Magma Course - Fluid pathways below the Eger Rift constrained by numerical and analog simulations
Time Frame: April 2017 - June 30, 2021
Funding: DFG (ICDP)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Eleonora Rivalta
Personnel: Dr. Eleonora Rivalta, Prof. Torsten Dahm, Timothy Davis
Project collaborators: Vladislav Rapprich
Partner: Dr. Tomáš Fischer, Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Methods & instruments: Numerical and analog simulation of dykes
Publications: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2017.07.013 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2018.11.009 , https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau9784
The aim of this project is to obtain a conceptual model of deep fluid pathways (both ancient magmatism and the modern hydrothermal system related to magma stored at depth) in the Eger Graben and the Cheb basin.