Himalayan Mountain BuildingThe Mchanisms Expounded By Suess, Followed By The Classical Gwosynclinal Concept Of Mountain Building And The Theory Of Continental Drift Etc., Have Been Assimilated In The Plate Tectonic Concepts And Their Applications Towards Understanding The Integrated Evolutionary History Of The Global Features In The Mesozoic-Cenozoic Time-Space Domain. |
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... compression , particularly when the Lesser Himalayan block moved onto the Siwalik belt along the M.B.T. Imbrications and folding of the pile of nappes occurred . In the anticlines we find the tectonic windows , in the synclines the ...
... compression , particularly when the Lesser Himalayan block moved onto the Siwalik belt along the M.B.T. Imbrications and folding of the pile of nappes occurred . In the anticlines we find the tectonic windows , in the synclines the ...
Page 136
... compression or even subjected to compression , as often suggested , except for that caused by the oroclinal rotation , proposed by Carey ( 1976 ) . The maximum displacement , on the other hand , is of 300 km along the Chaman Fault and ...
... compression or even subjected to compression , as often suggested , except for that caused by the oroclinal rotation , proposed by Carey ( 1976 ) . The maximum displacement , on the other hand , is of 300 km along the Chaman Fault and ...
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... compression generated by stress system roughly acting E - W . This conclusion is in strik- ing contrast to the ... compressed , overturned and isoclinal ; the outcrop patterns have been made complicated by a number of strike faults ...
... compression generated by stress system roughly acting E - W . This conclusion is in strik- ing contrast to the ... compressed , overturned and isoclinal ; the outcrop patterns have been made complicated by a number of strike faults ...
Contents
Hidden Central Indian Ridge and Himalayan Mountain System | 27 |
Microstructural Strain Path in Pratapnagar Quartzite Yamuna Valley | 45 |
Analysis of Folds in Dharkot Thrust Sheet | 63 |
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