Preliminary observations from a trench near Chandigarh, NW Himalaya and their bearing on active faulting

Current Science

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1793-1798

  Malik, Javed N ^a   Nakata, Takashi ^b   Philip, George ^c   Virdi, N S ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

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