Forschung Annika Dziggel

Selected research interests                                                                                                

• Archean crustal evolution and the question: when did plate tectonics begin on Earth?
• Processes of orogenic gold mineralization in various settings and crustal depths.
• Genesis of metamorphic rock-hosted massive sulphide deposits.
• Processes of seafloor hydrothermal alteration in early Archean oceanic crust.
• Metamorphic evolution and tectonic significance of high-P metamorphic rocks in the Paleoproterozoic.

Current and previous research projects                                                                                                          

Since 2018: Terrane spotting: testing models for the evolution of Earth’s first continents. (DFG-grant within the framework of SPP 1833 “Building a habitable Earth”).

Since 2016: Geological evolution and mineral potential of the Paleoproterozoic Karrat Group, Central West Greenland. (in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS))

2014-2019: Metamorphic record of accretionary processes during the Neoarchean (Heisenberg Fellowship/Position plus DFG grant)

2013-2017: Metamorphic evolution and tectonic significance of high-P metamorphic rocks in the Paleoproterozoic: the Nagssugtoqidian Orogen, South East Greenland. (DFG grant; in collaboration with GEUS).

2012-2016: Processes of seafloor hydrothermal alteration and tourmaline precipitation in the Archean oceanic crust: the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa (DFG-grant within the framework of the ICDP “Barberton Drilling Project: Peering into the Cradle of Life”).

2008-2010: Geodynamic evolution and orogenic gold potential of the Archean Craton in southern West Greenland (in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)).

2006-2009: Petrologic and geochemical investigations of high-T fluid rock interactions in metasedimentary host rocks at the Navachab gold deposit, Damara Orogen, Namibia (DFG-grant).

2004-2007: Tectono-metamorphic controls on Archean gold mineralization in the Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa (funded by the SEG, DAAD, DMG, DFG).

Fieldwork and expeditions                                                                                                  

Lewisian gneiss complex, North-West Scotland (2019)

Rinkian orogen, Central-West Greenland (2017)

Nagssugtoqidian orogen, South-East Greenland (2014)

Barberton greenstone belt (central), South Africa (2012, 2013)

North Atlantic craton, South-West Greenland (2008, 2009, 2010)

Navachab gold mine, Damara belt, Namibia (2003, 2004, 2006, 2008)

New Consort gold mine, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa (2003, 2004, 2005)

Barberton greenstone belt (south), South Africa (1999, 2000, 2001)

Turk mine, Bulawayo-Bubi greenstone belt, Zimbabwe (1997)