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Boudin necks, High Himalaya Crystalline, Alakhnanda Valley, Gahrwal Himalaya

 

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Roberto Weinberg, Monash University, Australia

 

 

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This site records two main features of these boudins: a) boudin necks used as shear planes of duplexes, whereas the boudins themselves become parallel to the ramps of such duplexes,(b) boudinaged quartz boudin neck infill.

 


 

Boudinaged boudin neck

 

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Boudinaged boudin neck. A boudinaged Bt-poor psammitic layer, whose quartz neck was boudinaged. Notice on the top figure, left-hand-side, a quartz boudin neck forming a bridge Pandukeshwar Fm on the way to Malari, HHC.

 

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A stretched boudin neck, detached from the boudins on either side. Pandukeshwar Fm on the way to Malari, HHC.
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A stretched boudin neck. Pandukeshwar Fm on the way to Malari, HHC.

Boudin necks being used as slip planes on duplexes

 

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Quartz vein in boudin neck aligned parallel to shear plane and boudins at an angle forming a thrust duplex to the SW (left).
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Quartz vein in boudin neck aligned parallel to shear plane and boudins at an angle forming a thrust duplex to the SW (left).

Other interesting boudins from the HHC

 

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Boudin of psammite with downward younging cross-bedding. Quartz vein in boudin neck. Pandukeshwar Fm on the way to Malari, HHC, Gahrwal Himalaya.
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Large boudin cut by a granite dyke. HHC in Sikkim.
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Metasandstone boudins in block close to Thangu, north of Lachun, Sikkim Himalaya.