Adaptation of drainage to tectonic forcing (C05)

• Subject Area: Palaeontology
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 268236062

This project will examine how climate and tectonics have influenced the evolution of large-scale river systems of northern Chile since the late Miocene. The work will combine geochronological, biochronological and computer modelling methods, alongside the analysis of satellite imagery and more traditional field based approaches to constrain the incision, reorganization and sediment transport histories of the north Chilean drainage networks. Primary goals include better constraints on the tectonic uplift history of northern Chile, further development of molecular clock approaches to river reorganization events, and improved understanding of sediment transport in hyperarid regions.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1211: Earth - Evolution at the Dry Limit
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Co-Applicant Institution: Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ); Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
• Project Heads: Dr. Steven Binnie; Privatdozentin Dr. Kathrin Lampert, since 7/2020; Professor Dr. Klaus Reicherter; Dr. Pia Victor