Geo-Marine Letters - Call for Papers: Tectono-climatic Interplays along the Himalayan, Myanmar and Andaman Arc System

The Himalayan, Myanmar and Andaman (HIMA) subduction frontier in the south Asia stretches across several thousand kilometers from west to east. Not only it witnesses large scale tectonic processes with devastating geohazard potential (e.g. earthquakes and tsunamis), but also it often experiences extreme climatic events (e.g. flooding and droughts). The continental collision between India and Eurasia in the north provides a unique opportunity to understand mountain building processes and their climatic linkages. At the same time, the eastern boundary of the HIMA outlines oblique subduction of an oceanic plate in the northeast Indian Ocean. The continued plate convergence along this extensive frontier plays a crucial role both in the regional tectonics as well as in moderating global climate. Despite a fairly broad understanding about the fundamental constituents, an in-depth understanding about which one drives the other, has largely remained elusive. Recent years have witnessed considerable amount of new onshore as well as offshore geological and geophysical observations and modelling by different groups across the globe, with this special emphasis in mind. The emerging knowledge outlining their interplays through a new focused special issue/thematic collection could therefore provide a single-point access towards better understanding about this complex tectonic process. Our aimed contributors would focus mainly on using new interpretation and modelling to further our knowledge about the tectonics of this vast region. The probable scientific contributions in this special issue (not limited to) may focus on the following aspects: (1) Geometry of HIMA subducting lithosphere and seismicity, (2) Neotectonics and GPS studies (3) Ophiolite complexes (4) Fore-arc and back-arc structure and tectonics, (5) Crustal growth and deformation (6) Sedimentation and Paleoclimatic studies (7) geophysical investigations and regional tectonics.

Guest editors:

Dhananjai Kumar Pandey

Scientist & Group Director, Geoscience Division,

National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa, India

Email id: pandey@ncpor.res.in (this opens in a new tab)

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dhananjai-Pandey-2 (this opens in a new tab)

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6899-8995 (this opens in a new tab)

Munukutla Radhakrishna

Professor Department of Earth Sciences,

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

Email id: mradhakrishna@iitb.ac.in (this opens in a new tab)

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Munukutla-Radhakrishna-2 (this opens in a new tab)