Provenance of the Proterozoic Lesser Himalayan siliciclastics, northwest Himalaya, India: Implications to terrain accretion and crustal evolution

We present petrographical and geochemical data for the Lesser Himalayan sedimentary succession from the Tons Valley section of the Garhwal Lesser Himalaya. The succession consists of the least metamorphosed shale-dominant Chandpur Formation overlain by coarser-grained sandstones of Nagthat Formation...

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Main Authors: Yogesh Ray, Subhajit Sinha, Sumit K Ghosh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-05-01
Series:Geosystems and Geoenvironment
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772883821000169