12 The Geodynamic Evolution of the Himalaya: From Mountain Building to Modern Seismicity and Climate Change

The Himalaya are an active mountain chain whose geology affects people in more than six Asian countries. This interdisciplinary session focuses on the geodynamics of the region as well as the impact of modern seismicity and climate change

Sunday, 19 October 2025
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
HBGCC, 217B

Participants

• Chair Christopher Bailey
• Chair GM Bhat

Presentations

• 8:05 AM
  Evaluating the role of terrane accretion on the evolution of indenter corner fault systems, an example from the eastern Himalaya
  Paul Betka, Western Washington University, Geology Department, Bellingham, WA and Karl Lang, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA and Raghupratim Rakshit, Jagannath Barooah University, Jorhat, Assam and Isaac Larsen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
  412989 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:20 AM
  Back Arc Basin Development on the Southern Eurasian Margin Prior to India-Eurasia Collision.
  Craig Martin, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Nicholas van Buer, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA and Harry Matchette-Downes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Paul Mueller, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Alicia Cruz-Uribe, University of Maine, Orono, ME and Jill van Tongneren, Tufts University, Medford, MA and John Hanchar, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL and Rajeev Upadhyay, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand and Oliver Jagoutz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  413459 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:35 AM
  Middle Eocene to Oligocene exhumation of the Tso Morari ultrahigh pressure nappe from mid-crustal depths (Ladakh, northwestern Indian Himalaya): insights from multi-technique thermochronometry
  Adelie Ionescu, Washington State University, School of the Environment, Pullman, WA and Sean Long, Washington State University, Pullman, WA and Matthew Kohn, Boise State University, Geosciences, Boise, ID and Stuart Thomson, University of Arizona, Dept of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ and Kevin Konrad, University of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV and Matthew Heizler, New Mexico Bureau of GeologyNew Mexico, Socorro, NM and Jayna Thompson, Boise State University, Boise, ID
  413249 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:15 AM
  Surface Uplift of the Gangdese Arc During the Subduction–Collision Transition: Insights from Numerical Modeling
  Xincheng Zhou, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Nevada Geosciences, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV and Wenrong Cao, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Nevada Geosciences, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV and Jianfeng Yang, State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric and Environmental Coevolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Beijing and Kaus Boris, Institute for Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Mainz
  412883 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:30 AM
  Developing an Earthquake Resilient Society
  Harsh Gupta, CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana
  413321 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:45 AM
  Across the Grain: A Seismically-Active, Oblique Megathrust Splay Fault System in Western Nepal
  Sean Bemis, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Elizabeth Curtiss, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Suoya Fan, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and Andrew Hoxey, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA and Michael Daniel, University of Houston, Houston, TX and Manoj Kafle, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal and Michael Murphy, University of Houston, La Canada Flintridge, CA and Michael Taylor, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Richard Styron, GEM Foundation, Portland, OR and Elaina Sutley, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Deepak Chamlagain, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu
  411914 (Technical Sessions)