Petroleum systems and hydrocarbon potential of the North-West Himalaya of India and Pakistan

J Craig, N Hakhoo, GM Bhat, M Hafiz, MR Khan… - Earth-science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The Himalayan orogeny has shaped the sedimentary basins of the region, where
continuous deformation formed both 'conventional'and 'unconventional'petroleum systems at …

Tracking basement cross-strike discontinuities in the Indian crust beneath the Himalayan orogen using gravity data–relationship to upper crustal faults

L Godin, LB Harris - Geophysical Journal International, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The Himalaya is the result of the on-going convergence and collision of India and Asia. The
internal configuration and processes that govern the rise of the Himalayan Mountains and …

Lithosphere structure in the collision zone of the NW Himalayas revealed by alocal earthquake tomography

I Medved, I Koulakov, S Mukhopadhyay… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we obtained new 3D seismic tomography models of the crust and uppermost
mantle beneath the northwestern Himalayas down to a depth of 120 km. The data were …

Shear wave crustal velocity structure in the Garhwal-Kumaon Himalaya based on noise cross-correlation of Rayleigh wave

SK Verma, N Kumar, D Hazarika, A Paul, DK Yadav… - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
The tectonics of the Garwal-Kumaon Himalaya is characterized by thrusts, tectonic windows,
and klippen. We investigate crustal shear wave velocity variations using ambient noise cross …

[HTML][HTML] Regional gravity field distribution over cratonic domains of the Indian shield: Implications for lithospheric evolution and destruction

A Vasanthi, M Santosh - Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 2022 - Elsevier
The nature of crust and lithospheric mantle evolution of the Archean shields and their
subsequent destruction through intraplate tectonic processes are important in understanding …

Structure and geodynamic evolution of the lithosphere below northwest indian shield: constraints from geological, geochronological and multi-scale potential field …

SK Sathapathy, M Radhakrishna, TK Biswal… - Precambrian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Northwest Indian shield (NWIS) comprises of Archean cratons such as the
Bundelkhand (Bh. C), Marwar (MC) and Dharwar (DC), the intervening Proterozoic mobile …

Crustal structure and lateral variations in Moho beneath the Delhi fold belt, NW India: Insight from gravity data modeling and inversion

D Dwivedi, A Chamoli, AK Pandey - Physics of the Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Proterozoic Delhi fold belt (DFB) in NW India shows a prominent NNE-SSW
trending gravity high, but its northward extension beneath Gangetic alluvium lack …

Lithospheric density structure and effective elastic thickness beneath Himalaya and Tibetan plateau: Inference from the integrated analysis of gravity, geoid, and …

M Ravikumar, B Singh, V Pavan Kumar… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Investigation of deep crustal and lithospheric structures is essential to understand the nature
of geodynamical processes beneath the Himalaya and Tibetan plateau of the India‐Eurasia …

Lithosphere, crust and basement ridges across Ganga and Indus basins and seismicity along the Himalayan front, India and Western Fold Belt, Pakistan

MR Kumar, DC Mishra, B Singh - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2013 - Elsevier
Spectral analysis of the digital data of the Bouguer anomaly of North India including Ganga
basin suggest a four layer model with approximate depths of 140, 38, 16 and 7 km. They …

Delineation of lithosphere structure and characterization of the Moho geometry under the Himalaya–Karakoram–Tibet collision zone using surface-wave tomography

N Kumar, A Aoudia, M Guidarelli, VG Babu… - Geological Society …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
Group velocities for a period range of 6–60 s for the fundamental mode of the Rayleigh wave
passing across the Himalaya–Karakoram–Tibet orogen are used to delineate the structure …