TopoScandiaDeep; The Scandinavian Mountains: Deep Processes, 2008.

• Main Author: Maupin, Valerie
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Norwegian Social Science Data Services 2014
• Subjects: Natural environment; Natural landscapes; Norway; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18712/nsd-nsd2143-v1; http://search.nsd.no/study/NSD2143/?version=1

Mountains form mostly at convergent or strike-slip margins and are not expected to form in intraplate settings. Uplift occurred however in various places around the North Atlantic after continental breakup, leading in particular to the Northern and Southern Scandinavian mountains. This dataset consists of data from "TopoScandiaDeep; The Scandinavian Mountains: Deep Processes, 2008". The study aims to answer two fundamental questions related to the Cenozoic land uplift observed around the NE Atlantic: (1) what are the mechanisms that led to mountain building far away from plate boundaries? (2) what is the nature of the compensating masses sustaining the present-day topography? The project is an international cooperative effort in the framework of the ESF project TOPO-EUROPE. The project exploits all the geophysical data recently obtained in Southern Norway to build a seismic model of the mantle under the region of uplift and surrounding areas. The seismic model is used to make a rheological model of the area and test different scenarios for the uplift.