Shortening Structures in Eastern and Northwestern Himalayan Rocks |
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... metamorphic rocks are thrust to the SSW over less metamorphic or nonmetamorphic rocks . Recent researches revealed that the metamorphism is inverted in the Lesser Himalaya but is normal in the Higher Himalaya . This decreasing trend of ...
... metamorphic rocks are thrust to the SSW over less metamorphic or nonmetamorphic rocks . Recent researches revealed that the metamorphism is inverted in the Lesser Himalaya but is normal in the Higher Himalaya . This decreasing trend of ...
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... metamorphism reveal 22 , 18-16 , 17-11 and 16-15 m . y . ( Krummenacher , 1961 ) . The main Himalayan events of folding , thrusting and metamorphism took place during post- Eocene to Pleistocene times ( Gansser , 1974 ) . The effects of ...
... metamorphism reveal 22 , 18-16 , 17-11 and 16-15 m . y . ( Krummenacher , 1961 ) . The main Himalayan events of folding , thrusting and metamorphism took place during post- Eocene to Pleistocene times ( Gansser , 1974 ) . The effects of ...
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... metamorphism . Him . Geol . , 4 , 74-101 . Thakur , V.C. , 1976 ; Divergent isograds of Metamorphism in some part of Higher Himalaya zone . Colloqu . Intern . du C. N. R. S. , N. 268 , 433-441 . Thakur , V.C. , 1979 : Thrust and Nappe ...
... metamorphism . Him . Geol . , 4 , 74-101 . Thakur , V.C. , 1976 ; Divergent isograds of Metamorphism in some part of Higher Himalaya zone . Colloqu . Intern . du C. N. R. S. , N. 268 , 433-441 . Thakur , V.C. , 1979 : Thrust and Nappe ...
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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