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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It is likely that the Commission for the Geological Map of the World may take up a
thematic map project related to plate tectonics in Asia. The Indian scientists will
have to respond much more effectively in the coming five years in such projects.
It is likely that the Commission for the Geological Map of the World may take up a
thematic map project related to plate tectonics in Asia. The Indian scientists will
have to respond much more effectively in the coming five years in such projects.
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Structural framework and tectonic evolution of the Eastern Himalaya. Himalayan
Geol., 10 : 421-439. Acharya, S.K. 1985a. Evolution of the Himalaya : a plate
tectonic model. Bull. Geol. Min. Met. Soc. India, No. 53 : 1-17. Acharyya, SJC.
1985b.
Structural framework and tectonic evolution of the Eastern Himalaya. Himalayan
Geol., 10 : 421-439. Acharya, S.K. 1985a. Evolution of the Himalaya : a plate
tectonic model. Bull. Geol. Min. Met. Soc. India, No. 53 : 1-17. Acharyya, SJC.
1985b.
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On the other hand, the eastward component subducts the Indian plate below the
Burmese plate along the well defined ... Some other supporting evidences of
plate tectonic model Geological and Geophysical data obtained from the Indian ...
On the other hand, the eastward component subducts the Indian plate below the
Burmese plate along the well defined ... Some other supporting evidences of
plate tectonic model Geological and Geophysical data obtained from the Indian ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | xi |
Hidden Central Indian Ridge and Himalayan Mountain System | 27 |
Microstructural Strain Path in Pratapnagar Quartzite Yamuna Valley | 45 |
Copyright | |
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Acharyya Allegre batholith calc-alkaline collision zone compression continent continental crustal Deccan traps deformation Delhi Dras emplacement Eocene evolution faults Fg folds flattening formations Gansser Garhwal GeoL HimaL Geology Gondwana Gondwanaland granite granitoid Himalaya Himalayan microcontinent HIMALAYAN MOUNTAIN BUILDING Indian plate Indus Suture Indus-Tsangpo Indus-Yarlung island arc Jurassic Kashmir Klootwijk Kohistan Krol belt Kumaun Kumaun Himalaya Ladakh Late Paleozoic Lesser Himalaya leucogranites Lhasa lineament magmatic Main Central Thrust Merh Mesozoic metamorphism microcontinent Miocene Mizoram movement nappe Nepal northward oceanic crust ophiolite orogeny P.S. Saklani Pakistan Palaeomagnetic Paleozoic Permian plate tectonic plateau plutons pole positions Precambrian Proterozoic quartz grains quartzite ratio Rb-Sr region ridge rift rocks Scharer secondary components sedimentary sediments sequence Sharma Shyok structural studies subduction suture Suture Zone Symp Tectonophysics Tertiary Tethyan Tethys Thakur thrust planes thrust sheet Tibet Tibetan plate Tomorrow's Printers trend Triassic uplift Valdiya volcanics Xizang Xizang Tibet Yamnotri
Bibliographic information
| Title | Himalayan mountain building Volume 11 of Current trends in geology |
| Author | P. S. Saklani |
| Editor | P. S. Saklani |
| Publisher | Today & Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 Feb 2010 |
| ISBN | 8170193303, 9788170193302 |
| Length | 198 pages |
| Subjects | Geology Orogeny |
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