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Geologic and Climatic Evolution of the Arabian Sea Region
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5-6th April 2001, Geological Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom. This meeting will review current research on the geologic, climatic and paleoceanographic evolution of the Arabian Sea region. This region is one of dramatic current and past tectonic and climatic activity. It may be considered the world's type area for studying tectonic-climatic interactions related to orogenic uplift and the onset of the SW Monsoon. The Indus fan drains the high topography of western Tibet, the Karakoram and Himalaya, whose development is proposed to have initiated the SW Monsoon, so that the sedimentary record of the Arabian Sea should reflect both orogenic processes as well as changes in the ocean and atmospheric circulation. The aims of the meeting will be to synthesize data from the diverse subdisciplines that are examining this region in order to better understand how the system as a whole operates. We envisage that this meeting will not only address the marine geology and geophysics, but also the development of the onshore areas surrounding the sea, since these regions have a profound effect on the development of the oceanic crust and continental margin, controlling both the onset of upwelling along the Oman margin, the nature and source of sedimentation on the Indus Fan, as well as the tectonic uplift of the Murray and Owen Ridges. The meeting will also be of interest to the hydrocarbon industry which is currently exploring in the shelf areas of Pakistan and India and is seeking opportunities in the deep water slope areas of this relatively unexplored rifted volcanic margin. Convenors: Peter Clift, Department of
Geology and Geophysics
Dirk Kroon
Christoph Gaedicke,
Jonathan Craig
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