January 2024
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Assam, a part of North-East India, is geologically a very complicated region since it exists on a dynamic frontal part of the Indian Plate and the relatively stable Asian or Chinese Plate. In between these two plates there lies the genetically active bed of the Tethyan Geosyncline with its foredeep skirting the dynamic Indian Plate.
The geological history of the region involves almost all the major geological ages from the preCambrian up to the recent.
Considered broadly, the geological formations present in Assam belong to
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