Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0451517

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0451517

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Integrated dynamic models of subduction initiation, slab evolution, arc - back-arc deformation and mantle convection. A major debate in plate tectonics concerns the driving mechanism for formation of extensional back-arc basins in the overriding plate along a convergent tectonic boundary, where a subducting plate is thrust into the mantle underneath an overriding plate. One hypothesis states that such extension results from sinking and rollback of the subducting plate. The physical validity of this hypothesis will be tested using both laboratory and numerical modelling techniques. The modelling will investigate overriding plate - subducting plate - mantle interaction in three-dimensional space and quantify the role of key physical parameters on the subduction process.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 03-2004

End Date: 02-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $235,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geology | Structural Geology | Geotectonics | Fluid Physics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Oil and gas | Oil shale and tar sands |

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