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... movements of the crustal blocks . Sea floor movement is another type of gravity flow of oceanic basement ( Van Bemmelen , 1975 a , b ) . This spreading and contraction , not on the order of thousands of kilometres , but on a limited ...
... movements of the crustal blocks . Sea floor movement is another type of gravity flow of oceanic basement ( Van Bemmelen , 1975 a , b ) . This spreading and contraction , not on the order of thousands of kilometres , but on a limited ...
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... movement of the Indian plate at about the Eocene - Oligocene time boundary , as concluded by Molnar and Tapponnier ( 1975 ) and also observed in the DSDP core data ( Peirce , 1978 ; Klootwijk , 1979a , Klootwijk et al . , 1979c , f ) ...
... movement of the Indian plate at about the Eocene - Oligocene time boundary , as concluded by Molnar and Tapponnier ( 1975 ) and also observed in the DSDP core data ( Peirce , 1978 ; Klootwijk , 1979a , Klootwijk et al . , 1979c , f ) ...
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... movement between India and Burma , in addition to the northward movement of the Indian plate . INTRODUCTION The present Himalaya is a product of continental - continental collision between the Indian plate and Eurasia ( Lyon - Caen and ...
... movement between India and Burma , in addition to the northward movement of the Indian plate . INTRODUCTION The present Himalaya is a product of continental - continental collision between the Indian plate and Eurasia ( Lyon - Caen and ...
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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