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... backarc stress have less massive island arc with abundant basaltic volcanic pile overlying the oceanic basement crust . The volcanism under such extensional regime usually takes the form of fissure - type eruption along numerous small ...
... backarc stress have less massive island arc with abundant basaltic volcanic pile overlying the oceanic basement crust . The volcanism under such extensional regime usually takes the form of fissure - type eruption along numerous small ...
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... arc by emplacement of batholithic body of Kohistan - Ladakh granitoids . In Ladakh sector , the island arc collided first with the Indian plate along Indus suture during Palaeocene which brought about changes in the sedimentation ...
... arc by emplacement of batholithic body of Kohistan - Ladakh granitoids . In Ladakh sector , the island arc collided first with the Indian plate along Indus suture during Palaeocene which brought about changes in the sedimentation ...
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... Island - arc - type conditions prevalent in the northwestern Himalaya . Frank ( 1968 ) observed that the radius of curvature of the Himalaya is similar to that of many island - arcs and he also showed that curvature of such area could ...
... Island - arc - type conditions prevalent in the northwestern Himalaya . Frank ( 1968 ) observed that the radius of curvature of the Himalaya is similar to that of many island - arcs and he also showed that curvature of such area could ...
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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