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SUMMARY:Landscape Response to Active Normal Faulting: Rivers\, Rates and D
 ates - Dr Alexander Whittaker (Imperial College\, London)
DTSTART:20160208T170000Z
DTEND:20160208T180000Z
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CONTACT:Matouš Ptáček
DESCRIPTION:Quantification of how geomorphic features\, such as river long
  profiles\, can be 'inverted' for tectonic rates remains a key challenge i
 n the Earth Sciences. In particular\, the rate at which transient knickpoi
 nts propagate through a landscape fundamentally controls geomorphic respon
 se times to a change in boundary conditions\, such as a change in fault th
 row rate. This talk addresses the extent to which we are now capable of ex
 tracting 'tectonics from topography' using case studies from areas of acti
 ve normal faulting in the Mediterranean\, and evaluates the timescale over
  which transient tectonic signals are recorded in the landscape.  Recently
  published examples from the Sperchios Graben and Northern Gulf of Evia\, 
 Greece\, show how geomorphic analyses and fault interaction theory togethe
 r can be used to estimate fault throw rates and linkage times\, but also d
 emonstrate some of the challenges that still remain.  
LOCATION:Harker Room 1\, Department of Earth Sciences
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