Glacier or glaciogenic feature Cenozoic
Baltoro Glacier, Concordia & K2
Karakoram · also Central Karakoram National Park
The Baltoro Glacier leads to Concordia, where the greatest concentration of high peaks on Earth — including K2 (8,611 m) — rises from the Miocene Baltoro granite batholith. The area lies within Central Karakoram National Park, Pakistan's largest protected area.
ScenicScientific
- Miocene Baltoro leucogranite, a young Himalayan-type batholith
- Concordia: four of the world's fourteen 8,000 m peaks within ~20 km
- Central Karakoram National Park
The geology here
The stratigraphic units exposed at this site — every geological fact above traces to their cited sources.
Quantitative assessment
Scored with the Brilha (2016) method — each value 0–400. Desk-based first pass; the full score matrix ships with the open dataset.
Scientific value 320/400 · 80%
Educational use 245/400 · 61.3%
Touristic use 265/400 · 66.3%
Degradation risk 100/400 · 25%
Standard
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