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Recurring Siwalik sequence; Lesser and Higher Himalayan rocks overriding Siwaliks; Proterozoic slivers in inner Siwalik belt; Lower Siwaliks in hanging wall of Kokhajor Thrust; Middle and Upper Siwaliks north of Hetaunda and Amlekhganj; Upper Siwaliks in inner belt; Lithofacies classification; imbricate faults; eroded core of frontal anticline; Kathmandu Complex thrust over Siwaliks.
The ultimate check of cross sections in deformed terrane is whether or not the process can be reversed and the beds put back into their depositional position without introducing inexplicable bed length anomalies.
—C.D.A. Dahlstrom (1969, p. 753)
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Dhital, M.R. (2015). Siwaliks of Bagmati–Gosainkund Region. In: Geology of the Nepal Himalaya. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02496-7_31
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