Reconstructing mountain belts tectonics and climate
Reconstructing mountain belts tectonics and climate
Session ID#: 121107
Session Description:
Tectonics, climate and erosion jointly shape the topography and evolution process of mountain belts. How to quantitatively reconstruct their respective roles in the evolution of mountain belts remains a challenging scientific problem due to the complex interactions and feedbacks among these driving processes. To separate the effects of each forcing, one needs to combine many different pieces of evidence such as geochronology, topographic data, and the volume, provenance and characteristics (e.g., grain size, weathering intensity) of material eroded from mountain belts, deposited in foreland and/or ocean basins. The morphology of drainage basins in mountain belts also contains important information on climatic and tectonic forcings. We seek to bring together latest results on reconstructing tectonics and climate of mountain belts. We welcome work on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales using any combination of methods (geomorphic and/or sedimentary record, thermochronology, cosmogenic nuclides, paleoaltimetry, provenance analysis and numerical/analogue modeling, etc.).
Index Terms:
8110 Continental tectonics: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8175 Tectonics and landscape evolution [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8177 Tectonics and climatic interactions [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Primary Convener: Xiaoping Yuan, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
Conveners: Charles Shobe, West Virginia University, Morgantown, United States, Jing Liu-Zeng, Tianjin University, School of Earth System Sciences, Tianjin, China and Jean Braun, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Primary Liaison: Xiaoping Yuan, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
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