Gravity and tectonic model across the Sulaiman fold belt and the Chaman fault zone in western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan

Tectonophysics

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 89-109

  Jadoon, Ishtiaq A K ^a,c   Khurshid, Akbar ^b,d  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Geological Survey of Pakistan   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d Petroleum Concession   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FAULT ZONE; FOLD BELT; GRAVITY DATA; UNDERPLATING;

AFGHANISTAN; PAKISTAN;

EID: 0029729977     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00078-X     Document Type: Article

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