Innsbruck Tectonics Research Group

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Wie sind die Dolomiten entstanden?

Wie verformen sich die Dolomiten noch immer und was sagen die Gesteine über künftige Erdbeben aus?

Geolog:innen um Hannah Pomella vom Institut für Geologie der Universität Innsbruck beschäftigen sich in einem breit angelegten Forschungsprojekt mit diesen Fragestellungen.

Ski­tour of the Tec­ton­ics Research Group

In Feburary 2024, some active members and one alumni of our working group shared their passion for skiing in alpine terrain.

05.03.2024

Kick-off of the new inter­dis­ci­pli­nary project „GeoEN-Inntal“

Hugo Ortner and Simon Hinterwirth are involved in the project "GeoEn-Inntal", with the aim of making geotehermal energy useable in Tyrol. 

15.11.2022

Inter­view with Anna Sieberer for the pod­cast Green­horn Science

Felix Pik from the podcast Greenhornscience interviewed Anna-Katharina Sieberer about our Dolomites project.

10.12.2022

Ana­logue mod­el­ling in Utrecht Univer­si­ty's TecLab

As part of her PhD project, Anna-Katharina Sieberer studies large-scale crustal to lithospheric deformation processes of the Dolomites Indenter in the Tectonic Modelling laboratory ("TecLab") at Utrecht University.

19.06.2021

Field­work in the Dolomites

Thomas Klotz and Anna Sieberer on one of their sample and data collecting missions in the eastern Southern Alps, aiming to reveal the thermo-tectonic evolution of the Dolomites Indenter in high resolution.

19.10.2020

New Paper pub­lished in Inter­na­tional Jour­nal of Earth Sciences

Kathrin Faßmer published a study about rapid subduction and exhumation of an ultra-high-pressure unit in the Caledonides of Northern Norway (Tromsø).

01.05.2020

New Paper pub­lished in Jour­nal of Struc­tural Geol­ogy

Sinah Killian and Hugo Ortner published a study about buckle folding in the Northern Calcareous Alps. They present results from field observations and numeric experiments.

11.07.2021

New Paper pub­lished in Inter­na­tional Jour­nal of Earth Sciences

Hugo Ortner and Sinah Kilian published a new paper presenting a revised tectonic subdivision of the western Northern Calcareous Alps.

20.11.2021
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