3.2.5. Specific targets for the West and Central European Platform

  • Transgressions and regressions during Oligocene and later times
  • Integration of geodetic and geomorphologic groups of Western and Central Europe in an effort to improve constraints on present-day vertical and lateral motions (precise levelling-GPS-InSAR-Gallileo)
  • (Neo)Tectonic controls on the evolution of topography and river systems; improved correlation and dating of river terraces; paleogeographic maps retracing the evolution of the drainage system during the last 20My
  • Assessment of dynamic processes controlling uplift of Variscan Massifs and subsidence of sedimentary basins, including their neotectonic deformation
  • Correlation between deep erosional zones (glacial tunnel valleys in Northern Germany) and neotectonic activity
  • Fault reactivation and lithospheric folding; mantle tomography; receiver functions from existing data; lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary mapping
  • Mapping and timing of erosion; reconstruction of the eroded mass in Europe
  • High-resolution river seismic
  • Paleoseismologic studies and seismic hazards (Rhine Graben system)
  • Volcanism in West and Central Europe: baby-plumes; volcanism as time marker