Minerals Industry of Gilgit Biltistan
Geology of Lease Area Skardu Basin is a northwest-trending intermontane basin along the Indus River in the Karakoram Himalaya Mountains of Pakistan. Seismotectonic domain boundaries in the Karakoram Himalaya commonly cross lithologic and some older structural boundaries. Four major structural-seismotectonic domains exist in the Skardu area: · Himalayan seismic zone, characterized by thrust tectonics; · Hindu Kush–Pamir seismic zone; · Skardu quiet zone, characterized by strike-slip, extensional, and rotational tectonics with relatively little seismicity. · Southern Edge of Eurasian lithosphere (Tarim–Kun Lun–Tibet) northeast of the Karakoram fault. The Skardu quiet zone is interpreted to be within the Himalayan thrust prism, above an aseismic detachment along which stable sliding or ductile faulting...