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... mountain - belts bordering a part of the Eurasian Plate , which is underridden by the Indian Plate in the former belt and overridden by the African in the latter . Compared On this plate - tectonic basis , the two mountain belts exhibit ...
... mountain - belts bordering a part of the Eurasian Plate , which is underridden by the Indian Plate in the former belt and overridden by the African in the latter . Compared On this plate - tectonic basis , the two mountain belts exhibit ...
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... mountains . Highest on each of these two mountain - built islands is the main range , the Central Range in Taiwan and the Central Highlands in New Guinea . Near the Pacific coast of each island , the main range is juxtaposed on the ...
... mountains . Highest on each of these two mountain - built islands is the main range , the Central Range in Taiwan and the Central Highlands in New Guinea . Near the Pacific coast of each island , the main range is juxtaposed on the ...
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... mountain belt is still distinguishable into a number of preorogenic and / or synorogenic troughs and cordilleras . On the contrary , the Himalaya , representing a more advanced stage of mountain building along a convergent plate ...
... mountain belt is still distinguishable into a number of preorogenic and / or synorogenic troughs and cordilleras . On the contrary , the Himalaya , representing a more advanced stage of mountain building along a convergent plate ...
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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