Tectonic Reconstruction of the Evolution of the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Chain

该项目将构建一个过去1.5亿年来固体地球中运动的计算显式模型，以研究在产生阿尔卑斯-喜马拉雅山脉带的碰撞期间地球是一个复杂的系统。这是地球上最年轻的碰撞山带，有时从西班牙延伸到新西兰。地球科学家想要了解形成它的过程，特别是带状大陆的作用。作为这项工作的结果，普通澳大利亚人将能够更好地感知他们与最近邻居的互动。

This project will construct a computationally explicit model of movements in the solid Earth for the past 150 million years, to study the Earth as a complex system during the collision that produced the Alpine-Himalayan mountain belt. This is the youngest collisional mountain belt on Earth, and at times it stretched from Spain to New Zealand. Earth Scientists want to understand the processes that took place to make it, in particular the role of ribbon continents. As a result of this work ordinary Australians will be able to better perceive their interactions with their nearest neighbours.