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CSIR-NGRI’s Quest for Understanding Earth Surface Processes and Liquefaction Based Paleoseismology in the Himalaya and Adjoining Region

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CSIR-NGRI has developed pioneering facilty of the 14C and expertises to pursue paleoseismic and neotectonic studies aimed at building earthquake chronology from earthquake-prone regions in India. We present some academic accomplishments and a glimpse of some ongoing programs on the subject at CSIR-NGRI. The quest resulted in develo** the paleo-earthquake catalog based on coseismic liquefaction studies from the Shillong region, which experienced the largest intra-plate (1897) earthquake in the Indian subcontinent. The exploration in other earthquake-affected areas brought comprehension to distinguish coseismic deformation features and processes in saturated sedimentary records to the aseismic structures. The paucity of datable samples for estimating the past earthquakes chronology led to improvising other techniques like paleomagnetic dating, the Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating protocol for poorly bleached samples, and constraint from the archaeology have been incorporated. The effect of recurrent primary rupture in sha** the landscape and defining deformation partitioning using tectonic-geomorphology and earth surface process modeling are other evolving disciplines being pursued at CSIR-NGRI.

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Pandey, A.K., Kumar, D. CSIR-NGRI’s Quest for Understanding Earth Surface Processes and Liquefaction Based Paleoseismology in the Himalaya and Adjoining Region. J Geol Soc India 97, 1152–1156 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-021-1844-6

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