Upper Mantle Dynamics and
Quaternary Climate in Cratonic
Areas
International
Lithosphere Program (ILP) Regional Co-ordination
Committee CC
1/5
DynaQlim
DynaQlim (Upper Mantle Dynamics and Quaternary Climate in Cratonic Areas) is a Regional Co-ordination committee of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP), scheduled from late 2007 to 2012.
DynaQlim is an inter-disciplinary project for studying the relationship between Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA), upper mantle structure, dynamics and Quaternary climate. It integrates existing data and models from a variety of disciplines that consider processes over a range of spatial and temporal scales relating to the Quaternary evolution of cratonic regions, such as Fennoscandia.
A key aim will be to facilitate the development of various models in order to generate more accurate predictions of Earth and ice sheet evolution during the Quaternary, and thus to understand the past and contemporaneous evolution of topography in previously glaciated terrains. There exist many open questions in relation to upper mantle dynamics and composition, rebound mechanism and uplift models, elastic thickness contra lithosphere thickness, as well as ice thickness during the late Quaternary. Models and information gained in the project will have a number of applications, including present-day global change as well as future changes in response to a warming climate.
NEW: 26.-28.9.2012: DynaQlim workshop LITHOSPHERE-CRYOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. 1st Circular and abstract template.