Research interests

Geodynamics of rifted passive margins

  

Ritske.Huismans@uib.no

+47 55 58 81 17

Institutt for geovitenskap

Research group: Geodynamics
   
Type I-C model: Narrow Rifted Margin Formation and Depleted Lower Lithosphere Counter Flow   Type II-C model: Wide Rifted Margin Formation and Depleted Lower Lithosphere Counter Flow  

Huismans and Beaumont, EPSL 2014   Huismans and Beaumont, Nature 2011  
 
Type I-C model   Type I-A model   Type II-A model Type II-C model  
Narrow Rifted Margins   Wide Rifted Margins  

 

Orogen dynamics

  
 
Extensional inheritance: Doubly vergent Orogen   Pure convergence with sedimentation  
Erdós et al., JGR 2015   Erdós et al., JGR 2015  
   
Pyrenees Mt belt   Central Pyrenees  
Jammes et al., Terra Nova 2014   Mencos et al., Tectonics 2015  
   
Effect syn-tectonic sedimentation    
Fillon et al., Geology 2013    

 

Coupling tectonics, surface processes and climate
With extensional inheritance, sedimentation and erosion 3D-TM - planform SPM: Typical steps
Erdós et al., JGR 2015 Thieulot et al., GGG 2014
 
3D rifting surface processes  

 

Links between tectonics, magmatism and fluid flow
 
Stable passive upwelling Buoyant upwelling
Modeling melt prediction during rifted margin formation Simon et al., GJI 2009
 
Propogation and shelves tectonics Controls on North Atlantic Volcanic Margins
Morency et al.,JGR 2007

 

2D / 3D forward modelling and computational fluid dynamics
3D Rift Linkage and Brittle-Ductile Coupling Rift Linkage versus Offset
Alken et al., JGR 2011 Alken et al., JGR 2011

 

Finite element code development
       
       

Current group members