About this Research Topic
The landscape evolves over time and carries abundant information on tectonics and climate. Landslides and sedimentation are important surface processes, and the sediments contain important tectonic and climatic information. Previous investigations in landslides and sediments focus exclusively on climatic variations at the expense of tectonic inputs. Recent investigations from tectonically active regions reveal many seismic events from modern landslides and late Pleistocene lacustrine sediments corresponding to tectonic activities. In this context, it is of great scientific significance to consider the role and interplay of both tectonics and climate in geodynamic evolution as preserved in sedimentary records and landslide hazards.
To identify potential climatic and/or tectonic impacts on the evolution of the depositional environment, investigations of reliable and continuous sedimentological processes are essentially necessary from sediment records and landscape evolution from landslides. The search for the environmental context of climatic evolution and tectonism crucially depends on the interpretation of paleoclimate and tectonic archives from outcrop geology, basin sediments, river sediments, soft sediment deformation, landslides, geological hazards, etc. Linking sedimentological processes to paleoenvironmental reconstructions and models becomes increasingly important.
To better understand tectonic-climate interactions across time and space, this Research Topic aims to attract interdisciplinary and thematically focused studies in tectonism, sedimentology, landscape, geological hazards, paleoecology, and paleoclimate, stratigraphy, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. We especially welcome contributions offering new methods addressing different scientific perspectives and dating challenges.
This Research Topic will appeal to a broad audience by highlighting the latest research on paleoenvironmental reconstructions in key sites, in terms of tectonic and climatic evolution, showcasing a wide variety of analytical methods, and encouraging to highlight collaborations between different research groups. Conceptual models, modeling results, hazard assessments, model-data comparisons, (mini-) reviews, and data reports are also warmly welcomed, as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary research.
To identify potential climatic and/or tectonic impacts on the evolution of the depositional environment, investigations of reliable and continuous sedimentological processes are essentially necessary from sediment records and landscape evolution from landslides. The search for the environmental context of climatic evolution and tectonism crucially depends on the interpretation of paleoclimate and tectonic archives from outcrop geology, basin sediments, river sediments, soft sediment deformation, landslides, geological hazards, etc. Linking sedimentological processes to paleoenvironmental reconstructions and models becomes increasingly important.
To better understand tectonic-climate interactions across time and space, this Research Topic aims to attract interdisciplinary and thematically focused studies in tectonism, sedimentology, landscape, geological hazards, paleoecology, and paleoclimate, stratigraphy, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. We especially welcome contributions offering new methods addressing different scientific perspectives and dating challenges.
This Research Topic will appeal to a broad audience by highlighting the latest research on paleoenvironmental reconstructions in key sites, in terms of tectonic and climatic evolution, showcasing a wide variety of analytical methods, and encouraging to highlight collaborations between different research groups. Conceptual models, modeling results, hazard assessments, model-data comparisons, (mini-) reviews, and data reports are also warmly welcomed, as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary research.
Keywords: Tectonism, Sedimentation, Landslide, Paleoclimate, paleoecology, Climatic evolution, Climatic modelling, Hazard assessing
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