Research and Projects
Univ.-Prof. Mark Handy
Research and Projects
Current Research Interests
- Plate kinematics in Tethys and the Mediterranean
- Indenter tectonics in Alpine-Himalayan mountain belts
- Evolution of Tethyan continental margins
- Microstructure and rheology of fault rocks and anatectites
- Radiometric dating of deformed rocks
Present & Recent Projects
- Plate motions in Alpine Tethys and the Western Mediterranean (2007-present)
- Exhumation in the Eastern Himalayan Syntax and the formation of the Tibetan Plateau (2008-present)
- Shortening, extension and lateral extrusion in the Eastern Alps (2004-present)
- Scaling of strain localization patterns at the frictional-to-viscous transition in continental fault zones (2002-2006)
- Fault systems in front of the Apulian orogenic indenter and their role in exhuming high pressure rocks of the Western Alpine arc (2000-2005)
- Tectonometamorphic age map of the Alps (2002-2004)
- Numerical modelling of subduction, erosion and plateau formation in the Central Andes (2000-2004)