Structural evidence for back sliding of the Kohistan arc in the collisional system of northwest Pakistan

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 739-742

  Burg, Jean Pierre ^a   Chaudhry, M Nawaz ^b   Ghazanfar, Munir ^b   Anczkiewicz, Robert ^a   Spencer, David ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAPSE FEATURES; COLLAPSE STRUCTURES; COLLISIONAL SYSTEM; GEOMETRICAL MODELING; HIMALAYAS; ISLAND ARC; SECOND GENERATION; STRUCTURAL EVIDENCE;

GEOLOGY;

COLLAPSE; COLLISION ZONE; FOLD; HANGING WALL; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THRUST; BACK SLIDING; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; FOLDING;

KOHISTAN; PAKISTAN; HIMALAYAS; KOHISTAN ARC;

EID: 0030450635     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0739:SEFBSO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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