Fluid Rock Group @ PGP
News
(07.09.04) Henrik Svensen, Sverre Planke, and Yury Podladchikov arranged a field trip to Siberia, to study vents in the Ust-Kut region and the Tunguska crater. Initial impressions will be presented in a wine seminar on 24.09.04.
(01.09.04) Karthik Iyer, Hakon Austrheim, Bjorn Jamtveit, and Anders
Malthe-Sorenssen went on a field trip to Leka to study
serpentinization. Karthik will present his initial results in an
internal seminar on 26.10.04.
(22.06.04) We received 4.7 MNOK funding from PetroMaks for a three-year project, "Formation of piercement structures in sedimentary basins". Currenly we are looking for 1 post-doc and 1 phd student . The application deadline is 15.10.2004.
(20.06.04) Our application for a 20 MNOK Storforsk project "Volcanic Basin Processes and Implications for Global Warming and Mass Extinctions" was submitted.
(03.06.04) Our recent article on Eocene global warming caused by massive venting
of greenhouse gasses reached the front page of Nature. See
PGP-page for more details.