Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP150101730
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Building Central Asia: Linking the Growth of Asia to its Exhumation. The consumption of the Tethys Ocean and the associated collision of Gondwana-derived terranes with Eurasia resulted in the uplift of the highest mountain belt on Earth: the Himalayas. However, stresses from this collision zone propagated far into the Eurasian interior by reactivating faults and creating mountain belts along these fault zones. This project aims to map and model how and when fault (re)activation occurred by integrating multi-method thermochronological and structural data on major Meso-Cenozoic Central Asian fault systems. The resulting time-integrated tectonic model will aid in the understanding of the India-Eurasia collision, the building of the mountainous Central Asian landscape and its influence on the Asian climate.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2015
End Date: 12-2018
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $216,300.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Geology | Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution | Geochronology | Tectonics
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Natural Hazards in Mountain and High Country Environments | Climate Change Models |
