Crustal thickening under the palaeo-meso-Proterozoic Delhi Fold Belt in northwestern India: Evidence from deep reflection profiling

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 657-668

  Tewari, H C ^a   Dixit, M M ^a   Madhava Rao, N ^a   Venkateswaralu, N ^a   Vijaya Rao, V ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Collision belt; Crust; Deep seismic reflection; Proterozoic

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; PROTEROZOIC; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY;

INDIA, DELHI FOLD BELT;

EID: 0030819950     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb04501.x     Document Type: Article

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