Himalayan Orogen and Global TectonicsAnshu K. Sinha |
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... lineament This is another NW - SE trending lineament , extending from the coast of the Bay of Bengal in the SE to the Caspian Sea in the NW . Mahanadi River in the eastern part of the Indian peninsula follows this lineament . Of the ...
... lineament This is another NW - SE trending lineament , extending from the coast of the Bay of Bengal in the SE to the Caspian Sea in the NW . Mahanadi River in the eastern part of the Indian peninsula follows this lineament . Of the ...
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... lineament continues SW up to the axis of Palk Strait . Dihang lineament This represents a NE - SW lineament extending from the northeastern extrem- ity of the Himalaya to Hwang Ho valley and the Po Hai Gulf in the Yellow Sea , across ...
... lineament continues SW up to the axis of Palk Strait . Dihang lineament This represents a NE - SW lineament extending from the northeastern extrem- ity of the Himalaya to Hwang Ho valley and the Po Hai Gulf in the Yellow Sea , across ...
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... lineaments — a mere coincidence ? The foregoing descriptions show that a number of regional linear features act as segments to a transcontinental lineament . Tectonic regimes of varying age underlie the different segments and as such ...
... lineaments — a mere coincidence ? The foregoing descriptions show that a number of regional linear features act as segments to a transcontinental lineament . Tectonic regimes of varying age underlie the different segments and as such ...
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Acharyya Asia basement basin blocks Cambrian Carboniferous Central Crystalline collision Cretaceous crustal deformation Dehra Dun deposits Early Paleozoic Earth earthquakes eastern Eocene evolution facies fault flysch fold belt formation Fuchs Gansser Garhwal Geol gneisses Gondwana granites Himalaya Indian plate Indian shield Indus Suture Zone island arc Jurassic Kaghan valley Karakoram Kashmir Kohistan Krol Ladakh Late Paleozoic Lesser Himalaya limestone lineament Lower magmatic Main Central Thrust mantle mélange Mesozoic metamorphism micro-plate molasse Molnar nappe northern NW Himalaya oceanic crust ophiolites orogenic Pakistan Paleocene Paleozoic Pande Panjal Permian phase plate tectonics plateau platform plutonic Precambrian Proterozoic quartzites range region ridge rocks schist sedimentary sediments segment seismic sequence shale shear Shillong massif Shyok Sinha Siwalik slates South southern Spongtang stratigraphic structural suture Tertiary Tethyan Tethys thick Tibet Tibetan Triassic Tsangpo unconformity units uplift Upper volcanics Wadia y²+z² Zangbo Zanskar