Soft sediment deformation structures in the Garbyang palaeolake: Evidence for the past shaking events in the Kumaun Tethys Himalaya

Current Science

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 377-379

  Kotlia, B S ^a   Rawat, K S ^a  

^a KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

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