ASTROGEOBIOSPHERE

An astronomical perspective on Earth's geological record and evolution of life

 Coordinatore LUNDS UNIVERSITET 

Spiacenti, non ci sono informazioni su questo coordinatore. Contattare Fabio per maggiori infomrazioni, grazie.

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Sweden [SE]
 Totale costo 1˙950˙000 €
 EC contributo 1˙950˙000 €
 Programma FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call ERC-2011-ADG_20110209
 Funding Scheme ERC-AG
 Anno di inizio 2012
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2012-04-01   -   2017-03-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    LUNDS UNIVERSITET

 Organization address address: Paradisgatan 5c
city: LUND
postcode: 22100

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Anna
Cognome: Von Barth
Email: send email
Telefono: 46462229842
Fax: +4646222 37 35

SE (LUND) hostInstitution 1˙950˙000.00
2    LUNDS UNIVERSITET

 Organization address address: Paradisgatan 5c
city: LUND
postcode: 22100

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Birger
Cognome: Schmitz
Email: send email
Telefono: 46462228265
Fax: -2224419

SE (LUND) hostInstitution 1˙950˙000.00

Mappa


 Word cloud

Esplora la "nuvola delle parole (Word Cloud) per avere un'idea di massima del progetto.

events    tracks    cosmic    minerals    first    galactic    variations    types    spinels    geological    flux    meteorites    meteorite    record    ray    earth    sediments    solar   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'This project will develop the use of relict, extraterrestrial minerals in Archean to Cenozoic slowly formed sediments as tracers of events in the solar system and cosmos, and to decipher the possible relation between such events and evolution of life and environmental change on Earth. There has been consensus that it would not be possible to reconstruct variations in the flux of different types of meteorites to Earth through the ages. Meteorite falls are rare and meteorites weather and decay rapidly on the Earth surface. However, the last years we have developed the first realistic approach to circumvent these problems. Almost all meteorite types contain a small fraction of spinel minerals that survives weathering and can be recovered from large samples of condensed sediments of any age. Inside the spinels we can locate by synchrotron-light X-ray tomography 1-30 micron sized inclusions of most of the other minerals that made up the original meteorite. With cutting-edge frontier microanalyses such as Ne-21 (solar wind, galactic rays), oxygen isotopes (meteorite group and type) and cosmic ray tracks (supernova densities) we will be able to unravel from the geological record fundamental new information about the solar system at specific times through the past 3.8 Gyr. Variations in flux and types of meteorites may reflect solar-system and galaxy gravity disturbances as well as the sequence of disruptions of the parent bodies for meteorite types known and not yet known. Cosmic-ray tracks in spinels may identify the galactic year (230 Myr) in the geological record. For the first time it will be possible to systematically relate major global biotic and tectonic events, changes in sea-level, climate and asteroid and comet impacts to what happened in the larger astronomical realm. In essence, the project is a robust approach to establish a pioneer 'astrostratigraphy' for Earth's geological record, complementing existing bio-, chemo-, and magnetostratigraphies.'

Altri progetti dello stesso programma (FP7-IDEAS-ERC)

STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS (2008)

New science for European ps time-resolved Laue X-ray diffraction

Read More  

ECOGENOMICINBREEDING (2012)

Comparative studies of inbreeding effects on evolutionary processes in non-model animal populations

Read More  

FRONTEX (2010)

Decision-making and prefrontal executive function

Read More