| Douwe's main research
interest interest focusses on the evolution of the architecture of orogens.
It is his belief that the only way of achieving a reliable picture of the
development of mountain ranges is to incorporate all fields of earth sciences.
He has therefore never
chosen a single direction, but aimed to be all-round. Both in Greece (PhD
project, Utrecht) and Mongolia (postdoc project at Leicester, UK), he has
combined sedimentology, stratigraphy, structural geology, metamorphism,
geochemistry, volcanology, paleontology and paleomagnetism, combined, of
course, with the wealth of information on these and other topics in literature.
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GREECE
Douwe carried out
his PhD research at the department of Stratigraphy and Paleontology of
Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The research topic was the reconstruction
of the tectonic history of the Aegean region (Greece) since the Oligocene.
He carried out fieldwork in the sedimentary basins and underlying basement
of the external Hellenides (from Albania, via the Peloponnesos and Crete
to Rhodos). The results have been or are being published (see Publications
below).
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MONGOLIA
A first field trip
was carried out to reconstruct the Mesozoic tectonic history of the Gobi
Altai region in southern Mongolia. In the Cenozoic, the region was deformed
into high, narrow ridges and wide valleys, as a result of transpressional
strike-slip activity. Along these ridges, Mesozoic sediments and volcanics
crop out.
Integrated stratigraphy,
sedimentology, structural geology and volcanic geochemistry will be applied
to reconstruct the preceding geologic history.
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Publications of Douwe van Hinsbergen
2005
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Van Hinsbergen, D.J.J.,
Hafkenscheid, E., Spakman, W., Meulenkamp, J.E., and Wortel, M.J.R. (in
press). Nappe stacking resulting from subduction of oceanic and continental
lithosphere below Greece, Geology.
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Van Hinsbergen, D.J.J.,
Langereis, C.G., and Meulenkamp, J.E. (2005). Revision of the timing, magnitude
and distribution of Neogene rotations in the western Aegean region,
Tectonophysics,
396,
1-34.
2004
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Van Hinsbergen, D.J.J.
(2004). The evolving anatomy of a collapsing orogen (PhD Thesis Utrecht
University), Geologica Ultraiectina, 243, 280pp.
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Van Hinsbergen, D.J.J.,
Snel, E., Garstman, S.A., Marunteanu, M. , Langereis, C.G., Wortel, M.J.R.
and Meulenkamp, J.E. (2004). Vertical motions in the Aegean volcanic arc:
evidence for rapid subsidence preceding volcanic activity on Milos and
Aegina, Mar. Geol., 209, 329-345.
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