- Status:
- Visiting Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (SNSF)
- Visiting Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
- June, 1997 - September, 1997
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- Supervisor:
- Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Burg
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- Courses attended:
- Winter Semester 1993/1994:
- Block course on Fission Track analysis, Block
course on Stable Isotopes, Doctor research seminars, Structural
Geology seminars, Geological colloquiums, Geological seminars
and visiting lecturers.
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- Summer Semester 1994:
- Doctor research seminars, Structural Geology
seminars, Geological colloquiums, Geological seminars and visiting
lecturers.
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- Winter Semester 1994/1995:
- Doctor research seminars, Structural Geology
seminars, Geological colloquiums, Geological seminars and visiting
lecturers.
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- Summer Semester 1995:
- Earth degassing, Doctor research seminars,
Structural Geology seminars, Geological colloquiums, Geological
seminars and visiting lecturers.
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- Winter Semester 1995/1996:
- Doctor research seminars, Structural Geology
seminars, Geological colloquiums, Geological seminars and visiting
lecturers.
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- Summer Semester 1996:
- Doctor research seminars, Structural Geology
seminars, Geological colloquiums, Geological seminars and visiting
lecturers.
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- Winter Semester 1996/1997:
- Doctor research seminars, Structural Geology
seminars, Geological colloquiums, Geological seminars and visiting
lecturers.
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- Summer Semester 1997:
- Doctor research seminars, Structural Geology
seminars, Geological colloquiums, Geological seminars and visiting
lecturers.
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- Project:
- Collision zone tectonics in orogenic syntaxial
regions and the along-strike evolution of the Indus Suture in
NE Pakistan (The Indus Suture of Pakistan Project)
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- SNSF Project No.
 2100-039080.93/1
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- Project description:
- The project studied the complex structure
of the Indus Suture in the NW Himalayas - its structural, metamorphic,
geochronological and tectonic evolution through time. Research
was undertaken to understand the relationship of the Hazara-Kashmir
syntaxis to the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis and their along-strike
relationship to the Indus Suture or Main Mantle Thrust. It also
aimed to understand syntaxial formation as seen from the lithologies
deformed along the Indus Suture as it is the only structure which
records the variation of the collisional timing along strike.
The research succeeded in developing from known structural, metamorphic
and geochronological variations along the suture zone a new kinematic
model. Backup laboratory analysis included micro-structural work
to relate deformation and metamorphism. Detailed geochronological
analysis of appropriate samples aimed to constrain the timing
of the development of the Indus Suture from west to east. The
aim was to synthesise the results of these various techniques
in order to be able to propose a model of the evolution of the
India/Asia collision zone. This project involved collaborations
of workers at the Department of Earth Sciences at the ETH: the
Institute of Geology, the Institute of Crystallography and Petrography
and the Swiss Geotechnical Kommission. It also continued the
established collaboration with the University of the Punjab (Lahore,
Pakistan).
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- Funding:
- The Indus Suture of
Pakistan Project was supported by the Swiss National Science
Foundation (SNSF) from June, 1994 - May, 1997.
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 From July, 1993 - May,
1994 support as a Visiting ETH Post-Doctoral Research Fellow.
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- From June, 1997 to
September, 1997, support as a Visiting ETH Post-Doctoral Research
Fellow.
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- Other:
- Review and selection of one candidate from
42 applications for an open position announcement for a PhD position
at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland.
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- General
- Attended tutorials, colloquia, symposia,
seminars, lectures, Mittelbau meetings, Institute meetings committee
meetings for selection of Oberassistants and Professors, Geological
Society lectures and Geological Society field trips.
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- Instruments used:
- Electron microprobe, Scanning Electron Microscope,
Scanning Electron Microscope with EDAX energy dispersive detachments,
X-ray diffraction spectrometer, X-ray fluorescence spectrography
(Bulk mineral and rare earth element analysis), Mass spectrometer,
Cathodluminescance Microscope, Microthermometry Microscope, Polarizing
and Optical Microscope.
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- Techniques used:
- Rock cutting, rock grinding and powdering,
thin section preparation, staining techniques, transmitted optical
microscopy, reflected light microscopy, crushing and sieving,
mineral separation methods.
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- Academic Ranking:
- In the 2003 Academic Ranking of Universities,
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich was placed
at number 25 amongst the Top 500 World Universities and at No.
5 amongst the Top 100 European Universities.
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