Summary Collision of India and Eurasia occurred sometime during the Eocene following the
Tethyan oceanic subduction. Post-collision metamorphic and magmatic events in Tibet and …

The year 1964 when the International Geological Congress met for the first time in India, A.
Gansser published his “Geology of the Himalayas” that remains more than 20 years after the …

Emerald deposits in Swat, northwestern Pakistan, occurring in talc-magnesite and quartz-
magnesite assemblages, have been investigated through stable isotope studies. Isotopic …

At kt 40 cntaskophic fioods inundated the Peshawar Basin in prehistoric times. A seqtlence
of graded beds up to 25m thick near Paran--record these flood euezzts. These older floods …

Mafic magmatism has repeatedly taken place in Pakistan throughout its geologic history
from the earliest Proterozoic to Recent. Much of it, however, does not have associated …

Major, trace element composition and Sr isotopic data were collected for gabbroic rocks,
plagiogranites and albitites in the ophiolite assemblage from Swat Valley (NW Frontier …

Abstract The E‐W‐trending Kohistan terrane in the NW Himalaya is a sandwich of a
magmatic arc between the collided Karakoram (Asian) and Indian plates. The southern part …

The suture zones bordering the Indian subcontinent on the E, N and W are characterized in
several places by the occurrence of ophiolitic complexes and tectonic melanges. High-P …

Abstract The Himalayan Foreland Basin (HFB) is one of the largest and dynamic terrestrial
basins, stretching between the northwestern and northeastern Himalayas before arching …

This study presents a complementary geochemical and isotopic database (Ca2+, Mg2+, Na,
K+, HCO 3-, SO42-, Cl-, trace elements and isotopes of H, O, C, S and Sr) for water samples …