Disputations

Doctoral candidate Eivind Olavson Straume at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Paleoclimate in the Cenozoic time: Quantifying the role of North Atlantic plate tectonics and mantle processes for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Dmitrii Zastrozhnov at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Regional Structure and basin Development of the mid-Norwegian Volcanic Passive Margin: Anatomy of a Polyphased Rifted System for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Björn Holger Heyn at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Geodynamics of Earth’s Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces Interaction with mantle flow, plume initiation, and core-mantle boundary deformation" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Hans Jørgen Kjøll at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Neoproterozoic to Lower Paleozoic Evolution of the Pre-Caledonian Magma-rich Margin of Baltica" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Thea Hatlen Heimdal at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Large-scale sill emplacement of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) in the Amazonas and Solimões basins, Brazil: a multidisciplinary approach to unravel the environmental implications for the end-Triassic crisis

Pingchuan Tan at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Magmatic development of the Jan Mayen - East Greenland area, NE Atlantic

Nils Charles Prieur at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: The influence of target properties on simple crater evolution — Application to the Moon

Marzena Anna Baron at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Experimental constraints on Earth’s lower mantle melting and core formation