Geodynamics of Pakistan"Geodynamics is dominated by plate tectonic models. Plate tectonics promises to provide explanation of global geodynamics including the origin of earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain building... This volume provide a comprehensive view of the geodynamic framework in which the evolution took place..." Preface. |
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... northward extent of Greater India would be thrust beneath Southern Tibet . INDIA'S NORTHWARD FLIGHT DURING THE GROWTH OF THE INDIAN OCEAN The Indian Ocean has had a complex pattern of sea - floor spreading , with at least three major ...
... northward extent of Greater India would be thrust beneath Southern Tibet . INDIA'S NORTHWARD FLIGHT DURING THE GROWTH OF THE INDIAN OCEAN The Indian Ocean has had a complex pattern of sea - floor spreading , with at least three major ...
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... northward motion relative to Africa was a much slower 3 to 4 cm / yr than the rapid northward flight in the Late Cretaceous and Palaeocene . The present spreading pattern on the Carlsberg and Central Indian ridges probably commenced ...
... northward motion relative to Africa was a much slower 3 to 4 cm / yr than the rapid northward flight in the Late Cretaceous and Palaeocene . The present spreading pattern on the Carlsberg and Central Indian ridges probably commenced ...
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... northwards into ( 5 ) The Tibetan Himalaya , a thrust belt of little - metamorphosed Palaeozoic and Mesozoic shelf sediments of Tethyan affinity , cut by minor Neogene intrusives . It is bounded northward by ( 6 ) The Indus suture zone ...
... northwards into ( 5 ) The Tibetan Himalaya , a thrust belt of little - metamorphosed Palaeozoic and Mesozoic shelf sediments of Tethyan affinity , cut by minor Neogene intrusives . It is bounded northward by ( 6 ) The Indus suture zone ...
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K N Kravchenko | 25 |
Chris T Klootwijk | 41 |
John A Talent Ruth Mawson | 75 |
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active Afghanistan anomalies Baluchistan basin beds Bela Bibai blocks boundary Carboniferous Cenozoic Chaman fault Chitral chromite continental Cretaceous crust crustal Deccan Trap deformation deposits Desio dunite earthquake east eastern emplaced Eocene Eurasia Farah fault zone faunas Figure fold Formation gabbro Gansser GEODYNAMICS Geol Geological Survey Geophys gneisses Gondwanaland granite Greater India Hazara Himalaya Hindu IBID India Indo-Pakistan Indus Suture Iran Jour Jurassic Karakorum Klootwijk Late lavas limestones located lower magnetic Makran margin massif melange Mesozoic metamorphic mineralization Molnar mountain belt Muslim Bagh northern northward occur oceanic ophiolite belt ophiolites orogenic palaeomagnetic Palaeozoic Paleocene Pamir Permian plate polarity pole Quetta region Ridge rocks Salt Range sandstones schists sedimentary sediments seismic sequence serpentinite shales Siwalik southern stratigraphic structure subcontinent subduction Survey of Pakistan Syntaxis tectonic Tertiary thick thrust Tien Shan trending Triassic ultramafic Upper volcanic West Pakistan western Zhob Valley