Extensional mountain building along convergent plate boundary: Insights from the active Taiwan mountain belt

Feedback between mountain belt growth and plate convergence

While it is generally assumed that global plate motions are driven by the pattern of convection in the Earth’s mantle, the details of that link remain obscure. Bouyancy forces associated with subduction of cool, dense lithosphere at zones of plate convergence are thought to provide significant driving force, but the relative magnitudes of other driving and resisting forces are less clear, as ar...

Predicting landslides probabilities along mountain road in Taiwan

This paper gives a brief introduction on the background and current status of landslides along mountain roads in Taiwan and presents a detailed analysis based on the Gaussian Process model for predicting locations and occurrence times of future landslides using historical data. Based on inherent and man-made features of failed and not-failed slopes, locations of possible future landslides are p...

6.09 Dynamic Processes in Extensional and Compressional Settings – Mountain Building: From Earthquakes to Geological Deformation

Mountain belt growth inferred from histories of past plate convergence: A new tectonic inverse problem

Past plate motions display a range of variability, including speedups and slowdowns that cannot easily be attributed to changes in mantle related driving forces. One key controlling factor for these variations is the surface topography at convergent margins, as previous modeling shows that the topographic load of large mountain belts consumes a significant amount of the driving forces available...

Antarctic NAT belt caused by mountain waves

MIPAS detects Antarctic stratospheric belt of NAT PSCs caused by mountain waves M. Höpfner, N. Larsen, R. Spang, B. P. Luo, J. Ma, S. H. Svendsen, S. D. Eckermann, B. Knudsen, P. Massoli, F. Cairo, G. Stiller, T. v. Clarmann, and H. Fischer Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Karlsruhe, Germany Danish Meteorological Institute, Middle Atmosphere Research Di...