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Darmstadt University of Technology (TUD) has been continued. Research
concentrated especially on the peripheries of three metropolitan areas:
(i) The Cenozoic terrestrial Hanau-Seligenstadt Basin between the Odenwald and
Spessart Mts with its important geo-potentials for the Rhine-Main Area has been
analysed with respect to its sedimentological and tectonic history and reported in a
dissertation by Stefan Lang. He also presented the results at international meetings
in Freudenstadt and Fukuoka/Japan. A first approach to evaluate the economic
potential of its raw materials supported by GIS-techniques has been performed in
cooperation with the TUD Institute of Economics (diploma thesis of Florian Schmidt,
orientated by Carsten Helm).
(ii) The evaluation of geo-resources and geo-hazards in the Ebro Basin in the
surroundings of Zaragoza, the fast growing capital of the Province of Aragón, Spain,
has been concluded by Teresa Lamelas Gracia. This project has been supported by
the DFG and performed in cooperation with Juan de la Riva from the Universidad de
Zaragoza. The dissertation report provides 68 thematic maps covering a broad
spectrum of regionalized information from geology, geomorphology, soils, water and
raw materials to natural protection areas,groundwater vulnerability and subrosionhazard.
The students Andreas Deckelmann and Christian Tigler have mapped an
area southeast of Zaragoza in great detail and proved the close correlation between
human irrigation activities and sudden sinkholes caused by dissolution of underlying
Miocene sulfates.
(iii) The investigations in the northern outskirts of Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais,
Brazil), a fast growing metropolitan area supporting by now more than 4.5 million
inhabitants has been continued with field work by Monika Hofmann (supported by the
DAAD) in cooperation with Joachim Karfunkel from the Universidade Federal de
Minas Gerais. The study concentrated on erosion phenomena and landscape
changes due to extraction of raw materials. First results were presented at the
national meeting of Brazilian geologists in Aracajú.
A small project investigating the geothermal anomaly in the unsaturated zone within
the spa district of Wiesbaden (supported by the city of Wiesbaden) has been finished
by modelling the possible heat transfer in cooperation with the TUD Institute of
Energy and Powerplant Technology (Johannes Janicka) The investigations on the
eastern master fault of the Upper Rhein Graben under the future Science and
Congress Centre in Darmstadt (supported by Bauverein Darmstadt GmbH) have
continued.
Publications
Hoppe, A. (2006): Wasser im Nahen Osten – ein Kriegsgrund? Israel und die
Besetzten Gebiete im Kontext geologischer Entwicklung. – Naturwiss. Rundschau 59
(5): 241-247, Stuttgart.
Hoppe, A., Hofmann, M., Lamelas T.G., Lang, S., Lerch, C. & Marinoni, O. (2006):
Geo-Informationssysteme zur Bewertung von Geo-Potenzialen in der Peripherie von
Ballungsräumen.- Wiss. Mitt. Inst. Geol. TUB Freiberg (Kolloquium „GIS – Geowissenschaftliche
Anwendungen und Entwicklungen“), 31: 273-276, Freiberg.
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