... position, making up thin strike-out- wedging tectonic lenses (see Fig. 6 , section). The North Pshart nappe is a large platy allochthonous mass at the base of the southern slope of the Muzkol Range and tectonic wedge at the headwaters of the Aksai and Saly-Mula Rivers (see Figs. 1 , 5 , and 6...

... tributaries of the Aksu River (Dzhulbeles, Kara-Dzhilga, Katta-Teshiktash); the Pshart complex on both sides of the Ak-Baital River north of Murgab Village; and the Dunkel’dyk complex in the region of Lake Dunkel’dyk. The samples were analyzed at the United Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy...

..., through-going thrust faults are not obvious and the SPTB is characterized by a series of folds ( Fig. 2 ). It is unclear if deformation in the SPTB extends south of the Alichur gneiss dome. The Rushan-Pshart suture zone (the region south of the Rushan-Pshart fault and north of the Murghab River...

... . 1998 ). Lacassin et al . (2004 a , b ) later obtained offsets of 250–300 km based on matching the Bangong suture in Tibet to the Rushan–Pshart suture in the northern Pamir. This correlation is also probably incorrect because, whereas the Bangong suture closed during the late Cretaceous ( Kapp et al...

... across Afghanistan, from the Amu Darya River in the north to the mountain ranges of Pakistan in the southeast, shows the large, complex domain that separated the Turan Plate, the southern part of the Eurasian continent, from the Indian Plate before these collisions. Based on available evidence, this vast...

... of North Timan ( Grozdilova and Lebedeva, 1961 ). Leven (1993a) described the same species from the Early Permian strata in the Kalaktash valley and the drainage of the West Pshart River in the Central Pamir; however, he classified his specimens and those identified as Fusulina tschernyschewi...

...; AL, Alborz; AP, Arabian Plate; AT, Afghan–Tajik depression; CB, Carpathian basin; Ch, proto-Chaman transform zone; CI, Central Iranian microplate; EB, eastern Black Sea basin; EE, East European craton; EI, East Iranian basin; GC, Greater Caucasus basin; HR, Hari River basin; IN, Indian Plate; L...

... river sample analyses, and a more comprehensive spatial view than bedrock data. We carried out low-temperature thermochronological analyses to determine the exhumation time of the source region and geochronological analyses to determine the provenance so we could assign the exhumation data to specific...

...; SMS—Song Ma suture; CMS—Changning-Menglian suture; IS—Inthanon suture; YS—Yalong-Zangpo suture; TS—Tanymas suture; RPS—Rushan–Pshart suture; ShS—Shyok suture; KKF—Karakorum fault; LF—Longmu Co fault; JF—Jiali fault; RRF—Red River fault. Time periods: J-K—Jurassic–Cretaceous; T—Triassic; C 1...

... structures along a 32-km-long reach of the Yarkand River document the tectonic evolution of the east flank of this salient, between the North Pamir to the west and the Western Kunlun Shan to the east. The study area is cut by a set of four, north-northwest–striking, steeply dipping brittle faults...

... by the Cretaceous Rushan-Pshart zone from the South Pamir (e.g., Yin and Harrison, 2000 ; Robinson et al., 2007 ; Schmidt et al., 2011 ) ( Figs. 1A and 3 ). Magmatic rocks in the Vanj complex of the Central Pamir yield ages of 41–36 Ma ( Chapman et al., 2018 ). Detrital zircons from modern rivers draining...

... of the overburden materials encountered within the investigated boreholes. In recent times, the construction of large reservoir-based dams on run of river has been the subject of environmental concerns, social disputes, political issues and large socio-economic risks around the world ( Zuberi 2011...

..., we undertook a detrital study based on muscovite 40 Ar/ 39 Ar thermochronology on modern river sediments. The closure temperature of muscovite 40 Ar/ 39 Ar thermochronology is >350°C ( McDougall & Harrison 1999 ). With a geothermal gradient of 15–30°C km −1 (typical for young and old orogen...

... Himalayan syntaxis region, Cenozoic deformation appears to have been dominated by north-south shortening along east-trending structures (e.g., the Main Mantle Thrust, Main Karakoram Thrust, Rushan Pshart zone, and Main Pamir Thrust) (Fig. 1B) ( Burtman and Molnar, 1993 ). However, active deformation...

... fault plane (see above) and the positions of typical joint families related to small faults. Special studies of jointing near second-order fault planes in zones of wrench faulting (Main Sayan Fault in the East Sayan mountains, the strike-slip fault along the Hong (Red) River in Northern Vietnam...