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DOI	10.1130/B35528.1
	Three-Dimensional Strain Accumulation and Partitioning in an Arcuate Orogenic Wedge: an Example from the Himalaya
	Fan S.; Murphy M.A.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	167606
起始页码	3
结束页码	18
卷号	133
英文摘要	In this study, we use published geologic maps and cross-sections to construct a threedimensional geologic model of major shear zones that make up the Himalayan orogenic wedge. The model incorporates microseismicity, megathrust coupling, and various derivatives of the topography to address several questions regarding observed crustal strain patterns and how they are expressed in the landscape. These questions include: (1) How does vertical thickening vary along strike of the orogen? (2) What is the role of oblique convergence in contributing to along-strike thickness variations and the style of deformation? (3) How do variations in the coupling along the megathrust affect the overlying structural style? (4) Do lateral ramps exist along the megathrust? (5) What structural styles underlie and are possibly responsible for the generation of high-elevation, lowrelief landscapes? Our model shows that the orogenic core of the western and central Himalaya displays significant along-strike variation in its thickness, from ∼25–26 km in the western Himalaya to ∼34–42 km in the central Himalaya. The thickness of the orogenic core changes abruptly across the western bounding shear zone of the Gurla Mandhata metamorphic core complex, demonstrating a change in the style of strain there. Pressuretemperature- time results indicate that the thickness of the orogenic core at 37 Ma is 17 km. Assuming this is constant along strike from 81°E to 85°E indicates that, the western and central Nepal Himalaya have been thickened by 0.5 and 1–1.5 times, respectively. West of Gurla Mandhata the orogenic core is significantly thinner and underlies a large 11,000 km2 Neogene basin (Zhada). A broad, thick orogenic core associated with thrust duplexing is collocated with an 8500 km2 high-elevation, low-relief surface in the Mugu-Dolpa region of west Nepal. We propose that these results can be explained by oblique convergence along a megathrust with an along-strike and down-dip heterogeneous coupling pattern influenced by frontal and oblique ramps along the megathrust. © 2020 Geological Society of America
语种	英语
来源期刊	Bulletin of the Geological Society of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/184801
作者单位	Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fan S.,Murphy M.A.. Three-Dimensional Strain Accumulation and Partitioning in an Arcuate Orogenic Wedge: an Example from the Himalaya[J],2020,133.
APA	Fan S.,&Murphy M.A..(2020).Three-Dimensional Strain Accumulation and Partitioning in an Arcuate Orogenic Wedge: an Example from the Himalaya.Bulletin of the Geological Society of America,133.
MLA	Fan S.,et al."Three-Dimensional Strain Accumulation and Partitioning in an Arcuate Orogenic Wedge: an Example from the Himalaya".Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 133(2020).