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Academic references for geoscience studies in Myanmar.
Tectonics
The tectonics of Myanmar: final report GIAC (Geodynamics of India-Asia Collision) project 1996-1999. (MIG Google Drive:
resources.MIGG/references
)
Seismology
Seismic Source
Mon, C. T., Gong, X., Wen, Y., Jiang, M., Chen, Q.‐F., Zhang, M., et al. (2020). Insight into major active faults in Central Myanmar and the related geo- dynamic sources. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL086236. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086236
Seismic Imaging
Zhang, G., He, Y., Ai, Y., Jiang, M., Mon, C.T., Hou, G., Thant, M. and Sein, K. (2021). Indian continental lithosphere and related volcanism beneath Myanmar: Constraints from local earthquake tomography. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 567, 116987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116987
Wu, S., Yao, J., Wei, S., Hubbard, J., Wang, Y., Htwe, Y. M. M., … & Tong, P. (2021). New insights into the structural heterogeneity and geodynamics of the Indo-Burma subduction zone from ambient noise tomography. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 562, 116856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116856
Zheng, T., He, Y., Ding, L., Jiang, M., Ai, Y., Mon, C. T., … & Thant, M. (2020). Direct structural evidence of Indian continental subduction beneath Myanmar. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1-9. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15746-3
Wang, X., Wei, S., Wang, Y., Maung Maung, P., Hubbard, J., Banerjee, P., … & Almeida, R. (2019). A 3‐D shear wave velocity model for Myanmar region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(1), 504-526. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016622
Deep Interior
Bai, Y., Yuan, X., He, Y., Hou, G., Thant, M., Sein, K., & Ai, Y. (2020). Mantle Transition Zone Structure Beneath Myanmar and Its Geodynamic Implications. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(12), e2020GC009262. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009262
Saikia, D., Kumar, M. R., & Singh, A. (2020). Palaeoslab and plume signatures in the mantle transition zone beneath Eastern Himalaya and adjoining regions. Geophysical Journal International, 221(1), 468-477. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa012
Geodesy
GPS
Mallick, R., Lindsey, E. O., Feng, L., Hubbard, J., Banerjee, P., & Hill, E. M. ( 2019). Active convergence of the India‐Burma‐Sunda plates revealed by a new continuous GPS network. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, 3155– 3171. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016480
Mallick, R., Hubbard, J. A., Lindsey, E. O., Bradley, K. E., Moore, J. D., Ahsan, A., … & Hill, E. M. (2020). Subduction initiation and the rise of the Shillong Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 543, 116351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116351
Gravity
Mukhopadhyay, M., & Dasgupta, S. (1988). Deep structure and tectonics of the Burmese arc: constraints from earthquake and gravity data. Tectonophysics, 149(3-4), 299-322. https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(88)90180-1
Geology
Khin, K., Moe, A., & Myint, M. (2020). Geology, structure and lithostratigraphic framework of the Rakhine Coastal Ranges in western Myanmar: Implications for the collision of the India Plate and West Myanmar Block. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 196, 104332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104332
Wang, Y., Sieh, K., Tun, S. T., Lai, K. Y., & Myint, T. (2014). Active tectonics and earthquake potential of the Myanmar region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(4), 3767-3822. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JB010762
Geochemistry
Lamont, T. N., Searle, M. P., Hacker, B. R., Htun, K., Htun, K. M., Morley, C. K., … & White, R. W. (2021). Late Eocene-Oligocene granulite facies garnet-sillimanite migmatites from the Mogok Metamorphic belt, Myanmar, and implications for timing of slip along the Sagaing Fault. Lithos, 386, 106027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106027
Licht, A., Win, Z., Westerweel, J., Cogné, N., Morley, C. K., Chantraprasert, S., … & Dupont-Nivet, G. (2020). Magmatic history of central Myanmar and implications for the evolution of the Burma Terrane. Gondwana Research, 87, 303-319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.06.016
Zhang, L. Y., Fan, W. M., Ding, L., Ducea, M. N., Pullen, A., & Li, J. X., et al. (2020). Quaternary volcanism in Myanmar: A record of Indian slab tearing in a transition zone from oceanic to continental subduction. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, e2020GC009091. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009091
Gardiner, N. J., Searle, M. P., Morley, C. K., Robb, L. J., Whitehouse, M. J., Roberts, N. M., … & Spencer, C. J. (2018). The crustal architecture of Myanmar imaged through zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf and O isotopes: Tectonic and metallogenic implications. Gondwana Research, 62, 27-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2018.02.008