Inhaltsbereich
Dr. Karen Agneta Leever
Helmholtz Centre PotsdamGFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section 3.1, Lithosphere Dynamics
Telegrafenberg, C 226
D-14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1326
Fax: +49 331 288 1370
Mail: karen.leever@gfz-potsdam.de
Scientific interests:
- Transpressional deformation at plate boundaries
- Mechanics of transpressional wedges
- Interplay between tectonics and surface processes
- Developing quantitative analysis methods for analogue tectonic models
The project started in 2008 at Oslo University (collaboration with Roy Gabrielsen and Jan Inge Faleide) and was inspired by the evolution of the West Spitsbergen fold and thrust belt. At the TECLAB at the VU University, Amsterdam (collaboration with Dimitrios Sokoutis and Ernst Willingshofer) a new method for visualization and analysis of fault kinematics was developed based on Digital Particle Image Velocimetry.
Currently at GFZ the analyses are being extended in the third dimension, addressing the effect of topographic load vs kinematic boundary conditions on the development of strain partitioning.
Projects:
- GeoSim (http://www.geo-x.net/geosim)
Career:
- 2010-recent: Researcher and Coordinator of the Helmholtz Graduate Research School GeoSim, GFZ Potsdam
- 2007-2010: Postdoc, Institute of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway
- 2003-2007: PhD student, Department of Tectonics and Structural Geology, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands: “Foreland of the Romanian Carpathians. Controls on late orogenic sedimentary basin evolution and Paratethys paleogeography”
Awards:
- Best Poster Award, NSG annual meeting (30 November 2006)
- Grant from the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam: Funding for 4 months visit to Geosciences Rennes, France (fall 2005)
Selected publications:
- Leever, K. A., R. H. Gabrielsen, D. Sokoutis, and E. Willingshofer (2011), The effect of convergence angle on the kinematic evolution of strain partitioning in transpressional brittle wedges: Insight from analog modeling and high-resolution digital image analysis, Tectonics, 30(2), TC2013. http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2010TC002823.shtml
- Leever, K. A., R. H. Gabrielsen, J. I. Faleide, and A. Braathen (2011), A transpressional origin for the West Spitsbergen fold-and-thrust belt: Insight from analog modeling, Tectonics, 30(2), TC2014. http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2010TC002753.shtml
- Leever, K. A., L. Matenco, D. Garcia-Castellanos, and S. A. P. L. Cloetingh (2011), The evolution of the Danube gateway between Central and Eastern Paratethys (SE Europe): Insight from numerical modelling of the causes and effects of connectivity between basins and its expression in the sedimentary record, Tectonophysics, 502(1-2), 175-195. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195110000077