Dear all,
We currently have 1 PhD position available within our IsotopeGeochemistry
department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Please forward this email to
any students interested. 

Below you'll find a short summary, a full description of the project with
contact information and how to apply is given in the attached pdf-file.
cheers,
Jurgen Foeken




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PhD position:
The department of Isotope Geochemistry, Institute of earth Sciences, Faculty
of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, has a vacancy for a PhD
studentship. This project is part of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
EUROCORES TopoEurope program, financed by participating European Member
Organizations (national science foundations and organizations), and external
partners. 

Research Project:
In order to reconstruct the complete Middle Pleistocene-Holocene
morphotectonic and paleoclimatic evolution of the SE Carpathians, it is
necessary to know the amplitude and timing of vertical movements affecting
the orogenic system from the Transylvania hinterland until the Focsani
foreland Basins. Quaternary uplift is obvious from observation of the 9º
ENE-ward tilting of the Lowermost Pleistocene strata and uplifted river
terraces, which cover equally the external nappes and foreland basin.

The poorly constrained age signals between 1 and 6 Ma obtained in parts of
the orogen and in the foreland are intriguing in relation to the climatic
changes occurring in that time period. Climate change might have causing
strong variation in erosion rates and sediment fluxes. The occurrence in the
foreland of
non-reset and reset detrital He–dates, as young as 1 Ma, clearly show an
increase of erosion rates and sediments delivered in the sedimentary basins.
However erosion rates and sediment deposition have varied in space and a
process causing recent erosion must have brought the buried sediments
to the surface.

Since the tectonic-climate link is poorly understood after the late Miocene
continental collision, more low-T thermochronology dating is needed. Here we
propose to obtain detailed information on timing and volume of sediment
flux. This will allow the distinction between tectonic and climatic
processes that operated in this region.