Research projects of GEOL

Topics

• The Chicxulub Crater (Yucatan - Mexico) and relationship to the Cretaceous - Tertiary Boundary Event.
• Biotic changes in the Precambrian-Cambrian Black Shale Series of South China": Testing the meteorite impact hypothesis
• The Eocene-Oligocene transition : Popigai crater, melt rock, ejecta and global effects
• Metallogenesis in the Brabant Massif : physico-chemical conditions and timing (in collaboration with KU Leuven)
• Impact Crater Hydrothermal Niches for Early Life on Earth and Mars
• Study of the interaction in the Scheldt Estuary: Biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nitrogen
• Stable isotope analyses, by high precision isotope ratio mass spectrometry of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, for research in earth and environmental sciences and archaeology
• Validation of alternative marine calcareous skeletons as recorders of global climatic change
• Speleothems as palaeoclimatic archives. A study of the stable isotopic and geochemical behaviour of the cave environment and its Late Quaternary records
• Trace element and stable isotope geochemistry in Sclerosponges as environmental archives (CALMAR)