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... Upper Siwaliks The upper Siwaliks have a thickness of about 1500 metres in Jammu area . They are characterised by coarse fan shaped deposits which indicate an abrupt onset of a strong orogeny during this period . Due to this , there was ...
... Upper Siwaliks The upper Siwaliks have a thickness of about 1500 metres in Jammu area . They are characterised by coarse fan shaped deposits which indicate an abrupt onset of a strong orogeny during this period . Due to this , there was ...
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... upper Siwaliks . ( b ) Pinjor Unit : This unit is mainly conglomeratic , with intercalations of dark red to pink coloured clay beds , silts and sandstones . These conglomerates are very often lenticular and the facies change is very ...
... upper Siwaliks . ( b ) Pinjor Unit : This unit is mainly conglomeratic , with intercalations of dark red to pink coloured clay beds , silts and sandstones . These conglomerates are very often lenticular and the facies change is very ...
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... Upper Pliestocene Middle Tawi Stage Pliestocene Boulder Break Lower conglomerate Pliestocene Boulder Pinjor Pinjor- conglomerate Tatrot Upper Pinjor Tatrot Break Pliocene Dhok Pathan Middle Tatrot Nagri Dhok Pliocene Pathan Lower Dhok ...
... Upper Pliestocene Middle Tawi Stage Pliestocene Boulder Break Lower conglomerate Pliestocene Boulder Pinjor Pinjor- conglomerate Tatrot Upper Pinjor Tatrot Break Pliocene Dhok Pathan Middle Tatrot Nagri Dhok Pliocene Pathan Lower Dhok ...
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abstr Alaknanda Almora bands basin biotite Blaini formation calcerous Cambrian carbonaceous Chail Chail Nappe Chamoli Chor granite clays coloured shales comprises mainly conglomerates correlated deposition developed dolomite earthquake fault folded Formation This formation fossils Garhwal Garhwal group Garhwal-Kumaun Geol Geology glacial glaciers gneiss gneissic grained granite granitic body green coloured grey greyish Himachal Pradesh Himalaya horizons Indus Infra Krols Jammu Jutogh Kamlial Karewas Kashmir Krol belt Krol formation Kumar Kumaun Ladakh Lameri landslides lesser Himalaya limestone lithology lower Siwaliks main boundary thrust Main central thrust mation metabasics metamorphism metres middle Siwaliks number of places occur overlain overlies Palaeozoic Permian phyllites portion quartz quartzites river rock type Rudraprayag Saknidhar Salkhalas sandstones schists sections sedimentary sediments sequence shales Shali siltstones Simla slide slope failure Spiti Srinagar stage Stratigraphy structure Subathu Surv syncline tectonic Tethyan thick Triassic unconformably valley volcanics western Himalaya Yamuna Zanskar