KTB at Windischeschenbach
Description
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KTB Pilot Hole |
KTB Main Hole |
The two super-deep boreholes (4000 m and 9101 m) of the German Continental Deep Drilling Program are worldwide unique masterstrokes of drilling engineering. It yielded essential insights in the structure and processes of the upper crust of the Earth. For this reason it is one of the most important geoscientific and geotechnical research projects.
The great success in geosciences and drilling engineering induced the scientists to establish the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP).
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Location
Europe, Germany, Bavaria, Upper Palantine, Windischeschenbach
Coordinates
49° 48' 55.38'' N 12° 07' 13.01'' E
Project Start and End
Programs and Funding
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
- Geological Survey of Lower Saxony, Landesamt für Bergbau, Energie und Geologie (LBEG)
- German Continental Scientific Deep Drilling Program
- German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Principal Investigators
- Rolf Emmermann, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Computing Center
- Heinrich Rischmüller (†), Geological Survey of Lower Saxony, Landesamt für Bergbau, Energie und Geologie (LBEG)
Partners and Contractors
- DEUTAG
- Deutsche Schachtbau und Tiefbohrges. mbH
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
- Geological Survey of Lower Saxony, Landesamt für Bergbau, Energie und Geologie (LBEG)
- German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Computing Center
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Scientific Drilling, (Operational Support Group OSG/ICDP)
- ITAG Tiefbohr GmbH & Co.KG
- UTB ULTRATIEF Bohrgesellschaft
Keywords
Bavaria, Collision Zones, Convergent Margins, Deep Biosphere, Germany, KTB, Thermal Regimes, Upper Palantine, Windischeschenbach
Current State
Drilling operations and scientific evaluations have been finalized
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| News Highlights | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ECORD/ICDP MagellanPlus Call for Proposals Lake Ohrid Drilling Recovered Continuous Record Lake El’gygytgyn Second Overview Paper Scientific Drilling Issue 15 Online 2013 International Van Earthquake Symposium NSF Workshop: Drilling Active Tectonics and Magmatism New SAG Composition for 2013 The Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project Scientific Drilling Issue 14 Online Imaging the Past to Imagine our Future | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lake Ohrid:
Good progress at the Cerava site in the uppermost ca. 70 m. As we run out of liners, we had to order more... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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NSF Workshop on Scientific Drilling and the Evolution of the Earth System NSF Workshop: Drilling Active Tectonics and Magmatism NSF Workshop: Drilling into High-Enthalpy Geothermal Systems | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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