Allgemeine, angewandte und Umweltmineralogie
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- Stability of ceramic materials proposed as nuclear waste forms under experimental hydrothermal conditions
- Vibrational spectroscopy of self-irradiated minerals and zircon solid-solutions
- Crystal growth and dissolution processes, including ligand promoted dissolution of metal ions, using both natural chelating agents such as siderophores and anthropogenic chelators such as EDTA and DTPA;
- Crystal growth inhibition processes using organic inhibitors such as phosphonates and carboxylates
- Mineral replacement reactions occurring at fluid/mineral interfaces and the subsequent development of porosity
- Mechanisms of mineral-fluid interaction in nature and experiment: replacement reactions in solid solutions such as garnet, olivine, apatite, pyrochlore, KBr-KCl,
- Pattern formation during (non-)equilibrium crystal growth and dissolution-reprecipitation reactions
- Solid solution-aequeous solution (SS-AS) relationships at equilibrium and non-equilibrium
- Mechanisms of hydrothermal alteration of zirconolite and pyrochlore-group minerals and their dependence on the degree of self-irradiation damage
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Geochemie/Geochronolgie
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- Understanding the origin and evolution of the continental crust through the application of geochemical techniques
- Study of the dynamics of orogenic cycles through a combination of geochronology, metamorphic petrology and structural geology
- Rb-Sr and Lu-Hf isotopic studies, ancillary Sm-Nd and U-Pb
- Evolution of the early Earth
- Geodynamical aspects of subduction zone processes
- Geochemical and lead isotope analysis of westphalian roman and germanic lead artifacts from the time of the early emperors and of the surrounding lead ores
- Development of new techniques using MC-ICPMS for radiogenic and stable isotope measurements
- Geochemical and geodynamical processes in young subduction zones
- Picrite and basalt genesis in the south-western island chain of the Solomon Islands
- Metamorphic petrology (with emphasis on high-pressure metamorphism) and geochronology (Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, U-Pb, 40Ar-39Ar)
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Petrologie/Experimentelle Petrologie/Lagerstättenkunde
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- The geological evolution of the Cycladic area
- Phase relations in the deep Earth: Experiments at extreme pressures and temperatures
- The behaviour of trace elements magmatic and metamorphic systems
- Experimental simulation of subduction zone processes: Trace element transfer during melting and dehydration of subducted oceanic crust
- Thermodynamics of geomaterials
- Materials Science: Chemistry and Physics of perovskites and post-perovskite phases
- High-Pressure-Research
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