Building Central Asia: Linking the Growth of Asia to its Exhumation

特提斯洋的消耗和冈瓦纳大陆与欧亚大陆的碰撞导致了地球上最高的山脉带：喜马拉雅山脉的隆起。然而，来自这一碰撞带的应力通过重新激活断层并沿着这些断层带形成山脉带而传播到欧亚大陆内部。该项目的目的是通过综合关于主要的中新生代中亚断层系统的多方法热年代学和结构数据，绘制断层（再）活化发生的方式和时间的地图和模型。由此产生的时间整合构造模型将有助于理解印度-欧亚大陆碰撞，中亚山地景观的建设及其对亚洲气候的影响。

The consumption of the Tethys Ocean and the associated collision of Gondwana-derived terranes with Eurasia resulted in the uplift of the highest mountain belt on Earth: the Himalayas. However, stresses from this collision zone propagated far into the Eurasian interior by reactivating faults and creating mountain belts along these fault zones. This project aims to map and model how and when fault (re)activation occurred by integrating multi-method thermochronological and structural data on major Meso-Cenozoic Central Asian fault systems. The resulting time-integrated tectonic model will aid in the understanding of the India-Eurasia collision, the building of the mountainous Central Asian landscape and its influence on the Asian climate.