Adaption of drainages to tectonic forcing (C05)

• Subject Area: Palaeontology
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 268236062

Coeval ages of cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating and molecular clock ages of riverine species improved our understanding of river reorganisation during the Quaternary in the Atacama Desert. This evidence in both the Precordilleran headwaters and foreland Central Depression require a regional-scale forcing mechanism that may be climatic or tectonic in nature. Thus, we plan to: 1. apply the multi-methodological approach to constrain fluvial evolution with regard to tectonics in the Central Depression and Andean Precordillera; 2. to isolate climatic and tectonic forcing mechanisms by extending these approaches into the tectonically less active Namib Desert; and 3. to evaluate and generalize our findings using coupled landscape-evolution/speciation modelling developed by C07 in the past funding periods.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1211: Earth - Evolution at the Dry Limit
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Co-Applicant Institution: Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ); Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
• Project Heads: Dr. Steven Binnie; Professor Dr. Jean Braun, since 7/2024; Privatdozentin Dr. Kathrin Lampert, since 7/2020; Professor Dr. Klaus Reicherter; Dr. Pia Victor