Drilling Projects By
World
Geological Time
Climate & Ecosystems
Sustainable Georesources
Natural Hazards
Europe
- Map of Europe
- Alpine Valleys
- Are-Jarpen (Sweden)
- Campi Flegrei (Italy)
- Central Apennines (Italy)
- Corinth (Greece)
- Crete (Greece)
- Dead Sea (Israel)
- Eger (Czechia, Germany)
- Erzgebirge (Germany)
- Fennoscandia (Sweden)
- Gibraltar/Spain
- Iceland
- Imandra (Russia)
- Ivrea (Italy)
- Kola (Russia)
- Krafla (Iceland)
- KTB
- KTBTL
- KTB-Hydraulic
- Lake Ohrid (Macedonia)
- Lake Van (Turkey)
- Limfjorden (Denmark)
- Mjoelnir (Norway)
- North Anatolian Fault (Turkey)
- North Sea (Netherlands)
- Northern Apennines (Italy)
- Orava (Poland)
- Outokumpu (Finland)
- Paris Basin (France)
- Prees (England)
- Surtsey (Iceland)
- Windischeschenbach (Germany)
Orava Deep Drilling Project
Exploring the African-European suture at depth
The Carpathian Fold Belt system offers an outstanding opportunity to study the dynamics of asthenosphere and lithosphere during volcanic arc and related fore- and back-arc basin development in the context of the Alpine orogenesis. The strongly arcuate shape of the Carpathians and their magmatogenetic and tectonic evolution are driven by the interrelated processes of plates collision, subduction, slab roll-back, plate boundary retreat into a continental embayment, asthenospheric upwelling, and lateral extrusion wedges of the eastern Alps and Dinarides-Balkan orogens.
