The sha** of erosional landscapes by internal dynamics

JS Scheingross, AB Limaye, SW McCoy… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Erosional landscapes transport sediment downstream, host natural hazards and are
geologically active. While perturbations in external forcing, particularly climate and tectonics …

A review on out-of-sequence deformation in the Himalaya

S Mukherjee - Special Publications, 2015 - lyellcollection.org
Out-of-sequence deformation in the Himalaya has been caused mainly by thrusting. Out-of-
sequence thrusts, usually north-to NE-dip** foreshear planes, occur inside the Sub …

Clockwise rotation of the Brahmaputra Valley relative to India: Tectonic convergence in the eastern Himalaya, Naga Hills, and Shillong Plateau

P Vernant, R Bilham, W Szeliga… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
GPS data reveal that the Brahmaputra Valley has broken from the Indian Plate and rotates
clockwise relative to India about a point a few hundred kilometers west of the Shillong …

The South Tibetan detachment system facilitates ultra rapid cooling of granulite‐facies rocks in Sikkim Himalaya

DA Kellett, D Grujic, I Coutand, J Cottle, M Mukul - Tectonics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The eastern Himalaya is characterized by a region of granulites and local granulitized
eclogites that have been exhumed via isothermal decompression from lower crustal depths …

A new kinematic evolutionary model for the growth of a duplex—an example from the Rangit duplex, Sikkim Himalaya, India

K Bhattacharyya, G Mitra - Gondwana Research, 2009 - Elsevier
The Lesser Himalayan duplex (LHD) is a prominent structure through much of the Lesser
Himalayan fold–thrust belt. In the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya a component of the LHD is …

Miocene development of the Main Boundary thrust and Ramgarh thrust, and exhumation of Lesser Himalayan rocks of the Kumaun-Garhwal region, NW-Himalaya …

P Singh, RC Patel - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Bounded between the northeast dip** Main Boundary Thrust (MBT) at the base and the
Saleri Thrust (ST) at the top, the Amritpur granite in the Kumaun-Garhwal region, NW …

The Lesser Himalayan duplex in Sikkim: Implications for variations in Himalayan shortening

G Mitra, K Bhattacharyya, M Mukul - Journal of the Geological Society of …, 2010 - Springer
Thrust duplexes account for large fractions of the total shortening in most fold-thrust belts
(FTBs). They also provide an efficient mechanism for transferring slip upward from the basal …

Late Miocene movement within the Himalayan main central thrust shear zone, Sikkim, north‐east India

EJ Catlos, CS Dubey, TM Harrison… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
In the Sikkim region of north‐east India, the Main Central Thrust (MCT) juxtaposes high‐
grade gneisses of the Greater Himalayan Crystallines over lower‐grade slates, phyllites and …

Flash flood risk assessment for drainage basins in the Himalayan foreland of Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling Districts, West Bengal

S Karmokar, M De - Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 2020 - Springer
Flash floods pose significant threats to the socio-economic development of the Jalpaiguri
and Darjeeling Districts. These districts situated in the piedmont zone of Sikkim–Darjeeling …

[PDF][PDF] Late Quaternary geology and alluvial stratigraphy of the Ganga basin

R Sinha, SK Tandon, MR Gibling… - Himalayan …, 2005 - academia.edu
The Ganga basin in the Himalayan foreland is a part of the world's largest area of modern
alluvial sedimentation and supports a population of over 200 million people. The Ganga …