Conference Agenda

Session
01.26 Alpine-Zagros-Himalayan Orogenic System: Case Studies
Time:
Tuesday, 16/Sept/2025:
10:30am - 12:00pm

Session Chair: Humaad Ghani, University of Göttingen, Germany
Location: ZHG 007

170 PAX

Presentations
10:30am - 11:00am
Invited Session Keynote
Topics: 01.26 Alpine-Zagros-Himalayan Orogenic System: Case Studies

The Collisional Iranian Plateau: Reassessing Geological History, Structure, and Surface Dynamics

Paolo Ballato

University of Roma Tre, Italy



11:00am - 11:15am
Topics: 01.26 Alpine-Zagros-Himalayan Orogenic System: Case Studies

New Constraints on the Structural and Exhumation History of the Kirthar Fold-and-Thrust Belt, Western Pakistan

Mukhtiar Ghani1,4, Humaad Ghani1, Edward Sobel3, Jonas Kley1, István Dunkl2, David Hindle1, Syed Saqib Razzaq1, Muhammad Ishfaq1

1Structural Geology and Geothermik, University of Goettingen, Germany; 2Department of Sedimentology and Environmental Geology, University of Goettingen, Germany; 3Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam.; 4Geological Survey of Pakistan



11:15am - 11:30am
Topics: 01.26 Alpine-Zagros-Himalayan Orogenic System: Case Studies

Linking Structural Restoration and Thermochronology to Decode the Deformation and Exhumation History in the Western Kohat Fold and Thrust Belt, Pakistan

Muhammad Ishfaq1, Humaad Ghani1, Jonas Kley1, István Dunkl2, Mukhtiar Ghani1,3, Syed Saqib Razzaq1,4

1Department of Strucutral Geology and Geothermics, University of Göttignen, Germany; 2Department of Sedimentology and Environmental Geology, University of Göttingen, Germany; 3Geological Survey of Pakistan, Peshawar Pakistan; 4University of Azad Kashmir, Muzzafarabad Pakistan



11:30am - 11:45am
Topics: 01.26 Alpine-Zagros-Himalayan Orogenic System: Case Studies

Asymmetric Exhumation Across the Western Himalayan Syntaxis: Implications for the Tectonic Evolution of Orogenic Wedge

Syed Saqib Razzaq1,5, Humaad Ghani1, Jonas Kley1, Istvan Dunkl2, Edward Sobel3, Rasmus Thiede4, Mukhtiar Ghani1, Muhammad Ishfaq1

1Department of Structural Geology and Geothermics, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany; 2Department of Sedimentology, Georg-August University of Göttingen,; 3Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam,; 4Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Institute of Geosciences, Kiel, Germany; 5Institute of Geology, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzzafarabad, Pakistan



11:45am - 12:00pm
Topics: 01.26 Alpine-Zagros-Himalayan Orogenic System: Case Studies

Along-strike variations of foreland thrusting in the Pamir

Jonas Kley1, Edward Sobel2, Thomas Voigt3

1University of Göttingen, Germany; 2University of Potsdam, Germany; 3Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany