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Southeast Himalaya and Adjacent Indian Peninsula

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Geology of the Nepal Himalaya

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Three tectonic windows of east Nepal and Sikkim; Higher Himalayan thrust sheet and Lesser Himalayan fringe zone of sedimentary rocks; Gondwanas of Indian Peninsula; Lower Gondwanas: Talchir Formation and Damudas; Middle Gondwanas: Panchet, Mahadeva, and Maleri formations; Upper Gondwanas and Rajmahal traps; Lesser Himalayan sequence: Daling and Shumar groups, Baxa Formation, Diuri Formation, Setikhola Formation, Damudas; Higher Himalayan crystallines: Darjeeling Gneiss, lime-silicates, pegmatites, and basic sills; inverted metamorphism; proposition of huge recumbent fold; folded Tethyan rocks; interrupted Siwalik belt; south-tilted alluvial terraces; frontal anticline

The Tertiaries fringe the older rocks continuously from close to the Mechi eastward nearly as far as Dálingkot.

—F.R. Mallet (1874, p. 45)

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Dhital, M.R. (2015). Southeast Himalaya and Adjacent Indian Peninsula. In: Geology of the Nepal Himalaya. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02496-7_5

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