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Projects involving the department Rock Physics & Borehole Geophysics

The department deals with both third-party funded projects and LIAG funded projects. The work is divided among the method-specific research fields of the department and the topics in the main research areas of the institute.

Third-party projects

LIAG funded projects

  • SIP-Archive
    Web-based SIP-archive for data backup and research
  • SIP Core Holder
    Development of a core holder for consolidated and unconsolidated rocks to determine their complex electrical properties
  • Lake Chalco
    Multi-parameter analysys of downhole-measurements in lake sediments as part of an ICDP-Drilling in Mexico City
  • Multi-Scale NMR
    Development of new and unconventional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) applications to link measurements between laboratory, borehole and field scale

Concluded projects

  • AstroTrias
  • MONICA
  • LION
    High-resolution proxy data from Cashmere loess
  • REGROUP
    Multi-proxy dataset of soil samples from Serbia
  • 3D pore space structuresI+II
    Pore space analysys of "unconventional reservoir rocks" and reservoir sandstones using µ-CT Data
  • Geothermal levels
    Investigation of additional target horizons for the geothermal utilisation of the GeneSys well
  • Rock magnetics Heidelberg
    Magnetostratigraphic analysis of fluvial sediments of Plio-/Pleistocene
  • Lake Ohrid I
    Multi-parameter analysys of downhole-measurements in lake sediments as part of an ICDP-Drilling in the border area of North Macedonia and Albania
  • GEBO B4
  • Lake Ohrid II
    Extended multi-parameter analysys of downhole-measurements in lake sediments as part of an ICDP-Drilling in the border area of North Macedonia and Albania
  • Lake Towuti
    Multi-parameter analysys of downhole-measurements in lake sediments as part of an ICDP-Drilling in Indonesia
    Geoparameters from well logging and their uses
  • Borehole NMR
    Development of a narrow NMR borehole tool for hydrological questions
  • Lake Van
    Multi-parameter analysys of downhole-measurements in lake sediments as part of an ICDP-Drilling in Turkey
  • ANDRILL
    Southern McMurdo Sound Project
  • Archaeomagnetic colluvial sediments
    Pilot study on the applicability of the archaeomagnetic dating method on colluvial sediments from the western Cologne Bay area via paleomagnetic sampling and analysis
  • Chronostratigraphy and geomagnetics on loess-paleo soil sequences in Hungary
    Work on sediments from the last glacial period in Süttő (northern Hungary) and much later sequences in part in Beremend (southern Hungary).
  • Chronostratigraphy and geomagnetics in loess-paleo soil sequences in Croatia
    Loess-paleo soil sequences overlying early Pleistocene (?), red soils (aeolian red clays) Work on lines from the island of Susak and the northern Cape of Istria (Savudrija).