Scientist (f/m/d) - DFG-funded project “Emplacement conditions of pyroclastic deposits inferred from magnetic properties of the Eger maar-diatreme (ICDP-EGER Bohrung S4) and Eifel volcanoes”

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Institute of Applied Geosciences (AGW)

Magneto-mineralogy from different pyroclastic eruptive sequences is mostly complex and offers a complementary tool to paleomagnetic directional analysis for emplacement temperature estimates and may contribute information on the volcanic material history and their emplacement conditions. The aim of this project is to investigate if magnetic mineralogy is suited to separate different eruptive sequences from pyroclastic deposits of differently fractionated alkaline magmatic rocks in the Quaternary volcanic provinces in Central Europe.

Your task:

(1) investigate the rock magnetic properties and characteristic magnetic mineralogy of the two ICDP-Eger Rift Drillings S4a/S4b and well-described Quaternary eruptive volcanic sequences from the Volcano Eifel.

(2) test if Curie temperature of titanomagnetite and its (non-) reversibility using the temperature-dependence of in- and out-of-phase magnetic susceptibility is suited to unravel not yet explored intrinsic magnetic and structural properties in titanomagnetite.

(3) combine rock magnetic, magneto-mineralogical and paleomagnetic investigations with mineral chemical, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy in order to get a more fundamental understanding of the non-reversibility of Curie temperatures in titanomagnetite.

1. Juni 2023 / June 1, 2023

Salary category 13, depending on the fulfillment of professional and personal requirements.

limited to 3 years

April 11, 2023

For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Agnes Kontny, Email: [email protected].

Please send your application including a curriculum vitae, copies of certificates and letter of motivation in electronic form to: [email protected]

vacancy number: 2082/2023

We prefer to balance the number of employees (f/m/d). Therefore, we kindly ask female applicants to apply for this job.

Recognized severely disabled persons will be preferred if they are equally qualified.