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Page 172
... sets of strike slip faults and tension fractures , both in the layers and in the basement ( Fig . 8 ) . However , when the number of basement faults was more , the cumulative fault displacement was also more and the formation of the ...
... sets of strike slip faults and tension fractures , both in the layers and in the basement ( Fig . 8 ) . However , when the number of basement faults was more , the cumulative fault displacement was also more and the formation of the ...
Page 387
... sets of linear features ( trending NNW - SSE and NNE - SSW ) in Nepal . The major linear features occur along river courses and even small scale structures are found to be reflected along the trends of the rivers . Generally the hill ...
... sets of linear features ( trending NNW - SSE and NNE - SSW ) in Nepal . The major linear features occur along river courses and even small scale structures are found to be reflected along the trends of the rivers . Generally the hill ...
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... set - up is further suggestive of feed - backs of enormous sediment supply from rising mountain chains with distinctive orogenic grains in the source areas . Reworking by bottom current action is attested by the occurrence of sandy and ...
... set - up is further suggestive of feed - backs of enormous sediment supply from rising mountain chains with distinctive orogenic grains in the source areas . Reworking by bottom current action is attested by the occurrence of sandy 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