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T1 - Timing and mechanism of the rise of the Shillong Plateau in the Himalayan foreland.
AU - Govin, Gwladys
AU - Najman, Yanina Manya Rachel
AU - Copley, Alex
AU - Millar, Ian
AU - Van der Beek, Peter
AU - Huyghe, Pascale
AU - Grujic, Djordje
AU - Davenport, Jesse
PY - 2018/1/24
Y1 - 2018/1/24
N2 - The Shillong Plateau (northeastern India) constitutes the only significant topography in the Himalayan foreland. Knowledge of its surface uplift history is key to understanding topographic development and unraveling tectonic–climate–topographic coupling in the eastern Himalaya. We use the sedimentary record of the Himalayan foreland basin north of the Shillong Plateau to show that the paleo-Brahmaputra river was redirected north and west by the rising plateau at 5.2–4.9 Ma. We suggest that onset of plateau uplift is a result of increased fault-slip rates in response to stresses caused by the Indian lithosphere bending beneath the Himalaya.
AB - The Shillong Plateau (northeastern India) constitutes the only significant topography in the Himalayan foreland. Knowledge of its surface uplift history is key to understanding topographic development and unraveling tectonic–climate–topographic coupling in the eastern Himalaya. We use the sedimentary record of the Himalayan foreland basin north of the Shillong Plateau to show that the paleo-Brahmaputra river was redirected north and west by the rising plateau at 5.2–4.9 Ma. We suggest that onset of plateau uplift is a result of increased fault-slip rates in response to stresses caused by the Indian lithosphere bending beneath the Himalaya.
U2 - 10.1130/G39864.1
DO - 10.1130/G39864.1
M3 - Journal article
VL - 46
SP - 279
EP - 282
JO - Geology
JF - Geology
SN - 0091-7613
IS - 3
ER -