Neotectonism in the Indian subcontinent : landscape evolution / K.S. Valdiya, Jaishri Sanwal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valdiya, K. S. (Khadg Singh), 1937- author.

Sanwal, Jaishri, author.

Series:

Developments in earth surface processes ; 22.

Developments in earth surface processes ; volume 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology, Structural--South Asia.

Geology, Structural.

Neotectonics--South Asia.

Neotectonics.

Geodynamics--South Asia.

Geodynamics.

Landscape changes--South Asia.

Landscape changes.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

xxi, 435 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA, United States : Elsevier, 2017.

Contents:

1. The dynamic Indian crust

2. India : an assemblage of multiple terranes

3. Himalayan Mobile Belt : the main arc

4. Mountain arcs and festoons in Pakistan

5. Orogenic Belt of India - Myanmar Border Ranges

6. Ganga-Brahmaputra Plains

7. Sindhu-Ghagghar Plains

8. Sabarmati Plain and Saurashtra-Kachchh terranes

9. Aravali and Vindhyan terranes

10. Satpura horst and Narmada-Tapi grabens

11. Sahyadri Ranges and Western Coastal Belt

12. Mysore Plateau and Nilgiri Massif

13. Deccan Plateau east of northern Sahyadri

14. Bastar and Singhbhum cratons with their mobile belts and Gondwana grabens

15. Eastern Ghat Ranges and east coast

16. Andaman-Nicobar Island Arc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-420) and index.

ISBN:

0444639713

9780444639714

OCLC:

991767960

Publisher Number:

9780444639714