Contrasting Late Cretaceous-Palaeocene lithostratigraphic successions across the Bibai Thrust, western Sulaiman Fold-Thrust Belt, Pakistan: Their significance in deciphering the early-collisional history of the NW Indian Plate margin

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 435-444

  Kassi, Akhtar Mohammad ^a   Kelling, Gilbert ^b   Kasi, Aimal Khan ^a   Umar, Mohammad ^a   Khan, Abdul Salam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALOCHISTAN   (Pakistan)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bibai Thrust; Lithostratigraphy; Sulaiman Fold Thrust Belt; Upper Cretaceous

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CRETACEOUS; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; INDIAN PLATE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCENE; PLATE TECTONICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA; SULAIMAN RANGE;

EID: 67349185619     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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