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... Syntaxis are a supracrustal reflection of basement - involved rotations in the wider Hindu Kush - Pamir - Karakorum syntaxial bend . The Kashmir Basin on the eastern limb of the Western Himalayan Syntaxis has undergone an approximately ...
... Syntaxis are a supracrustal reflection of basement - involved rotations in the wider Hindu Kush - Pamir - Karakorum syntaxial bend . The Kashmir Basin on the eastern limb of the Western Himalayan Syntaxis has undergone an approximately ...
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... SYNTAXIS The northward motion of the Indian plate relative to the Afghan block of the Eurasian plate is manifested ... syntaxis that have relatively small radii of curvature . The Quetta syntaxis defines the Sibi re - entrant , the most ...
... SYNTAXIS The northward motion of the Indian plate relative to the Afghan block of the Eurasian plate is manifested ... syntaxis that have relatively small radii of curvature . The Quetta syntaxis defines the Sibi re - entrant , the most ...
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... syntaxis . First motions from this seismicity are consistent with reverse slip on such a fault , NE side up , but a large component of left - lateral strike - slip is also possible . In analogy with the tectonic framework in northern ...
... syntaxis . First motions from this seismicity are consistent with reverse slip on such a fault , NE side up , but a large component of left - lateral strike - slip is also possible . In analogy with the tectonic framework in northern ...
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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