Ex Honours Student
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Madsen Building F09,Supervisors
Prof Dietmar Müller, Dr Nicolas Flament and Dr Simon Williams.
Project Summary
Current plate tectonic models view plates as rigid blocks. However the Earth's crust isn't always rigid, it can stretch (such as at rift zones) or compress (such as at convergent plate boundaries). My research involves helping improve our plate models by implementing deforming zones at plate boundaries. The areas I will be looking at in particular are the Tethyan mountain ranges which cover deformation caused by the collision of Africa-Eurasia (the Alps), Arabia-Eurasia (Zagros Mountains) and India-Eurasia (the Himalayas). Furthermore, I will use the deforming models to give an idea of the evolution of topography over time which will help us understand the temporal evolution of dynamic topography. An understanding of the evolution of dynamic topography for the Tethyan orogens will help as gain valuable insights into the evolution of sedimentary basins in these regions.
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Modern reef-building corals only thrive within a narrow sea surface temperature range of about 22–30°C. The authors use this preference as an independent check on past climate models, running an ensemble of simulations from 250 million years ago to today across a range of CO2 levels and paleogeographies. Their coral-constrained temperature curve closely matches earlier … Read more…
Congratulations to the EarthByte Honours students for submitting their theses and delivering their final presentations! Well done Carmen, Mandi, Jono, Nikita and Luke!
EarthByte helped run the 2015 geosciences workshop for the University of Sydney’s International Science School, with over 140 high school students engaging in activities from a wide range of research topics and teaching areas at the School of Geosciences. Thanks to all the brilliant EarthByte volunteers, including Mandi Thran, Nikita Golkin, Luke Hardiman, Jono Leonard and Carmen Braz.
See the School of Geoscience’s Facebook page for more info and photos from the day! … Read more…
EarthByte is happy to welcome 5 new Honours students who will be undertaking a variety of exciting projects over the course of the next 9 months! Welcome Mandi, Jono, Luke, Carmen and Nikita!
Jonathon Leonard is undertaking a 6 week summer scholarship with Nicolas Flament and Simon Williams. He will be producing a deforming plate model of the Arabia-Eurasia collision.
