Our group is interested in the growth of mountains, their underlying tectonics, how this results in production of sediment, and the fate of that sediment. Current projects We have active projects in the Himalayas, the Carpathians, the Andes and the Pyrenees. Listed below is one of our projects in this area: SUBITOP - Understanding subduction zone topography through modelling of coupled shallow and deep processes SUBITOP is a European Union funded project and its goal is to understand the mechanisms controlling the way the Earth’s surface is sculpted and evolves over the most active tectonic feature of the Earth: the subduction zone. Our component has focussed on exploring the landscape metrics to detect transience in the Romanian Carpathians and beyond. Visit the SUBITOP website Publications *Affiliated authors highlighted in bold (2019) Lithological control on the post-orogenic topography and erosion history of the Pyrenees. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 518, 53–66. *Authors: Bernard, T., Sinclair, H.D., Gailleton, B., Mudd, S.M., Ford, M. View publication (2017) Abrasion-set limits on Himalayan gravel flux. Nature 544, 471–474. *Authors: Dingle, E.H., Attal, M., Sinclair, H.D. View publication (2019) Impact of recycling and lateral sediment input on grain size fining trends—Implications for reconstructing tectonic and climate forcings in ancient sedimentary systems. Basin Research 31, 866–891. *Authors: Harries, R.M., Kirstein, L.A., Whittaker, A.C., Attal, M., Main, I. View publication (2018) Spatial correlation bias in late-Cenozoic erosion histories derived from thermochronology. Nature 559, 89–93. *Authors: Schildgen, T.F., Beek, P.A. van der, Sinclair, H.D., Thiede, R.C. View publication (2020) Conglomerate recycling in the Himalayan foreland basin: Implications for grain size and provenance. Geological Society of America Bulletin 132, 1639–1656. *Authors: Quick, L., Sinclair, H.D., Attal, M., Singh, V. View publication (2019) Internal Drainage Has Sustained Low-Relief Tibetan Landscapes Since the Early Miocene. Geophysical Research Letters 46, 8741–8752. *Authors: Han, Z., Sinclair, H.D., Li, Y., Wang, C., Tao, Z., Qian, X., Ning, Z., Zhang, J., Wen, Y., Lin, J., Zhang, B., Xu, M., Dai, J., Zhou, A., Liang, H., Cao, S. View publication This article was published on 2024-07-01
