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Geological Setting of Himalaya

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Geology of the Nepal Himalaya

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Himalaya and its bordering ranges; west and east syntaxial bends; three great antecedent rivers; Tibetan Plateau with thickest crust; micro-continents, flysch complexes, and island arcs in Tibetan Plateau; Qilian Shan terrane, Kunlun–Qaidam terrane, Songpan–Ganzi terrane, Qiantang terrane, and Lhasa terrane; Indus–Tsangpo suture zone; Himalayan orogen and its main features; Ganga foreland basin—south border of Himalaya; basement structure of Ganga Basin; rapidly shifting Himalayan rivers

The Himalayas have no direct continuation either towards the west or to the east. The singular syntaxial bends on both extremes preclude a straightforward continuation of the Himalayan elements.

—A. Gansser (1964, p. 256)

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Dhital, M.R. (2015). Geological Setting of Himalaya. In: Geology of the Nepal Himalaya. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02496-7_2

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