Active tectonics of the Himalaya |
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| Authors: | James F Ni |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Physics, New Mexico State University, 88003, Las Cruces, NM, USA
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| Abstract: | The Himalayan mountains are a product of the collision between India and Eurasia which began in the Eocene. In the early stage
of continental collision the development of a suture zone between two colliding plates took place. The continued convergence
is accommodated along the suture zone and in the back-arc region. Further convergence results in intracrustal megathrust within
the leading edge of the advancing Indian plate. In the Himalaya this stage is characterized by the intense uplift of the High
Himalaya, the development of the Tibetan Plateau and the breaking-up of the central and eastern Asian continent. Although
numerous models for the evolution of the Himalaya have been proposed, the available geological and geophysical data are consistent
with an underthrusting model in which the Indian continental lithosphere underthrusts beneath the Himalaya and southern Tibet.
Reflection profiles across the entire Himalaya and Tibet are needed to prove the existence of such underthrusting. Geodetic
surveys across the High Himalaya are needed to determine the present state of the MCT as well as the rate of uplift and shortening
within the Himalaya. Paleoseismicity studies are necessary to resolve the temporal and spatial patterns of major earthquake
faulting along the segmented Himalayan mountains. |
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| Keywords: | Himalayan mountains continental collision earthquakes active tectonics tectonic setting Main boundary thrust Tethyan slab |
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