Dr.WEBB, Alex

Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU

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Room 405, James Lee Science Building, The University of Hong Kong

Teaching areas

Geological field mapping
Tectonic evolution and deformation of planetary lithospheres
Scientific communication

Research Interest

Tectonic processes and interactions with other planetary systems
Himalayan / east Asian tectonics
Early terrestrial planet lithosphere development
Salt tectonics and surface processes

Publications

Webb, A.A.G., Guo, H., Clift, P.D., Husson, L., Müller, T., Costantino, D., Yin, A., Xu, Z., Cao, H., Wang, Q., 2017, The Himalaya in 3D: slab dynamics controlled mountain building and monsoon intensification. Lithosphere, v. 9, p. 637-651.
Moore, W.B., Simon, J.I., Webb, A.A.G., 2017, Heat-pipe Planets. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 474, p. 13-19.
Colón, C., Webb, A.A.G., Lasserre, C., Doin, M.-P., Renard, F., Lohman, R., Li, J.-H., 2016, The variety of subaerial active salt deformations in the Kuqa fold-thrust belt (China) constrained by InSAR. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 450, p. 83-95.
He, D., Webb, A.A.G., Larson, K.P., Martin, A.J., Schmitt, A.K., 2015, Extrusion vs. duplexing models of Himalayan mountain building 3: Duplexing dominates from Oligocene to present. International Geology Review, v. 57, p. 1-27.
Moore, W.B., Webb, A.A.G., 2013, Heat-pipe Earth. Nature, v. 501, p. 501-505.