Building the Himalaya from tectonic to earthquake scales

L Dal Zilio, G Hetényi, J Hubbard… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Convergence of the Indian Plate towards Eurasia has led to the building of the
Himalaya, the highest mountain range on Earth. Active mountain building involves a …

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 …

Geodynamic complexity of the Indo-Burmese Arc region and its interaction with Northeast Himalaya

D Panda, B Kundu - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Indo-Burmese Arc (IBA) comprises highly populated regions of Northeast India,
Bangladesh, and Myanmar. Thus, quantitative estimation of crustal deformation, earthquake …

Mantle dynamics, isostasy, and the support of high terrain

P Molnar, PC England, CH Jones - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic topography is commonly understood to be deflection of the Earth's surface that
results from convection of the mantle. Because different authors use the words “dynamic …

Segmentation of the Himalayas as revealed by arc-parallel gravity anomalies

G Hetényi, R Cattin, T Berthet, N Le Moigne… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Lateral variations along the Himalayan arc are suggested by an increasing number of
studies and carry important information about the orogen's segmentation. Here we compile …

Shear wave crustal velocity structure in the Garhwal-Kumaon Himalaya based on noise cross-correlation of Rayleigh wave

SK Verma, N Kumar, D Hazarika, A Paul, DK Yadav… - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
The tectonics of the Garwal-Kumaon Himalaya is characterized by thrusts, tectonic windows,
and klippen. We investigate crustal shear wave velocity variations using ambient noise cross …

Late Neogene tectonically driven crustal exhumation of the Sikkim Himalaya: Insights from inversion of multithermochronologic data

KR Landry, I Coutand, DM Whipp Jr, D Grujic… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Apatite fission track and zircon (U‐Th)/He data are reported for 34 bedrock samples
distributed between the foothills and the topographic crest of the Darjeeling‐Sikkim …

Imaging the Moho and the Main Himalayan Thrust in Western Nepal with receiver functions

S Subedi, G Hetényi, J Vergne… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The crustal structure of Western Nepal is studied for the first time by performing receiver
function analysis on teleseismic waveforms recorded at 16 seismic stations. The Moho …

Estimation of active surface deformation using PSInSAR technique of the Central Himalayan region

GC Kothyari, RK Dumka, K Luirei… - Geocarto …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Kumaun Himalaya is considered as the most active part of the Central Seismic
gap in the Indian Sub-continent. In this paper, we presented active surface deformation rates …

Along‐strike variations in the H imalayan orogenic wedge structure in B hutan from ambient seismic noise tomography

J Singer, A Obermann, E Kissling… - Geochemistry …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The geological units and tectonic structure exposed in the Bhutan Himalaya document
significant regional variations, expressed primarily as tectonic windows and klippen. The …