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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... continent . The Himalaya consists of reactivated Proterozoic continental basement flanked on either side by essentially pre - Tertiary epicontinental sediment cover , the Lesser Himalaya to the south and the Tethyan Himalaya to the ...
... continent . The Himalaya consists of reactivated Proterozoic continental basement flanked on either side by essentially pre - Tertiary epicontinental sediment cover , the Lesser Himalaya to the south and the Tethyan Himalaya to the ...
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... continent . Late Paleozoic failed rifts affected various parts of the Pan - Indian continent , especially the northern and the southern margins of the Himalayan microcontinent and parts of Tibet , and narrow Permian oceans might have ...
... continent . Late Paleozoic failed rifts affected various parts of the Pan - Indian continent , especially the northern and the southern margins of the Himalayan microcontinent and parts of Tibet , and narrow Permian oceans might have ...
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... continent - continent collision has resulted in the forma- tion of the Himalaya . A new subterranean ridge structure below central India has re- cently been delineated by the joint inversion of MAGSAT , and surface free - air gravity ...
... continent - continent collision has resulted in the forma- tion of the Himalaya . A new subterranean ridge structure below central India has re- cently been delineated by the joint inversion of MAGSAT , and surface free - air gravity ...
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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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