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- Name
- Institute of Geophysics, University of Hamburg
- Native name
- Institut für Geophysik der Universität Hamburg
- Address
- Bundesstr. 55
- Zipcode
- 20146
- City
- Hamburg
- Country
- Germany
- Phone
- +49 40 42838 2973
- Fax
- +49 40 42838 5441
- Email
- christel.mynarik@zmaw.de
organisation profile
- The highly variable shape of the earth's surface including ocean basins, mountain ranges, and volcanoes is the most dramatic evidence that powerful, dynamic processes operate in the earth's mantle, lithosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and atmosphere. The nature of these processes as well as their non-linear interaction among each other becomes increasingly important because the fast growing population, the rising number of megacities, the complex communication, transport and supply networks - all of which have resulted in a dramatically increased vulnerability of modern society - require a much improved understanding of Earth processes and its risks.
The Institute of Geophysics of the University of Hamburg is committed to studying the interplay between Earth processes (please see our White Paper) like
* earthquakes,
* volcanism,
* tectonics and neotectonics,
* basin formation, and
* sediment-ocean interaction.
thereby improving our understanding of how the Earth works. These processes operate on very different times scales (from fractions of a seconds in case of earthquakes to millions of years in the case of basin formation), requiring a very diverse spectrum of observational methods as well as modeling techniques.
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edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 1500
- Collating centre
- German Oceanographic Datacentre (DOD)
- Latest update
- 28 November 2008 8:17:44 AM
