Geological Studies in the Eastern HimalayasPramod Kumar Verma |
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... Thrusts One of the most characteristic features of the Eastern Himalayas and Eastern Nepal is that the crystalline rocks of the Higher Himalayan zone have travelled far southward as independent thrust nappes and have come to override ...
... Thrusts One of the most characteristic features of the Eastern Himalayas and Eastern Nepal is that the crystalline rocks of the Higher Himalayan zone have travelled far southward as independent thrust nappes and have come to override ...
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... thrust as the Trans - Himadri Thrust ( THT ) . In northern Sikkim , the Everest metapelites comprising phyllite , quartzite and biotite schist of the Tethyan sequence were thrust over the Kanchanjunga Gneiss of the Higher Himalayas ...
... thrust as the Trans - Himadri Thrust ( THT ) . In northern Sikkim , the Everest metapelites comprising phyllite , quartzite and biotite schist of the Tethyan sequence were thrust over the Kanchanjunga Gneiss of the Higher Himalayas ...
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Pramod Kumar Verma. Thrusts The well known Schuppen belt is bounded by two major thrusts , viz . , the Disang Thrust and the Naga Thrust . The Mishmi Thrust , as referred to earlier , brings the Precambrian rocks in contact with the ...
Pramod Kumar Verma. Thrusts The well known Schuppen belt is bounded by two major thrusts , viz . , the Disang Thrust and the Naga Thrust . The Mishmi Thrust , as referred to earlier , brings the Precambrian rocks in contact with the ...
Contents
An Introduction S K Acharyya | 1 |
Landscape and Petroleum Provinces of North Eastern India S V Desikachar | 11 |
Its Plate Tectonic Evolution M M Saika | 19 |
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Abor Volcanics Acharyya antigorite Arunachal Himalaya Arunachal Pradesh Assam assemblage Banerjee Barail basin beds belt Bhutan Bichom biotite Bomdila Bomdila Group boulder slates Buxa chlorite conglomerate correlation Crystallines Dalbuing Darjeeling deformation Delhi deposits Dibang Valley Disang Dutta east Eastern Himalayas Eocene exposed faults fauna folds garnet Geol Geology Ghosh gneiss Gondwana Gondwana Group grains gray India Indo-Burman Ithun Jain Jour Kameng District Kumar Lesser Himalayan limestone lineaments Lohit Lower marine Mayi Hill metamorphic rocks minerals Miri Formation Mishmi Naga Hills nappes Nepal Nummulites occur olivine ophiolite order streams orogenic overlying Permian phyllite plant fossils quartz quartzite Rangit region river sandstone schist sedimentary sediments sequence serpentinites shale Shillong Siang District Sikkim Singh Sinha Siwalik Siwalik Group Srivastava Stratigraphy structural Subansiri District subduction supersequence Surv Tandon tectonic Tenga Tertiary Tethyan thrust Tipam trend Trilochan Tripathi unconformably Upper Verma West Kameng Yamne zone