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Laboratory Details
HelTec - Laboratory for experimental tectonics at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ
Experimental tectonics is the branch of geosciences that uses so-called "analogue models" scaled down from nature to the laboratory to study tectonic processes "in situ". Thanks to new materials, testing methods and monitoring techniques, which have been developed in the past two decades, anologue modelling nowadays provides quantitative tectonic oberservations across all relevant spatial and temporal scales.
Our experimental tectonics lab facility consists of three basic modules:
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Material testing featuring a series of material test devices for characterizing rock analogue materials’ properties including friction, elasticity, viscosity etc.
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Analogue modelling featuring a suite of custom-made deformation devices for simulating (seismo)tectonic and other geological processes
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Laboratory monitoring providing the means of quantifying deformation in analogue models using various sensors and image correlation methods
Domain
Analogue modelling of geological processes
Organization name
Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ)
Address
Telegraphenberg A14
14473
Potsdam
Germany