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Programme A Programme B Programme C
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Programme C:
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Key wordsstructural geology, material properties, petrology, melts and melting, crystallisation, rock and fault rheology, deformation mechanisms and microstructures |
| Programme co-ordinators: |
Prof. Dr. C.J. Spiers
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| Full professors: |
Prof. Dr. C.G. Langereis
Prof. Dr. C.J. Spiers Prof. Dr. R.L.M. Vissers |
The programme is directed at determining the thermodynamic, thermomechanical, transport, and
magnetic properties of rocks, minerals, and silicate melts, and at understanding the underlying
micro- and atomic-scale processes. A broad aim is to provide the materials science based,
quantitative description of Earth material behaviour needed for modelling and for interpreting
geological and geodynamic processes
(programme A and
programme B). Those targeted
include mantle flow, melt extraction and crystallisation, geomagnetic phenomena, lithospheric
deformation and salt tectonics. The above are investigated using a wide range of theoretical and
experimental approaches. The programme also includes studies of natural rocks and minerals, which
provide information on compositions, conditions and processes in the Earth. Such studies on natural
rocks provide observable data to validate and test descriptions of material behaviour obtained in
the laboratory.
Participating research groups at Utrecht University and Delft University of Technology
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