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The Lesser Himalayan Sequence (LHS) consists of mainly Palaeoproterozoic metapelites: slates, phyllites, psammo-pelitic schists, greywackes, etc. Both fore-thrusts (top-to-S/SW shear sense) and back-thrusts (top-to-N/NE) have been reported from this terrain (Bose and Mukherjee 2019a). This chapter describes mainly field photographs and microstructures from the following portions of the LHS, viz. Almora klippe, the Ramgarh klippe, Sarahan region, Bhagirathi river section and Sikkim. The Almora klippe consists of medium/high-grade metamorphic rocks of the Almora Group: schists, garnet-bearing mica schists and amphibolites (Singh and Patel 2017 and references therein).

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India

    Soumyajit Mukherjee, Rajkumar Ghosh, Dripta Dutta & Tuhin Biswas

  2. Reliance Industries Ltd., Navi Mumbai, India

    Achyuta Ayan Misra

  3. Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India

    Swagato Dasgupta

  4. Department of Geology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India

    Aditya Joshi & Manoj A. Limaye

  5. Department of Geological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

    Narayan Bose

  6. Survey of India, Dehradun, India

    Mohit Kumar

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Mukherjee, S. et al. (2020). Lesser Himalaya. In: Structural Geological Atlas . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9825-4_3

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