Relevant Publications • Research Group Participants • TTU Geosciences Research Page • Geosciences Home
For over a decade faculty and students in the Geosciences Department have been conducting various geologic studies in central Norway. This work has been in collaboration with scientists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, and the Norwegian Geological Survey (NGU).

Our on-going work is addressing the following questions:
• How do magmas form & evolve during lithospheric collisional events?
• What role do mafic magmas play in the evolution of migmatite terranes?
• How do magmas migrate through the hot, rheologically weak middle crust?
• How are magmas emplaced at 700 MPa?
• How does the rheology of the host rocks change during magma emplacement?
• What was the plate tectonic setting of Scandinavia, Greenland, and the northeastern U.S. 460 million years ago?
• What role did nappe-bounding reactivated extensional shear zones play in the exhumation of the mid-crustal rocks?

For more information about our on-going research in central Norway, click on one of the links below.

Carbonate assimilation in a magma transfer zone: the Hortavaer intrusion, central Norway

Magma emplacement, assimilation and the fate of stoped blocks

Hypersolidus deformation, folded igneous layering, stoping, and magma emplacement at 7kb: the Sausfjellet pluton, central Norway

Diatexites, stromatic migmatites, contact melting and magma mingling in a mid-crustal magma transfer zone

Structural Evolution of the Helgeland Nappe Complex, upppermost allocthon, central Norway