Linkage of climate and geodynamics in development of plateaux at collisional plate margins: marine contributions to an international study of the Central Anatolian Plateau.

重要的是，人类必须更好地了解地球系统，以便政策制定者能够制定适当的长期社会和经济战略，以应对各种环境问题，包括全球变化。这是一个跨学科项目，旨在研究气候和固体地球动力学之间的联系，以及山脉地带高原的演变。这是由板块碰撞的构造驱动的，但当地的气候通过侵蚀、运输和沉积改变了上升的表面。反过来，不断演变的山带可能会影响全球气候。造山高原是山脉地带内的高平原，导致当地气候变化(例如，雨影)，并受到当地气候变化的影响。年轻的造山高原保存了它们演化的岩石记录，这为我们提供了一个特殊的机会来加强我们对表层过程和深层过程之间的基本联系的理解，并对它们进行模拟。

It is important that humankind better understand the Earth system, so that policy makers can develop suitable, long-term social and economic strategies to deal with various environmental issues, including global change. This is an interdisciplinary project to study the linkages between climate and solid Earth dynamics, in the evolution of plateaux in mountain belts. These are driven by the tectonics of colliding plates, but local climate modifies the rising surface through erosion, transport and deposition. In turn, the evolving mountain belt may affect global climate. Orogenic plateaux are high plains within mountain belts, which result in, and are modified by, local climatic variations (rain-shadows, for instance). Young orogenic plateaux, which preserve a rock record of their evolution, offer a special opportunity to enhance our understanding of the essential linkage between surface and deeper processes, and model them.