Himalayan earthquakes: a review of historical seismicity and early 21st century slip potential

R Bilham - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
This article summarizes recent advances in our knowledge of the past 1000 years of
earthquakes in the Himalaya using geodetic, historical and seismological data, and …

[PDF][PDF] Mesozoic–Cenozoic geological evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and working tectonic hypotheses

P Kapp, PG DeCelles - American Journal of Science, 2019 - ajsonline.org
The Himalayan-Tibetan orogen culminated during the Cenozoic India--Asia collision, but its
geological framework and initial growth were fundamentally the result of multiple, previous …

The geologic interpretation of the detrital thermochronology record within a stratigraphic framework, with examples from the European Alps, Taiwan and the Himalayas

MG Malusà, PG Fitzgerald - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Detrital thermochronology studies based on the lag-time approach are increasingly
employed to investigate the erosional evolution of mountain belts and perform paleotectonic …

Interseismic coupling on the main Himalayan thrust

VL Stevens, JP Avouac - Geophysical Research Letters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We determine the slip rate and pattern of interseismic coupling on the Main Himalayan
Thrust along the entire Himalayan arc based on a compilation of geodetic, interferometric …

Testing models of Tibetan Plateau formation with Cenozoic shortening estimates across the Qilian Shan–Nan Shan thrust belt

AV Zuza, X Cheng, A Yin - Geosphere, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Competing models that account for the construction of the Tibetan Plateau include
continental subduction, underthrusting, distributed shortening, channel flow, and older …

Estimating the return times of great Himalayan earthquakes in eastern Nepal: Evidence from the Patu and Bardibas strands of the Main Frontal Thrust

L Bollinger, SN Sapkota, P Tapponnier… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The return times of large Himalayan earthquakes are poorly constrained. Despite historical
devastation of cities along the mountain range, definitive links between events and specific …

Clockwise rotation of the Brahmaputra Valley relative to India: Tectonic convergence in the eastern Himalaya, Naga Hills, and Shillong Plateau

P Vernant, R Bilham, W Szeliga… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
GPS data reveal that the Brahmaputra Valley has broken from the Indian Plate and rotates
clockwise relative to India about a point a few hundred kilometers west of the Shillong …

Present-day velocity field and block kinematics of Tibetan Plateau from GPS measurements

W Wang, X Qiao, S Yang, D Wang - Geophysical Journal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In this study, we present a new synthesis of GPS velocities for tectonic deformation within the
Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas, a combined data set of∼ 1854 GPS-derived …

[HTML][HTML] Underthrusting and duplexing beneath the northern Tibetan Plateau and the evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen

AV Zuza, C Wu, Z Wang, DA Levy, B Li… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Cenozoic Qilian Shan thrust belt is the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau,
which developed in part due to progressive India-Asia convergence during Himalayan …

Synthesis of the tectonic and structural elements of the Bengal Basin and its surroundings

MS Hossain, MSH Khan, KR Chowdhury… - Tectonics and structural …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The Bengal Basin is a collisional foreland basin in South Asia located at the
juncture of the Eurasian, Indian and Burmese Plates occupying Bangladesh and parts of the …