The complete program including all abstracts may be downloaded from HKT-25 Program and Abstracts (warning - 30 Mb file).

 

 

Program of the 25th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop

 

Presenters are shown bold underline.

In order to ensure proper citation of the abstracts in the U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1099, online proceedings for the 25th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, we have attempted to follow the western style of placing the given name before the family name for all scientists; we hope this will also provide consistency with Chinese colleagues working in the USA who have adopted this convention.  We apologize if we have made any errors in this.

 

MONDAY                                                                                

16:00-21:30        Check-in to accommodation at Mary Park Hall, Towers, and STTC buildings               

16:00-21:30        Conference Registration at Seven Hills Conference Center                   Speakers should provide, and may test, their .ppt presentations

18:30-21:30        Icebreaker party                                                   Seven Hills Conference Center

 

TUESDAY MORNING                                                             

08:00-08:10        Introductory remarks                                         all oral sessions are in the Seven Hills Conference Center

08:10-10:00        Oral Session I – Geophysics and Geodynamics of the Tibet Plateau

Chairs: Larry Brown, Lucy Flesch

08:10                James Jackson, Dan McKenzie, Keith Priestley, Alistair Sloan (invited talk)                Earthquake depth distributions in central Asia and lithosphere rheology

08:40                Kip Hodges, Kelin Whipple                                 The Tibet-Himalaya Accommodation Zone and the Nature of Orogenic Plateau Margins

08:55                Jeffrey Freymueller, Yuning Fu, Wang Qi, Xu Caijun                      Present-Day Vertical Motion of the Tibetan Plateau and Surrounding Area

09:10                James Mechie, R. Kind, J. Saul                            Crust and mantle structure of the Tibetan Plateau down to 700 km depth as derived from seismological data

09:25                Keith Priestley, Jamie Barron, Charlotte Acton, Eric Debayle, Dan McKenzie               State of the Tibetan lithosphere

09:40                Discussion                                                         moderated by chairs and discussants Walter Mooney, Zhang Zhongjie

 

10:00-10:30        Coffee                                                               all morning coffee breaks are in Seven Hills, outside the main auditorium

 

10:30-12:20        Oral Session II – Pre-collision, Suturing, and Timing of India-Asia Collision

Chairs: Talat Ahmad, Xixi Zhao

10:30                Paul Myrow, Nigel Hughes, John Goodge, Mark Fanning, Ryan McKenzie, Shanchi Peng, Om Bhargava, Suraj Parcha, Kevin Pogue           Implications of Himalayan Detrital Zircon Spectra of Cambrian–Ordovician Strata

10:45                Chengshan Wang, Bo Ran, Xixi Zhao                  Did the Lhasa Terrane Rift from the Indian Subcontinent?

11:00                Peter Lippert, Guilluame Dupont-Nivet, Douwe van Hinsbergen, Xixi Zhao, Robert Coe, Paul Kapp        The Paleogene Latitude of Asia and the Proto-Tibetan Plateau

11:15                RŽjean HŽbert, Carl Guilmette, Rachel Bezard, Jaroslav Dostal, Chengshan Wang, Jingen Dai     Ophiolites Associated with Suture Zones of the Collisional System between India and Eurasia: a Synthesis

11:30                Lloyd White, Gordon Lister                                 The Himalayan Pile-Up: Revised Plate Reconstructions Provide Evidence of Multiple Accretion Events During the Himalayan Orogeny

11:45                Yani Najman, Erwin Appel, Marcelle Boudagher-Fadel, Paul Bown, Andy Carter, Eduardo Garzanti, Laurent Godin, Jingtai Han, Ursina Liebke, Grahame Oliver, Randy Parrish, Giovanni Vezzoli            The Age of India-Asia Collision: Biostratigraphic, Sedimentological and Paleomagnetic Constraints

12:00                Discussion                                                         moderated by chairs and discussants Joe DiPietro, Nigel Hughes

 

TUESDAY AFTERNOON                                                         

12:20-13:50        Lunch                                                              Lunches are served in ÒCity EatsÓ to conference delegates who should present their tickets issued at registration

(all posters for the entire HKT meeting should be put up during this lunch break)

 

13:50-15:50        Poster Session I                                               All poster sessions are in Towers, lower level

Posters GD      Geodynamics and Geophysics of the Tibet Plateau

1-GD-1              R.Z. Qiu, Su Zhou, Y.J. Tan, G.S. Yan, X.F. Chen, Q.H. Xiao, L.L. Wang, Y.L. Lu, Z. Chen, C.H. Yuan, J.X. Han, Y.M. Chen, L. Qiu, K. Sun   A Model for the Tectonic Evolution of the Tethys-Tibetan Plateau System and Implications for Continental Tectonics in China

2-GD-2              Wayne Thatcher                                                Block Versus Continuum Descriptions of Continental Deformation: For HeavenÕs Sake, how are We Ever Going to Decide Which is Better?

3-GD-3              Larry Brown, Wenjin Zhao, Project INDEPTH Team                       The INDEPTH Transect: Looking Back from Golmud to Yadong

4-GD-4              Matthew Agius, Sergei Lebedev                            Shear-Velocity Profiles Across the Tibetan Plateau from Broadband, Surface-Wave, Phase-Velocity Measurements

5-GD-5              Yingjie Yang, Yong Zheng, Michael Ritzwoller       Rayleigh-Wave Phase Velocities and Azimuthal Anisotropy in Tibet and Surrounding Regions from Ambient Noise Tomography

6-GD-6              Sergei Lebedev, Matthew Agius                            Lithospheric Structure and Dynamics of Tibet: Constraints from Shear-Velocity Distribution

12-GD-7            Eric Sandvol, John Chen, James Ni, Frederik Tilmann, Shiyong Zhou, Yuhu Ma, Xiaoqing Zhang, Han Yue, Savas Ceylan, Bao Xueyang, Larry Brown         Seismic Velocity Structure From the ASCENT Seismic Array: Implications for Crustal and Mantle Deformation

13-GD-8            Jingyi Chen, Zhongjie Zhang, JosŽ Badal               The Determination of Anisotropic Parameters from Wide-Angle Seismic Reflection Polarizations: A Model Study

 

Posters PC       Pre-collision, Suturing, and Timing of India-Asia Collision

14-PC-1             Shaik Rashid, Naqeebul Islam, Javid Ganai            Precambrian Granitic Magmatism in the NE Himalaya: Implications for Ancient Tectonics

15-PC-2             Simon Klemperer, Rajendra Prasad, V.Vijaya Rao, H.C.Tewari, and Prakash Khare       HIMPROBE Deep Seismic Reflection Profiling of the Sub-Himalayan Fold-Thrust Belt, NW India: Images of a Possible ÒUlleri-WangtuÓ Paleoproterozoic Accretionary Orogenic Event

16-PC-3             Ryan McKenzie, Nigel Hughes, Paul Myrow, Shuhai Xiao, Ganqing Jiang                  Chronostratigraphic Constraints on the Inner Lesser Himalayan Sedimentary belt of North India, and Proterozoic Sediment Continuity of the North Indian Margin

22-PC-4             Xuan Feng, Alexander Webb, Darrell Henry           Can Detrital Tourmaline Provide Stratigraphic Fingerprints? Initial Tests in the Western Himalaya

23-PC-5             Bishal Upreti, George Gehrels, Santa Rai, Masaru Yoshida                Tertiary U-Pb Zircon Ages and Lower Paleozoic Signatures from Leucosomes of the Namche Migmatites, Everest Area, Nepal Himalaya

24-PC-6             Asif Khan, R. H. Siddiqui, M. Qasim Jan              Temporal Evolution of Cretaceous to Pleistocene Magmatism in the Chagai Arc, Balochistan, Pakistan

25-PC-7             Ursina Liebke, Erwin Appel, Udo Neumann, Borja Antolin, Lin Ding, Qiang Xu         Position of the Lhasa Terrane Prior to India-Asia Collision Derived from Paleomagnetic Inclinations of 53 Ma-Old Dykes of the Linzhou Basin: Constraints on the Age of Collision and Post-Collisional Shortening within the Tibetan Plateau

26-PC-8             Xixi Zhao, David Finn, Chengshan Wang, Yalin Li, Lidong Zhu, Wenguang Yang, Jun Meng, Jingen Dai            New Paleomagnetic Result on Tertiary Sediments From NW Qiangtang: Implications for the Cenozoic Tectonic History of the Tibetan Plateau

31-PC-9             Sunil Bajpai                                                     Timing of Earliest India-Asia Contact: Evidence of Terrestrial Vertebrates from Cambay Shale, Gujarat, Western Peninsular India

32-PC-10           Anju Pandey, Mary Leech, Andy Milton, Preeti Singh, Pramod Varma                       Evidence of Former Majoritic Garnet in Himalayan Eclogite Points to 200-km Deep Subduction of Indian Continental Crust

33-PC-11           Joseph DiPietro, Alex Pullen                               Was There Pre-Collisional Metamorphism in Swat Pakistan?

34-PC-12           Ran Zhang, Michael Murphy,Thomas Lapen, Veronica Sanchez, Matthew Heizler         Late Eocene crustal thickening followed by Early-Late Oligocene Extension along the India-Asia suture zone: Evidence for cyclicity in the Himalayan orogen

41-PC-13           Talat Ahmad                                                     Geochemical and Isotopic Constraints on the Nature of the Indus and Shyok Suture Zones, Remnants of the Neo-Tethyan Ocean in the Trans-Himalayan Region

42-PC-14           Rachel Bezard, RŽjean HŽbert, Chengshan Wang, Jaroslav Dostal, Jingen Dai               Petrology and geochemistry of the Xiugugabu ophiolitic massif, western Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone, Tibet

43-PC-15           Krishnakanta Singh                                          Geochemical Constraints on the Origin of the Ophiolites of the Indo-Myanmar Orogenic Belt, North East India

 

Posters EQ      Earthquake Hazard and Neotectonics          

44-EQ-1            MonaLisa, M. Qasim Jan                                    Newly Formulated Attenuation Relationship and Seismic Hazard Assessment for Muzaffarabad, Pakistan

45-EQ-2            Amita Sinvhal, Ashok Pandey, S. M. Pore             Seismic Performance of the Rural Habitat on the Main Boundary Thrust

40-EQ-3            Hans Wason                                                     Post – 1991 Uttarkashi Earthquake Seismicity Pattern in the Garhwal Himalaya Region

51-EQ-4            Ashok Dubey                                                    Superposed Folds in the Himalaya Indicating Late Stages of the Himalayan Orogeny: Implications for Seismicity

52-EQ-5            Laurent Bollinger, Dili Ram Tiwari, Sudhir Rajaure, Soma Nath Sapkota, Jean-Phillipe Avouac Simultaneous Earthquake Pulses along the Main Himalayan Thrust

53-EQ-6            Kristel Chanard, Jean-Philippe Avouac, Takeo Ito, Jeff Genrich, John Galetzka, Mireille Flouzat, Som Nath Sapkota, Bharat Koirala            Seasonal Variations in Geodetic Strain Induced by Hydrological Surface Loading in the Himalaya and Implications for Shallow Elastic Structure of the Earth

54-EQ-7            Thomas Ader, Jean-Philippe Avouac, Sachiko Tanaka                      Testing Earthquake Nucleation Models from the Response of Himalayan Seismicity to Secular and Periodic Stress Variations

55-EQ-8            Bishal Upreti, M. Yoshida, S.M. Rai, T.N. Bhattarai, P.D. Ulak, A.P. Gajurel, R.K. Dahal, S. Dhakal, M.P. Koirala        Guidebook Series on the Himalayan Geology and Natural Hazards

60-EQ-9            Qi Wang, Xuejun Qiao, Qigui Lan, Jeffrey Freymueller, Shaomin Yang, Caijun Xu      Releasing a reservoir of shallow strain as a possible cause of the catastropic Wenchuan earthquake, China

 

15:20-15:50        Coffee                                                               all afternoon coffee breaks are in Towers, outside the poster hall

 

15:50-18:10        Oral Session III – Earthquake Hazard & Neotectonics

Chairs: Laurent Bollinger, Roland BŸrgmann

15:50                Roger Bilham (invited talk)                                  Geodesy and great earthquakes in the Himalaya

16:20                Soma Nath Sapkota, Paul Tapponnier, Laurent Bollinger, Yann Klinger, Frederic Perrier, Dilli Ram Tiwari, Surendra Raj Panta, Indira Siwakoti       Probing our understanding of the seismic cycle in the Himalayas of Nepal: Investigating mega-quakes with mega-trenches

16:35                P. Mahesh, Shyam Rai, P.R. Sarma, S. Gupta, K. Sivaram, and K. Suryaprakasam       High resolution earthquake location and 3-D velocity imaging of crust beneath the Kumaon Himalaya

16:50                M. Qasim Jan, MonaLisa                                    Seismic Activity and Seismic Hazard Assessment along the Main Boundary Thrust, Northern Pakistan

17:05                Andrew Meigs, C. Madden, J.D. Yule, Y. Gavillot, A. Hebeler, A. Hussain, M.I. Bhat, A.B. Kausar, M. Malik, S. Ramzan, M. Sayab, R. Yeats      Distributed Deformation, Distributed Earthquakes in the Northwest Himalaya

17:20                Peizhen Zhang (invited talk)                                The Uplift of Mountain Chains along the Northern and Eastern Margins of the Tibetan Plateau

17:50                Discussion                                                         moderated by chairs and discussants John Nabelek, Wayne Thatcher

 

TUESDAY EVENING                                                              

18:30                buses depart from Mary Park                                

19:00-22:00        Reception at the California Academy of Sciences  

21:30, 21:45, 22:00                                                                     buses leave California Academy of Sciences for SF State       

 

WEDNESDAY MORNING                                                        

08:00-09:50        Oral Session IV – Himalayan Belt

Chairs: Ashok Dubey, Simon Wallis

                       

08:00                Delores Robinson                                               Correlation of Stratigraphy Along Strike in the Himalaya

08:15                A. Alexander G. Webb, Hongjiao Yu                   Testing models for the kinematic evolution of the Lesser Himalayan Sequence by balanced reconstruction: Accretion dominant in northwestern India

08:30                Sandeep Singh, Th. Nikunja Bihari Singha            Cooling and Exhumation Patterns associated with Tectonometamorphic Evolution of the Himalayan Metamorphic Belt in the Alaknanda and Dhauliganga valleys, Garhwal Himalaya, India

08:45                Chris Yakymchuk, Laurent Godin                        Metamorphic and Structural Discontinuities in the Greater Himalayan Sequence, Karnali Valley, West Nepal

09:00                John Cottle, David Waters, Olivier Beyssac, Micah Jessup                Metamorphic History of the South Tibetan Detachment System, Mt. Everest Region, Revealed by RSCM Thermometry and Phase Equilibria Modeling

09:15                Djordje Grujic, Clare Warren, Joseph Wooden         Tertiary Eclogite Facies Metamorphism in the Greater Himalayan Sequence: Evidence from Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Trace Element Geochemistry

09:30                Discussion                                                         moderated by chairs and discussants Yani Najman, Bishal Upreti

 

09:50-10:15        Coffee                                                               Seven Hills, outside the main auditorium

 

10:15-12:20        Oral Session V – Interior Tibet

Chairs: Eric Sandvol, Chengshan Wang

10:15                Mark Harrison, D.J. DePaolo, X. Mo, Z. Zhao, A. Yin (invited talk) An Integrated Approach to Determining the Crustal Thickness History of Southern Tibet

10:45                Anne Meltzer, Peter Zeitler                                   Signal or Noise? Significance of Variability in the Himalaya-Tibet System

11:00                Simon Klemperer, Mack Kennedy, Siva Sastry, Yizhaq Makovsky, T.Harinarayana       Mantle Helium Signature of the Karakoram fault is that of an Active Plate-Boundary

11:15                Amy Weislogel, Delores Robinson                         The Impact of Mesozoic Tectonism on Eastern Tibet Plateau Crustal Infrastructure: Implications for Plateau Evolution

11:30                Peter DeCelles, P. Kapp, J. Quade, G.E. Gehrels, M. Murphy (invited talk)                  Oligo-Miocene Basins in Central Tibet and Along the Indus Suture: Records of Plateau Evolution and Dynamics of Subducting Indian Continental Crust

12:00                Discussion                                                         moderated by chairs and discussants Paul Kapp, Brad Hacker

 

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON                                                   

12:20-13:30        Lunch                                                              Lunches are served in ÒCity EatsÓ to conference delegates who should present their tickets issued at registration

 

13:30-15:30        Oral Session VI – Northern Plateau Margins

Chairs: Erwin Appel, Xiaomin Fang

 

13:30                Marin Clark, Alison Duvall, Nora Lewandowski, Eric Hetland, Dewen Zheng, Richard Lease, William Craddock, Eric Kirby, Zhicai Wang (invited talk)         Fault Histories of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau Margin: Geodynamic Implications of Far-Field Deformation During Continental Collision

14:00                Richard Lease, Douglas Burbank                         Middle Miocene Reorganization of Faulting and Depositional Patterns in Northeastern Tibet

14:15                Walter Mooney, Nihal Okaya, Chungyong Wang, Zhongjie Zhang, Junmeng Zhao        Recent Deep Seismic Refraction/Wide-angle Reflection Profiles in Western China

14:30                Marianne Karplus, Simon Klemperer, Zhao Wenjin, Wu Zhenhan, Larry Brown, Shi Danian, James Mechie, Chen Chen, and Jonathan Glen INDEPTH-IV Seismic Imaging of Channel Flow Outwards from the Kunlun Mountains beneath the Qaidam Basin

14:45                Isabelle Ryder, Roland BŸrgmann, Zheng-Kang Shen                       Lower-Crustal Flow Beneath the Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from the 2001 Kokoxili Earthquake

15:00                Discussion                                                         moderated by chairs and discussants Eric Cowgill, Brad Ritts

 

15:30-16:00        Coffee                                                               Towers, outside the poster hall

 

15:30-17:45        Poster Session II                                              Towers, lower level

 

Posters HIM    Himalayan Belt                                             

30-HIM-1          Shah Faisal, John M. Dixon                                Centrifuge Modelling Study of Contrasting Structural Styles in the Salt Range and the Potwar Plateau, Northern Pakistan

39-HIM-2          Yuning Fu, Jeffrey Freymueller, Caijun Xu, Qi Wang                      Geometry and Slip Patterns of the Main Himalaya Thrust Fault in the India-Eurasia Collistion Zone Constrained by Geodetic Observations

38-HIM-3          Warren Caldwell, Simon Klemperer, Jesse Lawrence, Shyam Rai       Receiver function imaging in the western Himalaya

37-HIM-4          John Nabelek, Gyorgy Hetenyi, Jerome Vergne, Arnaud Burtin, Jan Baur, Laurent Bollinger, Rodolphe Cattin, Som Sapkota, Heping Su, Project Hi-CLIMB Team      Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle and Seismic Sources in the Himalaya-Tibet Region: Summary of Results from the Hi-CLIMB Experiment

36-HIM-5          Ugyen Wangda                                                  State of geological mapping in the Bhutan Himalaya

35-HIM-6          Tank Ojha, P.G. DeCelles, J. Quade, George Gehrels, P. Kapp, Craig Wissler, D.M. Robinson, M.A. Murphy     Role of GIS in Geological Data Interpretation, Map Making and Data Storage: A Case Study from the Nepal Himalaya

50-HIM-7          Michael Doon, Djordje Grujic, Isabelle Coutand, Nicholas Whynot    Muscovite

49-HIM-8          Mohammad Sayab, Domingo Aerden, Syed Z. Shah, Mohammad Asif Khan              Origin of 'millipede' and 'rotational' inclusion trail microstructures in the NW Himalaya and their tectonic significance

48-HIM-9          Harsh Sinvhal, Maibam Rogibala, A.K. Choudhary, A.K. Jain, Sandeep Singh           Two Migmatite Zones within the Himalayan Metamorphic Belt (HMB) of the Sikkim Himalaya, India

47-HIM-10        Kavita Tripathi                                                 Magnetic Fabrics, Microstructures and U-Pb Geochronology of the Kinnaur Kailash Granite and Associated leucogranites, Himachal Himalaya: Implications for Extensional Tectonics in the South Tibetan Detachment Zone

46-HIM-11        Mayumi Mitsuishi, Simon Wallis, Mutsuki Aoya, Jeffrey Lee, Martin Whitehouse       19 Ma Ductile E–W Extension associated with Normal Faulting in the Kung Co area, Southern Tibet

59-HIM-12        Alka Tripathy, Kip Hodges, Matthijs van Soest, Talat Ahmad          Constraining the timing and duration of backthrusting in the Indus Group: a detrital zircon (U-Th)/He approach

58-HIM-13        A.K. Awasthi, M.K. Moezabadi, A.K. Jain, S. Singh                       Organic Matter Studies for Hydrocarbon Generation in the Argillaceous Sediments of the Ladakh Himalaya, India

57-HIM-14        Borja Antol’n, Erwin Appel, Richard Gloaguen, Istv‡n Dunkl, Chiara Montomoli, Lin Ding, Ursina Liebke, Qiang Xu       Clockwise rotation and tilting in the Tethyan Himalaya of SE Tibet deduced from paleomagnetic data: Implications for the Miocene tectonic evolution of the NE Himalaya

 

Posters TIB     Interior Tibet                                                

56-TIB-1           Wendy Bohon, Kip Hodges, Ramon Arrowsmith, Alka Tripathy        A New Quaternary Strand of the Karakoram Fault System, Ladakh Himalayas

68-TIB-2           James Hollingsworth, Brian Wernicke, Lin Ding     Preliminary Fault Slip-Rate Estimate for the Right-Lateral Beng Co Strike-Slip Fault, based on Quaternary Dating of Displaced Paleo-Lake Shorelines

67-TIB-3           Su Zhou, X.X. Mo, Z.D. Zhao, Y.L. Niu, G.G. Xie, L. Qiu, K. Sun Post-Collisional Leucite Alnoite in South Tibet and its Significance

66-TIB-4           Genhou Wang, Xiao Liang                                  Discovery and Implications of the Qiangtang Indosinian Accretionary Complex Belt in Central Tibet, China

65-TIB-5           Yuxiu Zhang, Kaijun Zhang                                Structure and Evolution of the Bangong-Nujiang Suture (Gaize, Central Tibet)

64-TIB-6           Jan Vozar, Alan Jones, Florian Le Pape, Wei Wenbo, Martyn Unsworth, INDEPTH MT Team    Electromagnetic Studies of Banggong-Nujiang Suture Architecture from INDEPTH Magnetotelluric Profiles and Magnetovariational Data

78-TIB-7           Rui Gao, Zhanwu Lu, Xiaosong Xiong, Lingsen Zeng, Wenhui Li, Gong Deng, Simon Klemperer           SINOPROBE Deep Seismic Reflection Profiling across the Bangong-Nujiang Suture, Central Tibet

77-TIB-8           Yalin Li, Chengshan Wang, Ganqing Xu, Xixi Zhao, Chao Ma          Crustal Shortening in the Tanggula-Tuotuohe Area, Northern Tibet

76-TIB-9           Kathryn Snell, Peter Lippert, John Eiler                Stable and Clumped Isotope Analysis of Eocene Fenghuo Shan Group Sediments: Implications for Paleoelevation Estimates and Carbonate Diagenesis

 

Posters NOR    Northern Plateau Margins                            

75-NOR-1          Florian Le Pape, Alan Jones, Jan Vozar, Martyn Unsworth, Wei Wenbo, and the INDEPTH MT Team     Evolution of Crustal and Upper-Mantle Structure in Northern Tibet from INDEPTH Magnetotelluric Data

74-NOR-2          Chen Chen, Larry Brown, Marianne Karplus, Simon Klemperer         The Golmud Step: New Details of the 15 km Moho Offset Between the Tibet Plateau and Qaidam Basin from INDEPTH IV Seismic Results

89-NOR-3          Rui Gao, ChengShan Wang, An Yin, Haiyan Wang, Yuxiu Zhang      Construction of the Tibetan Plateau by Distributed Lithospheric-Scale Shortening: Evidence from Deep Seismic-Reflection Profiling across Northeastern Tibet

88-NOR-4          Zhongjie Zhang, Xiaobo Tian, Zhiming Bai, Xi Zhang, Bing Zhao, Jianli Zhang, Shaokun Shi, Tao Xu, Yun Chen, Jiwen Teng    Crustal Structure across the Qilian Orogenic Belt from In-line and Off-line Wide-angle Seismic Profiling in the North-eastern margin of Tibetan plateau

87-NOR-5          Weilin Zhang, Erwin Appel, Xiaomin Fang, Chunhui Song, Sihu Hu, Dongliang Liu   Magnetostratigraphy of Core SG-1 in the Western Qaidam Basin and its Tectonic-Environmental Implications

86-NOR-6          Sam Johnstone, G. Zhuang, J. K. Hourigan, B. D. Ritts, B. J. Darby Sedimentary and thermochronologic evidence for Middle to Late Miocene uplift of the Northern Tibetan Plateau

85-NOR-7          Alison Duvall, Marin Clark, Ben van der Pluijm, Chuanyou Li          Eocene Faulting in Northeastern Tibet: Insights from Coupled Low-Temperature Thermochronometry and Ar Dating of Fault Gouge along the West Qinling Fault

84-NOR-8          Eric Cowgill, Ryan Gold, Ramon Arrowsmith, Xuanhua Chen, Xiao-Feng Wang          Quaternary Slip History for the Central Altyn Tagh Fault Reveals Time-Varying Slip Rate

 

WEDNESDAY EVENING                                                          Seven Hills Conference Center

18:00-18:30        Social gathering                                                  Enjoy a drink with your colleagues

18:30-19:45        Conference Dinner                                              

19:15-19:45        Dinner talk: Peizhen Zhang on behalf of the China Earthquake Administration               ÒThe Ms 7.1 Yushu earthquake of 4/14/10: a seismological field reportÓ

20:00-21:00        Break-Out Sessions (topics may be volunteered by participants – we are limited to three separate groups by the layout of the Seven Hills Conference Center)       suggestions thus far include: Òchannel flow, real or imaginary?Ó;

Òrole of intra-continental strike-slip faultsÓ;

Òis paleo-altimetry useful?Ó; and

Òis lithospheric strength in the crust or the mantle?Ó

 

THURSDAY MORNING                                                            Participants leaving Thursday night must check-out and return keys before noon.  Luggage may be brought to Seven Hills

08:00-08:30        Break-out Session Chairs provide brief summaries of previous eveningÕs discussions           Seven Hills Conference Center

08:30-10:00        Oral Session VIII – Climate and Tectonics

Chairs: Asif Khan, Kate Snell

08:30                Peter Zeitler                                                       Not Very Old but Not Too Young: Thermochronological Constraints on the Age of Low-Relief Surfaces in the Western Himalaya and Southeastern Tibet

08:45                Aaron Martin, Lisa Walsh, Elisabeth Nadin, Tank Ojha, Tom Fedenczuk                    Steepness Maxima and Transitions along the Modi Khola do not Correspond to Differences in Apatite Fission Track and (U-Th)/He Ages

09:00                Seema Singh, B. Parkash, A. K. Awasthi, S. Kumar                        Did the Late Miocene Phase of Himalayan Orogeny Drive a Major Shift in IndiaÕs Climate and Vegetation?

09:15                Xiaomin Fang, Chunhui Song, Weilin Zhang, Erwin Appel, Junping Gao, Maodu Yan  Mid-Miocene Climate-Driven Rapid Erosion of the Northern Tibetan Plateau

09:30                Malinda Kent-Corson, Bradley Ritts, Guangsheng Zhuang, Paul Bovet, Julien Charreau, Stephen Graham, Page Chamberlain         Stable Isotopic Constraints on Paleoelevation and Paleoclimate along the Northern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau

09:45                Discussion                                                         moderated by chairs and discussants Kevin Furlong, Djordje Grujic

 

10:00-10:30        Coffee                                                               Seven Hills, outside the main auditorium. Participants leaving SF State today (including those attending the NSF Workshop) must check-out of their accommodation at this time.

 

10:30-12:00        Oral Session VII – Climate, Glaciation. Erosion

Chairs: Matthias KŸhle, C.S. Dubey

                       

10:30                Gerard Roe (invited talk)                                     The Climate of Asia and Tibet – Not Just a Simple Monsoon

11:00                Paul Kapp, Alexander Rohrmann, Richard Heermance, Jon Pelletier, Joellen Russell, Lin Ding   Plio-Quaternary Wind Erosion in the Qaidam Basin, Central Asia: Records, Rates, and Broader Implications

11:15                Bernard Hallet, Peter Zeitler, Peter Koons, Noah Finnegan, Adam Barker                    Erosion Rates at the Crest of the Himalaya: Slow or Fast?

11:30                Lewis Owen, Marc Caffee, Nicole Davis, Jason Dortch, Robert Finkel, Kathyrn Hedrick, Alexander Robinson, Lindsay Schoenbohm, Yeong Bae Seong           Style and Timing of Glaciation along the Karakoram Fault

11:45                Discussion                                                         moderated by chairs and discussants Anne Meltzer, Doug Burbank

 

THURSDAY AFTERNOON                                                      

12:00-13:30        Lunch                                                              Lunches are served in ÒCity EatsÓ to conference delegates who should present their tickets issued at registration

 

13:50-15:30        Poster Session III                                             Towers, lower level

Posters CL       Climate & Tectonics                                      

11-CL-1            C.E. Lukens, Barbara Carrapa, B.S. Singer, G. Gehrels                  Miocene exhumation revealed by detrital minerals of Tajik rivers: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Pamir

10-CL-2            Erchie Wang, Xuhua Shi, Eric Kirby, Kevin Furlong, Ganqing Xu, Peter Kamp, Peter Reiners    Late Cenozoic Exhumation of the Eastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau: New Constraints from Age-Elevation Transects in the Longmen Shan

9-CL-3              Yogesh Ray, Pradeep Srivastava, Y.P. Sundriyal      Aggradation and Incision Phases in the Upper Reaches of the Ganga River System; Timescales and Implications for Hinterland-Foreland Relationships

8-CL-4              Tejpal Singh, A.K. Awasthi                                Growth of drainage basins and sediment transport in the Dehradun Reentrant and Nahan Salient of the NW Sub-Himalaya: a comparative study

7-CL-5              C.S. Dubey, M. Tajbaksh, R. Marston, E.J. Catlos, Sandeep Singh, M. Rogibala         Tectono-Geomorphic and Climatic Controls on Landscape Development in the Lesser Himalaya

21-CL-6            Itai Haviv, Jean-Philippe Avouac, Kenneth Farley, Mark Harrison, Matthew Heizler, Neupane Prabhat, Gweltaz MahŽo        Uplift and Exhumation along the Arun River (Eastern Nepal): Implications for the Mechanism of Uplift of the High Himalaya and the Coupling between Erosion and Tectonics

20-CL-7            Byron Adams, Matthijs van Soest, Kip Hodges, Kelin Whipple, Arjun Heimsath          Landscape Evolution of the Bhutan Himalaya – Insights from Tectonic Geomorphology and Low-Temperature Thermochronology

19-CL-8            A.K. Jain, James Pebam, Nand Lal, Sandeep Singh, Rajeev Kumar    Detrital Apatite Fission-Track Thermochronology of Modern River Sands from the Arunachal Himalaya and its Implications for Exhumation

18-CL-9            R.C. Patel, Vikas Adlakha, Paramjeet Singh, Nand Lal                     Exhumation of the Higher and Lesser Himalayan Crystallines of the Western Arunachal Himalaya, NE-India: Constraints from Fission-Track Studies

17-CL-10           Dave Mattey, Nigel Harris, Talat Ahmad, Bijay Mipun, Andrew Mawlong, Gregory Diengdoh   Speleothem Records of Monsoon Intensity: Evaluating Proxy Fidelity via Cave Process Monitoring in the Shillong Plateau, NE India

29-CL-11           Adam Barker, Bernard Hallet                               Thinning of Glaciers in the Khumbu Himal from 1955 to 2008

28-CL-12           Kathryn Hedrick, Yeong Bae Seong, Lewis Owen, Marc Caffee, Craig Dietsch            Towards Defining the Transition in Style and Timing of Quaternary Glaciation between the Monsoon-Influenced Greater Himalaya and the Semi-Arid Transhimalaya of Northern India

27-CL-13           Matthias KŸhle                                                 New Indicators of a Former Tibetan Ice Sheet and an Ice Stream Network in the Surrounding Mountain Systems: New Field Observations and Dating on the SE-, S- and W-margin of Tibet from Expeditions in 2004-2009

Posters CF       Crustal Flow and Gneiss Domes                     

61-CF-1             Nicholas Whynot, Djordje Grujic, Sean Long, Nadine McQuarrie       Apparent Temperature Gradient across the Lesser Himalayan Sequence: Raman Spectroscopy on Carbonaceous Material in the Eastern Bhutan Himalaya

62-CF-2             Sean Long, Nadine McQuarrie, Tobgay Tobgay       Internal Strain and Deformation Temperature of Lesser Himalayan Thrust Sheets, Bhutan

63-CF-3             Nadine McQuarrie, Sean Long                             Magnitude of Strain in a Low-Grade Greater Himalayan Section, Central Bhutan: Implications for Channel Flow

69-CF-4             Donald Stahr, Richard Law, Clayton Loehn, Robert Tracy, Talat Ahmad, Santosh Kumar          Deformation Temperatures and Rapid Exhumation of the Greater Himalayan Series, Sutlej Valley, NW India

70-CF-5             Christopher Spencer, Ron Harris                          Deformation of the Greater Himalayan Sequence, Garhwal Himalaya via Sheath Folding and Late-Stage Brittle Extension: Implications for Channel Flow

71-CF-6             Dawn Kellett, Djordje Grujic, Clare Warren, John Cottle, Rebecca Jamieson                 Pressure-Temperature-Time Paths of Tectonites from the South Tibetan Detachment System, Bhutan Himalaya

72-CF-7             Chie Shirakawa, Simon Wallis, Kouki Kitajima, Yuji Sano             Cenozoic Emplacement Age of the Kangmar Granite in South Tibet

73-CF-8             Micah Jessup, John Cottle, Jackie Langille, Graham Lederer, Talat Ahmad                  Contrasting Dome Formation along the Southern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Leo Pargil Dome and Ama Drime Massif, India/Tibet

79-CF-9             Jackie Langille, Micah Jessup, John Cottle, Graham Lederer, Talat Ahmad                  Timing of Metamorphism and Extension in the Western Himalaya: Leo Pargil Dome, NW India

80-CF-10           Graham Lederer, John Cottle, Micah Jessup, Jackie Langille, Talat Ahmad                 Time-scales of Crustal Melting within the Leo Pargil Dome, NW India

81-CF-11           William Hassett, John Sommerfeld, Forrest Horton, Mary Leech        Geochemical comparison of north Himalayan gneiss domes

82-CF-12           John Sommerfeld, Forrest Horton, William Hassett, Mary Leech        40Ar/39Ar Thermochronometry of Deformed Muscovite from the Zanskar Shear Zone, NW India

83-CF-13           Forrest Horton, John Sommerfeld, William Hassett, Mary Leech        U-Pb SHRIMP geochronology of leucogranites from the Greater Himalayan Sequence in Zanskar and from the Karakoram fault zone, NW India

 

15:00-15:30        Coffee                                                                                       Towers, outside the poster hall

Poster presenters please remove posters starting at 15:15

 

15:30-17:30        Oral Session IX – Crustal Flow and Gneiss Domes

Chairs: A.K. Jain, Nadine McQuarrie

15:30                Rebecca Jamieson, C. Beaumont, J.P. Butler, C.J. Warren (invited talk)                     Crustal Structure Linked to Ultra-High-Pressure Rock Exhumation: A ÒWorkingÓ Model for the Tso Morari Complex, Ladakh Himalaya

16:00                Jennifer McGraw, Brad Hacker, Lothar Ratschbacher, Konstanze StŸbner                     The High-Grade Crustal Domes of the Pamir

16:15                Richard Law, Donald Stahr, Talat Ahmad, Santosh Kumar               Deformation Temperatures and Flow Vorticities Near the Base of the Greater Himalayan Crystalline Sequence, Sutlej Valley and Shimla Klippe, NW India

16:30                Erchie Wang, Dalai Zhong, Jiwen Teng, Eric Kirby When Did Shortening Cease Within the Tibetan plateau?

16:45                Wei Wenbo, Jin Sheng, Gaofeng Ye, Alan Jones, Martyn Unsworth,  INDEPTH MT Team        Regional resistivity structure of the Tibetan Plateau

17:00                Discussion                                                         moderated by chairs and discussants Jean-Phillipe Avouac, Kip Hodges

17:20-17:30        Closing Remarks                                               Announcement of HKT-26

 

THURSDAY EVENING                                                                                    

17:45-18:00        shuttle buses depart to Tiburon                              (for participants in NSF Workshop)

 

Papers accepted by but not presented at HKT-25, and included among the following abstracts

                        Hermann Achenbach                                             Historical (<2000 B.P.) and Recent Glacier Fluctuations in the Inner Himalaya (North of the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri Himalaya)

                        Irshad Ahmad, Joseph DiPietro, Shuhab Khan, Noor Jehan                 Structural Analysis of Swat and the Surrounding Peshawar Basin, North Pakistan: Application of GIS and Remote Sensing

                        Christopher Beaumont, Rebecca Jamieson                Himalayan-Tibetan Orogeny: Channel Flow versus (Critical) Wedge Models, a False Dichotomy?

                        Sharat Dutta, N. Suresh, Rohtash Kumar                 Pleistocene-Holocene Climate Fluctuations and Fluvial Response in Tectonically Active Yamuna Valley, North-Western Himalaya: Timescales and Source-to-Sink Interlinkage

                        Noor Jehan, Khalid Durrani                                   Comparative Analysis of Economic Benefits and Adverse Environmental and Health Impacts of Asbestos Mining and Milling in Behram Dehri, District Charssada, Northern Pakistan

                        Caijun Xu, Kaihua Ding                                       Present-Day 3D Crustal Movement in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau from GPS Data

                        Zhu Tongxing, Dong Han, Li Cai, Feng Xintao, Li Zongliang, Yu Yuanshan, Jin Canhai, Zhou Banguo   Late Triassic Tectonic-Sedimentary Paleogeography of the Northern Qiangtang Basin, Tibet Plateau, Western China