TIBETOP Project

The TIBETOP project aims to reconstruct the past topographic evolution of the world’s highest Himalaya Mountains and Tibetan plateau that represent a natural laboratory to obtain models linking topography, geodynamic processes, drainages, biodiversity, and climate.

Different topographic growth scenarios have been proposed for the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen, and a fierce debate currently exists among several international groups.

This project proposes to unlock these limitations by applying new game-changing paleoaltitude proxies to new priority targets from the Eocene to the Miocene near-surface record and deeper crustal high-grade metamorphic rocks exhumed along high-strain zones.

This will also provide new insights on crustal-scale transport of fluids and exhumation processes.