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The Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology at the University of Bonn offers a PhD position (BAT IIa/2; c. DM 1700 after tax) being part of a research project on the "Lithology and geodynamical evolution of the Kerala Khondalite Belt (KKB), southern India". Two field trips to India, the first of which already starts at the beginning of October this year, are aimed at obtaining a detailed knowledge about the lithology in the eastern and southern part of the KKB and the Achankovil Shear zone (which forms the northern boundary of the KKB) as well as the structural evolution of the rocks during the Pan-African orogeny. Detailed petrological, geochemical and geochronological investigations of gneisses and leucogranites should improve the understanding of the P-T-t evolution of these rocks during the Pan-African high-grade metamorphic event. A correlation of these results with data from Sri Lanka, southern Madagascar and Antarctica will help to better characterize the position of the KKB within Gondwana at the end of the Proterozoic. Laboratory work will include petrological and geochemical investigation of gneiss and granite samples on the whole-rock and mineral scale as well as radiogenic isotope work which will be carried out at the University of Muenster. The project takes place in cooperation with Dr. Michael Broecker (Geochronological Laboratory, University of Muenster) and Prof. Leo Kriegsman (University of Turku, Finland). Applicants should have a "Diplom" degree (roughly equivalent to the masters degree) in Geosciences and a basic knowledge of microprobe and geochemical analytic techniques. He or she should be familiar with magmatic and metamorphic processes in the lower continental crust and be able to bear the Indian climate (which we sometimes also have in Bonn during summer). Those who are interested please contact me as soon as possible. Dr. Ingo Braun Mineralogisch-Petrologisches Institut Universitaet Bonn Poppelsdorfer Schloss D-53115 Bonn Germany Tel.: +49/(0)228/73-3752 Fax: +49/(0)228/73-2763 eMail: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%