scholarly journals Call for Applications Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-372
Author(s):  
Sd. Mahabaleswar
Keyword(s):  
Himalayan Geology

scholarly journals Underground Space for Infrastructure Development and Engineering Geological Challenges in Tunneling in the Himalayas

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
Krishna Kanta Panthi
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Tectonic Activity ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Energy And Environment ◽  
Hydropower Potential ◽  
Underground Caverns ◽  
Himalayan Geology ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Himalaya

Being topographically steep and consisting of many rivers originating from the glaciers of the Himalaya, Nepal is gifted in water resources. As a developing country, Nepal needs to accelerate to develop its crucial infrastructures for the economic prosperity of the nation. This is achievable by developing the enormous hydropower potential available, making short and efficient roads through the steep mountain topography, extracting mines for various purposes, and providing cost effective solutions for the storage facilities. These developments are not possible unless tunnels and underground caverns are used. Due to tectonic activity, however, the rock mass in Nepal and across the Himalayan region is somewhat different in their engineering behaviour. These differences in mechanical behaviour are mainly caused by a high degree of folding, faulting, shearing, fracturing and deep weathering. As a result, severe instability problems associated with this complex geological setup have to be faced during tunnelling. This is the major challenge to be addressed in a scientific manner in order to make tunnel option more cost effective, feasible and safer. This paper delineates the possible areas where tunnels and underground caverns are needed and may play an important role in the socio-economic development of the nation, discusses the major geological challenges faced while tunnelling, and briefly describes methodologies to be used for analysing geological uncertainties. Key words: Himalayan geology, tunnelling, Nepal Hydro Nepal: Journal of Water, Energy and Environment Vol. I, Issue No. 1 (2007) pp. 43-49

Himalayan geology

1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
J. Rupke
Keyword(s):  
Himalayan Geology

Problems in Himalayan geology

1973 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 563-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. N. Saxena
Keyword(s):  
Himalayan Geology

scholarly journals Developments in the geological exploration of Nepal

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 49-54
Author(s):  
Jovan Stocklin
Keyword(s):  
Plate Tectonics ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Main Central Thrust ◽  
Nepal Himalaya ◽  
The North ◽  
Heat Effects ◽  
Himalayan Geology ◽  
Geochemical Studies ◽  
The Himalaya

Prior to 1950, only sporadic geological observations by a few visitors were made in Nepal. With the opening of the country to foreigners in 1950, Nepal soon came into the focus of interest in Himalayan geology. It was the time of the classical "descriptive geology" with mapping as the primary objective. Several excellent monographs and the first geological maps of different parts of the Nepal Himalaya were produced. The best results were obtained in the richly fossiliferous "Tibetan" sedimentary zone in the north, whereas descriptions of the Central Crystalline zone and of the thick, unfossiliferous metasediments of the Lesser Himalaya reflected mainly the widely differing interpretations and conflicting views of the investigators; nappe structure vs. block tectonics was the main issue. .. With the advent of plate tectonics in the late 1960s, the Himalaya became the "collided range". Microstructural, mineralogical and geochemical studies in the search for stress and heat effects of subduction and collision on structure, metamorphism and magmatism became dominant and in Nepal concentrated on the Main Central Thrust, which was treated in terms of post­ collisional continental subduction. With it went a shift of emphasis from field to laboratory work, from observation to interpretation, from mapping to modelling, from fact to theory. The last thirty years were characterised by the strengthening and diversification of geological institutions in Nepal with the creation of a National Seismological Centre, the beginning of petroleum exploration in the southern foreland of the Himalaya, an intensification and modernisation of classical geological surveying and a strong engagement in the application of geology for engineering and natural hazard assessment purposes.

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