Volatile und Fluide in Subduktionszonen

Major research objectives

• What are the effects of major volcanic eruptions on the paleo, present and future climate?
• Did past volcanic eruptions have the potential to produce a pre-industrial Ozone hole or significant ozone decrease in mid-latitudes?
• Can future large arc-volcano eruptions damp global warming or increase the present Ozone hole?
• What are the key geological processes that control CO2 cycling at subduction zones?
• Is there a strong three-dimensional component to mantle wedge flow?
• What are the volatile budgets of the Central American and Chilean subduction zones?