Session: Plenary: Regional-Scale Processes: Plate Boundary Evolution and Deformation in Convergent Settings: The Alpine-Himalayan Collision Zone (FRAGILE EARTH: Geological Processes from Global to Local Scales and Associated Hazards (4-7 September 2011))

Session No. 17

Tuesday, 6 September 2011: 08:30-10:40

E 120 (Grosse Aula) (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

P2. Plenary: Regional-Scale Processes: Plate Boundary Evolution and Deformation in Convergent Settings: The Alpine-Himalayan Collision Zone

LMU Fragile Earth Fund; German Science Foundation (DFG)

Mark Handy and B. Clark Burchfiel, Conveners

Paper #

Start Time

08:30

Introductory Remarks

08:35

ARCHITECTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE ALPINE-MEDITERRANEAN COLLISION ZONE

SCHMID, Stefan M., Institut für Geophysik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Sonneggstrasse 5, Zürich, CH-8092, Switzerland, stefan.schmid@unibas.ch, stefan.schmid@unibas.ch

09:15

A TOMOGRAPHIC VIEW ON SUBDUCTION DYNAMICS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN-TETHYAN REALM

SPAKMAN, Wim, Mantle Dynamics, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, Utrecht, 3584 CD, Netherlands, wims@geo.uu.nl, wims@geo.uu.nl

09:55

ON THE ROLE OF UPPER MANTLE FLOW IN THE ALPINE-HIMALAYAN COLLISION

BECKER, Thorsten W., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Zumberge Hall 117, Los Angeles, CA 90089-074 and FACCENNA, Claudio, Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Università Roma Tre, Largo San Leonardo Murialdo 1, Roma, 00146, Italy, twb@usc.edu, twb@usc.edu

10:35

Discussion

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