Chairs: Jonathan C Aitchison, University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Sydney, Australia, Geoffrey L Clarke, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Trevor R Ireland, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Lloyd T White, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, TW20, United Kingdom
Primary Convener: Jonathan C Aitchison, University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Sydney, Australia
Co-conveners: Geoffrey L Clarke, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Talat Ahmad, University of Kashmir, Vice Chancellors Office, Srinagar, India and Trevor R Ireland, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia
OSPA Liaison: Lloyd T White, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, TW20, United Kingdom
Characterizing the sub-surface geometry of the Main Frontal Thrust in the Bardibas area of central Nepal (20961)
Rafael V Almeida1, Judith Hubbard2, Peter Polivka2, Dana E Peterson3, Soma Nath Sapkota4, Agathe Schmid5, Paul Tapponnier2, Chintan Timsina6 and Anna E Foster5, (1)Yachay Tech University, School of Earth Sciences, Energy and Environment, Urcuqui, Ecuador, (2)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (3)USGS, Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, United States, (4)Department of Mines and Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (5)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (6)National Seismological Centre, Department of Mines and Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal
Structure Deformation of the Minjiang and Huya Fault, the Eastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau Revealed by Deep Seismic Reflection Profiles (26407)
Rui Gao, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, Haiyan Wang, Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China, Wenhui LI, State Key Laboratory of Deep Earth and Mineral Exploration, Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China and Hongqiang Li, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, SinoProbe Center, Beijing, China
Crustal Velocity Structure of the Bengal Basin from Regionally Recorded Earthquakes (27480)
Michael Howe, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Won-Young Kim, University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, Yayoi 1-1, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Syed Humayun Akhter, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, United States, Leonardo Seeber, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, United States and Michael S Steckler, Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Contrasting Subduction Modes with Slab Tearing beneath Eastern Himalaya: Evidence from Teleseismic P-wave Tomography (12800)
Miao Peng1, Mei Jiang2, Zhong-Hai Li3, Zhiqin Xu2, Youlin Chen4, Winston W W Chan5, Youxue Wang6, Changqing Yu7 and Jianshe Lei Sr8, (1)China University of Geosciences, Beijing, School of Geophysics and Information Technology, Beijing, China, (2)CAGS Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics, Beijing, China, (4)Array Information Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Array Information Technology, Arlington, MA, United States, (6)Guilin University of Technolog, Guilin, China, (7)Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Institute of Geology, Beijing, China, (8)Institute of Crustal Dynamics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
Electrical structure of crust and upper mantle beneath Gangdise belt in Tibet (15634)
Chengliang Xie1, Sheng Jin2, Wenbo Wei2, Gaofeng Ye2, Jianen Jing3, Letian Zhang4 and Hao Dong1, (1)China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, (2)China University of Geosciences (Beijing), School of Geophysics and Information Technology, Beijing, China, (3)China Univ. of Geosciences, Beijing, China, (4)Key Laboratory of Intraplate Volcanoes and Earthquakes, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
Lithospheric Structure and Deformation of the Eastern Himalayan System using Broadband Seismology (20567)
Supriyo Mitra, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Earth Sciences, Kolkata, India, Keith F Priestley, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Ajay Kumar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Earth Sciences, Kolkata, India, Vinod K Gaur, Center for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation, Bangalore, India and Nava Kumar Hazarika, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Navi Mumbai, India
The Crust and Uppermost Mantle Structure in Northeastern Tibet by Joint Inversion of Receiver Functions and Surface Wave Dispersion (19894)
Yangfan Deng1,2, Weisen Shen3, Tao Xu4, Zhenbo Wu2, Xinlei Sun5 and Michael H Ritzwoller6, (1)Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (2)IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (4)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)GIG Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou, China, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Lithospheric Structure and Earthquakes beneath Kashmir Himalaya (22293)
Debarchan Powali1, Swati Sharma2, Supriyo Mitra1, Sunil Kumar Wanchoo3, Keith F Priestley4 and Vinod K Gaur5, (1)Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Earth Sciences, Kolkata, India, (2)Sri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Department of Physics, Katra, India, (3)Sri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Physics, Katra, India, (4)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (5)Center for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation, Bangalore, India
Seismic Evidence for North China Plate Subduction beneath Northeastern Tibet and its Implications for Plateau Growth (22135)
Zhuo Ye1, Rui Gao1, Qiusheng Li1, Hongshuang Zhang1, Xuzhang Shen2, Xuzhou Liu3 and Chen Gong1, (1)Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Sun Yat-sen University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Geodynamics and Geohazards, Zhuhai, China, (3)China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
Eastward escape of Tibet facilitated by mid-crustal upwelling where conjugate faults meet at its western end (27600)
Nicholas J Van Buer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Oliver E Jagoutz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Rajeev Upadhyay, Kumaun University, Center for Advanced Study in Geology, Nainital, India and Marcel Guillong, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Outward growth of Tibetan Plateau: Insights from joint inversion of lithosphere structure (31971)
Xiaodong Song1,2, Jiangtao Li3, Xuewei Bao1 and Lupei Zhu4, (1)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (2)SinoProbe Laboratory, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, (3)Department of Geophysics, School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, (4)Saint Louis University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Geospatial Science, Saint Louis, United States
Neotectonics and structure of the Himalayan deformation front in the Kashmir Himalaya, India: Implication in defining what controls a blind thrust front in an active fold-thrust belt (32122)
Yann G Gavillot, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, Andrew J. Meigs, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, J Douglas Yule, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States, Tammy M Rittenour, Utah State University, Department of Geosciences, Logan, UT, United States and manz Oor ahmad Malik, Department of Geology, Jammu University, Jammu, India
Detrital Geochemical Fingerprints of Rivers Along Southern Tibet and Nepal: Implications for Erosion of the Indus-Yarlung Suture Zone and the Himalayas (5671)
Mohd Faiz bin Hassim, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Barbara Carrapa, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, United States, Peter G DeCelles, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, Paul A Kapp, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States and George E Gehrels, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Deformation Temperature, Kinematics, and Internal Strain during Emplacement of Greater Himalayan Rocks in North-Central and Northeastern Bhutan (10773)
Melissa Lynn Penfold1, Sean P Long1, Stacia M Gordon2, Gareth Seward3, Kenjo S Agustsson1 and Katherine Jeanne Zeiger1, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States, (2)University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geological Sciences, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Flattening of the Greater Himalayan Zone within the Eastern Himalaya: Insights from Pressure–Temperature–Structural Distance Trends from Central and Eastern Bhutan (23776)
Kenjo S Agustsson1, Stacia M Gordon2, Sean P Long3, Gareth Seward4, Kate J Zeiger1 and Melissa Lynn Penfold1, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States, (2)University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, United States, (3)University of Nevada Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, NV, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Using Zircon Geochronology to Unravel the History of the Naga Hills Ophiolite (12007)
Tara Roeder1, Jonathan C Aitchison2, Geoffrey L Clarke1, Trevor R Ireland3, Ali Ao4 and Santanu K Bhowmik1, (1)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, (2)University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Sydney, Australia, (3)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (4)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Geology & Geophysics, Kharagpur, India
Abor volcanics: Magmatic 'breadcrumbs' on the trail of the Kerguelen mantle plume? (14099)
Jonathan C Aitchison1, Geoffrey L Clarke1, Trevor R Ireland2, Dr. Alan T Baxter3, Santanu K Bhowmik4, Ali Ao5, Faruque Hussain6 and Jason Richard Ali7, (1)University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Sydney, Australia, (2)Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (3)University of New England, School of Environmental and Rural Science, Armidale, Australia, (4)Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Kharagpur, India, (5)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Geology & Geophysics, Kharagpur, India, (6)Assam University, Department of Earth Science, Silchar, Assam, India, (7)University of Hong Kong, Dept of Earth Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The Detrital White Mica 40Ar/39Ar Record of the Katawaz Remnant Ocean Basin, Pakistan, and Tectonic Implications for the Himalayan Source Region (21444)
Guangsheng Zhuang, Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Yani Najman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, Jan R Wijbrans, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Ian Millar, British Geological Survey, NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Nottingham, United Kingdom and Andrew Carter, University College London, London, United Kingdom
