Research Group Gürer Geodynamics
At the Geodynamics Group at Heidelberg University, we investigate the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s lithosphere across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales — from millions of years of plate tectonic evolution to the deformation processes recorded in individual rocks and mineral grains in seconds - during earthquakes. Our research combines field geology, tectonics, geophysics, paleomagnetism, and geodynamic modelling to better understand plate boundary evolution, lithospheric deformation, natural hazards, and long-term landscape development.
For deep time is measured in units that humble the human instant: millennia, epochs and aeons, instead of minutes, months and years. Deep time is kept by rock, ice, stalactites, seabed sediments and the drift of tectonic plates. Seen in deep time, things come alive that seemed inert. New responsibilities declare themselves. Ice breathes. Rock has tides. Mountains rise and fall. We live on a restless Earth.
― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey