Tectonics and Resources

Research Annika Dziggel

 

Selected research interests

  • Archean crustal evolution and the question: when did plate tectonics begin on Earth?
  • Processes of orogenic gold mineralization in various settings and crustal depths.
  • Genesis of metamorphic rock-hosted massive sulphide deposits.
  • Processes of seafloor hydrothermal alteration in early Archean oceanic crust.
  • Metamorphic evolution and tectonic significance of high-P metamorphic rocks in the Paleoproterozoic.

 

Current and previous research projects 

  • Since 2018: Terrane spotting: testing models for the evolution of Earth’s first continents. (DFG-grant within the framework of SPP 1833 “Building a habitable Earth”).
  • Since 2016: Geological evolution and mineral potential of the Paleoproterozoic Karrat Group, Central West Greenland. (in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS))
  • 2014 - 2019: Metamorphic record of accretionary processes during the Neoarchean (Heisenberg Fellowship/Position plus DFG grant)
  • 2013 - 2017: Metamorphic evolution and tectonic significance of high-P metamorphic rocks in the Paleoproterozoic: the Nagssugtoqidian Orogen, South East Greenland. (DFG grant; in collaboration with GEUS).
  • 2012 - 2016: Processes of seafloor hydrothermal alteration and tourmaline precipitation in the Archean oceanic crust: the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa (DFG-grant within the framework of the ICDP “Barberton Drilling Project: Peering into the Cradle of Life”).
  • 2008 - 2010: Geodynamic evolution and orogenic gold potential of the Archean Craton in southern West Greenland (in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)).
  • 2006 - 2009: Petrologic and geochemical investigations of high-T fluid rock interactions in metasedimentary host rocks at the Navachab gold deposit, Damara Orogen, Namibia (DFG-grant).
  • 2004 - 2007: Tectono-metamorphic controls on Archean gold mineralization in the Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa (funded by the SEG, DAAD, DMG, DFG).

 

Fieldwork and expeditions   

  • Lewisian gneiss complex, North-West Scotland (2019)
  • Rinkian orogen, Central-West Greenland (2017)
  • Nagssugtoqidian orogen, South-East Greenland (2014)
  • Barberton greenstone belt (central), South Africa (2012, 2013)
  • North Atlantic craton, South-West Greenland (2008, 2009, 2010)
  • Navachab gold mine, Damara belt, Namibia (2003, 2004, 2006, 2008)
  • New Consort gold mine, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa (2003, 2004, 2005)
  • Barberton greenstone belt (south), South Africa (1999, 2000, 2001)
  • Turk mine, Bulawayo-Bubi greenstone belt, Zimbabwe (1997)