Foreland Sedimentation in Himalayan Tectonic Regime: A Relook at the Orogenic ProcessWith reference to India. |
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... Himalaya . The steep slope of the Higher Himalaya breaks abruptly into the lower ranges of the Lesser Himalaya towards south , the boundary between the two units being marked by a thrust , the Vaikrita Thrust ( VT ) ( Valdiya , 1977 ) ...
... Himalaya . The steep slope of the Higher Himalaya breaks abruptly into the lower ranges of the Lesser Himalaya towards south , the boundary between the two units being marked by a thrust , the Vaikrita Thrust ( VT ) ( Valdiya , 1977 ) ...
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... Lesser Himalaya ( Valdiya , 1980a ; Seeber and Gornitz , 1983 , figs . 4 , 5 ) are indications of more recent uplift of the Higher Himalaya . The intervening terrain , namely , the Sub- Himalayan parautochthon and the Lesser Himalaya ...
... Lesser Himalaya ( Valdiya , 1980a ; Seeber and Gornitz , 1983 , figs . 4 , 5 ) are indications of more recent uplift of the Higher Himalaya . The intervening terrain , namely , the Sub- Himalayan parautochthon and the Lesser Himalaya ...
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... Lesser Himalaya , as in Nepal ( see Fig . 16.5 ) . The HFB ( Himalayan Frontal Boundary ) separating the sub - Himalayan fold belt from the Gangetic Foredeep is for a major part of its length a steeply dipping wrench fault . Earthquake ...
... Lesser Himalaya , as in Nepal ( see Fig . 16.5 ) . The HFB ( Himalayan Frontal Boundary ) separating the sub - Himalayan fold belt from the Gangetic Foredeep is for a major part of its length a steeply dipping wrench fault . Earthquake ...
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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