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Palaeocurrent Analysis of the Siwaliks of Panjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh


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1 Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, U. P., India
     

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The present paper deals with a study of thickness of cross-bedding units and palaeocurrents as deduced from cross-bedding foreset dip azimuths of the Siwaliks of Panjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. All the three sub-divisions of the Siwaliks-Lower, Middle and Upper exhibit mainly southerly palaeocurrent directions and the variance of cross-bedding foreset dip azimuths seems to decrease from the Lower to Upper Siwaliks. Consistent southerly paleocurrent direction in the Upper Siwaliks suggests that they were probably deposited in a single continuous basin instead of two separate basins.
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B. Parkash
Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, U. P., India
R. K. Goel
Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, U. P., India
Pankaj Sinha
Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, U. P., India

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The present paper deals with a study of thickness of cross-bedding units and palaeocurrents as deduced from cross-bedding foreset dip azimuths of the Siwaliks of Panjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. All the three sub-divisions of the Siwaliks-Lower, Middle and Upper exhibit mainly southerly palaeocurrent directions and the variance of cross-bedding foreset dip azimuths seems to decrease from the Lower to Upper Siwaliks. Consistent southerly paleocurrent direction in the Upper Siwaliks suggests that they were probably deposited in a single continuous basin instead of two separate basins.