Seminar: Taiwan, A Natural Laboratory for the Study of Coupled Tectonics, Climate and Erosion

Date: 

Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

Faculty Lounge, Hoffman 4th floor, 20 Oxford St.

Speaker: Prof. Sean Willett, Department of Earth Science's Institute of Geology at ETH Zurich

A summary of historic and recent work on the tectonics, erosion, and landscape evolution of this classic arc-continent collision will be presented. Extensive thermochronometry studies give a detailed picture of the collision-related exhumation rates and patterns and to this we can now add cosmogenic isotope studies of the Holocene erosion rates in order to test models of steady or transient exhumation.

Breakfast will be provided.

This seminar is part of the EPS 2017 Agassiz Visiting Lecturer Program

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