Past Projects (members FU Tectonics group in boldface)
New kinematic reconstructions of the Adriatic Plate as a key to understanding subduction processes in the Western Mediterranean (KAPMED) (DFG, Le breton, Handy, Ustaszewski)
Understanding subduction by linking surface exposures of subducted and exhumed crust to geophysical images of slabs (DFG, Pleuger, John, Tilmann, Xiaohui, Kaus, Handy, Mechie)
Carving rivers in the Dinarides – mapping and cosmogenic nuclides help trace the geomorphologic response to sea-level change, glacial (un)loading and tectonic uplift (northeastern Albania and Kosovo) (DFG, Gemignani, Handy)
Slab tearing or slab retreat as triggers of extension at the Dinaric-Hellenic transition (DFG, Handy, Giese, Gemignani,Pleuger)
Assembly and breakup of Gondwana – seismological signatures of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system in southern Madagascar (DFG, Rümpker, Tillmann, Yuan, Giese)
“Orogen-parallel motion in the Alps-Carpathians-Dinarides orogenic system” DAAD (Handy, Pleuger, Giese, Le Breton)
Changing patterns of shortening, and lateral extension at the end of the axial zone in a mountain belt - the case of the Tauern Window at the eastern end of the Alps (DFG, Handy, Oberhänsli, Rosenberg, Garcia)
Lateral extrusion and exhumation of orogenic crust during indentation by rigid continental lithosphere (Tauern Window, Eastern Alps) (DFG, Handy, Rosenberg)
Formation of the Tibetan Plateau and its relationship to rapid exhumation of deep crust in the Eastern Himalayan (Namche Barwa, China) Syntaxis (DFG, Handy, Konrad-Schmolke, O’Brien)
Localization of deformation on different scales at the transition from frictional sliding to viscous flow in the continental crust (North-Pyreneen shear zone, Spain) (DFG, Handy)
Seismicity and stress states in the continental lithosphere (DFG, Handy)
Investigation of the exhumation mechanisms of the axial core of a collisional orogen, by means of structural analysis of brittle deformation and of thermochronology in the Eastern Alps (DFG, Rosenberg, Handy, Garcia
Relationship of the Andean orogeny to uplift of the Altiplano Plateau (Chile, Bolivia, Argentina) (DFG-SFB, Handy, Scheuber, Medvedev)
Fault Systems in Front of the Apulian Orogenic Indenter and their Role in Exhuming High Pressure Rocks in the Sesia Zone, Western Alpine Arc (DFG, Handy, Hammerschmidt, Oberhänsli, Rosenberg)
Exhumation Mechanisms of Middle and Lower Crust In the Eastern Alps (DFG, Rosenberg, Hammerschmidt, Handy)
Melt segregation and migration in ductile shear zones (DFG, Rosenberg, Handy)
Ascent and emplacement of granitic melts in the Earth’s crust (DFG, Rosenberg, Handy)
Migration of pressurized fluids along shear zones in deep continental crust (DFG, Handy, Rosenberg)
Oligo-miozäne Tektonik nördlich des Dolomitenindenters und ihre Beziehung zur Platznahme des Rieserferner Plutons (DFG, Handy, Rosenberg)