PYRTEC

Funded by: CNRS, NFR

PYRTEC will study interaction between surface processes, climate, and tectonic deformation during mountain building in the Pyrenean-Cantabrian belt. Collision between the Iberian and European plates resulted in mountain building in the Pyrenees and passive margin inversion in the Cantabrian area. The mountain range topography, however, was shaped by both collision and associated surface processes. Whereas large amounts of material were eroded in the Pyrenees, only minor erosion took place in the Cantabrian mountain range. Although operating at vastly different time and length scales, a significant potential exists for feedback between large scale tectonic deformation and redistribution of mass by erosion processes. This CRP will use a multidisciplinary approach involving field based studies, regional data compilation, geochronology, and quantitative modeling approaches that will couple tectonic and surface process models.

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Project leader:

Professor Ritske Huismans

Department of Earth Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Principal Investigators:

Professor Roy Gabrielsen

Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Dr. David Pedreira*

Departamento de Geología (Area de Geodinámica), Faculty of Science, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

Professor Francisco Javier Álvarez Pulgar*

Departamento de Geología (Area de Geodinámica), Faculty of Science, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

Dr. Ronald van Balen*

Department Paloeclimatology and Geomorphology, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Professor Peter van der Beek

Laboratoire de Géodynamique des Chaînes Alpines, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble,  Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble I, Grenoble, France

Associated Partners:

Dr. Gianreto Manatschal

Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

Professor Joseph Anton Muñoz

Department of Geodynamics and Geophysics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Dr. Hugh Sinclair

School of Geosciences, university of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

* Research funded by sources other than the participating ESF Member Organisations