GEO-Zentrum an der KTB (GEO Center at the KTB)
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The research project Continental Deep Drilling Programme of the Federal Republic of Germany ("KTB") forms the basis of the exhibition. The collection therefore includes the highest land drilling rig in the world at a height of 83 metres - which is accessible right up to the drilling platform -, the drilling equipment from the drilling rig and all the drilling sample material (drill cores, drill cuttings, mud samples) from the 9,101-metre-deep research borehole and the 4,000-metre-deep pilot borehole. The history of the drilling project is a logical part of the exhibition. Building on this, scientific drilling as a method of gaining geoscientific knowledge is taken up and supplemented by a broad selection of geoscientific topics. With the topics of minerals of the Upper Palatinate, in particular the historically significant fluorite minerals, as well as volcanism and earthquakes, a regional reference is taken up, which is impressively underpinned with an earthquake simulator and a still functioning semi-electronic seismograph. The topics of plate tectonics and the Earth's cycles are addressed at hands-on stations, as is geoscientific research into climate change (keyword: a look into the stone climate archive) and energy production (both with regard to fossil fuels and the utilisation of geothermal energy). The "Mineral resources - the precious earth" section of the exhibition is dedicated to the utilisation and sustainability of geogenic raw materials using the example of sand, graphite and rare earths.
Last edited on 20.02.2024
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