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Professor Dr. Nikolaus Froitzheim

Address Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Institut für Geowissenschaften
Arbeitsgruppe Strukturgeologie
Meckenheimer Allee 169
53115 Bonn

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - The metamorphic Yuli Belt in Taiwan – Key to the tectonics of arc-continent collision and high-pressure rock exhumation (Research Grants)
  - High- and ultrahigh-pressure rock exhumation and tectonic structure of the southeastern Austroalpine crust (Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - Subduction and exhumation of continental crustal rocks in the Monte Rosa-nappe (Western Alps) (Research Grants)
  - Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Western Rhodope complex - a record of multiple continent collision? (Research Grants)
  - Role of extraction faulting and out-of-sequence thrusting in collisional orogeny - the base of the Dent Blanche Nappe in the Alps as an example (Research Grants)
  - Tectonic framework of continental subduction - testing hypotheses and developing criteria (Research Grants)
  - Subduction, exhumation, and resubduction in the Scandinavian Caledonides: studying the deep levels of a Himalaya-type orogen (Research Grants)
  - Alpine subduction revisited - new structural and elastic wave velocity models for improved geophysical imaging towards greater depths (Priority Programmes)
  - Slab factory - ocean formation and subduction in the Western Alps (Priority Programmes)
  - Cross section balancing across the Taiwan fold-and-thrust belt for improving palaeogeographic reconstructions of the Eurasian passive margin (Research Grants)
As Project Head
- Completed projects
  - Synthese der räumlich-zeitlichen Entwicklung des tektonischen Systems Niederrheinische Bucht - Rheinisches Schiefergebirge (Collaborative Research Centres)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Intrusion vs. inversion at the rims of the Northwest German Basin: the gravity highs of Bramsche and Pritzwalk revisited. 3D structural modelling by the aid of the "Digital Geotectonic Atlas" (Priority Programmes)
  - Formation, deformation and exhumation of a high-pressure/ultra-high-pressure mélange - the Adula Nappe (Central Alps). (Research Grants)
As Co-Investigator
- Completed projects
  - Eo-Oligocene normal faulting in the Alps: Orogen-perpendicular subduction channel reactivation or orogen-parallel collapse following slab breakoff? (Research Grants)

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Professor Dr. Nikolaus Froitzheim

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