8:00 AM

Timing of Collision In the Western Himalayan Orogen

Shuhab Khan, Univ of Houston; J. Douglas Walker, University of Kansas; Stuart Hall, University of Houston; Kevin Burke, University of Houston; Mohammad Shah, University of Peshawar; Lisa Stockli, Univ. of Kansas

8:15 AM

234-2

The Oman Mountains as a Part of the Alpine-Himalyan Orogen

Robert T. Gregory, Southern Methodist University; David R. Gray

8:30 AM

234-3

A Possible Role for Collision-Induced Mantle Extrusion as Evidenced from Arc-Forearc Rollback in Western Pakistan

Shuhab Khan, University of Houston; Martin Flower, Univesity of Illinois, Chicago

8:45 AM

234-4

Crust-Mantle Recycling Recorded In Tibetan Ophiolites

Paul T. Robinson, GeoForschungsZentrum; Robert Trumbull, GeoForschungsZentrum; Axel Schmitt, University of Southern California; Jingsui Yang, Institute of Geology; Joerg Erzinger, GeoForschungsZentrum; Rolf Emmermann, GeoForschungsZentrum

9:00 AM

234-5

The Sumdo Eclogite Belt in the Lhasa Block, Tibet: A New Discovery and Its Tectonic Implications

Jingsui Yang, Institute of Geology, CAGS; Paul T. Robinson, Dalhousie University

9:15 AM

234-6

Cretaceous - Tertiary Geology of Central Tibet and Implications for Plateau Formation: A Synthesis

John E. Volkmer, University of Arizona; Paul Kapp, University of Arizona; Peter DeCelles, University of Arizona; Jerome Guynn, ExxonMobil; Andrew Leier, University of Calgary

9:30 AM

234-7

Integrating Forward Modeling and Unroofing Data from the Central Himalayan Thrust Belt, Western Nepal

Delores M. Robinson, University of Alabama

9:45 AM

234-8

U-Pb Basement and Detrital Zircon Geochronology of the Southern Tibetan Plateau and Tethyan Himalaya

George E. Gehrels, University of Arizona; Paul Kapp, University of Arizona; Alex Pullen, University of Arizona; Lin Ding, Chinese Academy of Sciences

10:00 AM

234-9

Low-Temperature Thermochronology of the Tibetan Plateau - a Review and New Results from the Interior

Jerome Guynn, ExxonMobil; Paul Kapp, University of Arizona; Barbara Carrapa, University of Wyoming; John E. Volkmer, The University of Arizona

10:15 AM

234-10

Long-Term Slow Exhumation in the Middle of the Greater Himalayan Series in the Modi Khola Transect, Central Nepal

Aaron J. Martin, University of Maryland; Jibamitra Ganguly, University of Arizona; Peter Copeland, University of Houston

10:30 AM

234-11

Eastward Propagation of the Kunlun Fault and Implications for Mechanics of the Tibetan Plateau

Nathan Harkins, The Pennsylvania State University; William Craddock, The Pennsylvania State University; Eric Kirby, Penn State Univ

10:45 AM

234-12

Beginning to Place Limits on the Timing, Size and Spatial Extent of Great Earthquakes along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust with Paleoseismology

S. Kumar, Indian Institute of Science; Steven G. Wesnousky, University of Nevada, Reno; R. Jayangodaperumal, M. S. University Tirunelvelli; T. Nakata, Hiroshima Institute of Technology; Y. Kumahara, Guma University; Vimal Singh, Indian Institute of Science

11:00 AM

234-13

Geothermal Fluxes of Heat and CO₂ near the MCT Zone, Nepal

Louis A. Derry, Cornell University; Matthew Evans, Wheaton College

11:15 AM

234-14

Symmetric Himalayan Topography and Drainage Pattern Induced by Asymmetric Strain Partitioning and Exhumation

An Yin, University of California; Zhengkang Shen, University of California

11:30 AM

234-15

Monsoon Intensification Linked to Greater Himalayan Exhumation in the Early Miocene

Peter D. Clift, University of Aberdeen; Kip Hodges, Arizona State University; David Heslop, University of Bremen; Robyn Hannigan, Arkansas State Univ

11:45 AM

234-16

Wind-enhanced tectonics in the Qaidam Basin and implications for the source of the Loess Plateau

Paul Kapp, University of Arizona; Alexander Rohrmann, University of Arizona; Jon Pelletier, University of Arizona

2008 Joint Annual Meeting (5-9 Oct. 2008): The Himalayan Orogen and Rise of the Tibetan Plateau: An Earth Systems Approach to the Tectonic and Landscape Evolution of Asia

234 The Himalayan Orogen and Rise of the Tibetan Plateau: An Earth Systems Approach to the Tectonic and Landscape Evolution of Asia