the widely used Agisoft Metashape Professional software (USGS…

On geological timescales, Earth’s climate is closely linked to the silicate weathering feedback through the coupled silica-carbon cycles. Weathering of silicate minerals on land sequesters atmospheric CO2. This process is…

Alkalinity, the excess of bases over acids, is a frequently used conservative variable in Biogeochemistry and Oceanography to calculate carbonate system parameters and estimate the oceans susceptibility to acidification. On…

Sulfate minerals are rare in the geological record prior to 2.2 Ga. This is consistent with prevalent anoxic conditions in the Earth’s surface environment prior to the great oxidation event,…

Multiple dykes situated along the southeastern Australian coastline from south of Kiama to Gerroa were examined in detail. The results of geochemical analysis indicate the dyke’s composition varies from sub-alkaline…

In the Equatorial Mid Atlantic Ridge at 7-8°N the Doldrums Fracture Zone (FZ) is located: a complex transform system characterized by four ‘intratransform’ ridge segments (ITRs) bounded by five active…

The presentation of 3D-data is gaining a crucial role for the government agencies in Germany. With the introduction of new federal laws on data storage and release, it became important…

A 50-element stream sediment geochemistry survey with a sample density of one sample per km² shows anomalies for a number of high technology metals, including Sn, W and the battery…

The synthetic analogue of the rare mineral mullite (solid solution VIAl2IV[Al2+2xSi2-2x]O10-x) is widely used in ceramics as “3/2-mullite” (x~0.25), whereas single crystals grown from melt are “2/1-mullites” (x~0.4) [1]. The…

In order to increase the economic potential of geothermal power plants in view of environmental protection and sustainability, there are considerations to extract critical raw materials (CRM), such as lithium,…

TCEs stands for technology-critical elements, a group of chemical elements for which imbalances between supply and demand exist or are considered likely to exist. The concept is economic and geopolitical…

The lithium isotopic composition of the seawater (δ7Li) can be used as a proxy for silicate weathering. So far, different archives like planktonic foraminifera, brachiopods, mollusks and bulk carbonates have…

Marine sediments may act as a sink for carbon. Substrate and electron donor availabilities, sedimentology, as well as biological activity may influence the carbon cycling, impacting the release of TA…

Ökosystem- und Klimaänderungen sind äußerst aktuelle und brisante Themen, die bei einem großen Teil der Bevölkerung auf breites Interesse stoßen. Bei der Unterscheidung zwischen anthropogen beeinflussten und rein natürlichen Änderungen…

Carbonate classic and clumped isotope ratios (δ18O and Δ47) are used to reconstruct paleotemperature. However, kinetic isotope effects (KIE) induce a bias on absolute temperature reconstructions. High precision δ17O measurements…

The analysis of uncertainties in the description of the subsurface is an important aspect for resource exploration and material storage. Because of the complexity of the subsurface and an often…

In the past decades, the amount of digital subsurface and geoscience data has grown exponentially, and many companies and government organizations are dealing nowadays with Petabyte-scales of data, still growing…

Thermokarst lagoons form at the terrestrial-marine interface when thermokarst lakes, hotspots for Arctic methane emissions, erode onto the Arctic shelf. Thermokarst lagoons are dynamic environments with seasonal ice build-up and…

Empirical trophic models (Vollenweider-type) are one of the basic „tools of the trade“ in management of natural and artificial lakes. They are not applicable to open-cast mining lakes (PML) because…

Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) is a highly promising technology for storing excess energy due to its high storage capacity and small surface footprint. Despite its numerous advantages, planning, approval,…

Benthic foraminifera inhabit diverse marine environments, including areas of persistent bottom currents and contourite drift deposition. Certain highly adapted epibenthic foraminifera colonize contourite deposits as opportunistic suspension feeders. A correlation…

Laterite ore deposits in Brazil and other tropical countries contain approximately 70% of the world’s Ni and Co resources. High energy and/or reagent costs, accompanied by expensive equipment costs, are…

Laterite ore deposits in Brazil and other tropical countries contain approximately 70 % of the world’s Ni and Co resources. High energy and/or reagent costs, accompanied by expensive equipment costs,…

Ion flotation process offers a sustainable way to separate and recycle critical metals from industrial wastewaters that often have low concentrations of target metals. There is a high demand for…

Rare earth elements (REE) are essential for various modern „green“ technologies. However, conventional mining and extraction methods for REEs are energy-intensive, environmentally harmful, and call for the evaluation of alternative…

Microorganisms within the lithosphere are biologic agents settling in niches inside the terrestrial and oceanic crust, populating the extreme environments of the deep biosphere. The fossil record of the permeable…

The Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT, ~34Ma) marks a dramatic climate change and carbon cycle perturbation in the Cenozoic. Understanding the variations in export productivity associated with EOT provides important information about…

Lake Towuti, Indonesia is a stratified ferruginous (iron-rich, sulfate-poor) system whose deep basin experienced dynamic changes in trophic and redox conditions since the Middle Pleistocene. As wet and dry periods…

A novel hydrothermal system was discovered at the summit of the underwater Tagoro volcano at 89–120 m depth after the 2011–2012 eruption, characterized by the low-temperature venting of Fe-rich fluids…

The distinction between sedimentary and tectonic processes in the formation of chaotic rock units is especially difficult in orogenic belts, where sedimentary structures are usually strongly overprinted by tectonic deformation…

The early Mississippian of the Aachen region is characterized by a tropical shallow-water carbonate succession, the so-called Kohlenkalk Platform. Establishing a second phase of intensive carbonate production, it follows on…

The boron stable isotope ratio is employed to investigate fluid-rock interaction processes in subducting slabs and the slab–mantle interface. Two groups of subduction-related rocks were collected from Syros (Greece): the…

The onset of plate tectonics on Earth brought about rapid accumulation of continental crust, and the transition of continental crust from being mostly submarine to mostly subaerial. Tracking the timing…

In this study, we present B isotopic data for cold-water corals at high spatial resolution determined by UV femtosecond laser ablation system coupled to a Nu Plasma II MC-ICP-MS. Boron…

Subducted oceanic crust plays an important role in controlling the chemical budget of the crust and mantle and in the composition of arc lavas. Oceanic eclogites represent fragments of oceanic…

Neoproterozoic Nama Group sediments in SW Namibia provide an example of the interplay between the deposition of clastics and carbonates that do not obviously follow the “rules” of sequence stratigraphy….

Studies of meteorites and samples returned from space missions bear the chemical and physical records of planetary formation processes. Mass-independent isotopic anomalies measured in planetary materials indicate two separate accretion…

The potassium mine Burggraf-Bernsdorf was established between 1911 and 1913. It was situated at the southwestern flank of the Roßleben saddle (Sachsen-Anhalt) and belonged to the “Unstrut Kalirevier”. About 300.000…

Catastrophic lava dome collapse is considered an unpredictable volcanic hazard because the physical properties, stress conditions, and internal structure of lava domes are not well understood. To better explain the…

Serpentinites are able to carry H2O, ferric iron, carbon and sulfur into subduction zones, where they stepwise released fluid during dehydration. These C-O-H-S fluids are intimately linked to magma oxidation…

Calcined clays are promising sustainable alternative materials for cement production. By calcining natural clay minerals (usually 600–900 °C), they become reactive and can be used as a partial replacement for…

Subsurface wedges are common geomorphological structures in periglacial environments typically associated with polygonal patterned grounds on the surface. Their presence is an indicator for cryogenic processes in the subsurface resulting…

Rare Earth elements (REE) belong to the most strategic materials of the 21st century with steadily growing economic importance. PRISMA, the hyperspectral satellite data, is used for the very first…

Given the increasing challenges posed by climate change, especially more frequent and severe droughts experienced globally, effective exploration and management of groundwater resources is essential to ensure a sustainable and…

The European Critical Raw Materials Act, which entered into force on 23 May 2024, brought a need for reporting of the critical raw materials projects by the Member States to…

The building and construction sector accounts for a significant proportion of current anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Reducing the carbon footprint of building materials is difficult because some process-related CO2 emissions cannot…

The Paleocene – the first epoch of the Cenozoic (66–56 Ma) – spans numerous notable climatic and biogeochemical phenomena. In the oceans, the Paleocene saw the drawn-out recovery of calcifying…

Throughout the past two decades, aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) has grown increasingly into focus as a suitable geo-energy storage method. In this context, many carbonate aquifers are useable for…

During the Oxfordian stage, the Lower Saxony Basin (LSB) was covered by a shallow epicontinental sea (Ziegler 1990), in which a thick succession of marine limestones and marls was deposited….

The Kupferschiefer districts in Central Europe contain some of the world’s largest sediment-hosted stratiform Cu deposits. The fine-grained sulfides are hosted by the Rotliegend sandstone (S1), organic matter-rich Kupferschiefer (T1)…

Plutonic xenoliths in volcaniclastic rocks from the Laacher See (LS), East Eifel and the Rockeskyller Kopf Volcanic Complex (RKVC), West Eifel, were studied. They show different ways of magmatic carbonate…

This session thematizes the formation, evolution and economic importance of carbonatites and alkaline rocks. These play an important role for our society, as they contain exceptional high levels of critical…

The igneous nature of carbonatites has been controversial for decades until experimental work in the 1960s and 1970s conclusively showed that carbonatite melts can exist in geologically reasonable conditions. The…

The Cretaceous was characterised by a greenhouse climate with high sea levels, resulting in its famous carbonate-rich strata which often present a remarkable rhythmicity. Orbitally-forced cyclic sedimentation patters have been…

The Luneplate in Bremerhaven consists largely of nature reserves and bird sanctuaries. The soils have a thick alluvial clay horizon. Climate change threatens the region through seasonal heavy rain events,…

The Atacama Desert is one of the most extreme landscapes and environments on Earth. Due to its predominant hyperarid climate and high UV radiation, life is mostly absent. Prolonged aridity…

A cave monitoring sets the basis of speleothem studies. It helps to understand changing cave conditions on seasonal scale and site-specific geochemical differences such as hydrological conditions and heterogeneities in…

The CDGP [https://cdgp.u-strasbg.fr], Data Center for Deep Geothermal Energy, was created in 2016 by the LabEx G-Eau-Thermie Profonde (continuing now in ITI GeoT) [https://geot.unistra.fr/], to archive the high-quality data collected…

Thirty years ago, scientists from the Technical University of Denmark and University of Bergen published 3D outcrop acquisition and processing methods for large-scale vertical cliff sections in Greenland (Dueholm &…

Different views exist on the prevalent processes that control transport and deposition of detrital platform carbonates in a sequence stratigraphic framework. While some models indicate that meteoric cementation during sea-level…

The Icelandic mantle plume is probably the largest convective upwelling on Earth. It is generally agreed that its growth and evolution have had a significant influence on the geologic and…

The Cenozoic graben filling is currently investigated for heat storage potentials (DeepStor-project). The structural model based on 3D-seismic and borehole data constrains the geometry and sedimentary thicknesses of potential reservoirs…

Recent high resolution 3D seismic reflection data allowed to map Late Cenozoic Mass Transport Deposits (MTD) in great detail. These deformation structures in Miocene/Pliocene sediments are linked to the Eridanos…

In 2020, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE) published the Sub-areas Interim Report, identifying areas with favorable geological conditions for a deep repository site for storage of high-level radioactive waste…

The growing lithium demand and the dependence on poorly diversified oversea sources point towards a high strategic importance of domestic resources. Furthermore, potentially lower CO2 emissions and reduced areal use…

Higher temperatures and increasing droughts are likely to lead to a reduction in available water resources in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. Concurrently, there is an increasing demand for water due to…

Partition coefficients (D) depend on temperature, pressure, redox conditions, and on the chemical composition of solid and liquid. Trace element modeling of evolution of the Lunar Magma Ocean (LMO) rely…

Mongolia is a sparsely populated, resource-rich country with a wide range of different mineral deposits and mining activities in size and quality of operation, distributed over a vast area of…

New palynological and geochemical data from the KB Rehburg-2 core covering the German Wealden (W1-4) illustrate the unique development of this depositional setting. Despite the temporary isolation of the Lower…

Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, is one of the oldest lakes in northern Central America. Its sedimentary record contains the signal in precipitation variability of the last four interglacial-glacial cycles (420-14…

The ecology and structure of many tropical coral reefs have altered markedly over the past few decades. Drivers of this degradation range from direct local damage from destructive human practices…

Rock salt is a valuable commodity for the food and fertiliser industries. It is also used as a host for artificial underground structures, such as caverns. As part of Germany’s…

Geothermal facilities in the North German Basin are frequently affected by corrosion and scaling due to high salinity as well as microbial induced corrosion. To study biofilm formation, corrosion processes…

The North German Basin (NGB) is known for its capacity for geological storage applications. However, due to limited data availability, the data first needs to be collected from different sources…

The working area is situated in the Monticiano-Roccastrada Zone, an interfering metamorphic core complex of Tertiary age – constituent of the Mid Tuscan Ridge – , where subduction-related, blueschist facies…

A specialized workflow incorporating two innovative computing algorithms has been developed to understand and quantify natural hydrogen generation through the serpentinization of ultramafic rocks. This approach integrates geological, geophysical, structural,…

The pore space in siliciclastic rocks is one of the most important petrophysical properties in reservoir rock characterization. Of particular interest is the 3D distribution of pore space and permeability…

The dewatering and subsequent drainage of fluids from porous sediments in forearc regions control the frictional behavior of the plate boundary décollement and all other faults in the forearc. Site…

The crystalline basement below the giant Norwegian Troll field has been subject to research and publication for many decades. Still no well bore has penetrated the deep crystalline basement. An…

The DFG-funded project Chatseis (BU3894/3-1, KO6375/2-1) intends to combine high-resolution seismic reflection imaging and full waveform inversion (FWI) for better understanding of overdeepened valleys. By combining both methods, we expect…

Within the framework of the BMBF-funded project „PyroLith“ (FKZ: 03XP0336C), which deals with the recovery of lithium from NMC-type LIB via a combined pyro- and hydrometallurgical process route, two slag…

We analysed the recent (2019 – 2021) brecciated carbonaceous chondrite falls Flensburg (C1), Tarda (C2,) Kolang (CM1/2), Aguas Zarcas (CM2), and Winchcombe (CM2) together with Murchison and Paris for their…

Although alkaline melts represent an important fraction of the magmatism in ocean islands, there is a lack of chemical diffusion data in such compositions. We present here the result of…

The Triassic Skagerrak Formation in the Central Graben of the North Sea is a fluvial-lacustrine succession that is historically difficult to subdivide in the subsurface into lithostratigraphic units, and to…

The 18O/16O ratio of cherts (δ18Ochert) increases monotonically by ca. 15 ‰ from the Archean to present. As oxygen isotope fractionation in the silica-water system is temperature-dependent, this trend has…

With the recently announced climate neutrality for the year 2060, there are plenty of questions in China about the future and the existence of the hard coal mining industry. With…

The super-continent Pangea was characterised by strong continentality because of climatic change from an icehouse earth during late Pennsylvanian and early Permian via an increasingly warm earth during middle–late Permian…

The terminal Ediacaran Urusis Formation of the Nama Group (southern Namibia and northwestern South Africa) is a fossiliferous, mixed carbonate-siliciclastic succession with numerous silicified volcanic tuff interbeds. Studies of the…

Achieving sustainable and climate-friendly space heating and cooling is essential to the energy transition. Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) is a promising technology to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions compared…

Clay cements can occur pervasively throughout larger volumes of sandstone, thereby affecting the reservoir properties significantly. They affect irreducible water content and pore surface roughness. Moreover, any induced fluid or…

Lithium isotopes are the best tracers of weathering intensity, but little is known about the processes that fractionate them in highly weathered settings, where secondary minerals play a dominant role…

The sealing potential of geological formations (“cap rocks”) plays an important role in long-term industry projects associated with mine water rebound, carbon sequestration and nuclear waste disposal. It is an…

The expression “Rock+Acid+Water -> Clays+Ions+Bicarbonate” may seem simple, but it encompasses many complex processes working in the Earth’s Critical Zone (CZ). The SE United States Calhoun CZ Observatory (O) has…

This contribution uses a recently published global clay mineral inventory of the critical zone to assess how well clay mineral assemblages reflect climate. The relative abundance of the main clay…

Cliffs line many erosional coastlines. Localized failures can cause land loss and hazard, and impact ecosystems and sediment routing. Links between cliff erosion and forcing mechanisms are poorly constrained, due…

One of the limits of planetary habitability of Earth and other water-rich planets relates to the instability with respect to global glaciation, a fundamental property of the climate system caused…

The waterworks Lindau (Zerbst) are an important part of the interconnected system of drinking water supply in the region of Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The pumped water is exclusively fed by…

Global population growth and prosperity will result in increased raw material- and energy consumption. Countries such as China, India and Russia likely achieve today’s European living standards and related raw…

The Sprendlinger Horst represents the northern extension of the Odenwald basement which is flanking the Upper Rhine Graben to the northeast. Several small, isolated basins filled by lacustrine sediments of…

The rise of dinosaurs during the Late Triassic was a pivotal event in the history of life on Earth, which led to them becoming dominant members of terrestrial ecosystems throughout…

The Copper Age fortification of Los Millares is located 15 km north of Almería in Andalusia. At least between 3,541 BC (+/- 92 years) and 2,591 BC (+/- 22 years)…

The Little Ice Age was a period of colder climate and extended glaciation mainly observed in Europe and North America between the middle of the 14th and the end of…

The reaction of serpentinized peridotites with CO2-bearing fluids to listvenite (quartz-carbonate rocks) requires massive fluid flux and maintained permeability despite volume increase. Here we investigate listvenites and serpentinites samples from…

The Limpopo Belt in southern Africa represents a high-grade gneiss terrane located between the Kaapvaal Craton to the south and the Zimbabwe Craton to the north, and is subdivided into…

The supply of fresh minerals to Earth’s surface by erosion is thought to modulate global climate by removing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) through silicate weathering. In turn, weathering of accessory…

The storage of CO2 in deeply buried geological formations provides an important contribution to mitigate residual emissions from heavy industry in order to limit global warming below 2 °C. Robust…

The shallow water ecosystems of Oman are subject to intense seasonal upwelling and unlike many other oligotrophic tropical areas, are impacted by strong, seasonal nutrient-rich eutrophic conditions. The environmental conditions…

For a robust interpretation in sedimentary provenance analysis studies (SPA) a combination of multiple methods is usually applied to a selected number of samples. To circumvent effects that perturb the…

Easy web access to useful and reliable mineral information for the whole of Europe is the main objective of the extension of the M4EU base in the GeoERA project Mineral…

Technology critical elements (TCEs) are widely understudied in aquatic systems. Many unknowns particularly are linked to the mechanistic understanding of TCE transport mechanisms in contrasting river systems. In this work,…

Recently, high precision isotope measurements revealed anomalies of the short-lived 182W and 142Nd system in modern Ocean Island Basalts (OIBs) [1, 2]. These anomalies indicate the presence of an ancient…

The geology of the Weser river terraces to the south of Hamelin is characterized by Quaternary sediments, consisting of thin alluvium and several meters of sand and gravels, overlying the…

The layer-cake strata of the epeiric Anisian-Ladinian Muschelkalk are devoid of large-scale architectural elements, e. g. steep clinoforms of a progradional platform slope. This resulted in a simplified approach in…

The layer-cake strata of the epeiric Anisian-Ladinian Muschelkalk are devoid of large-scale architectural elements, e. g. steep clinoforms of a progradional platform slope. This resulted in a simplified approach in…

Here, we map a series of stalagmites from Asturias, Spain, by laser ablation inductively-coupled-plasma mass spectrometry and confocal laser scanning (fluorescence) microscopy and discuss the origins of trace element and…

The grain-scale mechanisms of hydration of mafic lower crustal rocks are investigated on chemical maps of continuous rock sections (20 x 2 cm) of partially amphibolitized samples from the Hustad…

The Greek island of Nisyros, located in the Aegean Sea and part of the Cyclades Arc, is known for its hydrothermal alterations and phreatic explosions, forming the Stefanos crater. Sudden…

Geoscientific questions are increasingly relevant in our daily life. However, the public awareness of geoscientific topics is very limited. Therefore, it is important to inverse the visibility of geoscientific challenges…

We compared artificial neural networks (ANN), frequency ratio (FR), logistic regression (LR), and weights of evidence (WoE) for landslide susceptibility mapping in the Hunza Valley, Pakistan. We applied different data…

Continuous limnic archives may record millions of years of climatic and environmental change at their locality. Typically, such archives reflect environmental conditions in the lakes’ catchments, but also the imprint…

With the new Radiation Protection Act, the EU member states are required to identify so-called „radon prone areas“. In Germany, the federal states are accounting for this task. An important…

High-resolution speleothem paleoclimate records with annual to seasonal resolution are helpful for detailed analysis of climatic changes with limited duration (e.g., volcanic climate impacts), but also for longer-duration events (e.g.,…

Thoron contribution to the inhaled dose is often neglected due to its shorter half-life and lack of strong gamma emissions that hinder its measurement. However, numerous studies report a significant…

Phase changes in the mantle have long been known to play a major role for convection in a one-component mantle. When considering cases with depleted ambient upper mantle and upwelling…

Iron oxides are important materials for Geoscience but also for basic science and applied technologies (Kupenko et al., 2019). Iron monoxide is likely to be the final constituent of the…

North Atlantic rifting during the Palaeocene-Eocene was accompanied by explosive volcanic eruptions. These led to distribution of about 200 ash layers of mainly basaltic composition covering wide areas of NW…

New insights into the Lower Cretaceous sediments can be gained from a recently drilled core (KB Rehburg-2, Lower Saxony, Germany) covering 180 m of Berriasian strata. Stratigraphic assignment is based…

Middle Jurassic Opalinus Clay (OPA) is considered as host rock for the disposal of heat-generating high-level radioactive waste. For the present study, samples from the Mont Terri rock laboratory (Switzerland)…

Studying active hydrothermal systems in the deep-sea provides unique opportunities for furthering our understanding of how polymetallic seafloor massive sulfide accumulations form. The possibility of sampling the ore-forming fluids that…

Accurate geothermal reservoir modeling relies on a comprehensive understanding of subsurface properties. This study focuses on the Schönbrunn/Eichigt granite complex in Saxony, aiming to develop a detailed 3D model for…

In times of steadily increasing demand for food due to the continuous growth of the world population, herbicides like glyphosate are heavily used to ensure the supply of crops all…

Conceptual change research is an important field of science education research. This also applies to geoscience education (e.g. Guffey & Slater 2020). Despite the high importance of student conceptions for…

Micro X-ray Fluorescence (MXRF) spectrometers enable non-destructive and elemental analysis of a wide variety of solid samples with a lateral resolution of a few tens of micrometers using focusing optics….

The ammonites from upper Coniacian to middle to upper Santonian of the Siah-Kuh section in Zagros basin, west of Iran have been described and illustrated. Three ammonite species from the…

The identification of redox-states and -cycling in the paleo-ocean is typically based on the application of geochemical proxies in the geological record. In particular total organic carbon (TOC) and total…

Chromitites are economically relevant sources for chromium, and platinum-group elements (PGE). Since chromium is resistant to corrosion and abrasion, it is a vital item in stainless (74%), alloy steel markets…

Exploration was recently carried out on the sediment-hosted Dolostone Ore Formation (DOF) Cu-Co mineralization, in the Kunene Region of northwestern Namibia, in the pursuit of new sources of Co. Sharing…

Heat transfer through the upper crust is primarily controlled by magma flow, heat conduction and hydrothermal fluid flow. The interplay between magma and fluid flow processes is essential for geothermal…

Future exploration for mineral resources will target greater depths and submarine settings, which is costly and technically challenging. For this development, numerical modeling can be used to identify the governing…

Magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits form our largest resources of Cu, Mo, Sn and W and are formed by fluids released from magmatic intrusions into a hydrothermal system within the country rock….

High Field Strength Elements (HFSE) are a powerful proxy to investigate specific processes occurring in complex magmatic settings. Being only little released by slab derived fluids/melts, HFSE are not easily…

The concentrations of Ge and other moderately volatile elements (MVE) in iron meteorites vary by orders of magnitude, however, the origin of these variations is poorly understood and nebular as…

On top of Mt. Bobija, located in Western Serbia and mainly composed of silt- and limestone, outcrops of a massive triassian sulfide ore body with pyrite, sphalerite, galena, tetrahedrite, and…

The up to 2000 m thick Zechstein succession was deposited in an epicontinental sea during the Late Permian. These deposits are virtually fossil-free and do not contain radiometrically datable volcanic…

The lithium isotopic composition (δ7Li) of marine carbonates is known as a proxy for the chemical weathering intensity of silicate rocks. To evaluate the role of weathering as a sink…

Reconstructing the climate of the past requires archives that bear proxy information on temperature, precipitation, or atmospheric composition, for example. In this study we use contour marks as potential water…

Aragonite and high-Mg calcite are abundant in modern, neritic temperate water systems but are nearly absent from their fossil counterparts. Dissolution of these metastable mineral phases will often leave no…

Mantle-like oxygen isotope compositions in zircons from Eo- and Paleoarchean tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorites (TTG) suites have been taken as evidence for the formation of early continental crust from juvenile hydrated basalts that…

Investigating rare metal potentials of the Alpine regions is of great importance to progress towards future supply independence. Sphalerite is an important carrier of Co, In, Ga, Ge, and Sb,…

This study is dedicated to a quantitative assessment of two different-scale impulsive geomorphic events in proglacial areas. The study site is the Djankuat River catchment in the Caucuses. The first…

Any keen observer has noticed that valleys show a large variability in their shapes, explained by the incision and widening processes. However, valley widening processes and rate are still poorly…

The floors of river-valleys range from kilometer wide, densely populated plains to deeply incised gorges with narrow or no floodplains. Valley cross-sections are the product of the interplay between tectonic…

Islands are interesting geomorphic features because they possess a well defined base level. Non-volcanic islands, in particular, are the product of rifting of a small continental fragment such that they…

The remediation of the former uranium deposit site Königstein faces the problem to restore the groundwater level to its original state, because the uranium was leached with sulfuric acid from…

For rocky planets it is typically assumed that they are able to differentiate into a silicate mantle and a metal core, due to the fact that metals are denser than…

Models of core formation involve equilibration of metal and silicate in a deep magma corresponding to pressure and temperature conditions above 50 GPa and 3500 K (e.g. 1, 2). Over…

This talk presents a multi-method approach to construct a conclusive new correlation model for Neoproterozoic glacial units of southern Namibia. Therefore, ten different sections and a variety of samples were…

Meteoric 10Be is introduced to the ground surface as fallout from cosmic-ray production in the atmosphere, while 9Be is a trace element released by mineral weathering.  The 10Be/9Be ratio in soil…

The Ruhr Basin in Germany is one of the most extensively studied 3D rock volumes due to decades of subsurface coal mining. Mine flooding associated with the closure of the…

Every country has a different approach to of climate change adaptation based on local context and needs. This presentation gives an overview how the Netherlands and Germany approach sustainability, and…

Convective mantle flow in terrestrial planets is governed by a temperature- and pressure-dependent rheology. This results in a stagnant-lid regime observed on most terrestrial planets. Plastic deformation can lead to…

The overall amount of metals and their variety used for technical applications has been subject to a steep increase during the past decades and is forecast to further develop. Growing…

The European Variscides host significant resources of energy and technology critical raw materials (ETRs) associated to various types of hydrothermal systems. Hydrothermal mineralization in central and western Europe is mainly…

Geothermal power plants produce a large volume of brine for power generation. Since these brines are the product of long-term water-rock interactions at elevated temperatures at depth, they contain dissolved…

Of the more than 200 metal ore occurrences and deposits discovered on Slovenian territory, several have been developed into significant mines (e.g. the Idrija Hg mine or the Mežica Pb-Zn-Mo…

The global objective of achieving net zero emissions is driving significant decarbonisation of energy and transport, with a shift towards renewable energy sources and electric vehicles. It is now widely…

The Liguro-Provencal-basin was formed as a back-arc basin of the retreating Calabrian-Apennines subduction zone during the Oligocene and Miocene. The resulting rotation of the Corsica-Sardinia block is associated with rifting,…

The Pamir-Tian Shan-Hindu Kush orogenic segment at the western edge of the India-Asia collision stands high, reaches deep, transitions from flat to rugged, deforms truly 3D, and stretches wide beyond…

Carbonatites are igneous rocks with significant concentrations of rare earth elements (REEs) and other important metals. Despite their economic potential, their origin and evolution are poorly understood. Crustal contamination can…

The limited preservation of ancient crustal material poses a challenge for understanding the composition of Earth’s early crust. As a result of poor preservation and near-ubiquitous overprinting by later geological…

The La Baja Guajira Basin (LBGB) is the primary gas-producing region of Colombia and represents South America’s northernmost prolongation. This study presents an analysis of regional 2D-seismic reflection data of…

Quantitative paleotemperature estimates from the Precambrian are rare due to the scarcity of well-preserved sediments and uncertainties about the isotope composition of ancient oceans. Carbonate triple oxygen isotope measurements (δ18O…

Highly frustrated magnetic systems are of great interest due to their exceptional properties and are topic of active research in solid state sciences. Within these systems, there are promising structures…

Carbonatites host the main REE deposits in the world, with bastnaesite being the main REE-bearing mineral of interest. However, the nature of the enrichment process, magmatic vs hydrothermal, is still…

Industrial and agricultural waste streams (waste waters, sludges, tailings etc.) which contain high concentrations of NH4+, PO43- and transition metals are environmentally harmful and toxic pollutants. Typically, separate pathways have…

The triple oxygen isotope composition of authigenic quartz allows reconstructing formation temperature and isotopic composition of the fluid with which the quartz had equilibrated [1]. We studied authigenic quartz grains…

GFZ Data Services, an international research data repository for the Earth sciences domain and Allocating Agent for the IGSN Global Sample Number (IGSN), is operated under the umbrella of the…

Methane (CH4) is an important greenhouse gas, but our understanding of the magnitude of its sources is fraught with considerable uncertainties. Quite neglected in early atmospheric methane budget studies, Earth’s…

When it comes to the mining and use of local geological raw materials, a reflexive, sometimes undifferentiated social rejection arises. The ore, hydrocarbon and coal consumption have now been reduced…

The Late Paleozoic North Saxon Volcanic Complex, situated east of the city Leipzig (Germany) hosts two nested caldera systems: the Rochlitz (RVS) and the slightly younger Wurzen Volcanic System (WVS)….

Repeated seismic activity can cause progressive failure of rock masses due to material fatigue [1]. To simulate induced seismic loading, an iron ore with alternating quartz- and magnetite-rich layers from…

By our DFG funded project “On sedimentation pattern of the eastern Canary Islands”, we are concentrating on two sediment archives, the dune sequences on Fuerteventura and the Vega sequences on…

We present a new high-resolution XRF dataset offshore Africa in the equatorial Atlantic to investigate elemental ratios reflecting e.g. terrigenous input and/or bioproductivity. The data will be analyzed cyclostratigraphically using…

The characteristics of half-precession (HP) cycles (~9,000 – 12,000 years) are still poorly understood, despite their appearance in numerous records. Previous studies on European terrestrial and marine records indicate a…

Tridacna shells feature macroscopically visible bands (at mm scale) as well as microscopically visible daily banding (at µm scale). To evaluate the lifespan of an individual, the presumably seasonal macroscopically…

Die Überwachung der Bereitstellung von Georessoucen stellt eine komplexe Herausforderung dar. Bildlich gesprochen handelt es sich um Puzzle bei dem nicht alle Teile vorhanden sind und nicht vollständig klar ist,…

Das Geologische Landesamt Hamburg wird in diesem Jahr 75 Jahre alt. Die Tätigkeiten der Vorläuferinstitutionen reichen über 100 Jahre zurück. Die heutige Kernaufgabe des GLAHH ist nach GeolDG die Sammlung,…

Die Südharz Kali GmbH, eine 100%ige Tochtergesellschaft der South Harz Potash Ltd., eine in Australien gelistete Aktiengesellschaft, hat 2017 das Bergwerkseigentum (BWE) Ohmgebirge erworben und beabsichtigt dort die Gewinnung von…

Das natürlich geschlossene System (NGS), das von (Stensen Niels 1669) begründet wurde, ist ein Modell des Komplexes von exakt gemessenen Parametern dualer Gesteinssysteme der Geologie. Die angewandte Messtechnik in den…

Neben geologischen besitzen Gesteinsgrenzen auch die mathematische Eigenschaft der Gleichheit oder der Kongruenz. Im Einheitskubus des NGS können durch die Mittelsenkrechte vier kongruente Dreiecke in der lotrechten Ebene und vier…

Die Sächsische Staatsregierung verfolgt mit ihrer Rohstoffstrategie unter anderem das Ziel, die Entwicklung des gesellschaftlichen Rohstoffbewusstseins zu unterstützen. Das Rohstoffbewusstsein ist im Unterschied zum Umweltbewusstsein in der Bevölkerung weit weniger…

In less than one decade the open-access data journal Earth System Science Data (ESSD, a member of the Copernicus Open Access Publisher family) grew from a start-up venture into one…

The App UmweltNAVI Niedersachsen (see the poster in session „4.10“ or https://umwelt-navi.info/) communicates geospatial data to a broad user community of education, individuals or experts. In order to adequately present…

Rohstoffvorkommen und deren Gewinnung spielen in Sachsen seit Jahrhunderten eine große Rolle. Erzen und Spaten kommt dabei eine besondere Bedeutung zu, begründete doch vor allem der Bergbau auf Silber den…

The goal of the energy transition is to enable future generations a fair and just opportunity to live without bearing the costs of the doings of previous generations. This transition,…

The amount of digital subsurface and geoscience data has grown exponentially over the past few decades with many companies, researchers and government organizations dealing with rapidly growing Petabyte-scales of data….

The Earth’s surface is under constant change. Tectonic, climatic, biogenic and anthropogenic forcings have a measurable impact on erosion, weathering and surface uplift. Information on the interactions among these processes…

The chemical inventory of Archean paleosols provides crucial constraints on early paleoclimate and paleoredox conditions. However, it often remains ambiguous whether recent weathering has also affected such early signals. This…

Pegmatites are major hosts for critical materials and are thus crucial for the green technology transition. Age information and geochemical constraints are fundamental to understand pegmatite genesis and are thus…

For several decades, there has been a widely accepted paradigm that „Germany is rich in poor ore deposits“. This paradigm was communicated with conviction especially by experts, i.e. geoscientists active…

Precise future predictions of Mediterranean sea surface temperature (SST) variability as one of the most sensitive regions to climate change are hampered by insufficient knowledge of accurate SST reconstructions in…

Sustainable development of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) requires a comprehensive understanding of the in-situ stress conditions. Among several techniques developed in the last decades, Hydraulic Testing of Pre-existing Fractures (HTPF)…

To extract heat from tight deep subsurface formations, hydraulic stimulation is used to create efficient heat exchangers in the context of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS). Successful geothermal reservoir initiation requires…

The formation of mineral reaction textures such as coronae or symplectites is commonly attributed to post metamorphic peak processes. Thus, they can be used to make implications about the retrograde…

Present as gypsum (CaSO4∙2H2O), bassanite (CaSO4∙0.5H2O) and anhydrite (CaSO4), calcium sulphates comprise a significant fraction of the surface and soil in the Atacama Desert.Field observation suggest a secondary formation process…

Archean tonalite-trondjemite-granodiorite (TTG) plutonic rocks provide a unique, yet imperfectly understood record of crustal formation. Due to the incomplete nature of this record, there are varying interpretations on the prevailing…

Southern Ocean paleoceanography provides key insights into how iron fertilization and oceanic productivity developed through Pleistocene ice-ages and their role in influencing the carbon cycle. We report the first high-resolution…

The weathering of silicate rocks removes CO2 from the atmosphere-ocean system on geological timescales but the time required for weathering intensity to respond to changes in climate is poorly constrained….

Voluminous pyroclastics are known to be formed in catastrophic caldera-forming eruptions. The reconstruction of the magma’s origin and lithospheric evolution beneath such calderas is still a challenging task in igneous…

The ongoing structural change from the hydrocarbon industry towards sustainable green energy is one of the challenges Europe (and the world) faces recently. In Germany, there are approximately 15,000 boreholes…

Geothermal power plants require reservoirs of high temperature, high flow rates and sustainable recharge. Typically, there is a trade-off between increasing temperatures and decreasing fluid availability (due to pore space…

The geothermal heat anomaly in northern Bavaria was first discovered in the late 1970s and has recently been more precisely localized. An elevated temperature of 57 °C estimated at a…

The lowlands of northern Germany and neighbouring countries have been subject to glaciation several times in the pleistocene. These glacial periods have left behind several erosional features, of which tunnel…

During drilling of the Gotthard Base Tunnel through the Central Alps the exposed fractured rocks and the frequent water inflows provided a deep insight into regional hydrogeological processes in orogenic…

The deep thermal field in the continental lithosphere varies significantly depending on the age of the lithosphere, its tectonic setting and the time since the last tectonic event. Accordingly, orogens…

Carbonatitic melts are subject to different processes during their ascent (e.g., fractional crystallization and crustal contamination), which may cause a strong change in their composition. Their original composition has not…

Submarine lobes are high aspect ratio sand-rich deposits that are fed by turbidity currents and debris flows via channels in deep-marine settings. As a major component of submarine fans, they…

The Bergell Pluton (BP) is a calc-alkaline intrusion located in the Italian Alps, north of the Insubrian Line. The intrusion continues into the Southern Steep Belt (SSB), an E-W-striking, north-block-up…

The nature of the shallow-crustal active faults has been widely studied to elucidate their stress accommodation mechanisms and response to the fault movement in terms of stress localizations and ultimately…

Aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) is comparatively rarely used in Germany. Since there is a lack of demonstration plants nationally, the goal of our BMBF-funded joint project “DemoSpeicher” (Development and…

In the past years numerous machine learning based applications have been introduced to the field of seismology. These applications for example address issues such as earthquake detection, event classification, feature…

During the past decades, cosmogenic nuclides, such as in-situ produced 10Be, evolved as state-of-the-art tool to quantify millennial-scale denudation in quartz-rich landscapes. However, applications of cosmogenic nuclides to carbonate-dominated lithologies…

Accurate determination of denudation rates is crucial for the quantification of Earth surface processes like soil formation and the consumption of CO2 during silicate weathering. In situ 10Be is the…

Many authors have used the chemical composition of peridotitic rocks from a variety of geological settings to estimate the composition of the upper mantle of the Earth, (PUM-primitive upper mantle)….

We present phase diagrams of variously enriched and depleted mantle rocks down to 800 kilometers depth and explore density as the parameter governing convection and compositional stratification. Some results are…

The Ruwai Pb-Zn-Ag skarn deposit is located within the Schwaner Mountain Complex in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is the largest polymetallic skarn deposit in Kalimantan with the resources is estimated…

Lake Melville is a fjord-type lake located in Labrador, Eastern Canada, as part of the Hamilton Inlet System. It is significantly characterised by its eastern connection to the Labrador Sea…

Modern carbonate systems such as reefs provide livelihood and ecosystem services, such as coastal protection and food security, for hundreds of millions of people. Fossil carbonate systems are important archives…

Fine-grained marine sediments are the largest permanent carbon sink on our planet. We chose the Helgoland Mud Area (HMA) as it represents the most important depocenter of such sediments in…

Femtosecond laser ablation coupled to MC-ICP-MS has been proven to be a powerful means to analyze isotope ratios of “non-traditional” stable isotope systems with high spatial resolution, precision and accuracy….

The results of the application of the mobile direct-prospecting technology of frequency-resonance processing and interpretation of satellite images and photographs in large areas and local areas of hydrogen degassing in…

Nachdem die Kalidüngemittelproduktion in den 1860er Jahren in Staßfurt, im nördlichen Harzvorland, ihre weltweite Premiere erlebte, sich zunächst auf das sogenannte Nordharz-Kalirevier beschränkte, begann auf Betreiben des preußischen Bergbeamten Pinno…

The Vogelsberg area located in Hessen, Germany, comprises the largest contiguous volcanic complex in Central Europe, covering an area of about 2300 km². After volcanic activity ceased during the Mid…

The Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute acts as a consultant for and supports the Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport (BMDV) and the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSV)…

The inaccessibility of geothermal reservoirs makes the accurate determination and monitoring of reservoir properties and conditions difficult and is a major problem in reservoir engineering. We present an approach for…

The Asse salt structure is a salt-cored anticline with steep, locally overthrusted flanks located in the Subhercynian Basin. It is an excellent example of salt structures in the North German…

In Central Europe, the about 1 km thick Buntsandstein was deposited in the large intracratonic Central European Basin (CEB). The Buntsandstein sedimentary succession displays a striking cyclicity of varying magnitude….

The residential sector consumes a significant amount of energy globally, with the majority being produced through the use of fossil fuels. Residential microgeneration technologies, such as photovoltaic systems and micro…

Speleothems provide a great opportunity for paleoclimate reconstruction because they occur almost worldwide and can be dated very precisely using the U-series disequilibrium method. The most commonly used climate proxies…

Reflection seismics is the most common geophysical method for obtaining structural images of the subsurface. It can image subsurface structures over large areas and depth ranges at high resolution. In…

With many countries deciding on deep geological disposal of high-level nuclear waste, the corrosion behaviour of the glassy waste matrix is of utmost importance. Multiple studies determined glass dissolution rates…

Modern-style plate tectonics is characterized by the global operation of deep and cold subduction involving ultrahigh-pressure and blueschist-facies metamorphism. This is a common process since the Neoproterozoic, but a couple…

In times of increasing demand for mineral resources, the collaborative project DESMEX-REAL aims to combine geophysical data from newly developed semi-airborne electromagnetic (sAEM) measurement systems with geological data from centuries…

Sustainable use of mineral resources that we need for energy storage, power generation and the transition to climate neutrality, and which is at the same time more efficient and integrated,…

The energy transition and the associated need for non-energy, mineral raw materials have prompted the German government to expand research and development activities along the entire value chain. It is…

In the BMBF-funded project PyroLith, a methodical approach for the recovery of Li from NMC type LIB via a combined pyro- and hydrometallurgical process route is being developed. For this…

Water stress is increasing in Northeast Germany due to climate change. New approaches for water management are needed to mitigate the impacts on the water system and water users. Therefore,…

In addition to its importance for basic scientific research, Citizen Science involving micrometeorites collected from the roofs of Berlin has a special potential for promoting scientific literacy and the understanding…

The new Dresden – Prague railway line is a Saxon vision. Since 2014, the Geological Survey of Saxony has been developing the geological 3D model on the basis of archive…

Aktuelle Entwicklungen im Bereich der nationalen und internationalen Rohstoffsicherung. Mit der Energie– und Mobilitätswende und der zunehmenden Digitalisierung befindet sich der globale Rohstoffsektor in einem grundlegenden Transformationsprozess. Auf der einen…

The Moodies Group is classically described as a synorogenic sequence of quartz-rich sandstone, conglomerate, fine-grained sediments with subordinate ferruginous sediments and volcanic components. A prominent basaltic lava (MdL) approx. mid-section…

Determining the tectonic evolution and thermal structure of a tectonic unit that experiences a subduction-related pressure temperature (P-T) loop is challenging. Within a single unit, P-T conditions can vary from…

The Outokumpu deposit is an ultramafic-hosted VMS deposit in Eastern Finland. It is of Paleoproterozoic age and discussed as polygenetic in origin. Its primary enrichment in Cu-Zn-Co-Ni is of economic…

Cation ordering in minerals at high temperatures is important for understanding the metamorphic processes in the interior of the Earth. Omphacite, (Na0.5,Ca0.5)(Al0.5,Mg0.5)Si2O6 undergoes an order transition from C2/c to P2/n…

The late early to early middle Eocene (~48 Ma) maar lake sediments of the famous Messel fossil-pit, located near Darmstadt, SW Germany, represent a prime archive for climate dynamics operating…

Fieldwork represents a highlight for most students in geosciences but is associated with challenges related to diversity. Due to long periods of absence, high costs, remote destinations, and physical and…

Although geoscientific topics (e. g. climate change, natural hazards, geoheritage) engage public, media and politicians, the visibility of geosciences as subject labs behind. Classic ways of public relations are still…

The scientific discipline „geology“ has relied on outcrops as the primary source of information since its beginnings. The initial equipment to analyse the rocks in these outcrops was simple: hammer,…

This virtual fieldtrip will lead the participants into the geopark „Vulkaneifel“. The aim of the fieldtrip is a) to introduce the geopark; b) to highlight the abilities of the smartphone…

Digitalisation helps to improve planning, make processes more transparent, save resources and counteract the staff shortages that will become even greater in the future. BAUER Resources GmbH has been using…

Seit über 300 Jahren wird Kaolin in Sachsen abgebaut. Ehemals allein zur Herstellung von Porzellan wird heute Kaolin auch in der Papierindustrie, Farben- und Lackindustrie und vielen weiteren Anwendungen verwendet….

Sachsen ist reich an Bodenschätzen und verfügt über einen einzigartigen geologischen Datenbestand. Einen signifikanten Anteil bilden von der SDAG Wismut erhobene Daten der Buntmetall- und Spaterkundung – finanziert aus dem…

Im Rahmen der geologischen Landesaufnahme werden in Hessen, wie in allen anderen Bundesländern auch, seit weit über 100 Jahren wertvolle Gesteinsproben (Bohrkerne, Handstücke, Fossilien, Mineralien) gesammelt, beschrieben, analysiert und archiviert….

The Mesozoic to Cenozoic intraplate to rift-related magmatic activity in central Europe spawned both, intrusive and extrusive carbonatites. Located within the intersection of the Regensburg-Leipzig and Gera-Jachýmov fault zones, the…

We all like to go on a discovery tour – regardless of age. And we like to use all our senses. But the most important thing in everything we do…

Recently, new age data have been published for the Variscan magmatism as well as for times of ore formation in the Erzgebirge (e.g., Breitkreuz et al., 2021; Burisch et al.,…

While the sedimentological development of the Quaternary in the northern Upper Rhine Graben is well researched, there is a lack of in-depth investigations for the underlying Iffezheim Formation. To close…

An accurate flow law for dislocation creep of quartzite is critical for the understanding of continental rheology and geodynamic models. Despite many years of effort, existing creep experiments have yielded…

A geochemical-mineralogical study carried out on a migmatite from the granulite zone of the Bushmanland Domain in the Grenville-cycle Namaqua-Natal Belt in southern Africa reveals an anatectic process largely controlled…

The Sadisdorf Sn-W-Li-Cu prospect, Germany, comprises magmatic-hydrothermal greisen and vein-style mineralization associated to a small alkali-feldspar granite porphyry. Petrographic and fluid inclusion data across the full extent of the deposit…

The formation of calcium carbonate from an amorphous precursor phase is a crystallization route selected by a large number of marine calcifiers. To date, however, only little is known about…

The Holstein interglacial is classified as the period between the end of the Elster glaciation to the beginning of the Fuhne glaciation. The deposits in Brandenburg are supplied by limnic…

The picturesque fjords along Norway’s coastline play an important role for the country’s tourism and aquaculture industry. Despite their economic importance for the country, surprisingly little is known about the…

Slow-slip events (SSEs), although widely recorded in various convergent margins globally, only recently have been reported in the Eastern Mediterranean, with one of them triggering the 2018 ~M7 Zakynthos Earthquake…

A great escarpment is characterized with extremely asymmetrical topography with a steep and high-relief mountain range rimming a low-relief high plateau. Measured erosion rates contradict the observed high relief of…

Deeply weathered soils are iconic components of the tropical critical zone. Being short of exchangeable nutrients, physical features beyond sheer depth determine more than elsewhere the provision of life-sustaining resources….

The architecture of the crust in intracontinental Western and Central Europe is well constrained by multidisciplinary geoscientific data. This low-strain intraplate setting is known for its widely distributed seismicity with…

The Pohjanmaa Belt in western Finland hosts orogenic Au deposits with enrichment in base metals, such as the Jouhineva Cu-Co-Au-Ag deposit (0.448 Mt at 0.811% Cu, 0.182% Co, 0.88 ppm…