Benjamin HUET, Dr.

benjamin.huet@univie.ac.at

Room Number: 2A273
Tel.: +43-1-4277-53311
Fax: +43-1-4277-9534


Research Interest:

My research thematics are linked to the mechanical behaviour of the ductile crust. I study the exhumed lower crust of fossil orogenic domains and use it as an open window on deep crustal processes. My approach couples acquisition of natural P-T-t-ε data and numerical modelling. I am especially interested in integrated studies that involve:

• characterisation at regional scale of the finite and instantaneous deformation field
• determination of the P-T evolution with thermobarometry
• dating the metamorphic and/or deformation events with radiochronology
• thermomechanical modelling constrained and validated by the largest possible set of data

Projects:

Starting Oct. 2011: Doctoral School: Deformation of geological materials: Mechanical-chemical feedback and the coupling across scales
Speakers: R. Abart, B. Grasemann
Principle Investigators: G. Habler, U. Klötzli, L. Nasdala, U. Exner

Selected Publications:

Y. Denèle, E. Lecomte, L. Jolivet, O. Lacombe, L. Labrousse, B. Huet & L. Le Pourhiet (in press): Granite intrusion in a metamorphic core complex : the example of the Mykonos laccolith (Cyclades, Greece), Tectonophysics.

B. Huet, L. Le Pourhiet, L. Labrousse, E. Burov & L. Jolivet (2010): Post-orogenic extension and metamorphic core complexes in a heterogeneous crust, the role of crustal layering inherited from collision; application to the Cyclades (Aegean domain), Geophysical Journal International, 184 (2), 611–625.

L. Jolivet, E. Lecomte, B. Huet, Y. Den`ele, O. Lacombe, L. Labrousse, L. Le Pourhiet & C. Mehl (2010): The North Cycladic Detachment System, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 289, 87–104.

B. Huet, L. Labrousse & L. Jolivet (2009): Thrust or detachment ? Exhumation processes in the Aegean : insight from a field study on Ios (Cyclades, Greece), Tectonics, doi :10.1029/2008TC002397.