Soft sediment deformation in the Morni Area, NW Sub-Himalaya

Current Science

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1151-1155

  Singh, Tejpal ^a   Sharma, Umakant ^b   Kumar, Ravindra ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Deformation; Lithology; Seismicity; Soft sediment

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148945238     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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