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 303
... Makran are typi- cal of those found in an accretionary prism . Tec- tonic structures in the Cretaceous and Cenozoic sediments of the Makran are predominantly east- west trending , resulting from compression orienta- ted in a north ...
... Makran are typi- cal of those found in an accretionary prism . Tec- tonic structures in the Cretaceous and Cenozoic sediments of the Makran are predominantly east- west trending , resulting from compression orienta- ted in a north ...
Page 305
... Makran region of Pakistan and Iran is now an active subduction zone , and probably has been active during most of the Cenozoic . Oceanic portions of the Arabian plate presently subduct northward towards Eurasia with a relative motion of ...
... Makran region of Pakistan and Iran is now an active subduction zone , and probably has been active during most of the Cenozoic . Oceanic portions of the Arabian plate presently subduct northward towards Eurasia with a relative motion of ...
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... Makran . Hence , the results used here for the Makran rely heavily on the assumption of rigidity of plates over large dis- tances . In this respect , the assumption that the micro - continental blocks of Afghanistan and eastern Iran are ...
... Makran . Hence , the results used here for the Makran rely heavily on the assumption of rigidity of plates over large dis- tances . In this respect , the assumption that the micro - continental blocks of Afghanistan and eastern Iran are ...
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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