T41F:
Growth of the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau: Timing, Geodynamic Drivers, and Climatic Effects

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Session ID#: 31606

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:  Lin Li, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Arlington, TX, United States and Huiping Zhang, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
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:

7218 Lithosphere [SEISMOLOGY]
8002 Continental neotectonics [STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY]
8175 Tectonics and landscape evolution [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Northward expansion of Tibet beyond the Altyn Tagh Fault (272750)
Dickson Cunningham, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT, United States, Jin Zhang, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Institute of Geology, Beijing, China, Li Yanfeng, National Earthquake Response Service, Beijing, China and Rowan Vernon, University of Cardiff, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom
The Evolution of Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis of Tibetan Plateau (247222)
Shuangxi Zhang1, Tengfei Wu1, Mengkui Li1, Yu Zhang2, Yujin Hua3 and Bo Zhang3, (1)Wuhan University, School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan, China, (2)School of Geodesy and Geomatics,Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, (3)School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Detachments of the subducted Indian continental lithosphere based on 3D finite-frequency tomographic images (267376)
Xiaofeng Liang, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Beijing, China, Xiaobo Tian, State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing, China and Minling Wang, College of Earth Sciences, Gunlin University of Technology, Guilin, China
Initiation of the Bukadaban Feng Normal Fault and Implications for the Topographic Evolution of Northern Tibet (244679)
Nathan A Niemi1, Hong Chang2, Leyi Li2 and Peter H Molnar3, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)IEE Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Tectonic geomorphology of the Qilian Shan in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: insights into the plateau formation processes (249079)
Huiping Zhang1, Peizhen Zhang2, Veronica Prush3, Dewen Zheng1, Wenjun Zheng4, Weitao Wang5, Caicai Liu1 and Zhikun Ren6, (1)Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, (2)Sun Yat-sen University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Geodynamics and Geohazards, Zhuhai, China, (3)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, United States, (4)Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Geodynamics and Geohazards,School of Earth Science and Geological Engineering, Sun Yan-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, (5)State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geoloy, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, (6)CEA China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
Upper crustal extension of Tibet and the High Himalaya – Implications for landscape development, the internally drained Tibetan plateau, and the Yarlung-Tsangpo River (240799)
Michael H Taylor, University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, United States, Andrew K Laskowski, Montana State University, Tucson, AZ, UNITED STATES, Clay Campbell, University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States and Paul A Kapp, Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Strain transformation between tectonic extrusion and crustal thickening in the growth of the Tibetan Plateau (220355)
Mian Liu, University of Missouri, Geological Sciences, Columbia, United States, Yuhang Li, China Earthquake Administration, Second Monitoring and Application Center, Xi'an, China, Yujiang Li, Institute of Crustal Dynamics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, Yujun Sun, Chinese Academy Geological Sciences, Beijing, CHINA and Xuzhang Shen, Lanzhou Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, Lanzhou, China

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