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AZHAR MAHMOODROLL NO 225EVENING [B]
FAULTS OF INDIAN PLATE Muzaffarabad Fault
Jhelum fault Sagaing Fault
Kalabagh FaultChaman FaultBalakot Fault
MBT FaultMKT Fault
Harnai Fault Ornach-Nal Fault
Pakistan Geology
Pakistan geologically overlaps both with the Indian and the Eurasian tectonic plates where its Sindh and Punjab provinces lie on the north-western corner of the Indian plate while Balochistan and most of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa lie within the Eurasian plate which mainly comprises the Iranian plateau, some parts of the Middle East and Central Asia. The Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir lie mainly in Central Asia along the edge of the Indian plate and hence are prone to violent earthquakes where the two tectonic plates collide.
Muzaffarabad Fault
Muzaffarabad fault occurred between the late Cambrian Abbottabad Formation and the Miocene Murree Formation from Balakot to Muzaffarabad city which is a major unconformity, while from Muzaffarabad city to Bagh through Chikar it runs within the Murree Formation
Muzaffarabad Fault
The city of Muzaffarabad lies close to the junction of two active faults, the
Muzaffarabad Thrust and the Jhelum Fault. The former is responsible for the deadly
earthquake of October 08, 2005; whereas the Jhelum Fault has been relatively inactive
in the recent past.
Jhelum Fault Jhelum Fault is a NS oriented upright strike slip
fault, marking the southern continuation of western limb of Hazara
Kashmir Syntaxis from Muzaffarabad In the mapped area the Murree Formation is
exposed to the east of Jhelum Fault and is found only in the axial zone of the Hazara Kashmir Syntaxis
After crossing Chathar area in Muzaffarabad, Jhelum Fault runs parallel to the Jhelum
River in N-S direction and exhibits a sharp contact at most of its exposures
Sagaing Fault
the Sagaing Fault, a 1500 km long tectonic fault that passes through the cities of Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar's capital since 2007), Bago, Sagaing and Mandalay, and close to Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon
Geomorphic expression of the Sagaing Fault: 6 km long elongate pressure ridge, part of a
system of ridges bounded by the active fault forcing the Ayeyawady River to flow
straight. View from the Indian plate side (west) to the Eurasian side (east
Kalabagh Fault
The 120-km-long Kalabagh fault zone is formed by transpressive right-lateral strike-slip along the western Salt Range
Kalabagh fault indicate 12–14 km of middle to late Quaternary right-lateral offset western Salt Range
CHAMAN FAULT
The Chaman Fault is a major, active geological fault in Pakistan and Afghanistan that runs for over 850 km.[1] Tectonically, it is actually a system of related geologic faults that separates the Eurasian Plate from the Indo-Australian Plate. It is a terrestrial, primarily transform, left-lateral
strike-slip fault The Chaman fault system has a compressional component as the Indian Plate is colliding with
the Eurasian Plate. This type of plate boundary is sometimes called a transpressional boundary
Chaman Fault
From the south, the Chaman fault starts at the triple junction where the Arabian Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate meet, which is just off the Makran Coast of Pakistan. The fault tracks northeast across Balochistan and then north-northeast into Afghanistan, runs just to the west of Kabul,
Balakot Fault
Balakot Fault at the western limb of the Hazara-Kashmir Syntaxis and the Raikot-Sassi Fault at the western limb of the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis
Main Mantle Thrust
Rocks south of the Main Mantle Thrust (MMT) in Swat, Pakistan consist predominantly of Precambrian to Paleozoic granitic gneisses and metasedimentary rocks that represent the deformed and metamorphosed northern margin of the Indian subcontinent
Karakoram Fault
The Karakoram fault is an oblique-slip fault system in the Himalaya region across India and Asia
The creation of the Karakoram fault started with the closing of the ancient Tethys ocean seaway which once separated the two modern continents of Asia and India
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