Soft-sedimentary deformational structures: Seismites or penecontemporaneous, a study from the Palaeoproterozoic Lesser Himalayan succession, India

Current Science

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 247-253

  Ghosh, Sumit K ^a   Singh, Shyam Sundar ^a   Ray, Yogesh ^a   Sinha, Subhajit ^b  

^a WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^b DBS Post Graduate College Dehradun   (India)

Author keywords

Damtha group; Lesser himalaya; Palaeoproterozoic; Seismites; Soft sedimentary deformational structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953525113     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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