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... crustal slabs with resultant crustal thickening . A very similar tectonic setting is described from the eastern part of the Sveconorwegian fold belt in SE Norway and SW Sweden , where , during the Dalslandian deformational episode about ...
... crustal slabs with resultant crustal thickening . A very similar tectonic setting is described from the eastern part of the Sveconorwegian fold belt in SE Norway and SW Sweden , where , during the Dalslandian deformational episode about ...
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... crustal inlet for the subduction ( Argand , 1924 , and Holmes , 1965 ) . It is characterised by a crustal shortening of more than 30 km ( Gansser , 1966 ) . Maintaining the longtime India - Tibet convergence at a rate of about 5 cm per ...
... crustal inlet for the subduction ( Argand , 1924 , and Holmes , 1965 ) . It is characterised by a crustal shortening of more than 30 km ( Gansser , 1966 ) . Maintaining the longtime India - Tibet convergence at a rate of about 5 cm per ...
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... crustal block between the Eurasian - Arabian subduction zone and an intra - Arabian one ( Bird et al . , 1975 ) . This could mean that the Zagros Range is in reality not less Himalayan in collision style but in a stage of paratectonic ...
... crustal block between the Eurasian - Arabian subduction zone and an intra - Arabian one ( Bird et al . , 1975 ) . This could mean that the Zagros Range is in reality not less Himalayan in collision style but in a stage of paratectonic ...
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Tectonics and Structure of the Pamirs | 1 |
Peninsular and Himalayan Precambrian Belts | 31 |
Central Indian Ridge and Himalayan Mountain System | 55 |
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Acharyya Alpine Alps associated basement faults basin batholith belt biotite Bordet Central Crystalline chlorite collision continental Cretaceous crust crustal deformation deposits earthquakes eastern Eocene facies flysch folds foreland formation Gansser Garhwal garnet Geodynamics Geol Geology Geophys geosyncline gneiss Gondwana granite Higher Himalaya Himalaya Indian plate Indian Shield Indus Suture island arc Jour Karakorum Kashmir Klootwijk Krol Kumaun Ladakh Late Lesser Himalaya limestone Lower magmatic Main Boundary Main Central Thrust margin melange Mesozoic metamorphism Molnar movement nappe Nepal northern northward occur oceanic ophiolite orogenic Pakistan Palaeocene palaeomagnetic Palaeozoic Pamir Pande Panjal Permian phase plate tectonics Plateau Precambrian Proterozoic quartzite Quetta Range region rocks rotation Saklani sandstones Saxena schists sedimentary sediments seismicity sequence serpentinite Sharma Shyok Simla Siwalik southern stratigraphic structural Surv suture zone Tectonic Zone Tectonophysics Tertiary Tethyan Tethys thickness Tibet Tibetan slab Triassic Upper Valdiya volcanics