Coordination and structure 2020 - 2023

Coordination project

Working Group A

Working Group B

Working Group C

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Seismic experiments

• UNIBRA / DSEBRA: the German seismological contribution to AlpArray (Activity Field A)

Project report January 2019

Ruhr Universität Bochum - Prof. W. Friederich

Universität Leipzig - Prof. M. Korn

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Prof. T. Meier

Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main - Prof. G. Rümpker

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Prof. F. Tilmann

WWU Münster - Prof. C. Thomas

LMU München - Dr. J. Wassermann

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• LOBSTER: Ligurian Ocean Bottom Seismology and Tectonics Research (Activity Field B)

Project report August 2019

GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel - Prof. H. Kopp

GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel  - Dr. D. Lange

GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel  - Dr. I. Grevemeyer

The field reports can be found here.

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• SWATH D: Providing seismological data for the SPP 4D-MB, A dense seismological station network in the Central and Eastern Alps (Activity Field D)

Project report August 2019

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Prof. M. Weber

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Prof. F. Tilmann

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Dr. C. Haberland

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Research projects phase 1 (2017-2020)

• Imaging structure and geometry of Alpine slabs by full waveform inversion of teleseismic body waves

Project report August 2019

Ruhr Universität Bochum - Prof. W. Friederich

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Prof. T. Meier

JGU Mainz - Prof. B. Kaus

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• Slab factory – ocean formation and subduction in the Western Alps

Project report August 2019

Universität Bonn - Prof. N. Froitzheim

Universität Bonn - Dr. R. Keppler

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• Constraining the near-surface response to lithospheric reorientation - Structural thermochronology along AlpArray geophysical transects

Project report August 2019

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - Dr. C. Glotzbach

Georg-August Universität Göttingen - Prof. J. Kley

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• Earth surface response to Quaternary faulting and shallow crustal structure in the eastern Adria-Alpine collision zone and the Friulian plain

Project report August 2019

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena - Dr. C. Gruetzner

RWTH Aachen - Prof. K. Reicherter

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam -  Prof. F. von Blanckenburg

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• Linking surface kinematics to deep structure of the Adriatic indenter near a potential subduction-polarity switch – the Giudicarie Belt (Southern Alps)

Project report August 2019

FU Berlin - Prof. M. R. Handy

FU Berlin - Prof. E. Le Breton

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Dr. C. Haberland

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• Constraining the dynamics of the present-day Alps with 3D geodynamic inverse models

Project report August 2019

EGU 2020 presentation - video

Ruhr Universität Bochum - Prof. W. Friederich

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Prof. T. Meier

JGU Mainz - Prof. B. Kaus

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• Alpine subduction revisited – new structural and elastic wave velocity models for improved geophysical imaging towards greater depths

Project report February 2020

Universität Bonn - Dr. R. Keppler

Universität Halle - Prof. M. Stipp

Universität Bonn - Prof. N. Froitzheim

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•  Seismic imaging of the newly discovered Sub-Lithospheric Discontinuity (SLD) in the larger Alpine region

Project report August 2019

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Prof. R. Kind

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• From Top to Bottom- Seismicity, motion patterns & stress distribution in the Alpine Crust

Project report March 2020

FU Berlin - Dr. J. Kummerow

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Dr. S. Cesca

LMU München - Dr. J. Wassermann

BGR Hannover - Dr. T. Plenefisch

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• Generation, destruction and of lithosphere of the Ligurian Sea

Project report August 2019

GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel  - Dr. D. Lange

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Dr. M. Thorwart

GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel  - Dr. I. Grevemeyer

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• Quantifying crustal fluid flow and its role in the thermal structure of the Alps

Project report August 2019

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Dr. E. Luijendijk

Universität Salzburg - Prof. C. von Hagke

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• Surface Wavefield Tomography of the Alpine Region to Constrain Slab Geometries, Lithospheric Deformation and Asthenospheric Flow in the Alpine Region

Project report August 2019

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Prof. T. Meier

Ruhr Universität Bochum - Prof. W. Friederich

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Prof. J. Ebbing

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• Neogene Paleoelevation and Paleoclimate of the Central Alps – Linking Earth surface processes to lithospheric dynamics

Project report August 2019

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main - Prof. A. Mulch

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - Prof. T. Ehlers

Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum , Frankfurt - Dr. K. Methner

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - Dr. S. Mutz

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• Inverse and forward multiscale numerical modeling of the Alpine orogeny (IFMMALPO)

Project report March 2020

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Dr. A. Petrunin

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• Understanding subduction by linking surface exposures of subducted and exhumed crut to geophysical images of slabs

Project report August 2019

FU Berlin - Dr. J. Pleuger

FU Berlin - Prof. T. John

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Prof. F. Tilmann

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Dr. X. Yuan

JGU Mainz - Prof. B. Kaus

FU Berlin - Prof. M. R. Handy

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Dr. J. Mechie

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• Stress transfer and Quaternary faulting in the northern Alpine foreland

Project report March 2020

RWTH Aachen - Prof. K. Reicherter

Karlsruhe Institut of Technology - Prof. J. Ritter

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• Mantle deformation beneath the Alps and the physics of the subduction polarity switch - Constraints from thermomechanical modelling, seismic anisotropy and waveform modelling

Project report August 2019 part I

Project report August 2019 part II

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main - Prof. G. Rümpker

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main - Prof. H. Schmeling

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• Integrated 3D structural, thermal, gravity and rheological modeling of the Alps and their forelands – INTEGRATE

Project report October 2020

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Prof. M. Scheck-Wenderoth

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Prof. J. Ebbing

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Dr. J. Bott

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Prof. H.-J. Götze

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• FB-4D - Foreland basin evolution records the effects of plate reorganization, surface evolution and crustal deformation on mountain building

Project report November 2020

Universität Salzburg - Prof. C. von Hagke

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Dr. E. Luijendijk

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Dr. D. Hindle

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Prof. J. Kley

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 Research projects phase 2 (2020-2023)

• How large are tectonic deviations from lithostatic pressure in a continent‐derived, lithologically heterogeneous Alpine UHP nappe (Koralpe‐Saualpe‐Pohorje Complex, Austria and Slovenia)?

FU Berlin - Dr. J. Pleuger

FU Berlin - Prof. T. John

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• AlpShape2 – Present-day kinematics of the Southern and Eastern Alps

GFZ Potsdam - Dr. S. Metzger

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• Imaging the Alpine crust with ambient-noise tomography: linking surface observations to deep structures

FU Berlin - Dr. E.D. Kästle

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• Constraining the geodynamic evolution of the Alps with sedimentary provenance and detrital thermochronometer data

TU Darmstadt - Dr. L. Stutenbecker

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - Dr. C. Glotzbach

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - Prof. T. Ehlers

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• Integrated records of tectonic and climate interactions in the Northern Alpine Foreland Basin sedimentary architecture

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - Dr. N. A. Tomašević
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - Prof. T. Ehlers

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• Mountainbuilding in the Eastern and Southern Alps - large earthquakes and active faults

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena - Dr. C. Gruetzner

RWTH Aachen - Prof. K. Reicherter

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena - Dr. K. Ustaszewski

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• Reconstructing Eastward Propagation of Surface Uplift in the Alps: Integrating Stable Isotope Palaeoaltimetry and Palaeoclimate Modelling (REAL)

Senckenberg Institute Frankfurt - Dr. Maud Meijers

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main - Prof. A. Mulch

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - Dr. S. Mutz

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - Prof. T. Ehlers

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• Glacial and erosional contributions to Late Quaternary uplift of the European Alps

FU Berlin/GFZ Potsdam - Prof. D. Scherler

Universität Potsdam/PIK - Prof. R. Winkelmann

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• Load/Unload Mechanisms of the Seismically Active Mt. Hochstaufen, Bad Reichenhall (Germany) - Identified by Seismological, Geodetic and Meteorological Aspects

LMU München - Dr. A. Schlömer

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• Transpression and transtension in the Eastern Alps (TATEA): Kinematics and age of a sinistral wrench zone

TU Bergakademie Freiberg - Dr. S. Schneider

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• QDIS: Quantifying Detachment Induced Surface Uplift in the Alps

Universität Bayreuth - Dr. M. Thielmann

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• The last pulse – dating the youngest deformation in the Alps with ESR thermochronometry (LUNAR)

Leibnitz Institute for Applied Geophysics - Dr. S. Tsukamoto

Universität Salzburg - Prof. C. von Hagke

Leibnitz Institute for Applied Geophysics - Dr. D.C. Tanner

Leibnitz Universität Hannover - Dr. C. Brandes

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• Applying scattered wave tomography and joint inversion of high-density (SWATH D) geophysical and petrophysical datasets to unravel Eastern Alpine crustal structure

Ruhr Universität Bochum - Prof. W. Friederich

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Prof. F. Tilmann

FU Berlin - Dr. J. Pleuger

FU Berlin - Prof. T. John

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• Quantifying the Effects of Mantle Processes and Climate Variability on Hinterland Denudation in the Central and Eastern Alps since the Oligocene

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - Dr. P. R. Eizenhöfer

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - Prof. T. Ehlers

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• Constraints on Quaternary processes in the Eastern Alps from a new detailed image of seismicity

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Dr. S. Cesca

FU Berlin - Dr. J. Kummerow

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• Identifying fossil fault activity along the eastern Periadriatic Fault system by means of combined OSL- and ESR-dating of fault gouges (NE Italy, S Austria and N Slovenia)

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena - Dr. K. Ustaszewski

Leibnitz Institute for Applied Geophysics - Dr. S. Tsukamoto

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• Linking the deep structure to surface deformation: Body wave tomography of the Ligurian Sea and South-Western Alps

GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel  - Dr. D. Lange

FU Berlin - Prof. E. Le Breton

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• A comprehensive high resolution 3D P- and S-wave velocity model for the Alpine mountain chain using local earthquake data: Constraining crustal structure, lithologies and mountain-building processes

Karlsruhe Institut of Technology - Prof. A. Rietbrock

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Dr. C. Haberland

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• ThinkALPS - Thermokinematic models including Uncertainty of Geometry in the Alps

RWTH Aachen - Prof. F. Wellmann

Universität Salzburg - Prof. C. von Hagke

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• Switching pro- and retro-wedges and peripheral basins in the Eastern Alps - clues to a change in lithospheric structure?

FU Berlin - Prof. M. R. Handy

GFZ Helmoltz-Zentrum Potsdam - Dr. K. Bauer

FU Berlin - Prof. A. Bernhardt

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• Identifying Main Lithospheric Structures in the Eastern Alpine Domain by Joint Inversion of Receiver Function and Surface Wave Measurements for Seismic Anisotropy

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Prof. T. Meier

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main - Prof. G. Rümpker

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Prof. R. Kind

FU Berlin - Prof. M. R. Handy

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• High- and ultrahigh-pressure rock exhumation and tectonic structure of the southeastern Austroalpine crust

Universität Bonn - Prof. N. Froitzheim

Universität Halle - Prof. M. Stipp

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• Deformation patterns in relation to the deep configuration of the lithosphere of the Alps and their forelands – DEFORM

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Prof. M. Scheck-Wenderoth

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Dr. J. Bott

GFZ Helmholz-Zentrum Potsdam - Dr. M. Cacace

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Prof. H.-J. Götze

JGU Mainz - Prof. B. Kaus

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• From plate tectonic reconstruction to 3D geodynamic models of the Alpine orogeny

JGU Mainz - Prof. B. Kaus

FU Berlin - Prof. E. Le Breton

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• The Brenner base tunnel (BBT) natural laboratory – From cross-section construction over fabric and elastic anisotropy analysis to 4D structural modeling

Universität Halle - Prof. M. Stipp

Leibnitz Institute for Applied Geophysics - Dr. D.C. Tanner

Leibnitz Universität Hannover - Dr. C. Brandes

Universität Halle - Dr. R. Kühn