Mountain Building and Basin Formation Processes

Dear Colleagues,

Mountain building has played a pivotal role in shaping the long-term evolution of the Earth System and continues in several regions today. Processes such as subduction, accretion, collision, strike-slip faulting, continental rifting and passive margin formation, create a wide and diverse spectrum of mountain ranges along the margins of continents and in intraplate settings. Lithospheric flexure, crustal and lithospheric extension, slab-roll-back, orogenic collapse, delamination and faulting are amongst the many processes that can also lead to basin formation in continental lithosphere. The origin and evolution of these basins is often linked to mountain building processes and vice versa. Intracratonic basins and intraplate mountain ranges still remain particularly challenging to fully understand. Mountain building and basin formation are also often linked with surface processes, such as long-term climate evolution, erosion and volcanism and deeper mantle dynamics. We solicit contributions from a wide range of research fields, including e.g., structural geology, thermo-chronology, petrology, geochemistry, geophysics and geodynamic and tectonic modelling, aimed at enhancing knowledge of mountain building and basin formation processes from regional to global scales.

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• Mountain building
• Basin formation
• Tectonics and Geodynamics
• Crustal and Lithospheric architecture
• Mantle Dynamics
• Surface Processes