GFZ German research centre for geo sciences

Magma Course - Fluid pathways below the Eger Rift constrained by numerical and analog simulations

Time Frame:  April 2017 -  June 30, 2021

Funding:  DFG (ICDP)

Principal Investigator:  Dr. Eleonora Rivalta

Personnel:  Dr. Eleonora Rivalta, Prof. Torsten Dahm, Timothy Davis

Project collaborators:  Vladislav Rapprich

Partner:  Dr. Tomáš Fischer, Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Methods & instruments:  Numerical and analog simulation of dykes

Publications: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2017.07.013https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2018.11.009  , https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau9784 

The aim of this project is to obtain a conceptual model of deep fluid pathways (both ancient magmatism and the modern hydrothermal system related to magma stored at depth) in the Eger Graben and the Cheb basin.

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