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

该项目将建立一个过去1.5亿年固体地球运动的计算明确模型，以研究在产生阿尔卑斯-喜马拉雅山带的碰撞期间地球作为一个复杂系统的情况。这是地球上最年轻的碰撞山脉带，有时它从西班牙延伸到新西兰。 地球科学家希望了解形成它的过程，特别是带状大陆的作用。 由于这项工作，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.