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Geodynamics of the NW Himalaya
A.K. Jain and R.M. Manickavasagam (Editors)
© 1999 Gondwana Research Group, p. xii+377
The northern frontier of the Gondwanaland with Laurasia is demarcated by the youngest and loftiest mountain belt-the Himalaya. The Himalaya orogenic belt manifests numerous young and ongoing crustal processes involving large scale deformation, remobilization and metamorphism, crustal anatexis and granite emplacement, exhumation of partly subducted continental crust and deposition of orogenic-derived sediments in the foredeep. All these evolutionary processes have followed an earlier phase of subduction-accretion controlled signatures within the Himalaya as emplacement of ophiolites, development of island-arc volcanism and intrusion of calc-alkaline batholiths, with signatures of a well-defined junction between two giant plates-the Indian and Eurasian. "Geodynamics of the NW Himalaya" assembles 35 high quality papers from reputed workers, and presents a wealth of information on geological, structural, geochemical, isotopic, geophysical and tectonic aspects of an young orogenic belt, which provides important clues for a better understanding of the plate tectonic models on Archaean and Proterozoic terrains.
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The volume contain four (4) subtopics and thirtyfive (35) contributions from the workers involved in the NW-Himalayan region.
Tectonics, Metamorphism and Magmatism
1. Collision Tectonics in the NW Himalaya: deformation, metamorphism, emplacement of leucogranite along Beas-Parbati Valleys, Himachal Pradesh
A.K. Jain, R.M. Manickavasagam and Sandeep Singh
2. Oblique thrust ramps in the Himalaya: a study based on model experiments
Ashok Kumar Dubey
3. Western Himalaya Tethyan Eocambrian-Mesozoic basin and events
O.N. Bhargava and U.K. Bassi
4. Thrust sheet induced deformation in the Krol Belt: implications on the structure of Lesser Himalaya
I. B. Singh and K. K. Agarwal
5. Evolution of the Basal Shear Zone of the Almora Nappe, Kumaun Himalaya
Mallickarjun Joshi
6. Deformational regimes across the Kumaun Himalaya: A study in strain patterns
A. R. Bhattacharya
7. Structure of the Higher Himalayan Crystallines along the Suru-Doda Valleys (Zanskar), NW Himalaya
A.K. Jain and R.C. Patel
8. Microstructures of mylonites in the Almora Crystalline Zone, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya
Rameshwar Bali and K. K. Agarwal
9. Pull-apart microstructures in feldspar from Chail Thrust Zone, Dhauladhar Range, Western Himachal Pradesh
Keser Singh
10. Growth and rotation of porphyroblasts and development of shear/extensional foliation in Baggi-Mandi-Pandoh region, Western Himalaya-implications on the Himalayan tectonics
S. Purkayastha, P.K. Verma, A.K. Jain, R.M. Manickavasagam and T.K. Ghosh
11. Northeast-southwest extensional Tethyan Shear Zone within compressional regime of the Himalaya, Lahaul-Spiti, India
Sudip K. Paul and Rama Paul
12. Geochemical and geochronological characteristics of the Early Paleozoic granitoids from Sutlej-Baspa Valleys, Himachal Himalaya
S. K. Kwatra, Sandeep Singh, V. P. Singh, R. K. Sharma, Bimal Rai and Naval Kishor
13. Geological and tectonic evolution of the Shyok Suture Zone, Ladakh
Hakim Rai
14. P-T conditions of metamorphism in the Garhwal Nappe
Amit Tripathi and V.K. Gairola
15. Shear zone analysis in the northern part of the Lesser Garhwal Himalaya
R.A. Singh and V.K. Gairola
Exhumation and uplift
16. Fast uplift and geomorphic development of the western Himalaya in Quaternary Period
K.S. Valdiya
17. Cenozoic uplift of the Himalayan orogen: chronologic and kinematic patterns
Rasoul B. Sorkhabi, K.S. Valdiya and Kazunori Arita
18. Cooling and exhumation history of the Mandi Granite and adjoining tectonic units, Himachal Pradesh, and estimation of closure temperature from external surface of zircon
Nand Lal, Y.P. Mehta, D. Kumar, A. Kumar and A.K. Jain
19. Tectonic and cooling history of the Garhwal Higher Himalaya (Bhagirathi Valley): constraints from thermochronological data
Rasoul B. Sorkhabi, Edmund Stump, Kenneth Foland and A.K. Jain
20. Present status of K-Ar and 40Ar-39Ar data from the Himalaya
Kanchan Pande
Tectonics of Foreland Basins
21. Tectonic control on sedimentation in Ganga Plain Foreland Basin: constraints on Siwalik sedimentation models
Indra Bir Singh
22. Tectonic evolution of the Eastern Himalayan Tertiary basin
S.K. Acharyya
23. Deformation in the Himalayan Frontal Fault Zone: evidence from small-scale structures in Mohand-Khara area, NW Himalaya
Deepak C. Srivastava and Glory John
24. Tectonic evolution of the Himalayan foreland fold-and-thrust belt between the Rivers Ganga and Yamuna in Western Uttar Pradesh (India)
D. Sati and Piyoosh Rautela
25. Evolution of the Plio-Pleistocene contrasting alluvial fans in the Siwalik Foreland Basin, NW Himalaya, India
Rohtash Kumar, Sumit K. Ghosh, Satish J. Sangode and N.R. Phadtare
Seismotectonics
26. Crustal seismic studies in the Himalayan region: an overview
H.C. Tewari
27. Elastic rebound theory based interpretation of the interseismic geodetic observations from Nepal Himalaya
V.K.Gahalaut and R.Chander
28. Basement structure below the Indo-Gangetic Alluvial Plains (IGP), western U.P., based on gravity and magnetic data
R.G.S. Sastry, P.R. Pujari and Shweta Lal
29. A strong motion model for the Uttarkashi earthquake of October 20, 1991
A. Joshi, A. Sinvhal and H. Sinvhal
30. Local seismicity of the Garhwal Himalaya subsequent to the Uttarkashi earthquake of October 20, 1991
H.R. Wason, J. Kumar and S. K. Walia
31. Fractal analysis of seismicity in the Garhwal Himalayan region
S.S. Teotia, K.N. Khattri and P.K. Roy
32. Seismotectonics of the Kumaun Himalaya
Gao, Ming Xiu
33. Analysis of the Hindukush Earthquakes and geodynamics of the Northwest Himalaya
Avadh Ram and Raman Juneja
34. Focal mechanism solutions and stress pattern in the Hindukush-Pamir region
R. K. S. Chouhan and P. K. Khan
35. Surface wave studies of the Himalaya and the Indo-Gangetic Plains
S.N. Bhattacharya
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Dr. Sandeep Singh
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Roorkee
Roorkee - 247 667
INDIA
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