Geophysical Framework of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan

Qureshy outlines the geophysical framework of the Indian sub- continent drawing from various disciplines of the earth sciences. Home to the most recent mountain building and surrounded by the great fans build-up in water bodies, he says, India occupies a unique place on the earth for the study of global tectonic phenomena and a very stringent testing ground for the in-vogue or emerging hypotheses on mountain building, continental growth, and the evolution of the planet in general. His topics include the component elements of the Indian craton ensemble, the Himalaya collage, the Deccan trap region, gravity signatures over suture zones, and seismotectonics and neotectonics. He died of a stroke between finishing the manuscript and proofreading it. Distributed in the US by CRC Press. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR