Geodynamics of Pakistan"Geodynamics is dominated by plate tectonic models. Plate tectonics promises to provide explanation of global geodynamics including the origin of earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain building... This volume provide a comprehensive view of the geodynamic framework in which the evolution took place..." Preface. |
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Page 111
... Karakorum trend and penetrates deeply into the southern zones . It is interpreted as the most prominent spur of the old Indian continent . The tectonic evolution of the Karakorum is related to the Indian subcontinent's northward ...
... Karakorum trend and penetrates deeply into the southern zones . It is interpreted as the most prominent spur of the old Indian continent . The tectonic evolution of the Karakorum is related to the Indian subcontinent's northward ...
Page 113
... Karakorum , to be the oldest rocks . It is not necessary to go into the controversy about Stoliczka's " Central Gneiss " , but it is useful to recall Lydekker's ( 1883 ) attribution of these metamorphic rocks to the Archeozoic and ...
... Karakorum , to be the oldest rocks . It is not necessary to go into the controversy about Stoliczka's " Central Gneiss " , but it is useful to recall Lydekker's ( 1883 ) attribution of these metamorphic rocks to the Archeozoic and ...
Page 123
... Karakorum range was the em- placement of the axial granitic batholith , dating from a later epoch . This unit has no obvious rela- tionship to the shifting of the Indian plate , its fan - fold shape has probably been caused by the ...
... Karakorum range was the em- placement of the axial granitic batholith , dating from a later epoch . This unit has no obvious rela- tionship to the shifting of the Indian plate , its fan - fold shape has probably been caused by the ...
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K N Kravchenko | 25 |
Chris T Klootwijk | 41 |
John A Talent Ruth Mawson | 75 |
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active Afghanistan anomalies Baluchistan basin beds Bela Bibai blocks boundary Carboniferous Cenozoic Chaman fault Chitral chromite continental Cretaceous crust crustal Deccan Trap deformation deposits Desio dunite earthquake east eastern emplaced Eocene Eurasia Farah fault zone faunas Figure fold Formation gabbro Gansser GEODYNAMICS Geol Geological Survey Geophys gneisses Gondwanaland granite Greater India Hazara Himalaya Hindu IBID India Indo-Pakistan Indus Suture Iran Jour Jurassic Karakorum Klootwijk Late lavas limestones located lower magnetic Makran margin massif melange Mesozoic metamorphic mineralization Molnar mountain belt Muslim Bagh northern northward occur oceanic ophiolite belt ophiolites orogenic palaeomagnetic Palaeozoic Paleocene Pamir Permian plate polarity pole Quetta region Ridge rocks Salt Range sandstones schists sedimentary sediments seismic sequence serpentinite shales Siwalik southern stratigraphic structure subcontinent subduction Survey of Pakistan Syntaxis tectonic Tertiary thick thrust Tien Shan trending Triassic ultramafic Upper volcanic West Pakistan western Zhob Valley