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Ophiolites, sediments, and drills on the Andaman Islands with Douwe van Hinsbergen

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 Christopher Spencer

Douwe van Hinsbergen is Professor of Global Tectonics and Paleogeography at Utrecht University. He led teams that focused on tectonic reconstructions of the Tethyan and Panthalassa realms from reconstructing orogens, studies subduction initation, mantle structure and evolution, to unravel the drivers of plate tectonics. He is an avid field geologist focused on structure, stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, […]

Indus-Yarlung suture zone, southern Tibet – Douwe van Hinsbergen

January 11, 2014November 9, 2014 Christopher Spencer

Yarlung river, flowing at the geological boundary between Pre-Eocene Asia and India Douwe in Venice By Douwe van Hinsbergen In the summer of 2013, an international team of Earth Scientists undertook a field trip to the Indus-Yarlung suture zone, which demarcates the fault zone where since early Cretaceous time the Neotethyan Ocean subducted into the […]