Quaternary History and Evolution of the Western Nepal Fault System; Splay Fault Maturity in an Active Fold and Thrust Belt

Andrew KR Hoxey1, Michael H Taylor2, Michael Andrew Murphy3, Sean P Bemis4, Richard Styron5, Elizabeth Rose Curtiss6, Michael Daniel3, Suoya Fan3, Deepak Chamlagain7, Manoj Kafle8, Basanta Raj Adhikari9, John C Gosse10 and Tammy M Rittenour11, (1)University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, United States, (3)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States, (4)University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States, (5)Global Earthquake Model Foundation, Pavia, Italy, (6)University of Oregon, Eugene, United States, (7)Tribhuvan University, Department of Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (8)Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (9)Sichuan University, Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Chengdu, China, (10)Dalhousie Univ, Halifax, NS, Canada, (11)Utah State University, Department of Geosciences, Logan, UT, United States