The Geological Society, Geological Society Special Publications, 1(74), p. 541-558, 1993
DOI: 10.1144/gsl.sp.1993.074.01.36
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This paper reports preliminary results of an integrated sedimentological and structural study of the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary facies exposed in the Lesser Himalaya. The Late Cretaceous-Palaeocene Singtali Formation is interpreted as pre-collisional transgressive sediments related either to flexural downwarping of the Indian plate due to the obduction of the Spontang ophiolite onto the north Indian plate margin, or to extensional tectonics related to the detachment and drift of India from Gondwana. This would have been coupled with the Late Cretaceous global eustatic sea-level high stand. The marine Subathu Formation is interpreted as having been deposited between initial and terminal India-Eurasia continental collision, with the overlying fluvial/floodplain Late Eocene-Oligocene Dagshai and Miocene Kasauli Formations as southward prograding foreland basin successions related to progressive stages of India-Eurasia continental collision. -from Authors