| Session Details | |
| Section | SE - Solid Earth Sciences |
| Session Title | From Escape to Subduction: the Tectonics of Indochina |
| Main Convener | Dr. Raymond Russo (University of Florida, United States) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Shengji Wei (Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore) Prof. Victor Mocanu (University of Bucharest, Romania) Dr. Sutatcha Hongsresawat (Mahidol University, Thailand) Dr. Jonathan Aitcheson (University of Queensland, Australia) |
| Session Description | The Indochina peninsula's unique Cenozoic tectonic history affords an opportunity to understand the transition from processes facilitating tectonic escape to those clearly related to lithospheric subduction. The spatial and temporal evolution of these processes, in the context of a Cenozoic India-Asia collision, link in 'microcosm' many aspects of the Wilson cycle, including continent-continent collision and orogeny, terrane mobilization and translation, oceanic or marginal basin development, and onset of subduction. Viewed more broadly, active tectonic escape also results in significant seismic, volcanic, and mass wasting hazards in densely populated Indochina, and the India-Asia collision has thickened the crust to form the high Himalayan mountain ranges and the Tibetan Plateau, which play a significant role in the Indian monsoon, thus impacting global climate. We invite contributions from all relevant disciplines, and observations and analyses spanning from Earth's surface to the mesosphere, deriving from seismology (seismicity, seismic imaging, attenuation and anisotropy), tectonics (geodesy, structural geology, stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, petrology, geochronology, geochemistry), fluvial and basin development and dynamics, geomorphology and landscape development, and numerical or analogue modelling. |