Foreland sedimentation in Himalayan tectonic regime: a relook at the orogenic process

Anticline autochthon basement Batwan Enseq Cenozoic Cenozoic succession Chimnun cis-gamet cis-garnet claystone climate colour conglomerates cycle Dagshai deposits Dharmpur Enseq Dharmsala energy sequence classification Enseq Eocene facies field fine first foredeep foreland basin Formation fossils gamet Ganga GARNET Geol geological cross section grain size trend grey heavy mineral group/subgroup Himachal Pradesh Himalayan India Indo-Gangetic Jammu foothills 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 Mohand Murree non-opaque orogenic parautochthon pebble composition Pleistocene plot Potwar quartzite Raiverman red beds reflection Ridge River Sadhot Enseq sandbodies sandstones Sarkaghat sector sedimentary sediments seismic profiles shale siltstone Simla Hills Siwalik smectite stratification Subathu subgroup Surajpur tectonic Tertiary Tethyan thickness Thrust Tibet traverse trend curve unconformities Upper Siwalik Wah Devi Enseq wrench fault zone