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The Ladakh Himalaya is present within the western part of the Himalayan orogenic belt. It is divided into five major zones from south to north, viz. Zanskar zone, Indus–Tsangpo suture zone (ITSZ), Ladakh Batholith, Shyok suture zone and Karakoram zone (Thanh et al. in Lithos 155:81–93, 2012; Dubey in Understanding an orogenic belt: structural evolution of the Himalaya. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 292–294, 2014). The Zanskar zone is bounded by the South Tibetan Detachment System (STDS) and the ITSZ, to the south and north, respectively.

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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). Ladakh Himalaya. In: Structural Geological Atlas . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9825-4_4

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