Comment on “Structural attributes and paleostress analysis of Quaternary landforms along the Vigodi Fault (VF) in Western Kachchh region [Quat. Int. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.07.038]”
2021
Maurya, Deepak M. | Shaikh, Mohamedharoon A. | Mukherjee, Soumyajit
We highlight scientific blunders in the article published by Mishra et al. (2020). The authors have completely missed the location of Vigodi Fault (VF) along with misidentification of meso-scale structures. The paleostress analysis is based on insufficient field data (14 fault-slip measurements) collected along other faults and results are mutually contradictory, poor quality and highly unreliable. Two domes, not located along the VF are wrongly analyzed. We note that couple of figure captions and some parts of the paper are plagiarized from Vanik et al. (2018) and Biswas (1993). The slip history of VF inferred by Mishra et al. (2020) completely contradicts previously well-established structural facts. We reanalyzed fault-slip data of Mishra et al. (2020) and reached much different results. We conclude that the field data, paleostress analysis and interpretations in the paper by Mishra et al. (2020) are erroneous and do not belong to the VF.
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