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Tectonics of the Northwestern, Sikkim and Eastern Himalaya

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During the period 2020–2024, scientific investigations in the Himalaya incorporated various geological, geochemical and geochronological aspects of evolution of this mountain, including large-scale configuration and evolutionary models, determining of major unconformities in the Lesser Himalaya, integrated structure and geochronology of major tectonic boundaries, geochemistry and U–Pb dating of the Abor Volcanics, exhumation patterns using fission track zircon and apatite. Many Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic magmatic bodies were dated using U–Pb zircon methods from the Lesser Himalayan Jutogh Group metamorphics and Greater Himalayan Sequence. Active tectonic patterns from the frontal Sub-Himalaya belt are also worked out.

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Acknowledgements

AKJ thanks Prof. D M Banerjee for inviting us for this contribution to the IUGS Status Report. Tejpal and Rajendran express their special thanks to AK Awasthi for useful inputs and comments on the initial draft on ‘Active Tectonics’, while AK Verma organized the Figs. 1 and 2.

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  1. Continental Deformation Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400076, India

    Malay Mukul

  2. Department of Geology, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110007, India

    N. C. Pant & Preeti Singh

  3. Dehra Dun, India

    P. K. Mukherjee

  4. Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehra Dun, 248001, India

    Paramjeet Singh

  5. CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Chandigarh, 160030, India

    Tejpal Singh

  6. National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, 560012, India

    C. P. Rajendran

  7. Geological Survey of India, Imphal, Manipur, 795004, India

    James Pebam & Rahul Dixit

  8. Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, 247 667, India

    Gargi G. Deshmukh

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Jain, A.K., Mukul, M., Pant, N.C. et al. Tectonics of the Northwestern, Sikkim and Eastern Himalaya. Proc.Indian Natl. Sci. Acad. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43538-024-00255-4

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