Timing of recent out-of-sequence active deformation in the frontal Himalayan wedge: Insights from the Darjiling sub-Himalaya, India

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 999-1002

  Mukul, Malay ^a   Jaiswal, M ^b   Singhvi, A K ^b  

^a CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation   (India)

^b PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Darjiling; Himalaya; Luminescence dating; Out of sequence faulting

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TECTONICS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; OUT-OF-SEQUENCE FAULTING; SEISMIC HAZARD;

DEFORMATION; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ACTIVE FAULT; BHUJ EARTHQUAKE 2001; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DETACHMENT FAULT; FAULT GOUGE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; SEISMIC HAZARD;

ASIA; DARJEELING; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 37449010591     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23869A.1     Document Type: Article

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