Uplift and convergence along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust of India

Fluvial terrace deposits along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust near Dehra Dun were mapped and surveyed to gain an understanding of the Holocene rate of uplift and shortening across the front of the Indian Himalaya. The occurrence of a possible fault scarp suggests that past earthquakes were sufficiently large to rupture to the surface, producing coseismic scarps.