The impact of mechanical layering and the strength of the Indian lower crust on the dynamics of the modern India-Asia collisional system are studied using 3-D thermomechanical modeling. The model includes an Indian oceanic domain, Indian continental domain, and an Asian continental domain. Each domain consists of four layers: upper/lower crust, and upper/lower lithospheric mantle. The Tarim and...

[1] Using a regional GPS data set including 190 stations in Asia, from Nepal to eastern Indonesia and spanning 11 years, we update the present-day relative motion between the Indian and Sundaland plates and discuss the deformation taking place between them in Myanmar. Revisiting measurements acquired on the Main Boundary Thrust in Nepal, it appears that points in southern Nepal exhibit negligib...

Maung Thaik, of Padu village, Sagaing District, was brought to the Sagaing Civil Hospital in an unconscious state with the left half of his body paralysed at 2-15 p.m. on the 8th April, 1922. A contused wound was present on the left side of the head, said to have been received ill an assault committed with a stick, at about 2 a.m. on the same day, while he was under the influence of liquor. The...

The purpose of the study was to ascertain the therapeutic efficacy of different treatments for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in the hospitals in Sagaing, northern and eastern Shan, to facilitate updating the existing national antimalarial drug policy. The proposed 14-day trial for monitoring the efficacy of treatments of uncomplicated falciparum malaria is an efficient method for identifying...

Analysis of the earth’s longest period normal modes shows that the December 2004 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake was much larger (Mw 9.3) than initially inferred from surface-wave data and involved slip on a much longer fault than initially inferred from body-wave data. The seismic moment and relative excitation of the normal modes indicate that the entire aftershock zone ruptured, consistent with t...

Dr. Heath accompanied a party sent from Mandalay, on January (Jth, to reinforce Fort Sagaing. While walking down from the Fort to the boats with Major Smyth, R.A., and Lieutenant Armstrong, the party were fired on by some Burmese in ambuscade. Lieutenant Armstrong was severely wounded in the jaw, and fell. Surgeon Heath, lifted him up, and was carrying him out of the way, when he was himself sh...

In the Katha Range of central Myanmar, lithologic tracers and pressure-temperature-deformation-time data identify Cambro-Ordovician, Indian-affinity Tethyan Himalaya Series, located ∼700 km from their easternmost outcrop in S-Tibet, ∼450 Himalayan rocks Eastern Syntaxis. Metamorphism began at ∼65 Ma, peaked ∼45 Ma (∼510°C, 0.93 GPa), exhumation/cooling (∼25°C/Myr) occurred until ∼30 a subductio...