T182 Kinematics of the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen—Comparing the Present with the Past

Tuesday, 29 October 2002
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  APPROACH TO STEADY STATE IN THE INDO-ASIAN COLLISION: A GEOMORPHIC-THERMOCHRONOLOGIC PERSPECTIVE IN THE TIEN SHAN
  Douglas W. Burbank, Univ of California, Santa Barbara, CA and Michael Oskin, Univ of California, Santa Barbara, CA and Edward R. Sobel, Universitaet Potsdam, Potsdam, N/A and Scott R. Miller, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA and Michael E. Bullen, Houston, TX
  41268 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  RATES OF SHORTENING IN THE HIMALAYAN FOLD-THRUST BELT, WESTERN NEPAL
  Delores M. Robinson, The Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Peter G. DeCelles, The Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  43834 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  THE EOHIMALAYAN FOLD-THRUST BELT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF THE NW-HIMALAYA (INDIA)
  Gerhard Wiesmayr, University of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Bernhard Grasemann, University of Vienna, Vienna, N/A
  44109 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  INITIATION OF THE HIMALAYAN OROGEN AS AN EARLY PALEOZOIC THIN-SKINNED THRUST BELT
  George E. Gehrels, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and P.G. DeCelles, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and T.P. Ojha, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and B.N. Upreti, Tribhuvan Univ, Kathmandu, N/A
  38567 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  INTEGRATED TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHIC AND GEOCHRONOLOGIC ANALYSIS OF THE HIMALAYA: TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS
  Paul M. Myrow, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO and Nigel Hughes, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Timothy Paulsen, Univ of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI and Ian Williams, Australian National Univ, Canberra, N/A and Samuel A. Bowring, MIT, Cambridge, MA and S.K. Parcha, Wadia, Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehra Dun, N/A and S.-C. Peng, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Nanjing, N/A and A.D. Ahluwallia, Panjab Univ, Chandigarh, N/A
  43482 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  THE ROOF OF THE WORLD IS PASSIVE: REINTERPRETING THE SOUTH TIBET DETACHMENT AS A MIOCENE PASSIVE ROOF FAULT IN A CRUSTAL-SCALE FAULT-BEND FOLD SYSTEM
  An Yin, Univ of California, Los Angeles, CA
  41823 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:05 PM
  HISTORY OF THE MAIN CENTRAL THRUST SYSTEM IN THE MARSYANDI VALLEY, CENTRAL NEPAL: EVIDENCE FOR STEADY-STATE OROGENESIS IN THE HIMALAYA?
  Kip Hodges, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Katherine Ruhl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Kelin Whipple, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Cameron Wobus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  39389 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  LATE MIOCENE-PLIOCENE INCEPTION OF E-W EXTENSION IN TIBET AS EVIDENCED BY APATITE (U-TH)/HE DATA
  Daniel F. Stockli, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Michael Taylor, UCLA, Los Angeles, N/A and An Yin, UCLA, Los Angeles, N/A and T. Mark Harrison, UCLA, Los Angeles, N/A and Jessica D'Andrea, UCLA, Los Angeles, N/A and Paul Kapp, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Lin Ding, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A
  42051 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  A THIN VISCOUS SHEET APPROACH TO HIMALAYAN CURVATURE
  Rebecca Bendick, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  45303 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  INTEGRATING INSAR AND GEOLOGIC ESTIMATES OF SLIP RATES IN CENTRAL TIBET
  Mike Taylor, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA and Gilles Peltzer, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA and An Yin, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA and F.J. Ryerson, Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA and Robert Finkel, Lawerence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA and Lin Ding, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A
  42054 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:25 PM
  PRESERVATION OF A LOW-RELIEF, REGIONALLY CONTINUOUS EROSION SURFACE IN SOUTHEASTERN TIBET: EVIDENCE FOR THE TRANSIENT CONDITION OF THE SOUTHEASTERN PLATEAU MARGIN
  Marin K. Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Leigh H. Royden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and B. Clark Burchfiel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Kelin X. Whipple, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Martha A. House, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, CA and Xuan-Yang Zhang, Chengdu Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Chengdu, Sichuan, N/A
  45814 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:40 PM
  CONSTRAINTS ON DEFORMATION OF THE CENTRAL TIBETAN LITHOSPHERE FROM INDEPTH III GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS
  Larry D. Brown, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY
  45689 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:55 PM
  JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS DEPOSITS OF THE CENTRAL LHASA TERRANE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF SOUTHERN ASIA PRIOR TO THE INDO-ASIAN COLLISION
  Andrew L. Leier, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Shundong He, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Paul Kapp, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Lin Ding, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Beijing, N/A
  41692 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:10 PM
  THE ROLE OF BACKTHRUSTS, MANTLE SUTURES, AND HETEROGENEOUS CRUSTAL STRENGTH IN FORMING THE WESTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU
  Eric Cowgill, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
  46566 (Technical Sessions)