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Project

Tectonic reactivation of intracontinental Central Asia: chronologic evolution and role of inherited basement structures.

This project will reconstruct the tectonics of the intracontinental Central Asian Orogenic System. In particular, emphasis lies on the chronology of the different collision-accretion events that are responsible for formation and growth of Central Asia and, in a larger frame-work, of the Eurasian continent. Moreover, the role of inherited basement structures in the reactivation of older orogens will be evaluated.

Date:1 Jan 2009 →  30 Apr 2012
Keywords:geochronology, Central Asia, Thermochronology, tectonics
Disciplines:Physical geography and environmental geoscience, Geophysics, Geology