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Structural evidence for back sliding of the Kohistan Arc in the collisional system of Northwest Pakistan

Jean-Pierre Burg, M. Nawaz Chaudhry, Munir Ghazanfar, Robert Anczkiewicz and David Spencer
Structural evidence for back sliding of the Kohistan Arc in the collisional system of Northwest Pakistan
Geology (Boulder) (August 1996) 24 (8): 739-742

Abstract

In the Naran region of the Pakistan Himalayas, a regionally distributed second generation of folds results from northward-directed shear deformation. These folds are collapse structures associated with back sliding of the hanging wall, namely the Kohistan paleo-island arc. They are explained by a geometrical model that combines coeval vertical and horizontal shortening. Accordingly, they are synconvergence collapse features that indicate at least 5 km of vertical shortening of the imbricate thrust slices derived from the Indian continent in the northwest Himalayas.


ISSN: 0091-7613
EISSN: 1943-2682
Coden: GLGYBA
Serial Title: Geology (Boulder)
Serial Volume: 24
Serial Issue: 8
Title: Structural evidence for back sliding of the Kohistan Arc in the collisional system of Northwest Pakistan
Affiliation: ETH-Zentrum, Geologisches Institut, Zurich, Switzerland
Pages: 739-742
Published: 199608
Text Language: English
Publisher: Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, United States
References: 34
Accession Number: 1996-064228
Categories: Structural geology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. geol. sketch map
N35°00'00" - N37°00'00", E73°00'00" - E75°00'00"
Secondary Affiliation: Punjab University, PAK, Pakistan
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data supplied by the Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States
Update Code: 199620
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