The German Continental Deep Drilling Program (KTB)

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. KTB - How It All Began

   • E. Althaus

   Pages 1-4

3. The Crustal Structure at the KTB Drill Site, Oberpfalz

   • Klaus Weber, Axel Vollbrecht

   Pages 5-36

4. The Geological Framework of the KTB Drill Site, Oberpfalz

   • Wolfgang Franke

   Pages 37-54

5. Geochronology of the Moldanubian-Saxothuringian Transition Zone, Northeast Bavaria

   • B. T. Hansen, S. Teufel, H. Ahrendt

   Pages 55-65

6. Geochemical Characteristics of Metabasites in Different Tectonic Units of the Northeast Bavarian Crystalline Basement

   • M. Okrusch, E. Seidel, U. Schüssler, P. Richter

   Pages 67-79

7. Metallogenic Evolution at the Saxothuringian-Moldanubian Plate Boundary in the Mid-European Variscides

   • H. Dill

   Pages 81-98

8. Oberpfalz Deep Seismic Reflection Survey and Velocity Studies

   • J. Schmoll, R. Bittner, H.-J. Dürbaum, T. Heinrichs, R. Meißner, C. Reichert et al.

   Pages 99-149

9. Crustal Structure in the Surroundings of the KTB Drill Site as Derived from Refraction and Wide-Angle Seismic Observations

   • H. Gebrande, M. Bopp, P. Neurieder, T. Schmidt

   Pages 151-176

10. Processing of Reflection-Seismic Data in the DEKORP Processing Center, Clausthal

    • Manfred Stiller, Rüdiger Thomas

    Pages 177-221

11. Electrical Resistivity Studies in the Vicinity of the KTB Drill Site, Oberpfalz

    • Volker Haak

    Pages 223-241

12. Petrography and Petrology of the KTB Location Schwarzwald

    • Wolfhard Wimmenauer, Hans Klein, Hiltrud Müller, Rüdiger Stenger

    Pages 243-263

13. Structural and Basement Evolution in the Central Schwarzwald Gneiss Complex

    • T. Flöttmann, G. Kleinschmidt

    Pages 265-275

14. Ore and Mineral Deposits of the Schwarzwald

    • K. von Gehlen

    Pages 277-295

15. Near-Vertical and Wide-Angle Seismic Surveys in the Schwarzwald

    • E. Lüschen, F. Wenzel, K.-J. Sandmeier, D. Menges, Th. Rühl, M. Stiller et al.

    Pages 297-362

16. Compressional and Shear-Wave Velocity Models of the Schwarzwald Derived from Seismic Refraction Data

    • Dirk Gajewski

    Pages 363-383

17. Electrical Resistivity Studies at the KTB Location Schwarzwald

    • Alfred Berktold

    Pages 385-408

18. Gravity and Magnetic Investigations at the KTB Locations Schwarzwald and Oberpfalz

    • H. C. Soffel, S. Plaumann, R. Pucher, C. Bücker, H.-J. Götze, M. Wagener et al.

    Pages 409-431

19. Geothermal Investigations in the KTB Locations Oberpfalz and Schwarzwald

    • H. Burkhardt, U. Haack, A. Hahn, H. Honarmand, K. Jäger, A. Stiefel et al.

    Pages 433-480

20. Apatite Fission Track Dating of the Central European Basement. Postvariscan Thermo-Tectonic Evolution

    • G. A. Wagner, I. Michalski, P. Zaun

    Pages 481-500

In October 1986 the German Minister for Research and Technology (Bundesminister fUr Forschung und Technologie), Dr. H. Riesenhuber, officially announced that the super-deep borehole of the Continental Deep Drilling Program of the Federal Republic of Germany (KTB) would be drilled in the Oberpfalz area of Northern Bavaria. The site selection was based on a recommendation from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) made after an evaluation by the Project Management of the technical and financial risks involved. This decision was preceded by a conference held from September 19 to 21, 1986 in Seeheim/Odenwald at which the results of the site studies in the Oberpfalz and the Schwarzwald were presented and thoroughly debated. The models and scientific targets resulting from these investigations formed the basis for a vote by the DFG Senate Commission for Geoscientific Interdisciplinary Research which was taken immediately after the conference. After evaluation of all scientific and technical aspects, the members of the commission voted almost unanimously for the Oberpfalz site. It was, ho",'ever, strongly emphasized that both locations had a wealth of attractive research objectives and that despite clear-cut differences in some major aspects scientifically the two could be regarded as more or less equivalent. Both'locations would be excellent sites for research drilling and would certainly cor.

• evolution
• mineral
• mineral deposits
• petrography
• petrology
• research
• tectonics

• Institut für Geowissenschaften und Lithosphärenforschung, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany

  Rolf Emmermann

• Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet für Angewandte Geophysik, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

  Jürgen Wohlenberg

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