Tectonic landform around Gelephu in southern Bhutan Himalaya

Yasuhiro KUMAHARA; Jiro KOMORI; Chophel Jamyang; Makoto Hashizume

doi:10.14866/ajg.2012s.0_100085

Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Spring 2012

Session ID : P1111

DOI https://doi.org/10.14866/ajg.2012s.0_100085

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Tectonic landform around Gelephu in southern Bhutan Himalaya

*Yasuhiro KUMAHARA, Jiro KOMORI, Chophel Jamyang, Makoto Hashizume

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Keywords: Bhutan, Himalaya, active fault, tectonic landform

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We present characteristics of tectonic landform in Gelephu in southern Bhutan. First attempt of photo-interpretation related to tectonic geomorphology leads that active faults are distributed densely in southern Bhutan Himalaya. Fieldwork in Gelephu where typical tectonic landform are recognized by photo-interpretation provides us that 1) active fault has deformed landform and deposit in the late Quaternary (125 ka to present), 2) active fault has moved on same trace during the late Quaternary.

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