Shortening Structures in Eastern and Northwestern Himalayan Rocks |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
DARJEELINGSIKKIM REGION 824 | 8 |
KUMAUNGARHWAL REGION 2539 | 25 |
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Acharyya Alaknanda and/or approximately ascribed associated attitude autochthonous axes axial B1 and B2 banded bedded belonging Berinag border Buxa Central Chail characterized cleavage consists Crystalline Daling Darjeeling gneiss deformation developed direction Eastern effects exist exposed F4 folds fabrics flat Formation formed Garhwal Geology gneiss grade granite Group Higher Himalaya indicate joints Joshimath Jutogh Krol Kumaun large-scale Late later layers less lineations Lingtse lower Main mainly major structures metamorphism minor movements Munsiari Nappe NNE striking North NorthEast northern observed occur older orogenic parallel Parautochthon Paro phyllite planes Pleistocene plunge position Precambrian probably puckers quartzite Ramgarh Rampur Rangit region represent River road road slope rocks schists sequence shortening similar Simla slates small-scale South southeastern southern SouthWest spaced strike structures tectonic Tertiary thrust thrust planes Tista transversal trend units Vaikrita Valdiya vergence West Window younger zone