My research interests are in continental tectonics with special focus on the Himalaya-Tibet and the Pyrenees orogenic belts. To address the investigations, I use a multidisciplinary approach including paleomagnetism, petrofabric analyses by anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility technique, field mapping, illite crystallinity and 40K/40Ar dating. I have current investigations in west Nepal where I am learning to utilize quartz CPO and 40Ar/39Ar dating in muscovites.

2011-2012 Foreland view of the extruding Himalayan metamorphic core, West Nepal

Participating Scientist:

Borja Antolín (Queen´s University), Laurent Godin (Queen´s University), Klaus Wemmer (Göttingen University) and Carl Nagy (Queen´s University).

Project Outline:

We are studying the deformation, metamorphic, and cooling history of the Himalayan suprastructure (Tethyan sedimentary sequence – TSS) and infrastructure (Greater Himalayan sequence – GHS) preserved in the most southward and foreland part of the orogen in west Nepal (Dadeldhura klippe), to better understand the relationship between hinterland and foreland deformation in a mid-crustal flowing orogen.

2010- Relationship between the Gurla-Humla strike-slip fault and the South Tibetan detachment system in the upper Karnali valley, Western Nepal

I am additionally collaborating in this project of the M.Sc. candidate Carl Nagy.

2006-2010 SE-Tibet crustal dynamics

My PhD Thesis is centred on the project: SE-Tibet crustal dynamics founded by the German Research Foundation, DFG and directed by E. Appel (Tuebingen University). Additional founding was from Tibetan Plateau Formation: tracing material flow around the East-Himalayan syntaxis (project within the 1372 DFG Priority Program: Tibetan Plateau: Formation-Climate-Ecosystems, TiP). For more information: http://www.tip.uni-tuebingen.de/index.php/subprojectlist1/34-sub-projects-details/129

Antolín, B., Schill, E., Grujic, D., Baule, S., Quidelleur, X., Appel, E., Waldhör, M. In review. E-W extension and block rotation of the southeastern Tibet: Unravelling late deformation stages in the eastern Himalayas (NW Bhutan) by means of pyrrhotite remanences. Journal of Structural Geology.

Dunkl, I., Antolín, B., Wemmer, K., Rantitsch, G., Kienast, M., Montomoli, C., Ding, L., Carosi, R., Appel, E., El Bay, R., Xu, Q. and von Eynatten, H. 2011. Metamorphic evolution of the Tethyan Himalayan flysch in SE Tibet. In: Growth and Collapse of the Tibetan Plateau (Eds: R. Gloaguen and L. Ratschbacher). Geological Society of London Special Publications 353, 45-69.

Liebke, U., Antolín, A., Appel, E., Basavaiah, N., Mikes, T., Dunkl, I., Wemmer, K. 2011. Indication for clockwise rotation in the Siang window south of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis and new geochronological constraints for the area. In: Growth and Collapse of the Tibetan Plateau (Eds: R. Gloaguen and L. Ratschbacher). Geological Society of London Special Publications 353, 71-97.

Antolín, B., Appel, A., Montomoli, C., Dunkl, I., Ding, L., Gloaguen, R., El Bay, R. 2011. Kinematic evolution of the eastern Tethyan Himalaya: Constraints from magnetic fabric and structural properties of the Triassic flysch in SE Tibet. In: Kinematic Evolution and Structural Styles of Fold-and-Thrust Belts (Eds: J. Poblet and R. Lisle). Geological Society of London Special Publications 349, 99-121.

Liebke, U., Appel, E., Neumann, U., Antolin, B., Ding, L., Xu, Q. 2010. Position of the Lhasa terrane prior to India-Asia collision derived from palaeomagnetic inclinations of 53 Ma old dykes of the Linzhou Basin: constraints on the age of collision and post-collisional shortening within the Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Journal International 182, 1199-1215.

Antolín, B., Appel, E., Gloaguen, R., Dunkl, I., Ding, L., Montomoli, C., Liebke, U., Xu, Q. 2010. Paleomagnetic evidence for clockwise rotation and tilting in the eastern Tethyan Himalaya (SE Tibet): Implications for the Miocene tectonic evolution of the NE Himalaya. Tectonophysics 493, 172-186.

Antolín-Tomás, B., Román-Berdiel, T., Casas-Sainz, A., Gil-Peña, I., Oliva, B., Soto, R. 2009. The structural and magnetic fabric study of the Marimanha granite (Axial Zone of the Pyrenees). International Journal of Earth Sciences 98, 427-441.

Images and design: B. Antolín Tomas