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On the Origins of the Kumaon Lakes in the Himalayas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. N. Thomas
A. N. Thomas
Affiliation:
Anglo Iranian Oil Co., Britannic House, London, E.C. 2
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Abstract

Numerous small lakes in the Naini Tal region of Kumaon have long attracted attention but no satisfactory explanation of their origins has been presented. The various lakes did not all originate in the same way in spite of their proximity, but there must be common underlying conditions to explain the abundance of lakes in this small area. These conditions appear to be the very recent and very local irregular uplift of a mass of diverse lithological units riding over an irregular sub-thrust surface.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 89 , Issue 6 , December 1952 , pp. 385 - 400
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1952

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