T12A:
India-Asia Collision from Head-on Continent-Continent Collision to Highly Oblique Oceanic Subduction: Processes, Products, and Progress II

Session ID#: 4940

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Salon 9 (Marriott Marquis)
Chairs:  Jonathan C Aitchison, University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Sydney, Australia, Trevor R Ireland, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Lloyd T White, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, TW20, United Kingdom and Geoffrey L Clarke, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • GP - Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism
Index Terms:

8104 Continental margins: convergent [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8139 Obduction tectonics [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8140 Ophiolites [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8178 Tectonics and magmatism [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

T12A-01
What geological data can be used to define the timing of plate collision? (Invited) (6649)
Lloyd T White1, Gordon Stuart Lister2 and Robert Hall1, (1)SE Asia Research Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom, (2)Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
T12A-02
It Takes Two to Tango: The Timing of the India –Eurasia Collision and the Origin of the Super-Fast India-Eurasia Convergence Rates. (9611)
Oliver E Jagoutz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Leigh Royden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Adam Holt, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, Miami, FL, United States and Thorsten W Becker, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
T12A-03
New paleomagnetic results from Ladakh, Western Himalaya support multi-stage collision scenario between India and Eurasia. (26431)
Elizabeth Bailey1, Sonia Tikoo2, Oliver E Jagoutz3, Leigh Royden1 and Benjamin P Weiss4, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
T12A-05
Youngest marine fossil evidence in Tibet for disappearance of the Tethyan Ocean (14651)
Tian Jiang1,2, Jonathan C Aitchison1, Sarah Kachovich1, Dr. Alan T Baxter3, Lan Hui1, Thomas Harvey1, Jason Richard Ali4 and Xiaoqiao Wan5, (1)University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Sydney, Australia, (2)China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing, China, (3)University of New England, School of Environmental and Rural Science, Armidale, Australia, (4)University of Hong Kong, Dept of Earth Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (5)China University of Geosciences (Beijing), School of Earth Sciences and Resources, Beijing, China
T12A-06
Evolution and Dynamics of a Fold-Thrust Belt: The Sulaiman Range of Pakistan (7814)
Kirsty Reynolds, Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3, United Kingdom, Alex Copley, Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Ekbal Hussain, British Geological Survey, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
T12A-07
Magnetochronology of the Siwaliks: revision, uncertainties and new data (22231)
Julien Charreau1, Jerome Lave1, Raphael Pik2 and Christian France-Lanord3, (1)Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Vandoeuvre lès Nancy, France, (2)CRPG-CNRS, Vandoeuvre les Cedex, France, (3)Université de Lorraine - CNRS, CRPG Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
T12A-08
Detrital Mineral Record of the Central Myanmar Basin and implications for the evolution of the eastern Himalayan margin (29100)
Ruth A J Robinson1, Cynthia A Brezina1, Dan N Barfod2, Andrew Carter3, Randall Richardson Parrish4, Matthew SA Horstwood5, Myint Thein6 and Nay Win Oo6, (1)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (2)Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, United Kingdom, (3)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (4)NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Keyworth, United Kingdom, (5)British Geological Survey Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, (6)University of Yangon, Department of Geography, Yangon, Myanmar
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