Geodynamics of the Polar Regions

    Fachgebiet

    Geodynamics of the Polar Regions

    Prof. Dr. Cornelia Spiegel-Behnke


    1998 Diploma in Geology-Palaeontology,
    University of Kiel; 2001 PhD in Geology, University of Tübingen

    Employments:
    1998-2001 Institut of Geoscience, University of Tübingen; 2002-04 School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia; 2004-07 Institut of Geoscience, Universität of Tübingen

    Professor at Bremen University since 2007

    Fields of research:
    Geodynamik, Thermochronologie,
    Provenienzanalyse

    Our research deals with the geodynamic and structural evolution of the polar regions. The applied methods allow quantifying exhumation and denudation rates through time and space, offering clues to surface processes and geomorphic evolution. This in turn provides a better understanding of the coupling between processes of the upper crust with deep-seated processes in the lithosphere, and with the climatic evolution.


    Working Area

    Continental and adjacent marine areas of Antarctica, and of formerly adjacent regions of the Gondwana supercontinent (southern Africa, Madagascar, and India); Arctics: Svalbard, Greenland, and Canada


    Methods

    Fission Track and (U-Th)/He Analysis of apatite and zircon, analysis of cosmogenic nuclides, petrology, geochemistry, isotopegeochemistry, cryomicrothermometric analysis of fluid inclusions in minerals.


    Contact

    Telefon +49 421 218 - 65280
    cornelia.spiegel@uni-bremen.de
    http://www.geopol.uni-bremen.de