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The So-called “Axial Granite Core” of the Himalaya: its Actual Exposure in Relation to its Sedimentary Cover.1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

N. E. Odell
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When recently on military duty in India, the writer was in correspondence with Mr. D. N. Wadia on the known distribution of granite within the ranges of the Himalaya, arising out of a statement by Mr. Wadia in his General Presidential Address to the 29th India Science Congress, 1942, on “The Making of India”. Therein it was declared (p. 7): “In these earth plications masses of crystalline igneous rocks, granites, from the depths of the earth, have been pushed up through the sedimentary cover and now occupy the central zone of highest elevations. The sublime snow-capped peaks of the Himalaya from Mount Everest to Nanga Parbat, all are built of this axial granite core,” etc.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 80 , Issue 4 , August 1943 , pp. 148 - 154
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1943

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In a letter to Nature, 150, p. 379, dated 26.9.42, the writer summarized in briefest fashion the subject of this present note. Sir Lewis Fermor, in the same journal, p. 725, received Wadia's Presidental Address to the Indian Science Congress.

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