Overview Related Projects Publications The Team Collaborators

Project Overview

The overarching goal of our studies is to characterise the strength of the lithosphere from geodetic to geologic time-scales and explore its implications for landscape evolution and mantle dynamics. The strength of the lithosphere allows for the support of high topography in the Tibetan Plateau, controls the formation of rift basin stratigraphic architecture, and modulates the effect of dynamic topography in South East Asia. We work towards developing a model for lithospheric strength that is consistent with experimental rock mechanics, gravity observations, and elastic layer thickness estimates, and apply it to the Earth and the other planets.

Funding Sources

  • Earth Observatory of Singapore

Project Years

2018, 2019

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Publications

Year 2018

Locking on a megathrust as a cause of distributed faulting and fault-jumping earthquakes

Simon Lamb, James D.P. Moore, & Richard Arnold

Year 2019

Lower-crustal rheology and thermal gradient in the Taiwan orogenic belt illuminated by the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake

Chi-Hsien Tang, James D.P. Moore, Sylvain Barbot, Wu-Lung Chang, & Ya-Ju Hsu

Year 2018

Transient rheology of the Sumatran mantle wedge revealed by a decade of great earthquakes

Qiang Qiu, Emma M. Hill, James D.P. Moore, Lujia Feng, & Sylvain Barbot
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The Team

Adam SWITZER

Adam SWITZER

Principal Investigator

Collaborators

Collaborator(s):

Justin Dauwels, SEEE, NTU

Nick Drake, Kings College London

Charlie Bristow, Birkbeck College London

Simon Lamb and Tim Stern, Victoria University of Wellington

Michelle Parks, Nordic Volcanological Center, Iceland

Frederik Simons, Princeton

Lars Hansen, University of Oxford

Stefan Nielsen and Jon Wade, University of Oxford

Richard Palin, Colorado School of Mines. 

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