TopoScandiaDeep; The Scandinavian Mountains: Deep Processes, 2008.

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.

山脉大多形成于汇聚型或走滑型板块边界，板块内部环境中理论上不会形成山脉。然而，北大西洋周边诸多区域在大陆裂解后发生了隆升，其中尤以斯堪的纳维亚南北山脉的形成为典型。本数据集源自《TopoScandiaDeep：斯堪的纳维亚山脉：深部过程（2008）》。该项研究旨在解答两个与东北大西洋周边观测到的新生代（Cenozoic）陆地隆升相关的核心问题：(1) 是什么机制驱动了远离板块边界的山脉形成？(2) 维持现今地形的补偿性物质具有何种性质？本项目是在ESF（欧洲科学基金会，European Science Foundation）项目TOPO-EUROPE的框架下开展的国际合作研究。本项目利用近期在挪威南部获取的全部地球物理数据，构建隆升区域及其周边区域下方的地幔地震模型。该地震模型被用于构建该区域的流变学模型，并针对隆升机制测试多种不同的演化情景。