T21B:
India-Asia Collision from Head-on Continent-Continent Collision to Highly Oblique Oceanic Subduction: Processes, Products, and Progress IV Posters

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Jonathan C Aitchison, University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Geoffrey L Clarke, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Trevor R Ireland, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and Lloyd T White, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
Primary Conveners:  Jonathan C Aitchison, University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Co-conveners:  Geoffrey L Clarke, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Talat Ahmad, University of Kashmir, Vice Chancellors Office, Srinagar, India and Trevor R Ireland, Australian Natl Univ, RSES, Canberra, Australia
OSPA Liaisons:  Lloyd T White, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4570
 
Seismotectonics of the Eastern Himalayan System and Indo-Burman Convergence Zone Using Seismic Waveform Inversion
Ajay Kumar1, Supriyo Mitra1 and G. Suresh2, (1)Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Earth Sciences, Kolkata, India, (2)Indian Meteorological Department, Seismology Division, New Delhi, India
4571
 
Characterization of High Velocity Layer in the Lower Crust of Southern Tibet 
Zhongxiong Cui1, Anne Meltzer2 and Josh Stachnik2, (1)Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States, (2)Lehigh University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States
4572
 
Crustal Structure and Earthquakes Beneath Sikkim Himalaya
Himangshu Paul, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Kolkata, India and Supriyo Mitra, IISER Kolkata, Mohanpur, Nadia, India
4573
 
Structure of the Orogenic Wedge in the Bhutan Himalaya: First Results from the GANSSER Seismic Experiment
Julia Singer1, György Hetényi1,2, Tobias Diehl2 and Eduard H Kissling1, (1)ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich, Swiss Seismological Service, Zurich, Switzerland
4574
 
Characterizing the sub-surface geometry of the Main Frontal Thrust in the Bardibas area of central Nepal
Rafael V Almeida1, Judith Hubbard2, Peter Polivka2, Dana E Peterson1, Soma Nath Sapkota3, Agathe Schmid1, Paul Tapponnier2, Chintan Timsina3 and Anna E Foster1, (1)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (2)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (3)National Seismological Centre, Department of Mines and Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal
4575
 
Structure Deformation of the Minjiang and Huya Fault, the Eastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau Revealed by Deep Seismic Reflection Profiles
Rui Gao, Haiyan Wang, Wenhui Li and Hongqiang Li, CAGS Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China
4576
 
Crustal Velocity Structure of the Bengal Basin from Regionally Recorded Earthquakes
Michael Howe1,2, Won-Young Kim2,3, Syed Humayun Akhter4, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal5, Leonardo Seeber6 and Michael S Steckler6, (1)Columbia University in the City of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, Yayoi 1-1, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan, (4)University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (5)CUNY Graduate School and University Center, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States, (6)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States
4577
 
Interseismic Coupling on the Main Himalayan Thrust, Implications for Extreme Earthquakes
Victoria Stevens and Jean-Philippe Avouac, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
4578
 
Investigating Cenozoic Deformation in the Southeast Tarim Basin Using Seismic Reflection: Evidence Against Large Scale Thrusting Along the Northwest Tibetan Margin
John McDermott1, Lei Wu2 and Eric Cowgill1, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
4579
 
Contrasting Subduction Modes with Slab Tearing beneath Eastern Himalaya: Evidence from Teleseismic P-wave Tomography
Miao Peng1, Mei Jiang1, Zhong-Hai Li1, Zhiqin Xu1, Youlin Chen2, Winston W W Chan2, Youxue Wang3, Changqing Yu1 and Jianshe Lei4, (1)CAGS Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Array Information Technology, Arlington, MA, United States, (3)Guilin University of Technolog, Guilin, China, (4)Institute of Crustal Dynamics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
4580
 
Electrical structure of crust and upper mantle beneath Gangdise belt in Tibet
Chengliang Xie, Sheng Jin, Wenbo Wei, Gaofeng Ye, Jianen Jing, Letian Zhang and Hao Dong, China Univ. of Geosciences, Beijing, China
4581
 
Lithospheric Structure and Deformation of the Eastern Himalayan System using Broadband Seismology
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, Mumbai, India
4582
 
Seismic Anisotropy beneath the Eastern Himalayas and Adjacent Areas
Lin Liu, Stephen S Gao and Kelly Hong Liu, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States
4583
 
The Crust and Uppermost Mantle Structure in Northeastern Tibet by Joint Inversion of Receiver Functions and Surface Wave Dispersion
Yangfan Deng1,2, Weisen Shen3, Tao Xu2, Zhenbo Wu2, Xinlei Sun1 and Michael H Ritzwoller3, (1)GIG Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou, China, (2)IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
4584
 
Moho Depth and Shear Velocity Structure in Northwest India and West Tibet from the Joint Inversion of Receiver Function and Surface Waves
Amy Gilligan1, Keith F Priestley1, Steven W Roecker2, Vadim L Levin3 and Shyam Sundar Rai4, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Troy, NY, United States, (3)Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States, (4)National Geophys Res Instt, Hyderabad, India
4585
 
Crustal structure beneath western Tibet: evidence from receiver functions and newly constrained P and S-wave velocity models
Ayda Shokoohi Razi1, Vadim L Levin1, Steven W Roecker2 and Amy Gilligan3, (1)Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States, (2)Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Troy, NY, United States, (3)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
4586
 
Anisotropic Signature of Falling Indian Lithosphere Beneath Western Lhasa Block.
Vadim L Levin, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States, Steven W Roecker, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Troy, NY, United States and Ayda Shokoohi Razi, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
4587
 
Lithospheric Structure and Earthquakes beneath Kashmir Himalaya
Debarchan Powali1, Swati Sharma2, Supriyo Mitra1, Sunil Kumar Wanchoo2, Keith F Priestley3 and Vinod K Gaur4, (1)Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Earth Sciences, Kolkata, India, (2)Sri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Physical Sciences, Katra, India, (3)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (4)Center for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation, Bangalore, India
4588
 
Magnetotelluric Study of the Southern Pamir, Tajikistan
Walburga Korolevski1, Oliver Ritter1, Ute Weckmann1, Anatoly Rybin2 and Vitalii Matiukov2, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Research Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Bishkek, Kyrgyz
4589
 
Seismic Evidence for North China Plate Subduction beneath Northeastern Tibet and its Implications for Plateau Growth
Zhuo Ye1, Rui Gao1, Qiusheng Li1, Hongshuang Zhang1, Xuzhang Shen2, Xuzhou Liu2 and Chen Gong1, (1)Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
4590
 
Basal shear stress below elastic crust of the Tibetan plateau inferred from three-dimensional finite element modeling
Jiankun He1, Jie Xiao2 and Zhengyang Pan2, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Inst of Tibetan Plateau Rsrch, Beijing, China
4591
 
Surface Deformation across Shillong Plateau and Bangladesh from GPS Data
Paramesh Banerjee1, Devesh Walia2, Akm Khorshed Alam3, Aktarul Ahsan3 and Bimal Sharma4, (1)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (2)North East Hill University, Shillong, India, (3)Bangladesh Geological Survey, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (4)Sherubtse College, Trashigang, Bhutan
4592
 
Eastward escape of Tibet facilitated by mid-crustal upwelling where conjugate faults meet at its western end
Nicholas J Van Buer1, Oliver E Jagoutz1, Rajeev Upadhyay2 and Marcel Guillong3, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Kumaun University, Center for Advanced Study in Geology, Nainital, India, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
4593
 
Outward growth of Tibetan Plateau: Insights from joint inversion of lithosphere structure
Xiaodong Song1,2, Jiangtao Li1, Xuewei Bao2 and Lupei Zhu3, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (3)Saint Louis University Main Campus, Saint Louis, MO, United States
4594
 
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
Yann G Gavillot1, Andrew Meigs1, J Douglas Yule2, Tammy M Rittenour3 and manz Oor ahmad Malik4, (1)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States, (3)Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States, (4)Department of Geology, Jammu University, Jammu, India
4595
 
Detrital Geochemical Fingerprints of Rivers Along Southern Tibet and Nepal: Implications for Erosion of the Indus-Yarlung Suture Zone and the Himalayas
Mohd Faiz bin Hassim, Barbara Carrapa, Peter G DeCelles, Paul A Kapp and George E Gehrels, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
4596
 
Deformation Temperature, Kinematics, and Internal Strain during Emplacement of Greater Himalayan Rocks in North-Central and Northeastern Bhutan
Melissa Lynn Penfold1, Sean P Long1, Stacia M Gordon1, Gareth Seward2, 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 California Santa Barbara, Department of Geological Sciences, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
4597
 
Structural Geology and Kinematic Patterns of the Yaoshan Complex, Southeastern Tibet: Implications for Tectonic Evolution of the Ailao Shan-Red River (ASRR) Shear Zone
Xiaoyu Chen1, Junlai Liu1, ShaoTeng Weng1, YaLiang Kong1, WenBin Wu1, Haiyan Li2 and Shihong Zhang2, (1)China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
4598
 
The continental collision process deduced from metamorphic pattern in the Himalayan collision belts
Chang Whan Whan Oh, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea; The Earth and Environmental Sciences System Research Center, Jeouju, South Korea
4599
 
Flattening of the Greater Himalayan Zone within the Eastern Himalaya: Insights from Pressure–Temperature–Structural Distance Trends from Central and Eastern Bhutan
Kenjo S Agustsson1, Stacia M Gordon1, Sean P Long2, Gareth Seward3, 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, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, NV, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
4600
 
Newly discovered eclogites from the western Bangong-Nujiang Meso-Tethyan suture zone, central Tibet, western China
Yuxiu Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
4601
 
The Limits of Extrusion in the Western Himalaya
Kexin Zhang, Alexander G Webb, Dennis Donaldson, Shelby Johnson and Tyler Elorriaga, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
4602
 
Ages, Trace-Element and Hf Isotopic Compositions of the Detrital Zircons from the Metamorphic Basements in the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis: Implications for Tectonics and Paleogeography
Liang Guo1, Hong-Fei Zhang1 and Nigel Harris2, (1)China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China, (2)Open University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
4603
 
Using Zircon Geochronology to Unravel the History of the Naga Hills Ophiolite
Tara Roeder1, Jonathan C Aitchison2, Geoffrey L Clarke1, Trevor R Ireland3, Ali Ao4 and Santanu K Bhowmik5, (1)University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (3)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, (4)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Geology & Geophysics, Kharagpur, India, (5)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
4604
 
Abor volcanics: Magmatic 'breadcrumbs' on the trail of the Kerguelen mantle plume?
Jonathan C Aitchison1, Geoffrey L Clarke1, Trevor R Ireland2, Alan T Baxter3, Santanu K Bhowmik4, Ali Ao5, Faruque Hussain6 and Jason Richard Ali7, (1)University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, 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, India, (7)University of Hong Kong, Dept of Earth Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
4605
 
Geochronological, geochemical and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic composition of the Late Cretaceous-Eocene granitoids and mafic rocks in the SE Lhasa terrane: petrogenesis and tectonic implications
Fabin Pan1,2, Hong-Fei Zhang2, Zhanghua Lou1, Xu Wangchun2 and Liang Guo2, (1)Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Geological Process and Mineral Resources, and Faculty of Earth Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
4606
 
Genesis and Characteristics of the Two Sub-belts in the Western Yarlung-Zangbo Suture Zone, Tibet, China
Fei Liu1, Jingsui Yang1, Dongyang Lian1, Yildirim Dilek1,2 and Paul T Robinson1, (1)CARMA, State Key Laboratory of Continental Tectonics and Dynamics, Institute of Geology of CAGS, Beijing, China, (2)Miami University Oxford, Geology & Environmental Earth Science, Oxford, OH, United States
4607
 
The Detrital White Mica 40Ar/39Ar Record of the Katawaz Remnant Ocean Basin, Pakistan, and Tectonic Implications for the Himalayan Source Region
Guangsheng Zhuang, Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Yani Najman, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Jan R Wijbrans, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081, Netherlands, Ian Millar, British Geological Survey, NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Nottingham, United Kingdom and Andrew Carter, University College London, London, United Kingdom
4608
 
HP and UHT metamorphic associations in the Day Nui Con Voi，northwestern Vietnam: The consequence of convergence between the Indian and the Eurasian plates
Jing Zhang1, Junlai Liu1, My Dung Tran2 and Quang Luat Nguyen2, (1)China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing, China, (2)Hanoi University of Mining and Geology, Hanoi, Vietnam
 
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