Projects
Storegga and beyond - North Sea tsunami deposits offshore Shetland Islands - NORSEAT Ghent University
Tsunamis are relatively rare in the North Sea basin. The best-known example is the Storegga tsunami, which was caused by a large underwater landslide on the Norwegian continental slope ca. 8200 years ago and left a sedimentary imprint of major inundation at a range of onshore locations across the North Atlantic and the North Sea. Some of the coastal areas of the Shetland Islands also contain deposits of tsunamis that took place at ca. 5500 yr ...
Renewal of equipment for sample preparation in the geochronological and geochemical investigation of minerals and rocks Ghent University
The equipment that is applied for, comprises a disk mill and a carbon coater. The disk mill is a basic apparatus for the separation of a specific minerals from rocks, used in geochronological and isotropic studies. The carbon coater is an instrument that covers mineralogical samples with a carbon layer, required for the microchemical analysis with the SEM (scanning electron microscope).
Granite-related versus orogenic mineralisation: inisghts from the W, Sn and Au mineralisation in Rwanda. KU Leuven
A cost-efficient methodology for quantitative provenance analysis and mass budget studies in clastic sedimentary geology (southern North Sea Basin). KU Leuven
Sedimentary provenance analysis attempts to uncover the different sources of a sediment deposited in a certain sedimentary basin, recently or in geological history. Different aspects of the sediment composition, such as bulk petrography, heavy mineral composition or single grain geochemistry can provide clues to determine the source areas. Based on these data, a quantitative mixing model can be constructed describing the proportion of ...
DynaMOD: An oceanographic and sediment DYNAmic MODelling study of MOunded contourite Drifts Ghent University
Direct trapped charge dating of Quaternary sediments and rock surfaces: testing a fundamentally new approach using infrared photoluminescence from feldspar Ghent University
Luminescence dating of quartz and K-feldspar is now widely used for establishing sediment deposition chronologies in a wide range of Quaternary research. The method is also increasingly applied in exposure and burial dating of rock surfaces. Recently, a fundamentally new signal from feldspar has been discovered: infrared photoluminescence (IRPL). IRPL directly taps the dosimetric information recorded by the minerals (the trapped electrons). ...
IMPACT – Identification of Microstructures in Phosphate grains of Apollo 14 breccias and Correlation To precise U-Pb ages. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
formation of the Moon (~ 4.5 Ga) and the first basaltic mare (~3.8
Ga) remains a matter of intense scientific debate. Understanding the
timing and intensity of impact events during the infancy of the Solar
System is not only important for reconstructing the early crustal
evolution of the Moon, but also to determine the formation, evolution
...
Climate change and human response at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Belgian Meuse basin (13,000-6000 cal BP) Ghent University
This interdisciplinary project aims at investigating climate variability on a local/regional level and its impact on human lifeways at the transition from the Pleistocene (Younger Dryas) to the Early Holocene in the Meuse valley of southern Belgium. Climate reconstruction, focusing on the detection of Rapid Climate Changes (RCCs) will be conducted through high-resolution analyses of trace elements and stable isotopes from speleothems. This ...
Ore-forming processes of the gold mineralization in the Western Domain of the Karagwe-Ankole belt, Central Africa. KU Leuven
The proposed research focusses on the detailed study of gold mineralization in the Maniema Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and aims at integrating the results in a metallogenic model for the Western Domain of the Karagwe-Ankole Belt (KAB). In-depth knowledge on the formation processes of Au mineralization in this area is incomplete. The current consensus is that gold mineralization in the Karagwe-Ankole Belt can be ...