Dieter F. Mertz
Institute for Geosciences

Currently funded projects


Paleoclimate reconstruction for the East African Rift from geochemical and isotope compositions of mammalian teeth and related geological environment
Collaboration with Prof. Dr. T. Brachert, Dr. D. Jacob (Mainz), Prof. F. Schrenk, Dr. O. Kullmer (Frankfurt)
DFG, Forschergruppe "Rift dynamics, uplift and climate change: Interdisciplinary research linking asthenosphere, lithosphere and atmosphere"
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Die Entwicklung postvariscischer Hydrothermalsysteme anhand von Korrelationen stabiler Isotopenverhältnisse oxydischer Mineralfazien
Collaboration with PD Dr. G. Brügmann (MPI für Chemie Mainz)
Mainzer Graduiertenkolleg "Stoffbestand und Entwicklung von Kruste und Mantel"
   
Melt generation and transport beneath the slow spreading Kolbeinsey Ridge
Co-applicant with Dr. K. Sims (WHOI)
NSF (USA)
   
Geochronology of recent Eifel volcanism
Collaboration with Prof. P. Renne (Berkeley)
DFG, Normalverfahren

 

Projects in review


Non-balanced volcanic and tectonic evolution of the Upper Rhine Graben
DFG, Normalverfahren
   
   
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