T42B:
Growth of the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau: Timing, Geodynamic Drivers, and Climatic Effects

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Session ID#: 31600

Session Description:
The spatiotemporal pattern of surface uplift and exhumation of the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau are fundamental to understanding the geodynamic drivers for building high plateaus, and Cenozoic changes in Asian climate, global ocean chemistry and atmospheric pCO2. Numerical simulations, based on boundary conditions like magnitude and size of surface uplift, can make predictions regarding the influence of topography on climatic parameters, which in turn assist proxy-based paleoelevation reconstruction. This session aims to bridge gaps between field geology, paleoclimatology, and numerical simulations by inviting contributions from several sub-disciplines associated with geology of the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, including but not limited to: timing and pattern for topographic growth and exhumation of the Plateau; paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental changes in the Plateau and surrounding regions, such as aridification and monsoonal climate; and numerical simulations of geodynamic processes, paleoclimate and meteoric water stable isotopes.
Primary Convener:  Lin Li, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Arlington, TX, United States
Conveners:  Huiping Zhang, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China and John C H Chiang, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Chairs:  Huiping Zhang, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China and Lin Li, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Arlington, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lin Li, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Arlington, TX, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
8110 Continental tectonics: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8177 Tectonics and climatic interactions [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Regional climate influence of the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau on the Indo-Asian Monsoon (261855)
R. Paul Acosta, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Matthew Huber, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Origins of the Asian-Australian monsoons related to Cenozoic plate movement and Tibetan Plateau uplift – A modeling study (217330)
Xiaodong Liu1, Buwen Dong2, Zhi-Yong Yin3, Robin S Smith2 and Qingchun Guo4, (1)IEE Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, (2)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)Key Lab of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China
The Rise of the Hindu Kush and its Role in the South Asian Monsoon (Invited) (218434)
Peter H Molnar, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Rebecca O Bendick, University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States and William R Boos, University of California, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States
Neogene interaction of the westerlies and high topography north of the Plateau: Implications for Central Asia paleoclimate (275888)
Jeremy K Caves Rugenstein1,2, Bolat U Bayshashov3, Aizhan Zhamangara4, Andrea J Ritch1, Daniel Enrique Ibarra5, Derek J Sjostrom6, Hari Mix7, Matthew Winnick8 and C Page Chamberlain9, (1)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)ETH Zurich, Earth Science, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Institute of Zoology, Committee of Science MES, Almaty, Kazakhstan, (4)Institute of Botany and Phytointroduction, Astana, Kazakhstan, (5)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (6)Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT, United States, (7)Santa Clara University, Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Santa Clara, CA, United States, (8)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (9)Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Paleoelevation Estimate of the High Himalaya Based on Stable and Clumped Isotope (Neogene, South Tibet and Nepal) (260453)
Yadong Xu1, Carmala N Garzione2, Kexin Zhang1, Guocan Wang3, Junliang Ji4, Xiaoning Guo4, An Wang4, Bowen Song4, Kai Cao1, Tianyi Shen4 and Lin Li5, (1)China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China, (2)University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States, (3)China University of Geosciences, School of Earth Sciences, Center for Global Tectonics,, Wuhan, China, (4)China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, (5)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States
Vertebrate Fossils Imply Paleo-elevations of the Tibetan Plateau (Invited) (211262)
Tao Deng1, Xiaoming Wang2, Qiang Li3, Feixiang Wu3, Shiqi Wang3 and Sukuan Hou3, (1)Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, CHINA, (2)Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, United States, (3)Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China
River Network Reorganization along the Upper Yangzte, Eastern Tibet: Insights from Thermochronology and Sedimentology. (238882)
Loraine Gourbet, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Rong Yang, Zhejiang University, School of Earth Sciences, Hangzhou, China, Maria Giuditta Fellin, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Colin Maden, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Zurich, Switzerland, Junfeng Gong, School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China and Paquette Jean-Louis, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Clermont-Ferrand Cedex, France

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