Screen LibraryNeotectonism in the Indian subcontinent : landscape evolution /
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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Developments in earth surface processes ;
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| Online Access: |
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/09282025/22 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource : maps, portraits. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780444639721 0444639721 |
| Index Number: | QE517 |
| CLC: | P541 |
| Contents: |
Front Cover -- Neotectonism in the Indian Subcontinent: Landscape Evolution -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editorial Foreword -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: The Dynamic Indian Crust -- Crustal Plate in Tectonic Turmoil -- Forces Driving the Indian Crust -- Northwards-Moving Indian Continent -- Accommodation of Continental Convergence -- Neotectonism -- Indicators of Neotectonism -- Chapter 2: India: An Assemblage of Multiple Terranes -- Cratons of the Peninsular IndianShield -- Proterozoic Mobile Belts Proterozoic Continent-Interior BasinsGondwana Graben Domain -- Cretaceous Volcanic Province -- Pericratonic Sedimentary Basins -- Cenozoic Himalayan Mobile Belt -- Sindhu-Ganga-Brahmaputra Plains -- India-Myanmar Border Ranges andAndaman Island Arc -- Chapter 3: Himalayan Mobile Belt: The Main Arc -- Physiographic Setting -- Physiographic Subdivisions -- Drainage Peculiarities -- Tectonic Boundaries of Terranes -- Indus-Tsangpo Suture -- Trans-Himadri Detachment Fault -- Main Central Thrust -- Main Boundary Thrust -- Himalayan Frontal Thrust Structural DesignSiwalik Subprovince -- Lesser Himalaya Terrane -- Great Himalaya (Himadri) Domain -- Tethys Himalaya Subprovince -- Transverse Faults -- Central Sector -- Eastern Sector -- Western Sector -- Active Faults: Cause and Manifestation -- Karakoram Fault Zone -- Nubra-Shyok `Suture Zone -- Pangong Range and Pangong Tso -- Indus-Tsangpo Suture Zone -- Kailas Region -- Ladakh Region -- Skardu Basin -- Tethys Terrane -- Zanskar Domain -- Basement-Sediment Detachment Zone -- Uttarakhand -- Himachal Pradesh -- Kashmir Southcentral NepalHimadri (Great Himalaya) Domain -- Lesser Himalaya Subprovince -- Uttarakhand -- Nepal -- Main Boundary Fault -- Nepal-Bhutan-Arunachal -- Uttarakhand -- Intrabasinal Faults in Siwalik and Duns -- Uttarakhand -- Himachal Pradesh -- Jammu Region -- The Duns -- Eastern Sector -- The Himalayan Frontal Fault -- Uttarakhand -- Himachal Pradesh -- Arunachal Pradesh -- Dislocation of Himalayan Frontal Thrust -- Seismicity in the Himalayan Province -- Earthquakes in the Historical Past Narrow Belts of High Seismicity in Central SectorLarge Transverse Pockets of High Seismicity -- Great Earthquakes -- Continental Convergence and Strain Buildup -- Sectoral Slip Rates -- Uplift and Crustal Shortening -- GPS Testimony -- Himalayan Uplift Versus Erosion -- Landform Evolution and Changes -- Climactic Event -- A Period of Tectonic Stability -- Strong Uplift and Advent of the Monsoon -- Formation and Effacement of Lakes -- Convulsive Tectonic Movement -- Early Man: Witness to Landscape Modification |