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- Opportunities for students -
This page summarises some of the topics available for PhD, PhB, M. Sc,
Honours, and Internships. Interested and motivated students are invited
to contact me directly for more details about ongoing as well as new projects.
Forward and inverse numerical models of the coupled plates/mantle
system
Degree types: PhD, PhB, M. Sc, Honours, Internships.
What forces caused the Australian plate to drift away from Antarctica (see figure)?
Why lithospheric plates change their motions over time? Questions like these are of fundamental importance to the
Geosciences.
Since the groundbreaking ideas of Alfred Wegener, paleomagnetic
and geodetic reconstructions have significantly improved our knowledge of
past and present plate motions; while seismic tomography allowed
us to recognise lithospheric kinematics as the surface expression of convection within Earth's mantle.
Times are mature to explore the dynamics of the lithosphere, and constrain them
through the record of plate kinematics. A number of projects are
available on performing forward and inverse numerical models of the
plates/mantle system, aimed at reconstructing the spatial and temporal
patterns of forces acting upon plates.
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