A research project by Dr. Dan Mircea Tămaș, part of StructuralMG · Department of Geology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University
Completed · 2022–2024

RISE

The Role and Influence of Salt in the structural Evolution of orogens

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Funded by
UEFISCDI · PD
Period
01.04.2022 – 31.03.2024
Project Director
Dr. Dan Mircea Tămaș
Host institution
The project

Why salt, why orogens?

Research questions

Goals

Research objectives

Two integrated objectives, both successfully achieved.

How we worked

Research methods

The first integrated study in Romania combining 3D digital outcrop models, analogue modelling and salt microstructural analysis.

Who

Project Director

Dan Mircea Tămaș

Dr. Dan Mircea Tămaș

Babeș-Bolyai University (at the time of the project)
Project Director · Postdoctoral researcher

Structural geologist specialising in salt tectonics. RISE was his first UEFISCDI-funded project as director — carried out solo, spanning fieldwork, 3D photogrammetry, analogue modelling and microstructural analysis. Its key discovery seeded the follow-up SAFE-T project.

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Funding acknowledgement: RISE was a postdoctoral research project (PD) financed by UEFISCDI — grant PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2021-0165, implemented 01.04.2022 – 31.03.2024.