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... Range . However , this range has recently been understood more fully as underlain , beneath its decollement cover , by a southwest - thrust median crustal block between the Eurasian - Arabian subduction zone and an intra - Arabian one ...
... Range . However , this range has recently been understood more fully as underlain , beneath its decollement cover , by a southwest - thrust median crustal block between the Eurasian - Arabian subduction zone and an intra - Arabian one ...
Page 189
... Range - Potwar Plateau ) this inward movement is largely of supracrustal nature ; however in the North and Northeast , basement thrusting characterizes the Himalaya . ( ii ) The postulated northward indentation of Asia by continental ...
... Range - Potwar Plateau ) this inward movement is largely of supracrustal nature ; however in the North and Northeast , basement thrusting characterizes the Himalaya . ( ii ) The postulated northward indentation of Asia by continental ...
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... Range . Although , southwards displacement of this unit probably occurred concurrently with a counterclockwise rotation , the suggested magnitude of rotation is no longer tenable , as it is based on a comparison of the Cambrian Salt Range ...
... Range . Although , southwards displacement of this unit probably occurred concurrently with a counterclockwise rotation , the suggested magnitude of rotation is no longer tenable , as it is based on a comparison of the Cambrian Salt Range ...
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Tectonics and Structure of the Pamirs | 1 |
Metamorphic events in Ladakh Indus suture zone Karakorum | 17 |
Peninsular and Himalayan Precambrian Belts | 31 |
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Acharyya Alpine Alps associated basement faults basin batholith belt biotite Bordet Central Crystalline chlorite collision continental Cretaceous crust crustal deformation deposits earthquakes eastern Eocene facies flysch folds foreland formation Gansser Garhwal garnet Geodynamics Geol Geology Geophys geosyncline gneiss Gondwana granite Higher Himalaya Himalaya Indian plate Indian Shield Indus Suture island arc Jour Karakorum Kashmir Klootwijk Krol Kumaun Ladakh Late Lesser Himalaya limestone Lower magmatic Main Boundary Main Central Thrust margin melange Mesozoic metamorphism Molnar movement nappe Nepal northern northward occur oceanic ophiolite orogenic Pakistan Palaeocene palaeomagnetic Palaeozoic Pamir Pande Panjal Permian phase plate tectonics Plateau Precambrian Proterozoic quartzite Quetta Range region rocks rotation Saklani sandstones Saxena schists sedimentary sediments seismicity sequence serpentinite Sharma Shyok Simla Siwalik southern stratigraphic structural Surv suture zone Tectonic Zone Tectonophysics Tertiary Tethyan Tethys thickness Tibet Tibetan slab Triassic Upper Valdiya volcanics