Stillingstittel:
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Hyperextended Margin (2016/1639)

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest institution of research and education with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. Its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally esteemed research communities make UiO an important contributor to society.

A three-year position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow (SKO1352) in the project: “Hyperextension in magma-poor and magma-rich domains along the pre-Caledonian passive margin of Baltica” isavailable at The Centre of Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED). CEED is a Centre of Excellence at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway. Starting date no later than the August 2016. Note that no one can be appointed for more than one specified period at the same institution.

Job and Project description:

The vestiges of the Late Proterozoic to Early Palaeozoic hyperextended margin of Baltica in the Scandinavian Caledonides form an extremely complicated geological province emplaced as nappe complexes at low structural levels in the mountain belt. Work in progress has shown that the margin developed as magma-rich to magma-poor, north to south respectively, in Scandinavia. The transition from the magma-rich to the magma-poor domain is a key issue for the postdoctoral researcher in this project because such domain transitions are rarely seen in ancient onshore analogues of passive margins. We expect a highly qualified and motivated postdoctoral researcher to take a leading role in developing several of the research topics listed below:

1. Understand the nature of the transition from magma-poor to magma-rich domain along the pre-Caledonian margin of Baltica.
2. Explain the numerous occurrences of solitary meta-peridotites and clastic serpentinites associated with fine- to coarse-grained basin deposits and their association to the slivers of ancient crystalline basement gneisses.
3. Determine the relationships between break-up-related magmatic rocks and the extension.
4. Determine in detail structural and metamorphic relationships between pre-Caledonian extension and the orogenic overprint.
5. Explain how the geometry of hyperextended margins and ocean continent transition zones control subsequent orogenic evolution.
6. Provide and use the field constraints for input to numerical/analogue models of hyperextension.

Methods

Field studies, structural geology/tectonics, petrology, geochronology, analogue studies and modelling. The work will include considerable amounts of fieldwork in partly remote and poorly accessible terrains of Scandinavia.

Qualifications

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has a strategic ambition of being a leading research faculty. Candidates for these fellowships will be selected in accordance with this, and expected to be in the upper segment of their class with respect to academic credentials

The candidate must have a PhD or other corresponding education equivalent to a Norwegian doctoral degree, and have a strong field-based background combined with expertise in structural geology and/or petrology and/or geochronology. The candidates PhD must have strong relevance to one or more of the problems outlined above.

The postdoc will have a key role in the co-supervision teams of the Master/PhD students.

The main purpose of post-doctoral research fellowships is to qualify researchers for work in top academic positions within their disciplines.

Please also refer to the regulations pertaining to the conditions of employment for post-doctoral fellowship positions.

A good command of English is required.
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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Universitetet i Oslo, Centre for Earth E

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0313 OSLO

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Oslo

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år