We will meet on Monday 7th February in room U4-07 at 11:30 and Mara Limonta will present: "High resolution provenance study of turbiditic sediments of the Bengal deep-sea fan: tectonic and climatic implications".
Please find the abstract of the talk here below:
Provenance of turbiditic sediments of the Bengal Fan is used to identify when and where different Himalayan domains have generated detritus next transported and deposited in the deep sea, to link changes in geological sources and environmental conditions with accumulation rates in the sink, to reconstruct the paleodrainage evolution of the drainage network in parallel with the growth of the Himalayas, providing information on the evolution of the Indian monsoon during the Neogene.
Everyone is invited to read the paper by Lenard et al. (2020), provided in the e-learning page. In this paper, reconstructed past erosion rates (calculated using 10Be concentrations) show no long-term increase for the past six million years. This stability suggests that climatic changes during the late Cenozoic have an undetectable impact on the erosion patterns in the Himalayas, at least on the ten thousand to million year timescales accounted for by their dataset.
The link to the e-learning page with all the info, the Webex link and the suggested paper is provided here: https://elearning.unimib.it/
The CJC team