Soft sediment deformation structures and their implications for Late Quaternary seismicity on the South Tibetan Detachment System, Central Himalaya (Uttarakhand), India

Tectonophysics

Volumn 592, Issue , 2013, Pages 165-174

  Rana, Naresh ^a   Bhattacharya, Falguni ^b   Basavaiah, N ^c   Pant, R K ^d   Juyal, Navin ^e  

^a H N B GARHWAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

^d not available   (India)

^e PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Late Quaternary; Seismicity; Soft sediment deformation; STDS; Tethys Himalaya

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; LAKES; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

HIMALAYAS; LATE QUATERNARY; SEISMICITY; SOFT-SEDIMENT DEFORMATION; STDS;

INDUCED SEISMICITY;

CHRONOLOGY; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; HANGING WALL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITHOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 84875806687     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2013.02.020     Document Type: Article

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