GIS-based landslide susceptibility zonation mapping using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method in parts of Kalimpong Region of Darjeeling Himalaya

S Das, S Sarkar, DP Kanungo - Environmental Monitoring and …, 2022 - Springer
Landslides are one the most destructive and life-endangering hazard in the Darjeeling
Himalayan region and keeping in mind the interest of society and their future prospects …

An embryonic fold and thrust belt south of the Himalayan morphological front: Examples from the Central Nepal and Darjeeling piedmonts

JL Mugnier, P Huyghe, E Large, F Jouanne… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The morphological boundary between the Himalayas and the foreland plain is well
expressed and most often corresponds to the frontal emergence of the Main Himalayan …

Tectonic evolution of the intra-uplift Vigodi-Gugriana-Khirasra-Netra Fault System in the seismically active Kachchh rift basin, India: Implications for the western …

MA Shaikh, DM Maurya, S Mukherjee, NP Vanik… - Journal of Structural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The EW striking Kachchh Rift Basin (KRB) at the western continental margin of
Indian plate is located in the northern part of Gujarat state, India. KRB has undergone …

Penetrative Strain and Partitioning of Convergence‐Related Shallow Crustal Shortening, Across Scales, in the Lesser‐and Sub‐Himalayan Thrusts: Insights From the …

C Parui, K Bhattacharyya, P Ghosh - Tectonics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Shortening estimates from regional balanced cross‐sections remain lower than the
predicted shortening from paleomagnetism and area‐balancing methods in the Himalaya …

Extension driven brittle exhumation of the lower-middle crustal rocks, a paleostress reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic Ambaji Granulite, NW India

SK Tiwari, A Beniest, TK Biswal - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
The exhumation of the deep crustal rocks through brittle crust by extensional tectonics is
recognized in orogens of all ages. Paleostress analysis are generally used to understand …

An ensemble approach of bi-variate statistical models with soft-computing techniques for GIS-based landslide susceptibility zonation in the Kalimpong region of …

S Das, S Sarkar, DP Kanungo - Environment, Development and …, 2024 - Springer
Landslides are significant and recurring hazards in the Himalayan region, necessitating the
need for landslide susceptibility zonation (LSZ) to identify landslide probable areas. This …

Paleostress regime reconstruction based on brittle structure analysis in the Shekarab Mountain, Eastern Iran

M Ezati, E Gholami, SM Mousavi - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Eastern Iran, including the Sistan suture zone, comprises the boundary between Lut
block and Afghan block. This research aims to reconstruct the stress regime evolution from …

Brittle tectonics in the western Arunachal Himalayan frontal fold belt, northeast India: Change in stress regime from pre‐collisional extension to collisional compression

TK Goswami, M Gogoi, BN Mahanta… - Geological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The study of brittle deformation of the collisional mountains can explain its shallow crustal
tectonic evolution and the palaeostress regime. The Main Boundary Thrust (MBT) zone in …

Records of Himalayan metamorphism and contractional tectonics in the central Himalayas (Darondi Khola, Nepal)

EJ Catlos - … Tectonics: Plate Convergence to Mountain Building, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Himalayan orogen exposes assemblages from low‐grade Indian shelf sediments of the
Tethyan Formation to eclogite and ultra‐high‐pressure rocks from the suture zone between …

Geomorphological evidence inconvenient for the antecedent rivers of the Arun and Tista across the Himalayan range

T Nakata, Y Kumahara, SP Naik, H Sakai - Journal of Mountain Science, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Arun and Tista Rivers, which flow across the Himalayas, are commonly known
as antecedent valleys that overcame the rapid uplift of the Higher Himalayan ranges. To …