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Balanced structural cross section of the western Salt Range and Potwar Plateau, Pakistan : deformation near the strike-slip terminus of an overthrust sheet

Creator:

Leathers, Michael R.

Abstract:

The Salt Range and Potwar Plateau of northern Pakistan are part of the thin-skinned, active thrust system related to the ongoing collision of the Asian and Indian continental blocks. Platform rocks and orogenic molasse of the Indo-Pakistani shield are deformed in south-verging thrusts and folds, relative to a northward-converging basement....

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis