Project description
Climate’s role in mountain denudation
Research suggests that mountain ranges are not static but evolve with (and respond to) Earth’s climate and tectonic uplift. Scientists are still debating on how this process of erosion known as denudation (the breaking and removing of rocks from the surface of the earth) is affected by changes in climate. It’s a difficult question to answer because no current technique can analyse changes in erosion rates during the glacial-interglacial periods. The EU-funded ICED project will resolve this debate by creating a time-series of rock erosion over a thousand to one million years ago. This method will permit erosion rate changes to correlate to particular meteorological changes and processes for the first time.
Fields of science
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Funding Scheme
ERC-STG - Starting Grant
Host institution
UNIVERSITE DE LAUSANNE
Net EU contribution
€ 1 431 285,00
Address
Quartier Unil-centre Bâtiment Unicentre
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
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Region
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Région lémanique Vaud
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Non-EU contribution
€ 0,00
Beneficiaries (1)
UNIVERSITE DE LAUSANNE
Switzerland
Net EU contribution
€ 1 431 285,00
Address
Quartier Unil-centre Bâtiment Unicentre
1015 Lausanne
1015 Lausanne
See on map
Region
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Région lémanique Vaud
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Non-EU contribution
€ 0,00