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The interdisciplinary DFG research group TERSANE has been investigating extreme climate events in our planet’s history since 2016. Under the leadership of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the research group is investigating how periods of extreme heat occurred, how severe th...

On July 3, 5pm, Prof. Christopher Scotese (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern University, USA) gave a talk "Foundation of Earth System History: Plate tectonics, paleogeography & paleoclimate during the last 1.5 billion years" in Hörsaal Geologie. He is the inventor of ...

The Executive Board and Students' Representatives call on students to vote in the University election. The University election is the perfect opportunity to have your say in the way the University should be run. In order to encourage as many students as possible to vote, the polling stations will b...

Niklas Hohmann, a student from our Master program, published a new statistical tool that allow to correct the effects of changing deposition rates on geological data. These deposition rates determine how much time it takes to form rocks of a given thickness, and can therefore alter our interpretation of paleobiological rates when examining this rock.

Carbonate rocks are unique witnesses of Earth History as they are formed by organisms. From the 11th to the 22nd of March the annual “Flügel Courses” take place in Erlangen. 54 carbonate sedimentologists from 21 nations will train the interpretation of such rocks with our globally unique thin-section collection.