{"id":87411,"date":"2020-10-30T17:32:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T12:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=18250"},"modified":"2021-05-19T17:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T12:28:56","slug":"new-tectonically-active-zone-in-himalayas-could-alter-quake-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-tectonically-active-zone-in-himalayas-could-alter-quake-study\/","title":{"rendered":"New tectonically active zone in Himalayas could alter quake study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Scientists from Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology(WIHG), Dehradun, have found that the Indus suture zone of Himalayas that was conventionally thought to be locked is tectonically active.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Indus Suture Zone: <\/strong>It is a suture zone in the Ladakh region where Indian and Asian Plates join.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Geological Features that proves Indus Suture Zone is Tectonically active:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Sedimentary beds are tilted and thrust broken.<\/li>\n<li>Rivers are associated with uplifted terraces.<\/li>\n<li>Bedrock shows brittle deformation at much shallower depths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Suture Zone: <\/strong>It is a linear belt of intense deformation where distinct terranes or tectonic units with different plate tectonic, metamorphic and paleogeographic histories join together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Scientists from Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology(WIHG), Dehradun, have found that the Indus suture zone of Himalayas that was conventionally thought to be locked is tectonically active. &nbsp; Facts: Indus Suture Zone: It is a suture zone in the Ladakh region where Indian and Asian Plates join. Geological Features that proves Indus Suture Zone&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-tectonically-active-zone-in-himalayas-could-alter-quake-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New tectonically active zone in Himalayas could alter quake study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[5167],"class_list":["post-87411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-indus-suture-zone","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700783344,"cached_date":1704753694},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}