Active tectonics of Himalayan frontal fault system

VC Thakur - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2013 - Springer
Abstract In the Sub-Himalayan zone, the frontal Siwalik range abuts against the alluvial plain
with an abrupt physiographic break along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust (HFT), defining the …

Active faults and related Late Quaternary deformation along the northwestern Himalayan Frontal Zone, India

JN Malik, T Nakata - Annals of Geophysics, 2003 - earth-prints.org
Numerous newly-identified traces of active faults in the Himalayan foothill zone along the
HFF around Chandigarh, in Pinjore Dun, along the piedmont zone of the Lower Siwalik hill …

Medieval pulse of great earthquakes in the central Himalaya: Viewing past activities on the frontal thrust

CP Rajendran, B John… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The Himalaya has experienced three great earthquakes during the last century—1934
Nepal‐Bihar, 1950 Upper Assam, and arguably the 1905 Kangra. Focus here is on the …

Evidences of neotectonic activity along Goriganga river, higher central Kumaun Himalaya, India

GC Kothyari, BS Kotlia, R Talukdar, CC Pant… - Geological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper focuses on the analysis of geomorphic landform development, particularly
between the Trans Himadri Fault and the Main Central Thrust including Berinag Thrust and …

Reactivation of terrane-defining boundary thrusts in central sector of the Himalaya: implications

KS Valdiya - Current Science, 2001 - JSTOR
The central sector of the Himalaya is under very strong compressive strain. Almost all thrusts
that define the boundaries of lithotectonic terranes of the Kumaun Himalaya are active …

Reactivation of Himalayan frontal fault: implications

KS Valdiya - Current Science, 2003 - JSTOR
Youngest of the five terrane-defining faults, the Himalayan Frontal Fault (HFF) is a series of
reverse faults that demarcates the boundary of the Siwalik front of the Himalayan province …

Uplift and geomorphic rejuvenation of the Himalaya in the Quaternary period

KS Valdiya - Current Science, 1993 - JSTOR
Until Neolithic times in the middle Holocene, the populated Lesser Himalaya was a gentle
terrain of low relief, less than a thousand metres above sea level, and the Stone-Age people …

Estimation of active surface deformation using PSInSAR technique of the Central Himalayan region

GC Kothyari, RK Dumka, K Luirei… - Geocarto …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Kumaun Himalaya is considered as the most active part of the Central Seismic
gap in the Indian Sub-continent. In this paper, we presented active surface deformation rates …

Palaeoclimatic conditions in the late Pleistocene Wadda lake, eastern Kumaun Himalaya (India)

BS Kotlia, C Sharma, MS Bhalla, G Rajagopalan… - Palaeogeography …, 2000 - Elsevier
An episode of neotectonic activity on an east–west trending fault in the zone of active
intracrustal North Almora Thrust in the eastern Kumaun Himalaya resulted in the formation of …

Evaluation of neotectonic variability along major Himalayan thrusts within the Kali River basin using geomorphic markers, Central Kumaun Himalaya, India

R Talukdar, GC Kothyari, CC Pant - Geological Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We have analysed the geomorphic signatures in aggregation with the geomorphic indices
with respect to hinterland and foreland neotectonic variability across the major Himalayan …