Project overview
List of all projects in the first funding phase of the priority program
Coordination
Paleo- and Geomagnetism
Monika Korte
Global characteristics of geomagnetic field reversals from data and numerical simulations
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Florian Lhuillier
Geomagnetic field behaviour and geodynamo characterisation at the end of the Cretaceous Normal Superchron
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Sanja Panovska
Global time-averaged reconstructions of the geomagnetic field through deep geological times and their implications on the Earth's deep interior
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Stephanie Scheidt
Contributions to the understanding of the Earth’s magnetic field from detailed mineral magnetic and palaeomagnetic analyses of high-resolution, high-latitude lake sediment cores
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Johannes Wicht and Xiaojue Zhu
The new core paradox, the stable layer, and double diffusive convection in Earth’s core
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Peter Bunge und Johannes Wicht
Coupling the Dynamics of Earth's Core and Mantle / Core-Mantle-Coup
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Wolfgang Friederich und Christoph Sens-Schönfelder
HighWInD: High Frequency Wave Interaction with the D'' Layer
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Joachim Ritter und Christine Thomas
Understanding the influence of deep seismic mantle structures at the core-mantle boundary on intense magnetic flux regions
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Bernhard Schuberth
Influence of the plate motion reference frame on lowermost mantle structure, evolution, and core-mantle boundary heat flow
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Properties of core and mantle
Karen Appel, Melanie Sieber and Christian Sternemann
Properties of Fe-bearing geomaterials at conditions close to the core-mantle boundary
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Sandro Jahn
Thermal transport properties of lowermost mantle minerals - Insights from atomic-scale simulations
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Carsten Münker
Deep mantle processes and core-mantle interaction: a novel geochemical perspective
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Ronald Redmer and Gerd Steinle-Neumann
The role of light elements at the core-mantle boundary – partitioning, demixing, and transport
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Carmen Sanchez-Valle
Electrical conductivity measurements on lower mantle phases to illuminate structures at the core-mantle boundary region
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William Orsi
Tracing the food chain from magnetotactic bacteria to protozoa under laboratory and environmental conditions
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William Orsi und Sophie Roud
Magnetofossilisation: Formation and preservation of magnetosomes in subsurface sediments
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Daniel Pfeiffer
Microevolutionary adaptations of magnetotactic bacteria to reversals of the geomagnetic field
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Tatiana Savranskaia
Magnetotactic bacteria, cosmogenic beryllium and the Earth's magnetic field: obtaining high-quality records of magnetofossil preservation and relative paleointensity over the last 1.1 million years
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