Geodynamics of the Polar Regions

Department of Geosciences

Working Areas




  • West Antarctic Rift System and Transantarctic Mountains
  • Dronning Maud Land & Shackleton Range (Antarctica)
  •  Scotia Sea and Patagonia
  • Ellesmere Island (Canadian High Arctic)
  •  Greenland
  • Svalbard, Barents Sea & Yermak Plateau
  • New Siberian Islands
  • Himalaya 
  • Alps, circumalpine basins, and Mediterranean areas 
  • Madagaskar
  • India
  • East African Rift System
  •  Ukraine
  •  Northeast German Lowlands




Contact Info

Prof. Dr. Cornelia Spiegel-Behnke

Tel.: +49 421 218-65280
Fax.: +49 421 218-65309


Universität Bremen
FB5 - Geowissenschaften
Klagenfurter Str. 2
28359 Bremen

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