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... faults inside the Nepal Himalaya have been investigated in order to clarify the tectonic characteristic of the ranges . Active faults described in this paper are defined as faults which repeatedly moved during the late Quaternary , and ...
... faults inside the Nepal Himalaya have been investigated in order to clarify the tectonic characteristic of the ranges . Active faults described in this paper are defined as faults which repeatedly moved during the late Quaternary , and ...
Page 162
... faults the third phase of folding is more prominent than the earlier two phases ( Raj , 1983 ) . Strike slip faults and normal faults are fairly wide spread in the area . The strike slip faults are usually regarded as later than the ...
... faults the third phase of folding is more prominent than the earlier two phases ( Raj , 1983 ) . Strike slip faults and normal faults are fairly wide spread in the area . The strike slip faults are usually regarded as later than the ...
Page 170
... fault surface . Deformation of a series of basement faults with varying amounts of dip and curvature produced fault displacement along some of the faults whereas the other faults remained inactive . 6. Fault displacement was accompanied ...
... fault surface . Deformation of a series of basement faults with varying amounts of dip and curvature produced fault displacement along some of the faults whereas the other faults remained inactive . 6. Fault displacement was accompanied ...
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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