| The structural and thermal evolution of crustal and upper mantle rocks embrace a wealth of geometric, kinematic and even rheological data as well as thermal information crucial to the understanding of orogenic processes, and vital to test the predictions of numerical model studies concerned with deformation of the Earth?s lithosphere. Aim: The research principally aims to elucidate structural and thermal histories in crucial segments of mostly young orogenic belts, i.a. to allow tests of tectonic hypotheses via numerical model studies. Methods: Structural and petrological studies involving field and laboratory study of structures, microstructures ands assemblages in naturally deformed rocks from orogenic belts. Present topics: Exhumation of (very)high pressure metamorphic rocks in the Alps (principal researcher Drs. F.M. Brouwer); Structures, microstructures and deformation processes in oceanic mantle rocks from ophiolites (principal researcher Drs. A. Dijkstra) Duration: Long term Researcher: Prof. Dr. R.L.M. Vissers Research partners: Prof. Dr. M.J.R. Wortel (Utrecht), Dr. M.J.R. Drury (Utrecht) |
