Department of Geology

Structural Geology

Product of Brittle, Ductile and Plastic deformations within the earth crust.

• An example of a classical overturned along the Main Karakoram Thrust (MKT). The MKT marks the tectonic boundary between the Kohistan Island Arc in the south and Karakoram in the north.
• Drag folds associated with a near vertical fault in the Precambian Tanawal Quartzite, Hazara.
• An intrusive contact of the Malakand granite with the multiply deformed metasediments of the Indian plate.
• NE verging, fault-bend fold within the Chorgalli Formation.
• Soft sediments deformation structure in the Chichali Section, Surghar Range, Pakistan.
• Karstified Eocene Limestone outcrops in the Kalat Plateau, Baluchistan, Pakistan