Surface-Deep Earth Interactions: From Integrated Datasets to Landscape Evolution and Geodynamic Modeling
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2020) | Viewed by 4404
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tectonics and geodynamics; climate change and paleoclimate; surface-deep earth interactions; geodynamic numerical modeling; landscape evolution numerical modeling; mountain building; surface processes; magmatism; basin evolution; geological carbon cycle
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Mountain ranges, sedimentary basins, subduction zones, volcanic arcs, oceanic ridges, and nearly all major geological features testify fluxes of geological materials occurring at and across the Earth's surface. Interactions between the Solid Earth (i.e., our planet's solid surface and its interior) and the Fluid Earth (i.e., our planet's wet or icy surface and the atmosphere) are thus ubiquitous and occur across timescales. Correspondences between global climatic and tectonic changes throughout the Earth’s history fostered our understanding of the evolution of mountain ranges, rock exhumation, and the geological carbon cycle. The main logical link to relate past climate and tectonic changes is their synchronicity. However, limited temporal resolution in the geological archives prevents a clear recognition of the causative relationships behind such changes. Which mechanisms control the coupling between surface and deep Earth processes? Which are the characteristic timescales and magnitudes of the feedbacks involved? Answering these questions is still a challenge in the Earth Sciences and relies on landscape evolution and geodynamic modeling to integrate and interpret multidisciplinary dataset. The aim of this special issue is to gather contributions regarding the continuously growing body of observational constraints and advances in coupled surface and deep Earth processes modeling, thereby increasing opportunities to progress in this research.
Dr. Pietro Sternai
Dr. Jonas B. Ruh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Landscape Evolution Modeling
- Geodynamic Modeling
- Surface-Deep Earth Interactions
- Mountain Building
- Basin Evolution
- Climate Change and Paleoclimate
- Geological Carbon Cycle
- Plate Tectonics
- Magmatism
- Erosion and Weathering
