Myanmar¶

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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