Here at the LMU the Geology-section is currently complementing the existing expertise in economic and environmental geology with a new focus in surface processes and earthquake geology. The various specializations of the working groups are:
Geology deals with the description and quantification of natural processes which form and alter the Earth and its surface on various spatial and temporal scales. Research takes place at the interface of internally driven (dynamics of the interior Earth, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes) and externally driven (solar energy, atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere) processes. As the core-discipline within the geosciences, geology also forms the basis for investigations of current hot topics in the fields of georisks, georessources, and global change.
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With the consolidation of the expertise in hydrogeology and geothermal energy at the TUM the LMU will focus on the aspect of environmental geology. More to follow!
Sedimentology is the scientific study of sedimentation processes and products like soft sediments of the deserts, seas, lakes and rivers and their lithified, ancient counterparts – the sedimentary rocks. Sediments can be produced by precipitation from water solutions (evaporites) or through biogenesis (bio-sediments) – via bio-mineralisation in microbial mats and bio-encrustation of surfaces or from skeletons after decay of soft body tissues. But most sediments on Earth are accumulated fragments of weathered older rocks, transported as particles of varying size and deposited downcurrent on flooded surfaces, layer by layer (clastics). Sedimentary rocks are of tremendous interest to ecologists, palaeontologists and geologists. They hold traces for ancient climates and past environments and evidence for the evolution of life. Fossils from the deep past of our planet – 3.5 billion years old microbes, millions of years old dinosaur bones and only few hundred years old anthropogenic fossils are preserved in successive layers of sedimentary rocks and sediments. In other environments sedimentary rocks host real economic treasures. The Earth’s groundwater resources are filtered and renewed in sediments, which make also excellent building materials, mined in thousands of quarries. Our energy resources of coal, oil and gas are hosted in sedimentary rocks, and iron, lead, zinc, precious metals like gold, and even diamonds, are mined from sedimentary rocks.
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