Research
Research at the CLR focusses on the characterisation, imaging, quantification, and modelling of geodynamic Earth systems related to convergent plate boundaries. We apply a multidisciplinary approach, through which, we are able to develop large-scale syntheses and conceptual and numerical models for orogenic processes. The majority of our research is centered around two natural laboratories: the Bohemian Massif, which provides an example of a large hot collisional orogen and the Central Asia Orogenic Belt, representing a large accretionary complex. These natural laboratories serve as a reference for understanding deep crustal processes operating in large-scale modern orogenic systems like Tibet or the western Pacific orogens.
The lithospheric structure and orogenic processes are studied by a combination of three main approaches:
- Geophysical potential methods focused on imaging and modelling of the lithosphere, and palaeomagnetism combined with structural geology applied on large-scale kinematic models.
- Characterisation and quantification of metamorphic and magmatic systems related to structural characterisation of geodynamic setting.
- Numerical and analogue modelling of orogenic processes from micro- to continental scales based on conceptual geodynamic syntheses.
