Articles | Volume 31
https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-31-31-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-31-31-2022
Science report
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28 Oct 2022
Science report |  | 28 Oct 2022

ICDP drilling of the Eger Rift observatory: magmatic fluids driving the earthquake swarms and deep biosphere

Tomáš Fischer, Pavla Hrubcová, Torsten Dahm, Heiko Woith, Tomáš Vylita, Matthias Ohrnberger, Josef Vlček, Josef Horálek, Petr Dědeček, Martin Zimmer, Martin P. Lipus, Simona Pierdominici, Jens Kallmeyer, Frank Krüger, Katrin Hannemann, Michael Korn, Horst Kämpf, Thomas Reinsch, Jakub Klicpera, Daniel Vollmer, and Kyriaki Daskalopoulou

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Cited articles

Alawi, M., Nickschick, T., and Kämpf, H.: Mikrobiologische Prozesse in CO2-Aufstiegskanälen, System Erde, 5, 28–33, https://doi.org/10.2312/GFZ.syserde.05.01.5, 2015. 
Alexandrakis, C., Calò, M., Bouchaala, F., and Vavryčuk, V.: Velocity structure and the role of fluids in the West Bohemia Seismic Zone, Solid Earth, 5, 863–872, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-5-863-2014, 2014. 
Bräuer, K., Kämpf, H., Strauch, G., and Weise, S. M.: Isotopic evidence (3He /4He, 13CCO2) of fluid triggered intraplate seismicity, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 2070, https://doi.org/10.1029/2002JB002077, 2003. 
Bräuer, K., Kämpf, H., Faber, E., Koch, U., Nitzsche, H.-M., and Strauch, G.: Seismically triggered microbial methane production relating to the Vogtland NW Bohemia earthquake swarm period 2000, Central Europe, Geochem. J., 39, 441–450, https://doi.org/10.2343/geochemj.39.441, 2005a. 
Bräuer, K., Kämpf, H., Niedermann, S. and Strauch, G.: Evidence for ascending upper mantle-derived melt beneath the Cheb basin, central Europe, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L08303, https://doi.org/10.1029/2004GL022205, 2005b. 
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The newly established geodynamic laboratory aims to develop modern, comprehensive, multiparameter observations at depth for studying earthquake swarms, crustal fluid flow, mantle-derived fluid degassing and processes of the deep biosphere. It is located in the West Bohemia–Vogtland (western Eger Rift) geodynamic region and comprises a set of five shallow boreholes with high-frequency 3-D seismic arrays as well as continuous real-time fluid monitoring at depth and the study of the deep biosphere.