Foreland Sedimentation in Himalayan Tectonic Regime: A Relook at the Orogenic ProcessWith reference to India. |
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... Field parties carried out geological mapping on aerial photographs ( scale 1 : 25000 ) and prepared stratigraphic columns ( vertical scale 1 inch to 8 miles , 1 : 7920 ) through ground traverses along lines 3 to 10 miles ( 5 to 16 km ) ...
... Field parties carried out geological mapping on aerial photographs ( scale 1 : 25000 ) and prepared stratigraphic columns ( vertical scale 1 inch to 8 miles , 1 : 7920 ) through ground traverses along lines 3 to 10 miles ( 5 to 16 km ) ...
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... Field II shows a range from clay to medium grained sand in grain size and class 1 to 8 in stratification . Field I thus represents the higher energy regime and field II the lower energy . Field II is divisible into two sub - fields IIa ...
... Field II shows a range from clay to medium grained sand in grain size and class 1 to 8 in stratification . Field I thus represents the higher energy regime and field II the lower energy . Field II is divisible into two sub - fields IIa ...
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... fields ( Fig . 9.2C , Table 9.3b ) . The higher energy field I has a range of grain size from silt to very coarse sand and cross stratification thickness from class 4 to class 7 ( 4-1024 cm ) . The lower energy field comprises sediments ...
... fields ( Fig . 9.2C , Table 9.3b ) . The higher energy field I has a range of grain size from silt to very coarse sand and cross stratification thickness from class 4 to class 7 ( 4-1024 cm ) . The lower energy field comprises sediments ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
STRATIGRAPHY | 9 |
ENERGY SEQUENCE CORRELATION | 23 |
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Anticline autochthon basement Batwan Enseq Beas Beas River Cenozoic Chenab Chimnun cis-garnet clastics claystone climate colour conglomerates cycle Dagshai Dehradun deposits Dharmpur Enseq Dharmsala energy sequence classification Enseq Eocene facies fold belt foothills foreland basin Formation fossils frequency Gandak Ganga GARNET Geol geological cross section grain size trend gravels grey heavy minerals Himalaya India Indo-Gangetic Foredeep Jammu Jawalamukhi Jawalamukhi Enseq Kalidhar Enseq Kangra Kangra Depression Kasauli Khad Kumar Kumarhatti Enseq Lesser Himalaya limestone Lithology location in Fig Makreri Enseq Middle Siwalik Miocene Murree opaque orogenic parautochthon pebble composition Pleistocene Potwar PRE-TERTIARY PT PT quartzite Raiverman Ravi red beds Ridge River Sadhot Enseq sandbodies sandstones Sarda Enseq Sarkaghat sector sedimentary sediments seismic profiles shale shows siltstone Siwalik smectite stratification stratigraphic strike-slip structural Sub-Himalaya Subathu Subathu Depression Syncline tectonic Tertiary Tethyan thickness Tibet traverse trend curve unconformity uplift Upper Siwalik Wah Devi Enseq wrench fault zone