Geophysical Instrument Pool Potsdam

Projects

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Elbe Line

GFZ Potsdam and University of Aarhus

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2010, August  to 2012, July 31

• 20 EarthData recorders
• 20 Guralp ESP seismometers 

Elbe Line Project

This project aims at investigating by teleseismic receiver functions and seismological tomography, the crust and upper mantle along a north-south oriented profile about 350 km long from around the town of Ringkøbing in western Jutland to south of Hamburg in northwestern Germany. <BR>
A number of tectonic processes have affected the crust and uppermost mantle beneath southern Scandinavia and northern Germany: Precambrian crustal accretion in southern Baltica, Caledonian collision between Baltica and Avalonia along the Tornquist Suture Zone, followed by Variscan collision and formation of the North German and the Norwegian-Danish basins, and more recent magmatic activity to the south. This study is particularly focused on the closure of the Tornquist Sea and the Caledonian collision between Baltica and Avalonia.  The project is a cooperation between the University of Aarhus and the GFZ Potsdam.

PIs: Niels Balling, Frederik Tilmann, Rainer Kind

GFZ Potsdam
Prof. Dr. R. Kind
Phone: +49 (331) 288 1262
e-mail: kind(at)gfz-potsdam.de