David A. Spencer - Conferences: Organiser "10th HKT Workshop"

Conferences

Organiser

"10th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop"

Title:
10th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop
including a Special Session on the "Geological processes related to uplift, exhumation and elevation of the Himalaya, Karakoram and Tibet"

Location:
Centro Stefano Franscini (The ETH Conference Center), Monte Verità, Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland

Dates:
4-8 April, 1995

Organisers:
David A. Spencer, Jean-Pierre Burg and Cinzia Spencer-Cervato (ETH-Zürich, Switzerland and University of Maine, USA)

Organisation:
Publication of 1st Circular, 2nd Circular, 3rd Circular, Travel Information, Abstract Volume, Conference folders and Sponsors report, Workshop Reports

Arranged programme for Special sessions, Lecture sessions, poster session, video sessions, public lecture, field trips, meetings etc.

Made decisions on 65 applications for the Travel Award.

144 participants from 17 countries.

Arranged for the advertising of the 10th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop in:

Bulletin (ETH-Zürich), Earth, EOS, Episodes, ETH Jahresbericht, Fachinformationszentrum Karlstuhe, Geo Info, Geochronique, Geoscientist, Geotimes, GSA Today, Himal, Himalayan Notes, HimNet, Himalayan Research Bulletin, Newsletter of the International Association of Structural and Tectonic Geologists - Journal of Structural Geology, Journal of the Geological Society of India, Pakistan News Service, Pakistan Journal of Geology, Physics Today, SEASME - Newsletter of the Scientific Exploration Society, Structural Geology and Tectonics Division Newsletter, Terra Nova, Weiterbilding an der ETH-Zürich.

10th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop Programme: Tuesday 4 April, 1995

Opening Session
Chairperson: D.A. Spencer

Welcome by the Mayor of Ascona

Opening Lecture
Chairperson: J.G. Ramsay

Sixty years of Himalayan Geology

A. Gansser

An appreciation of Augusto Gansser

J.G. Ramsay

Wednesday 5 April, 1995:
Special Session (I): Geological processes related to uplift, exhumation and elevation of the Himalaya, Karakoram and Tibet
Chairperson: J. Wheeler

Patterns in the uplift-denudation history of the Himalaya
R.B. Sorkhabi

Evidence for a very Latest Cretaceous to Paleocene collision between NW India and Asia: Paleogeographic, isotopic and climatic implications
R.A. Beck, D.W. Burbank and W.J. Sercombe

Tectonic transport of heat and melt within the High Himalayan Crystallines of Bhutan
L. Hollister, R. Kundig, S. Schmid, D. Grujic, T. Pavlis and C. Davidson

Geochronological and geochemical data from sediments of the Tarim Basin (Northwest China). Characterisation and quantification of the KunLun uplift (Northern Tibet), from Miocene to Present
C. Mock and N. Arnaud

Himalayan erosion and rate of exhumation during the Early Miocene deduced from Bengal Fan turbidites
A. Galy, C. France-Lanord and L.A. Derry

How flat is Tibet?
E.J. Fielding, B.L. Isacks, M. Barazangi and C.C. Duncan

Special Session (II) Geological processes related to uplift, exhumation and elevation of the Himalaya, Karakoram and Tibet
Chairperson: J.-P. Burg

Some Basic Questions in Continental Tectonics Posed by the Himalaya-Tibet Region.
P. Molnar

Late Tertiary-Quaternary dynamics of the Tibetan Plateau
P. England

Process and mechanism of the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau
Li Tingdong

Initial results of INDEPTH II (1994) deep crustal profiling in Southern Tibet
K. D. Nelson, L. D. Brown, M. L. Hauck, D. Alsdorf, M. Clark, M. Cogan, C. Wu, Y. Makovsky, S. Klemperer, W. S. F. Kidd, M. Edwards, J. Ni, E. A. Sandvol, R. Kind, J. Nabelek, J. Mechie, H. Steentoft, F. Wenzel, R. Meissner, J. T. Kuo and W. Zhao

Lecture Session (I) Tectonics and Paleoclimate
Chairperson: P. Molnar

Tibet - The Ice Mother (BBC-Horizon programme: 60 minutes)

Uplift and chemical weathering in south-central Asia. The carbon cycle and Cenozoic climate
K. Caldeira and D.M. Kerrick

Himalaya-Karakoram CO2 degassing and Cenozoic paleoclimate: revisited
D.M. Kerrick and K. Caldeira

Lecture Session (II) Southern Tibet
Chairperson: P. England

Tectonic evolution and uplift of the Himalaya-Tibet Plateau
Xiao XuChang

Magmatism in SW Tibet
C. Miller, W. Frank, V. Mair, F. Purtscheller and R. Schuster

Off-line Wide-angle Seismic Recordings Observed during the INDEPTH II Project, Tibet
J. Mechie, F. Wenzel, R. Meissner, H. Steentoft, S. Husen, H.-J. Brauner, F. Han, W. Frisch, S.-F. Hauff, W. Zhao, J. Guo, D. Jiang

The history of crustal thickening in Southern Tibet as revealed by 40Ar/39Ar thermochronometry
T.M. Harrison, A. Yin, F.J. Ryerson, S. Nie and C. Wenji

Lecture Session (III) Tibetan Plateau and surrounding regions
Chairperson: E. Fielding

Cenozoic deformation, rotation and stress patterns in Eastern Tibet and western Sichuan
L. Ratschbacher, W. Frisch, C. Chen and G. Pan

Neotectonics in the Eastern Pamirs, Tadzhikistan and Kyrgzstan
M.R. Strecker, W. Frisch, M.W. Hamburger, L.Ratschbacher, S. Semiletkin, N. Sturchio and A. Zamoruyev

Some remarks on the uplift mechanism of the Tibetan Plateau
S. Zhou

Discussion Meeting (I) Tibet - Mechanisms and consequences of plateau uplift
P. Molnar, E. Fielding and K. Caldeira

Public Lecture
Chairperson: C. Spencer-Cervato

Nepal - Climbing, Trekking and Living
Wolfgang Nairz

Thursday 6 April, 1995:
Lecture Session (IV) Himalayas of Pakistan and India (I)
Chairperson: M.N. Chaudhry

Multistage structural evolution of Northern Karakoram (Pakistan)
A. Zanchi and D. Gritti

Back-arc basin assemblages in Kohistan, Himalaya, North Pakistan
T. Khan, M. Asif Khan and M.Q. Jan

Early-Miocene-aged northward extension along the Main Mantle Thrust, Northwest Himalaya, Pakistan
K.J. Vince and P.J. Treloar

Simultaneous thrusting, normal faulting and leucogranite emplacement along the Higher Himalaya of Nanga Parbat, Zanskar, Garhwal and Nepal-South Tibet
M.P. Searle

Structural and metamorphic evolution of the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis: the importance of Pre-Himalayan events
J. Wheeler, P.J. Treloar and G.J. Potts

Anatexis of the Nanga Parbat Massif, Northern Pakistan
A. Whittington and N. Harris

Experimental constraints on the petrogenesis of the High Himalayan leucogranites
B. Scaillet, M. Pichavant and F. Holtz

Denudation of Nanga Parbat Himalaya, Pakistan
J.F. Shroder and M.P. Bishop

Lecture Session (V) Himalayas of Pakistan and India (II)
Chairperson: P.J. Treloar

A geologic reconnaissance of the Indus Syntaxis, Northern Pakistan
K.R. Pogue, P.B. Sak and W.U. Khattak

Higher Himalaya of Pakistan - A tectonostratigraphic review
M.N. Chaudhry, M. Ghazanfar, D.A. Spencer, S.S. Hussain and H. Dawood

The geological character and problems of Lesser Himalaya in NE Pakistan
M. Ghazanfar, M.N. Chaudhry and D.A. Spencer

The Tso Morari Dome - Its relation to adjoining zones
G. Fuchs

Cooling and exhumation history of the Higher and Lesser Himalayas, NW-India
B. Grasemann, W. Frank and C. Miller

Structures and metamorphism of the crystalline nappe of the High Himalaya (Kulu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India)
A. Steck, J.-L. Epard, J.-C. Vannay and J. Hunziker

Poster Session Lecture Introductions
Chairpersons: C. Spencer-Cervato and D.A. Spencer

Poster Session Discussion

Lecture Session (VI) The Main Central Thrust
Chairperson: K. Hodges

Deformation in the Chamba Nappe and Main Central Thrust in Kashmir Himalaya
V.C. Thakur and P. Rautela

Along-strike variations in the tectonic evolution of the Main Central Thrust and associated rocks, Jumla area, Western Nepal
A.M. Macfarlane and B.N. Upreti

Active state of stress in MCT (Himalayan Collision Zone, Bhagirathi Valley, Garhwal Himalayas, India
A. Sahai

Field observations from the Main Central Thrust and Higher Himalaya, Kishtwar and Kulu windows, NW India
B. Stephenson

Discussion Meeting (II) 20 Years of MCT Models - Which ones work?
P. Le Fort, P. England and A. Macfarlane

General Discussion Meeting Himalayan Notes and HimNet
Chairpersons: R. Sorkhabi / D.A. Spencer

Poster Session Discussion

Friday 7 April, 1995:
Lecture Session (VII) Central and Eastern Himalaya (I)
Chairperson: L. Hollister

Tectonics and genesis aspects of sedimentation in the passive margin, trench, fore-arc and back-arc areas of Indus-Tsangpo suture collision zone of Ladakh and Karakoram sector of Indian Himalaya
A.K. Sinha and R. Upadhyay

A new discovery of eclogites from the Himalaya, Tso Morari dome unit (Northeastern India)
S. Guillot, G. Mascle, J.-M. Lardeaux, M. Colchen and J. de Bernardy

Accelarating uplift since the Miocene and tectonics of the Nepal Himalayas
K. Arita, Y. Ganzawa and Y. Ohta

Geometric and geochronologic constraints on Miocene deformation in west-central Nepal Himalaya
M.E. Coleman

Structural evolution of the Annapurna Sanctuary Region, Central Nepal
K.V. Hodges, R.R. Parrish and M.P. Searle

The High Himalayan Crystallines of the Kama and Kharta Valleys, Eastern Chomolungma region, Tibet. A preliminary report
B. Lombardo, F. Colombo, D. Visonà, C. Zanteschi and P. Zanteschi

A mineralogical record of exhumation in the Tibetan Slab of the Eastern Chomolungma region (southern Tibet)
A. Borghi and B. Lombardo

Quartz fabrics across the Tibetan Slab of Bhutan: inverted metamorphism, leucogranites and Main Central Thrust
D. Grujic, L. Hollister, R. Kundig, T. Pavlis and S. Schmid

Lecture Session (VIII) Central and Eastern Himalaya (II)
Chairperson: A.K. Sinha

Late Permian and Early Triassic carbon isotope and sequence stratigraphy of the Northern Indian Margin
V. Atudorei, A. Baud and Z.D. Sharp

The sedimentary succession of the southern Tibet Tethys Himalaya - initial report and preliminary comparisons with Central Nepal - Part 1: Paleozoic
E. Garzanti, D. Sciunnach, and F. Berra with contributions by. L. Angiolini, M. Balini and A. Nicora

The sedimentary succession of the southern Tibet Tethys Himalaya - initial report and preliminary comparisons with Central Nepal and Northern India (Part 2): Mesozoic
F. Jadoul, F. Berra, E. Garzanti and D. Sciunnach with contributions by M. Balini and E. Erba

Placer Gold occurrences in the major rivers of Nepal Himalaya and their possible primary sources
K.P. Kaphle, P.R. Joshi and H.R. Khan

Mineral chemistry of metapelites and metabasites in relation to P-T-t paths of Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya
C.S. Dubey

Exhumation rates in the Namche Barwa Syntaxis (Eastern Himalaya)
P. Nievergelt, J.-P. Burg, F. Oberli, P. Davy, Z. Diao, M. Meier

Tour of Ascona

Committee Meeting Tectonic Map of the Himalaya (ILP)
Chairperson: V.C. Thakur

Poster Session Discussion

Lecture Session (IX) Asian Tectonics
Chairperson: Xiao XuChang

Cenozoic deformation and uplift history of the Tian Shan and Altyn Tagh regions, Central Asia
A. Yin, N. Shangyou, T.M. Harrison, P. Craig and F.J. Ryerson

Thermochronological evidence for diachronous initiation of transtension along the Ailao Shan-Red River Shear Zone
F.J. Ryerson, T.M. Harrison, P.H. Leloup, P. Tapponnier and C. Wenji

Strain localization in time and space during the India-Asia collision: Evidences for diachronic and polyphased extrusion and shortening events
R. Lacassin, P. Tapponnier and P.H. Leloup

Timing of Cenozoic exhumation of the margins of the Tarim Basin, Northwest China
E. Sobel and T.A. Dumitru

Lecture Session (X) Applications and problems of geochronology in the Himalayas
Chairperson: A. Yin

Limitations to applications of U-Pb geochronology in the Himalaya
R.R. Parrish, K.V. Hodges and M. Coleman

A users's (?) guide to determining (??) uplift (???) rates
I.M. Villa

P-T-t paths and the relationship between collision, deformation and metamorphism in the NW Himalaya
P.J. Treloar

Discussion Meeting (III) The timing of the Indian-Eurasian collision: Evidences and their contradictions
M. Searle, D. Kerrick and R. Beck

Closing Session / General Discussion / AGM
Chairperson: V.C. Thakur and P. Le Fort

Saturday 8 April, 1995:
Field Trip Insubric Line
N. Mancktelow

Posters

Geochemistry and tectonic significance of the basic volcanic units of the Zildat Ophiolitic Melange, Indus Tsangpo Suture Zone, Eastern Ladakh, India
T. Ahmad, R. Islam and P.P. Khanna

Geochemical characteristics and tectonic significance of the mafic magmatic rocks from Garhwal Lesser Himalaya and Central Crystalline, NW Himalaya
T. Ahmad and P.K. Mukherji

Emplacement and subsequent tectonic history of the Indus Suture in the Mingora-Shang La-Malam Jabba area (NW Himalaya, Pakistan)
R. Anczkiewicz, D.A.Spencer, S.S. Hussain, H. Dawood, M.N. Chaudhry and M. Ghazanfar

Permian brachiopods from Karakorum
L. Angiolini

Syringothyris Lidekkeri (Diener, 1899): A marker for mid-Carboniferous of the Himalaya
L. Angiolini and A. Tintori

Petrology and Geochemistry of the Panjal Volcanics of the Northwest Himalaya in Pakistan
M.N. Chaudhry, J.N. Walsh, M.S. Khan and M. Ghazanfar

Gravity sliding by rigid translation between bedrock and alluvial deposits in the western part of the Thakkhola Mustang Graben, Nepal Himalaya
M. Colchen and M. Fort

Lhotse and Makalu revisited: new data on the HT-LP metamorphism at the top of the Tibetan Slab
F. Colombo, B. Lombardo and (the late) U. Pognante

Intrusion of leucogranite into the High Himalayas of Bhutan during penetrative deformation: evidence and consequences
C. Davidson, S. Schmid, T. Pavlis, D. Grujic, R. Kundig and L. Hollister

Cretaceous alkaline granitoids in the Karakorum axial batholith (Karambar Valley, N. Pakistan)
F. Debon and N.A. Khan

To what extent are the Baikal rift system and the Cenozoic depressions of Gorno-Altai (South-Siberia) related to the India-Eurasia collision?
D. Delvaux, N. Dobretsov, N. Berzin, V. San'kov and A. Miroshnichenko

Preliminary geologic map of the Indus Syntaxis, Pakistan
J.A. DiPietro, M.S. Baig, K.R. Pogue, A. Hussain and I. Ahmad

Influence of the Khula Kangri Pluton on the evolution of the Southern Tibet Detachment System (STDS); New data from Gonto La
M. A. Edwards, J. Li, M. Clark and W. S. F. Kidd

Tree-rings from the upper timberline in the Karakorum as climatic indicators for the last 1000 years
J. Esper, A. Bosshard, F.H. Schweingruber and M. Winiger

Geomorphic responses to rapid denudation rates in the NW Himalaya and Karakoram
E.J. Fielding, D.W. Burbank, J. Leland, C.C. Duncan and B.L. Isacks

Geodynamic evolution of the Thakkhola Mustang Graben during the Late Cenozoic
M. Fort and M. Colchen

Ar/Ar ages of detrital micas and paleographic provenance of Proterozoic clastic sediments in the Himalaya
W. Frank, Ch. Miller and B. Grasemann

The Karakorum Block from Ordovician to Early Cretaceous
M. Gaetani

Olistoliths, olistostromes and diamictites in the Lower Carboniferous of the southern Tibet Tethys Himalaya: climatic and tectonic significance
E. Garzanti and D. Sciunnach with contributions by M. Balini, F. Berra and A. Nicora

First report of Mid-Permian basaltic lavas in southern Tibet (Gyirong County): implications on rifting history of Neo-Tethys
E. Garzanti, P. Le Fort and D. Sciunnach with contributions by L. Angiolini

Implications of Rb-Sr mica ages from the Northwestern Flank of the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh Massif
M.T. George

Nature of base metal sulphide mineralisation in the Chamri area, Lesser Himalaya, India
H. Ghildiyal, R. Kumar and L.N. Gupta

Depositional environmane, provenance and tectonic framework of the Upper Tertiary sandstones of the Arunachal Himalaya, India
I.M. Hazarika and P.K. Das

Green garnet (Tsavorite) mineralisation in Higher Himalayan Basement rocks of Northwest Himalaya, Pakistan,
S.S. Hussain, H. Dawood and M.N. Chaudhry

Morphological activity at the Tsergo Ri Landslide area and the surrounding area at the Upper Langthang Valley/Central Nepal
H.J. Ibetsberger

Three dimensional structural geometry and imprints of Quaternary transpression in the Sulaiman Foreland, Pakistan
I.A.K. Jadoon, D. Helmcke, M. Humayon, A. Waheed, J. Khan and W. Ahmed

Age of metamorphism of the Kathmandu Complex, Nepal
M.R.W. Johnson and G. Rogers

The scar of the Shyok suture between Kohistan-Ladakh and Karakorum from Hunza to Baltistan
P. Le Fort and A. Pêcher

Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Central Karakorum (Baltistan - Northern Pakistan)
Y. Lemennicier, P. Le Fort, B. Lombardo, A. Pêcher and F. Rolfo

Wide-angle recording in conjunction with Project INDEPTH: velocity structure of Southern Tibet
Y. Makovsky and S. Klemperer

Late Permian to Late Triassic evolution of the northern Indian continental Margin
J. Marcoux and A. Baud

New markers for the Proterozoic tectono-metamorphic history of the Arunachal Lesser Himalaya
Rao S. Punati, R. Frei and J.D. Kramers

Geology of the Xungba-Kailas-Manasarovar-Burang Transect, SW-Tibet
F. Purtscheller, W. Frank, V. Mair, Ch. Miller and R. Schuster

Evolution of the Pleistocene Madhupur Tract, Bengal Basin
M.H. Rashid, M.M. Salahuddin and M. Hoque

Metamorphic evolution of the NE Nanga Parbat-Haramosh massif and of the Ladakh terrain in the Chogo Lungma-Turmik area (Northern Pakistan)
F. Rolfo, E. Compagnoni, P. Le Fort, Y. Lemennicier, B. Lombardo and A. Pêcher

Extensional asymetric structures from main Central Thrust Zone of compressional tectonic regime, Garhwal Himalayas, India
A. Sahai and H.B. Srivastava

Palynostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the Sabathu Formation (Eocene) of Lesser Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, India
S. Sarkar

The Upper Maastrichtian Jidula sandstone of south-Tibet (facies, sedimentology, Petrology)
J. Schaller

Structural patterns and economic prospects of Hindukush
D. Shah and R.K. Avasia

Evolution and uplift of the Hindukush - a precursor to the Himalayan orogeny
D. Shah and R.K. Avasia

Vegetation and climate diring Quaternary period in western Himalaya
C. Sharma

Rapid 2-Ma denudation of the Gangotri granite, Higher Garhwal Himalaya: an apatite fission track record
R.B. Sorkhabi, E. Stump and A.K. Jain

Structures and metamorphism of the crystalline nappe of the High Himalaya (Kulu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India)
A. Steck, J.-L. Epard, J.-C. Vannay and J. Hunziker

Gedepth - wide angle observation in southern Tibet
H. Steentoft, H. Brauner, W. Frisch, J. Guo, F. Han, S. Hauff, S. Husen, D. Jiang, M. Kola-Ojo, J. Mechie, R. Meissner, W. Rabbel, F. Wenzel, X. Yuan and W. Zhao

Geotransect across NW Himalaya
V.C. Thakur

Short time scale events: are they the key signature of early stages of orogenesis? A framework for discussion
P.J. Treloar

A re-evaluation of the stratigraphy and early evolution of the Kohistan Arc Sequence: implications for magmatic and tectonic arc building processes
P.J. Treloar, M.G. Petterson, M.Q. Jan and S.M. Bignold

Geochronology of the Indus Gorge and Astor Valley sections through the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis: constraints on uplift history
P.J. Treloar, J. Wheeler, G.J. Potts, D.C. Rex and A.J. Hurford

Polycyclic deformation, metamorphism and melting within the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis, Pakistan Himalaya: from whence come the Neogene leucogranites
P.J. Treloar, J. Wheeler and G.J. Potts

Remote sensing applications in High Mountain areas
G. Waich

Structural evolution of the High Himalayan Slab in northern Kulu and southern Lahul
J.D. Walker

Growth of Imja Glacier Lake in the 1990s, Khumbu Himal, Nepal
T. Watanabe, S. Kameyama and T. Sato

Metamorphic profiles across the High Himalaya in western Zanskar, India
D.J. Waters, M.P. Searle, M.W. Dransfield, D.C. Rex and B. Stephenson

The thermal evolution of Nanga Parbat, Northern Pakistan
A. Whittington

Disseminated sulfidic ore mineralisation at Yala Peak (Langthang Himal, Nepal) - an assisting factor for the Tsergo Ri landslide event?
J.T. Weidinger, J.-M. Schramm and R. Surenian

Provenance, alkali aggregate reaction (A.A.R.) and inservice behaviour of N.W. Himalayan Gravels and sands in cement concrete at Terbala and Warsak Dams, Pakistan
K.J. Zaka and M.N. Chaudhry

Video Programme

Tibet - The Ice Mother (BBC: Horizon - 60 minutes - 1994)

Tibet, Where Continents Collide. Part 1. South Tibet and the Yarlung Suture (Society of Sedimentary Geology - 46 minutes - 1989)

Tibet: Geography - People - Geology (U. Briegel, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland - 97 minutes - 1993)

Oxford University Zanskar Gorge Winter Expedition (1995) (M. Searle, University of Oxford, England - 60 minutes - 1995)

Karakorum Geotraverse (Open University, England - 44 Minutes - 1991)

The Building of Nanga Parbat (Open University, England - 27 Minutes - 1991)

Mountain Building in the Western Himalaya (Open University, England - 25 Minutes - 1991)

Did Tibet cool the Earth? (Open University, England - 24 Minutes - 1995)

The Professor's new clothes: Documentary on V.J. Gupta (Film Australia, Australia - 52 Minutes - 1991)

Articles published about the 10th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop:

Spencer, D.A., 1994. 10 Himalaja-Karakorum-Tibet Workshop. Bulletin Magazin der Eidgenössicshen Technischen Hochschule Zürich (Thema: Dritte Welt), No. 255, p. 70.

Kopp, C., 1995. Geologie-Workshop in Ascona. Die Alpen, No. 6 (Juni), p. 276-277. (In German)

Kopp, C., 1995. Ascona: atelier de geologie. Die Alpen, No. 6 (Juni), p. 276-277. (In French)

Sorkhabi, R.B., 1995. 10th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, Ascona, Switzerland, 3-8 April, 1995. Episodes, Vol. 18., No. 3, p. 118-120.

Sorkhabi, R.B., 1995. 10th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, Ascona, Switzerland, 1995 - Conference Report. Current Science, Vol. 69, No. 6, p. 489-490.

Spencer, D.A., 1995. Conference Report on 10th Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, 4-8 April, 1995, Ascona, Switzerland. Geo Info, No. 9, p. 10-12.
Spencer, D.A., 1995. 10th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop. Sponsor Report, pp. 30.

Spencer, D.A., 1995. 10th Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, 4-8 April, 1995, Ascona, Switzerland. Schlussrapport für den Rechenschaftsbericht des Centro Stefano Franscini, Schulleitung der ETH-Zürich, des wissenschaftlichen Beirates des CSF und des Schweizerische Nationalfonds, pp. 30.

Spencer, D.A., 1995. 10th Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, 4-8 April, 1995, Ascona, Switzerland. Terra Nova, Vol. 7, No. 6, p. 563-568.

Spencer, D.A., 1995. Conference Report - 10th Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, 4-8 April, 1995, Ascona, Switzerland. Himalayan Notes, No. 6, p. 13-17.

Spencer, D.A. and Hussain, S., 1996. Conference Reports - 10th Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, 4-8 April, 1995, Ascona, Switzerland. Geoscience and Development, No. 3, p. 31-32.

Papers published from the 10th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop:

Xiao, X.C., and Li, T.D., 1995. Tectonic evolution and uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Episodes, No. 18: 1-2, p. 31-35.

Khan, T.A., Khan, M.A., Jan, M.Q., Naseem, M., 1996. Back-arc basin assemblages in Kohistan, Northern Pakistan. Geodinamica Acta, Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 30-40.

Baud, A., Atudorei, V. and Sharp Z. 1996. Late Permian and early Triassic evolution of the Northern Indian margin: Carbon isotope and sequence stratigraphy. Geodinamica Acta, Vol. 9, No. 2-3, p. 57-77.

Garzanti, E., Angiolini, L. and Sciunnach, D. 1996. The mid-carboniferous to lowermost Permian succession of Spiti (Po Group and Ganmachidam Formation; Tethys Himalaya, Northern India): Gondwana glaciation and rifting of Neo-Tethys. Geodinamica Acta, Vol. 9, No. 2-3, p. 78-100.

Caironi, V., Garzanti, E. and Sciunnach, D. 1996. Typology of detrital zircon as a key to unravelling provenance in rift siliciclastic sequences (Permo-Carboniferous of Spiti, N India). Geodinamica Acta, Vol. 9, No. 2-3, p. 101-113.

Beck, R.A., Burbank, D.W., Sercombe, W.J., Khan, A.M. and Lawrence, R.D. 1996. Late Cretaceous ophiolite obduction and Paleocene India-Asia collision in the westernmost Himalaya. Geodinamica Acta, Vol. 9, No. 2-3, p. 114-144.

Debon, F. and Khan, N.A., 1996. Alkaline orogenic plutonism in the Karakorum batholith: the Upper Cretaceous Koz Sar complex (Karambar valley, N. Pakistan).Geodinamica Acta, Vol. 9, No. 4, p. 145-160.

Ahmad, T., Islam, R., Khanna, P.P., Thakur, V.C., 1996. Geochemistry, petrogenesis and tectonic significance of the basic volcanic units of the Zildat ophiolitic melange, Indus suture zone, eastern Ladakh (India). Geodinamica Acta, Vol. 9: 5, p. 222-233.

Special Volume of Tectonophysics (Volume 260, Issue 1-3, 30 July, 1996)
Uplift and exhumation of metamorphic rocks - The Himalayan Tibet region (Ed. J.-P. Burg)

Edwards, M.A., Kidd, W.S.F., Li, J., Yue, Y., Clark, M., 1996. Multi-stage development of the southern Tibet detachment system near Khula Kangri. New data from Gonto La. Tectonophysics, Vol. 260, No. 1-3, 1-20.

Grujic, D., Casey, M., Davidson, C., Hollister, L.S., Kundig, R., Pavlis, T., Schmid, S., 1996. Ductile extrusion of the Higher Himalayan Crystalline in Bhutan: evidence from quartz microfabrics. Tectonophysics, Vol. 260, No. 1-3, 21-44.

Li, T., 1996. The process and mechanism of the rise of the Qinghai--Tibet Plateau. Tectonophysics, Vol. 260, No. 1-3, 45-54.

Fielding, E.J., 1996. Tibet uplift and erosion. Tectonophysics, Vol. 260, No. 1-3, 55-84.

Ibetsberger, H.J., 1996. The Tsergo Ri landslide: an uncommon area of high morphological activity in the Langthang valley, Nepal. Tectonophysics, Vol. 260, No. 1-3, 85-94.

Weidinger, J.T., Schramm, J.-M., Surenian, R., 1996. On preparatory causal factors, initiating the prehistoric Tsergo Ri landslide (Langthang Himal, Nepal). Tectonophysics, Vol. 260, No. 1-3, 95-108.

Galy, A., France-Lanord, C., Derry, L.A., 1996. The Late Oligocene-Early Miocene Himalayan belt. Constraints deduced from isotopic compositions of Early Miocene turbidites in the Bengal Fan. Tectonophysics, Vol. 260, No. 1-3, 109-118.

Lemennicier, Y., Le Fort, P., Lombardo, B., Pecher, A., Rolfo F., 1996. Tectonometamorphic evolution of the central Karakorum (Baltistan, northern Pakistan). Tectonophysics, Vol. 260, No. 1-3, 119-144.

Zanchi, A., Gritti, D., 1996. Multistage structural evolution of Northern Karakorum (Hunza region, Pakistan). Tectonophysics, Vol. 260, No. 1-3, 145-166.

George, M.T., Bartlett, J.M., 1996. Rejuvenation of Rb-Sr mica ages during shearing on the northwestern margin of the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh massif. Tectonophysics, Vol. 260, No. 1-3, 167-186.

Sorkhabi, R.B., Stump, E., Foland, K.A., Jain, A.K., 1996. Fission-track and 40Ar/39Ar evidence for episodic denudation of the Gangotri granites in the Garhwal Higher Himalaya, India. Tectonophysics, Vol. 260, No. 1-3, 187-200.

Villa, I.M., Lemennicier, Y., Le Fort, P., 1996. Late Miocene to Early Pliocene tectonometamorphism and cooling in south-central Karakorum and Indus-Tsangpo suture, Chogo Lungma area (NE Pakistan). Tectonophysics, Vol. 260, No. 1-3, 201-214.

Whittington, A.G., 1996. Exhumation overrated at Nanga Parbat, northern Pakistan. Tectonophysics, Vol. 260, No. 1-3, 215-226.