Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

LATE NEOGENE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN THE CENTRAL HIMALAYA RELATED TO TECTONIC UPLIFT AND ORBITAL FORCING

Yang Wang, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL and Tao Deng, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A and Lawrence Flynn, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Xiaoming Wang, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA and A. Yin, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA and Yingfeng Xu, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL and William Parker, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL and Eric Lochner, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL and Dana Biasatti, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

175916 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

THE SOUTH LUNGGAR RIFT: A JUVENILE DETACHMENT IN WESTERN TIBET?

Richard H. Styron, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Michael Taylor, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Kurt E. Sundell, University of Houston, Houston, TX and Daniel F. Stockli, University of Kansas, Lawrence, N/A and Deliang Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A and Lin Ding, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

176746 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

METAMORPHISM AND SUBDUCTION IN THE SWAT REGION, PAKISTAN HIMALAYA

Joseph DiPietro, Univ Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN

176845 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

THE EAST JHOMOLARI FAULT SYSTEM, NW BHUTAN: ONSET, DISPLACEMENT, AND MOST RECENT ACTIVITY OF A YOUNG LITTLE KNOWN FUALT ZONE AND ITS REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE

J. Matthew R. Cannon, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX and Jose Miguel Hurtado, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX and Tashi Tenzin, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Kingdom of Bhutan, Thimphu, N/A

177159 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF NEW ISOTOPIC AGES FOR ROCKS FROM THE PESHAWAR PLAIN OF PAKISTAN INCLUDING A U/PB AGE FOR THE FIRST REPORTED CENOZOIC VOLCANIC ROCKS IN THE LESSER HIMALAYA

Kevin Burke, University of Houston, Houston, TX and Shuhab Khan, Univ of Houston, Houston, TX and T.J. Lapen, University of Houston, Houston, TX and Irshad Ahmad, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, N/A

177435 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

DETRITAL-ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY AND IN-SITU HAFNIUM (HF) ISOTOPIC ANALYSES OF THE LATE TRIASSIC TETHYS HIMALAYA SEQUENCE: IMPLICATIONS FOR PROVENANCE AND TECTONIC SETTING

Guangwei Li, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A and Xiaohan Liu, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing and Lijie Wei, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A and Xiaobing Liu, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A and Xuejun Zhou, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A

177470 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

DISCOVERIES OF PERMIAN FUSULINE FAUNAS FROM THE SHUANGHU AREA, CENTRAL TIBET AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CLIMATIC CHANGE AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE QIANGTANG BLOCK

Yichun Zhang, Nanjing Institution of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS, Nanjing, Jiangsu, N/A

177516 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

THE DISCOVERY OF THE RED RIVER SUBMARINE FAN, NORTHWEST SOUTH CHINA SEA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE TIBETAN PLATEAU AND THE RED RIVER SYSTEM

Weiguo Li, BP, Houston, TX

178622 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

PLIOCENE UPLIFT AND PALEOCLIMATIC EVOLUTION IN THE NORTHEASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU: EVIDENCE FROM 40AR/39AR AND STABLE ISOTOPE DATA OF SUPERGENE JAROSITE

Lei Chen, Wuhan, N/A and Jianwei Li, Wuhan, N/A and R.O. Rye, USGS, Denver, CO and Paulo M. Vasconcelos, Brisbane, N/A and Cayce A. Gulbransen, USGS, Denver, CO

179042 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

GEOMORPHIC RESPONSE TO AN ACTIVE TRANSPRESSIVE REGIME: A CASE STUDY ALONG THE CHAMAN STRIKE-SLIP FAULT, WESTERN PAKISTAN

Shams Ul-Hadi, University of Houston, Houston, TX and Shuhab Khan, University of Houston, Houston, TX and Lewis A. Owen, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Abdul Salam Khan, University of Baluchistan, Quetta, N/A

179073 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

PALEOGENE EROSIONAL RECORD OF THE HIMALAYAN-TIBETAN OROGEN ALONG THE YARLUNG-ZANGBO SUTURE ZONE, SOUTHERN TIBET

Xiumian Hu, Nanjing University, Nanjing and Jiangang Wang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, N/A

179452 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

KINEMATIC AND TIMING CONSTRAINTS on THE LEO PARGIL SHEAR ZONE: IMPLICATIONS FOR EXTENSION DURING EXHUMATION OF THE LEO PARGIL DOME, NW INDIA

Jackie Langille, UNC Asheville, Asheville, NC and Micah Jessup, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and John M. Cottle, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA and Graham Lederer, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA and Talat Ahmad, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi

179918 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

THE EVOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS: RECOVERING THE EROSIONAL HISTORY FROM THE REMAINING SEDIMENT

Delores M. Robinson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

181716 (Technical Sessions)

T264 Transformative Science in the Himalaya and Tibet: Insight from Geophysical, Geochemical, and Geologic Studies (Posters)

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