Interest in hydrocarbon exploration from the Lesser Himalayan Sequence (LHS) has
recently been revived amongst the petroleum geoscientists. Understanding the paleostress …

Abstract The sub-Himalayan Upper Siwalik rocks, between the Main Boundary Thrust (MBT)
to the north and the Main Frontal Thrust (MFT) to the south, are intensely brittle sheared and …

The Mussoorie syncline consists of quartzites, slates, shales and limestones in and around
Mussoorie, Dhanaulti and Sategal regions, Uttarakhand, India. This chapter presents in …

Understanding deformation mechanisms in Himalayan rocks is a challenging proposition
due to the complex nature of the deformed rocks and their genesis. Crustal deformation in …

Structural mapping and analyses reveal deformation in the rocks of the Lesser Himalayan
Miri and Gondwana, and Lower Siwalik Dafla successions across the Miri Thrust (MT) and …

In recent decades, constraining the timing of shear activity has been one of the main topics
of research about the tectono-metamorphic evolution of orogenic belts. We present a review …

Opposite shear sense (OSS) is manifested by the presence of conflicting shear sense
indicators in a portion of a rock body, a shear/fault zone or across several parallel shear/fault …

Thin-section studies of the Zanskar Shear Zone (ZSZ) rocks reveal a top-to-SW and
subsequent primary and secondary top-to-NE ductile shearing; brittle–ductile and brittle …

Much of the shortening associated with the India‐Eurasia collision has been accommodated
by orogen‐spanning shear zones within the fold‐and‐thrust belt that forms the Himalayan …

Collisional fold-and-thrust belts are characterized by foreland-verging thrusts. Conversely,
structures with hinterland-ward vergence, known as the back-thrusts, also exist. Strain …