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| This project looks at the possible geodynamic driver for extreme uplift in the Rwenzori mountains
and adjacent rift flanks, reaching an altitude of about 5000 m a.s.l. within an extensional setting.
Such extreme values cannot be explained at present, with any existing rift modelling scenario, which
cuts off at about 2 km rift shoulder uplift. The project will address three different hypotheses for
extreme uplift: 1) uplift through significant volume of a
vertical channel like melt intrusion, 2) buoyancy through delamination of an old suture zone, 3) 3-D
modelling of transtension, with vorticity of the craton and secondary compression due to flip of rift
shoulders.
Project members: Prof. Dr. H. Schmeling
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