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Tertiary Basins: Along Coasts and Offshore

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The beginning of the Tertiary era witnessed submergence of the entire margin of the Peninsular India under water of a transgressive sea that also engulfed the foreland of the young Himalaya (Chap. 19). As a matter of fact, the Himalayan Foreland Basin (Sirmaur Basin) extended southwards through the Bengal Basin in the east and the Makran depression in the west. The sediments deposited in these extended pericratonic Tertiary basins make the continental shelves in the eastern and western seaboards of the Peninsular India (Fig. 20.1).

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