I am actively conducting fieldwork in western Nepal that is largely focused on investigating the relationship between the Main Central thrust, South Tibet Detachment and the Karakoram fault.  This is an integrative study utilizing regional mapping, structural analysis, thermohronology, U-Th-Pb dating techniques, thermobarometry, and remote-sensing. 

Base camp in the Limi Valley

Looking toward the east
along strike of the Karakoram
fault in far-western Nepal

Sampling synkinematic leucogranites:
Bhim Chand & Paul Burgess

Looking west at fault scarps along the Karakoram fault in far-western Nepal

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