T021
Tibetan tectonics and its long-term effect on the evolution of climate, vegetation and environment

Session ID#: 158158

Session Description:
The Tibetan Plateau with a mean elevation >4 km above sea level, resulted from a series of Phanerozoic closure of ocean basins and subsequent collisions of continental blocks, and so documents geodynamic and surface processes during progressive continental convergence. The long-term evolution of the Tibetan Plateau significantly influenced Asian climate, nearby ocean physics and chemistry, and terrestrial biodiversity. This range of impacts has attracted research attention from a correspondingly broad range of disciplines, providing important new insights into prolonged and emerging debates concerning the Himalayan-Tibetan morphotectonic evolution and its impacts on the long-term evolution of climate, biodiversity, and the environment on regional to global scales. The Tibetan Plateau’s evolution is an important analog for studies of other modern and ancient orogenic plateaus globally.

 

This session aims to communicate the latest advances on this coupled tectonic, climatic and biological system, and welcomes abstract submissions on the following research topics:

  • tectonic evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen
  • elevation history of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen
  • erosional history of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen
  • climate records in and around the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen
  • Cenozoic life evolution in and around the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen
  • feedbacks among Himalayan-Tibetan tectonics, climate, erosion and biodiversity
  • comparative studies between the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and other modern or ancient orogenic plateaus
Index Terms:

8002 Continental neotectonics [STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY]
8110 Continental tectonics: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8175 Tectonics and landscape evolution [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8177 Tectonics and climatic interactions [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Primary Convener:  Yuntao Tian, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Zhuhai, China
Conveners:  Junsheng Nie, Lanzhou University, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Andrew V Zuza, University of Nevada Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, United States, Yuntao Tian, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Zhuhai, China and Guangsheng Zhuang, Yale University, New Haven, United States
 
3D Lithospheric Strength Variation Controls on Far-Field and Syntaxial Orogens: Inferences from the Himalayas and Comparison with Model Results (1055371)
Luuk van Agtmaal1, Attila Balazs2, Dave May3 and Taras Gerya2, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Numerical and Scaling Models of Erosion-driven Isostatic Flow and Diapirism in Continental Crust: Implications for the Evolution of the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis, Southern Tibet (1060408)
Wenrong Cao, University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, United States, Jiaming Yang, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, United States, Xiaoping Yuan, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China and Jianfeng Yang, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Fast Valley Landscape Change of the Jinsha River in Southeastern Tibetan Plateau and Its Implications for Late Quaternary Tectonic and Climate Roles (1060832)
An Wang1, Tuanle Wang Sr2, Ganyu Lyu1, Bingqiang Zhou2, Jie Wei1 and Yangyong Li1, (1)China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China, (2)Three Gorges Geotechnical Consultants Co., Ltd., Wuhan, China
 
Mid-Miocene initiation of strike-slip deformation in the Tian Shan, Central Asia (1076844)
Siyu Wang, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada, Ruohong Jiao, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada and Huiping Zhang, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
 
Tibetan Plateau Uplift and the Opening of the Japan Sea: Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis (CSIA) of Terrestrial Lipid n-Alkanes Preserved in Marine Sediments (1079073)
Julian Traphagan, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Guangsheng Zhuang, Louisiana State University, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
 
Evidence for Holocene Activity on the Jiali Fault, an Active Block Boundary in the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau (1080206)
Hu Wang, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
 
Multiscale buckling dominates the Cenozoic subsidence and deformation of the Qaidam Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau (1083257)
Lei Wu, Zhejiang University, School of Earth Sciences, Hangzhou, China and Xiaoyi Hu, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
 
Progressive tectonic evolution from crustal shortening to mid-lower crustal expansion in the southeast Tibetan Plateau: Insights from a synthesis of structural and thermochronological data (1083399)
Yuntao Tian and Guihong Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Zhuhai, China
 
Timing of slip across the South Tibetan detachment system andYadong-Gulu graben, Eastern Himalaya (1087593)
Hanwen Dong1, Kyle Larson2, Dawn Kellett3, Zhiqin Xu1, Guangwei Li4, Hui Cao5 and Zhiyu Yi6, (1)CAGS Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, Kelowna, BC, Canada, (3)Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (4)University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, (5)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (6)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Kinematic Evolution of the Tangra Yumco Rift, South-Central Tibet (1096839)
Aislin Reynolds, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States and Andrew K Laskowski, Montana State University, Bozeman, United States
 
Along-Strike Variation in the Initiation Timing of theNorth-Trending Rifts in Southern Tibet as Revealed From theYadong-Gulu Rift (1098667)
Shuang Bian1, Junfeng Gong2, Andrew V. Zuza3, Rong Yang4, Lin Chen5, Jianqing Ji6, Xiangjiang Yu7, Yihong Tian8, Zhiquan Yu9, Xiao-gan Cheng10, Xiubin Lin10 and Hanlin Chen10, (1)Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, (2)Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, (3)University of Nevada Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, United States, (4)Zhejiang University, School of Earth Sciences, Hangzhou, China, (5)IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (7)Jilin University, College of Earth Sciences, Changchun, China, (8)Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Institute of Geology, Beijing, China, (9)Zhejiang University, School of Earth Sciences, HangZhou, China, (10)School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
 
Sluggish Rise of the Western Gangdese Mountains after India-Eurasia Collision (1099339)
Xuanyu Liu1, Ming Tang1, Weiqiang Ji2, Wenrong Cao3 and Hao Chen1, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, United States
 
Ongoing Westward Migration of Drainage Divides in Eastern Tibet, Quantified from Topographic Analysis (1099679)
Chao Zhou1, Xibin Tan2, Yiduo Liu3, Renqi Lu1, Michael Andrew Murphy4, Honglin He1, Zhujun Han1 and Xiwei Xu5, (1)Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, (2)IMHE Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China, (3)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (4)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States, (5)National Institute of Natural Hazards, Ministry of Emergency Management of China, Beijing, China
 
The Rise of the Eastern Tibet: from Low Desert to High Forest (Invited) (1101991)
Lin Ding, Zhongyu Xiong, Songlin He, Fulong Cai, Chao Wang and Houqi Wang, State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Intense metamorphism-generated radiogenic Sr regulates Cenozoic water Sr isotope evolution on the NE Tibetan Plateau: A perspective on Qilian orogen denudation and Asian eolian transport (1103634)
Yudong Liu1, Yibo Yang1, Albert Galy2 and Xiaomin Fang3, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Université de Lorraine - CNRS, CRPG Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France, (3)CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences and Key Laboratory of Continental Collision and Plateau Uplift, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijng, China
 
Neogene Qaidam Basin dry-wet variations: a synthesis of recent progresses (1105483)
Peng Gao, Junsheng Nie, Xiaoxue Wang, Xueping Ren and Zhongbao Zhang, Lanzhou University, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China
 
Morphometic analysis of the relative tectonic activity of the Xiaojiang fault, Yunan province, China (1108149)
Dan Wang, Yi Liu and Youpu Dong, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Land and Resource Engineering, Kunming, China
 
Precipitation seasonality, climate change, and late Neogene uplift in northern Central Asia (Invited) (1120606)
Jeremy K Caves Rugenstein1, Katharina Methner2, Tyler Kukla1, Andreas Mulch3,4, Tina Luedecke5, Jens Fiebig4, Anne Meltzer6, Karl W Wegmann7, Peter K Zeitler8 and C Page Chamberlain9, (1)Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (3)Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, Germany, (4)Goethe University, Institute of Geosciences, Frankfurt (Main), Germany, (5)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Emmy Noether Group for Hominin Meat Consumption, Mainz, Germany, (6)Lehigh University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States, (7)North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, United States, (8)Lehigh University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, United States, (9)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Anomalously fast convergence of India -Eurasia at ca. 65 Ma caused by sediment subduction (1141805)
Hao Zhou1, Jiashun Hu2 and Keqing Li2, (1)Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Shezhen, China, (2)Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Shenzhen, China
 
Late Miocene, high resolution record of climate variability in the interior of Asia, Qaidam Basin, China: Implications for the influence of global cooling on Asian climate (1151093)
Carlie Mentzer1, Carmala Garzione1, Junsheng Nie2 and Qingda Su2, (1)University of Arizona, Geoscience, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Lanzhou University, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China
 
Crustal structure of the South Qilian Shan constrained by teleseismic receiver functions from short period dense array (1182579)
Xiao Guo, Gansu Earthquake Agency/ Lanzhou Institute of Seismology, CEA, Lanzhou, China
 
Latest Quaternary slip rate of the northern Lancangjiang fault zone in eastern Tibet and its tectonic implications (1192653)
Junjie Ren1, Xiwei Xu1, Yanwu Lyu2 and Kang Li1, (1)National Institute of Natural Hazards, Ministry of Emergency Management of China, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Crustal Dynamics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
 
Biomarker Based Palaeohydrology Reconstruction of the Neogene Eastern Siwalik Group: A Look into Possible Marine Influence (1197719)
Maggie Williams1, Alysha Zazubec1, Nandini Kar2, Tapan Chakraborty3, Arijit Debnath3, Suchana Taral4, Richard Smith5 and Stella Woodard5, (1)SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport, United States, (2)SUNY Brockport, Department of Earth Sciences, Brockport, NY, United States, (3)Indian Statistical Institute, Geological Studies Unit, Kolkata, India, (4)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Kharagpur, India, (5)Global Aquatic Research, Sodus, United States
See more of: Tectonophysics
<< Previous Session Proposal | Next Session Proposal >>