4 D KINEMATIC EVOLUTION OF THE EASTERN ALPS SINCE THE MIOCENE

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PRELIMINARY WORK IN PAST PROJECTS In a preliminary project (PI Robl) a series of animations of for the topographic evolution of the Alps were made. These animations are for download. Most of the animations were made as complementary illustrations to studfies published by Robl et al. between 2005 and 2007. See the publications section of this home page for details.
ANALYSIS OF TOPOGRAPHY The online tool for the topographic analysis used in the paper: S. Hergarten, T. Wagner & K. Stüwe (2010): Age and prematurity of the Alps derived from topography, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 297: 453-460.
FIRST STEPS One of the exiting aspects for the Graz group of the Topo-Alps project if the fact that our end of the Alps is the only part of the range that was not glaciated during the last glaciation periods. As such, the morphometric evidence of the Miocene landscaper evolution is partly preserved. A map of the eastern end of the Alps (made by TopoAlps PhD student Nicolas Legrain) illustrates this.
Here is a map of stream power in the eastern Alps. You can click it to get a larger version.;