Evidence of growth fault and forebulge in the Late Paleocene (∼57.9-54.7 Ma), western Himalayan foreland basin, India

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 717-724

  Singh, B P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAMMU   (India)

Author keywords

Foreland basin; Himalaya; India; Paleogene; Sedimentary geology

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; FAULT PROPAGATION; FORELAND BASIN; PALEOGENE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; JAMMU; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 0346946918     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00540-5     Document Type: Article

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