Alpine gravimetry
Alpine gravimetry or Alpine Gravimetry is the name of a series of geoscientific conferences that deal with the gravity field of the Alps and its geological-geophysical interpretation. In the high mountains , this research is particularly demanding and requires interdisciplinary exchange, because the steep terrain requires special computing effort and the rock layers are irregular ( geological disturbances ).
The alpine gravimetry conferences usually take place every 3 years in Austrian university cities - so far in Leoben , Vienna and Graz . The conference language of the first 7 congresses was usually German, since 2000 it has been mainly English.
Participants and topics
The specialist conferences mainly deal with gravimetry in the Eastern Alps , but their subject area also includes applied geophysics with other methods and the exploration of non-European Alpine mountains. The participants and speakers come mainly from Germany , Austria and Switzerland , but increasingly also from Hungary , Slovakia , Southeastern and Western Europe.
In addition to Austrian universities and civil engineers , German geophysics institutes, such as Geophysics , are also involved in gravimetric exploration of the Eastern and Central Alps . B. the TU Berlin and the Bergakademie Freiberg / Saxony, as well as academy and geodesy institutes z. B. in Munich , Zurich , Pressburg and Sopron .
Examples are the sessions of the 2000 conference:
- Global gravimetric research
- Regional and local gravimetry (in 2 sessions)
- Gravimetric interpretation methods (in 2 sessions)
- Geoid determination and potential theory
- Instrumental and calibration of gravimeters.
The first alpine gravimetry symposia took place in the 1980s, organized primarily by the university lecturers Peter Steinhauser (Vienna) and Georg Walach (Leoben / Graz) in cooperation with HJ Götze (Clausthal). Later on, Bruno Meurers (Vienna) and Hans Sünkel (Graz) were particularly involved .
The conference reports have been appearing since 1993 in the ZAMG Vienna series of publications entitled "Austrian Contributions to Meteorology and Geophysics" (abbreviated to ÖBMG), or under the heading "Civil Engineering in the Alps". In 2003 the conference did not take place in the usual form, but as a workshop (in Graz).