Modelling of sedimentary systems

Head of group: Katrin Huhn

Geodynamic and geological processes at active and passive ocean margins were extensively studied during the last decades. Extensive geophysical and geological datasets provide a detailed insight into the processes controlling the margin evolution. However, recently high resolution datasets reveal a more complex interplay of processes and a multitude of control factors. Numerical process simulations enable to examine such complex processes and their interactions as well as to identify and to quantify key factors and their influences of the growing processes of an ocean margin. Increasing computing capacity allows recently analyzing the development of a margin even over geological long-time periods. These simulations combine information from different datasets and permit continuative and complementary interpretations to reach a better understanding of processes and control factors.

• Physical behaviour of sheared sediments
• Fluid-sediment interactions along the benthic boundary layer
• Controlling parameters of continental slope destabilisation and gravitational mass transport processes
• Neotectonics and sediment transport in the Cretan Sea (Greece)
• Sediment transport pattern along the Transkei Basin (South Africa)
• Mechanics and dynamics of active continental margins
• Particle transport in upwelling regions