Forskning vid Uppsala universitet

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Converging plate boundaries are areas where upper crustal rocks are subjected to intense compressional deformation. Deformation (strain) resulting from this compression is partitioned in both space and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2016-12-31

The sources of volcanic geothermal energy are a poorly understood phenomenon. This is especially true in Indonesia, one of Earth?s most populous countries and most volcanically active areas. Despite ~130 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-03-01 till 2014-02-28

Anmälan om utnyttjande av återvändarbidrag för beviljade postdoktorsstipendier inom medicin eller natur- och teknikvetenskap ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-01-01 till 2019-12-31

This research project aims to acquire combined, partly collocated near-vertical upper crustal high-resolution and mid- to lower crustal wide-angle reflection and refraction seismic data across the northern ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-12-01 till 2018-06-30

Syfte och mål: StartGeoDelineation´s innovative exploration solutions were tested at two geologically different environments: Siilinjärvi alkaline-carbonatite deposit in Finland and Blötberget iron-oxide ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Geologically, the world’s largest reservoirs of Rare Earth Elements and Nb are associated with different types of alkaline intrusions. These elements have been designated as being critical (i.e. with a ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2017-12-31

This proposal concerns the origin of low d11B magmas. These peculiar magmas are usually inferred to reflect recycling of dehydrated subducted slab components with highly fractionated, low d11B values to ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-07-01 till 2017-11-03

Brachiopods are amongthe first mineralized metazoans to appear in the fossil record, yet agreement about the phylogenetic relationships among these early forms is remarkably poor. While the brachiopod ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2016-12-31

The rapid accumulation of anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere has raised the fear of global warming, which can have serious consequences to mankind, such as rise in sea level and catastrophic floods in ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-07-01 till 2017-06-30

Coastal marine environments are regions particularly sensitive to future climate change and anthropogenic impacts, and it is therefore important to understand of how these environments reacted to past ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

This project partners two of Scandinavia’s leading natural history museums to investigate ancient polar ecosystems and pioneer fossil geoheritage in the Arctic. The beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs was ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2015-12-31

The project objective is to reveal the biological affinities of organic-walled microfossils, which presumably represented phytoplankton from the Proterozoic and Cambrian times, through phenotypic studies ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-01-01 till 2019-12-31

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period of global warming some 55 Ma, was triggered by multiple injections of isotopically light carbon into the atmosphere. Methane venting due to magma intrusion ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2016-12-31

Fennoscandian endglacial faults are by far the largest encountered worldwide and are thus of great international interest. They control almost all seismicity in northern Sweden. The Pärvie fault is the ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Deep sea sediment archives form the backbone of global palaeoclimate understanding. Such palaeoclimate reconstructions rest upon the geological law of superposition; sediment core layers become older with ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2013-12-31

The proposed project will investigate the diversity, distribution and phylogeny of organophosphatic brachiopods (subphylum Linguliformea) during the Cambrian. It will focus on: 1) the study and comparison ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2016-12-31

In this project we aim to develop a better understanding of the mid and lower crustal deformation mechanisms that acts during continental collision. To address this research topic we will integrate laboratory ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

Leading to a PhD thesis, the project aims to (i) explain why Quaternary sedimentary sequences near the North Pole show evidence of a disproportionate number of geomagnetic polarity reversals, which have ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2015-12-31

The goal of the proposed research is to investigate pressure-temperature paths of eclogites and peridotites occurring within the Seve Nappe Complex of the central Swedish Caledonides in northern Jämtland ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2016-12-31

Andesite volcanoes are relatively common and extremely hazardous but the processes responsible for their magma generation are only partly understood. Andesite genesis is equivocal with proposed models ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2011-01-01 till 2013-12-31

Palaeomagnetic data of the highest quality will be produced by this project and used to track changes in the direction and intensity of the geomagnetic field over the Earth´s surface in the northern hemisphere ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Seismological observations indicate that large regions within Earth show directionally dependent seismic wave speeds. Such seismic anisotropy is a unique and invaluable indicator for material transport ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The recent realisation that large, molten magma chambers are extremely rare and that magma chambers instead form by the amalgamation of small magma pulses over long time obviously changes our view of the ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Funding (c. 11 MSEK) from international sources has been secured for drilling the fully cored COSC-2 borehole in central Jämtland to 2 km. The borehole will penetrate the overlying Silurian, Ordovician ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-05-01 till 2019-06-29

Syfte och mål: Målet med projektet var att utveckla/utvärdera en metod att bekämpa ogräs från drönare. Det visade sig att den ursprungliga idéen att använda laser var problematisk. Däremot visade sig ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2015-12-31

One of the great unsolved evolutionary events concerns the origin and phylogeny of the major animal phyla that appeared in the fossil record more than 540 million years ago, during the Cambrian Explosion ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) have seen renewed interest due to their rapid assembly, their ore potential, and their ability to affect global climate. The High Arctic Large Igneous Province (HALIP) exposed ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

How widespread is biogeochemical remanent magnetization (BRM)? The palaeomagnetic community has, despite cautions, generally ignored the significance of BRM because there is insufficient knowledge about ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2016-12-31

Detta projekt syftar till att utveckla två unika geofysiska mätmetoder som är speciellt designade för att möta existerande utmaningar i urbana områden. En nio-komponents seismisk land-streamer bestående ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

This project aims to utilize the richly fossiliferous Triassic-Jurassic terrestrial sediments of southern Sweden, in conjunction with similar in age deposits in Poland and East Greenland, to illuminate ...