The Himalayas revisited
IR@NIO: CSIR-National Institute Of Oceanography, Goa
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Iyer, S.D.
Mukhopadhyay, R. |
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2006-08-26T10:50:03Z
2006-08-26T10:50:03Z 2000 |
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Current Science, vol. 79(11), 1518-1519pp.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/260 |
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The Himalayas are a complex, uplifted and deformed mountain range, brought about by tectonic activities, culminating in a series of plate collisions, most of which are still currently active. The Indo-Eurasian Plates’ collision event of the Tertiary times finds expression in intense deformation and associated metamorphism and magmatism in the Himalayan regions, and to mid-plate deformation of the Indian plate. Additionally, ceaseless creation of new crust at the Indian Ocean Ridge System results in generation of compressive stress on the Indian plate. All these make the Indian subcontinent a geodynamically unstable land mass, experiencing frequent earthquakes, especially along the foothills of the Himalayas, the Indo-Gangetic plains and the reactivated ancient faults of the Indian Shield. To synthesize our understanding in this direction, and to address related problems, a national seminar on the ‘Structure and tectonics of the Indian plate’ was held recently in Chandigarh.
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en
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Indian Academy of Sciences
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The Himalayas revisited
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Article
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