EUCOR-URGENT functioned from 1999 to 2007 as a collaborative network of 25 Universities and governmental agencies from Germany, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland, with a focus on the seismic hazards and neotectonics in the Upper Rhine Graben and surrounding areas, as well as on the management of the water resources of the Quaternary graben fill.
To learn more about EUCOR-URGENT, start with the introduction
TOPO-WECEP is the follow-up program to EUCOR-URGENT. You will find further information about the West and Central European Platform Natural Laboratory of TOPO-EUROPE on the following Homepage:
We are pleased to announce that the 8th EUCOR-URGENT Workshop will be held at Mont Sainte-Odlie (above Strasbourg, France) on March 25th - 28th 2008.
The aim of this workshop is twofold: to present final results and highlights of research accomplished within the EUCOR-URGENT project; and to discuss the possibilities of a new round of research based upon the existing network established by EUCOR-URGENT, under the auspices of TOPO-WECEP which will deal with the Western and Central European platform natural laboratory of TOPO-EUROPE . We hope therefore to create the platform for establishing a new interdisciplinary collaborative set of research proposals.
Further Information on the 2008 edition of the EUCOR-URGENT workshop, as well as the preliminary program can be found on its: Homepage
We are pleased to announce that the 7th EUCOR-URGENT Workshop will be held this year from 4-6 October 2006 in the Black Forst at Frauenstadt (Germany).
The following key issues will be addressed during the workshop:
Exploration and Use of Geothermal Resources
Heidelberg Drilling
Geodesy
Tectonic Geomorphology
Open session
Information on the 2006 edition of the EUCOR-URGENT workshop can be found on its: Homepage UPDATE: The abstract volume is now on-line for Download
The first PLUME workshop will be held from 3rd-6th of July 2006 at the monastery of Mt. St. Odile in the Vosges mountains, approx. 30km southwest of Strasbourg. The aim of this workshop is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers interested in the problem of how convective instabilities in the upper mantle originate and what their relationship is to magma generation processes (“hotspots”) and lithosphere geodynamics.
A paper by Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, Sierd Cloetingh and Ronald Van Balen entitled "Modelling the Middle Pleistocene uplift in the Ardennes–Rhenish Massif: thermo-mechanical weakening under the Eifel?" is made available for Download from the author's homepage. For other articles by the same author, see his homepage under http://cuba.ija.csic.es/~danielgc/
The complete PhD thesis of Kamil Ustaszewski entitled «Reactivation of pre-existing crustal discontinuities: the southern Upper Rhine Graben and the northern Jura Mountains - a natural laboratory» is available:
Download The entire PhD Thesis in PDF format (caution!, document size is 39 Mb)
You can also read the abstract under Read More... below.
The manuscript of a paper by P.A. Ziegler and P. Dèzes on the Crustal Evolution of Western and Central Europe is made available for download in its full version.
Download the PDF file of the full paper with figures (1.6 Mb)
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The manuscript of a new paper by P.A. Ziegler and P. Dèzes whose contents were presented at the 6th EUCOR-URGENT meeting in Mt St. Odile and the TOPO-EUROPE meeting in Heidelberg is made available in its full version.
Download the PDF file of the full paper with figures (23 Mb)
Download the PDF file of the full paper. Only text, without figures (456 Kb)
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