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Geology of the Nepal Himalaya pp 461–477Cite as

Neotectonics

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Neotectonic movements; gravity measurements in east Nepal; flexure of Indian plate beneath Himalaya; orogeny and mountain building; epeirogenic processes; plate tectonics and mountain building; Andean-type and collison-type of mountains; mountain root; breaking off and sinking of root into asthenosphere; neotectonic movements in NW Himalaya and Bhutan; south-tilted terraces; Siwalik disappearing under alluvium; Active faults in Nepal; Rangun Khola Active Fault; Talphi Active Fault; Surkhet–Ghorahi Active Fault; Pressure ridge along Main Boundary Active Fault; Bari Gad Fault; Kolphu Khola fault; tilted fanglomerates; change in drainage of major rivers; elevated river terraces; rupture due to earthquake of 1897; deformation related to earthquake of 1905; measuring neotectonic movements; comparison with subduction zone.

… the green mountains became white. For 20 to 25 min after the earthquake, visibility was lost in the dust.

—Brahma Samsher J.B. Rana (1935, p. 73)

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Dhital, M.R. (2015). Neotectonics. In: Geology of the Nepal Himalaya. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02496-7_35

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