Shortening Structures in Eastern and Northwestern Himalayan Rocks |
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... Gondwana Formations . The upper and lower contacts of the Lingtse gneiss are tectonic . In the Great Himalaya in Sikkim a comparable member is the Kanchenjunga gneiss . Both , Lingtse and Kanchenjunga gneisses appear to be Late ...
... Gondwana Formations . The upper and lower contacts of the Lingtse gneiss are tectonic . In the Great Himalaya in Sikkim a comparable member is the Kanchenjunga gneiss . Both , Lingtse and Kanchenjunga gneisses appear to be Late ...
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... Gondwana Group corresponds to Late Permian age . Although the Gondwana Group is the youngest unit , yet it occurs in the deepest position of the Rangit Window , wrapped by rocks of the Pre- Gondwana group of the Tista Half - Window . The ...
... Gondwana Group corresponds to Late Permian age . Although the Gondwana Group is the youngest unit , yet it occurs in the deepest position of the Rangit Window , wrapped by rocks of the Pre- Gondwana group of the Tista Half - Window . The ...
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... Gondwana rocks . Therefore , the first recognizable deformation in the Daling rocks is Pre - Upper Carboniferous , i . e . Hercynian or older . Acharyya ( 1975 ) also recognized that the F1 movement is not noticed within the upper part ...
... Gondwana rocks . Therefore , the first recognizable deformation in the Daling rocks is Pre - Upper Carboniferous , i . e . Hercynian or older . Acharyya ( 1975 ) also recognized that the F1 movement is not noticed within the upper part ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
DARJEELINGSIKKIM REGION 824 | 8 |
KUMAUNGARHWAL REGION 2539 | 25 |
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Acharyya and Ray Alaknanda Almora and/or augen gneiss autochthonous axial planes B1 and B2 B2 structures B3 and B4 Badrinath bedded Berinag Berinag Pratapnagar Buxa Central Crystalline Chail Chakrata Chandpur Chandpur-Krol Nappe cleavage planes Damuda Darjeeling Darjeeling gneiss Darjeeling-Sikkim deformation Dehra Dun Deoban Deoprayag developed exposed F1 and F2 F4 folds fold type Gansser gneiss Gondwana granite half-klippe Hercynian Himalaya Himalayan geology Himalayan rocks Joshimath Jutogh Klippe km Southwest km-stone Krol Nappe Kumaun L1 and L2 large-scale Lesser Himalaya lineations L3 Lingtse gneiss Main Central Thrust major structures metamorphism mica schist migmatites Mukhem Munsiari Nainital Nappe NNE striking NorthEast occur orogenic Palaeozoic Parautochthon Paro Paro Group phyllite phyllonites plunge Precambrian puckers quartzites Raina Ramgarh Rampur Rangit Reyang road slope S₁ S3 cleavage schists Schwan Sikkim Simla Siwalik slates southeastern Himachal SSW vergence synformal T3 planes tectonic Tertiary thrust planes Tista Half-Window transversal trend Vaikrita Valdiya vergence WNW-ESE zone