Main Mantle Thrust & Jijal Complex
Kohistan Arc · also Kohistan arc root, Indus valley
At Jijal in the Indus valley the Main Mantle Thrust (the India–Kohistan suture) is spectacularly exposed, and the Jijal Complex reveals the high-pressure garnet-granulite and ultramafic root of the Kohistan island arc — a natural cross-section through the base of an intra-oceanic arc.
- Exposed root of the Kohistan island arc (garnet granulite, dunite, pyroxenite)
- The Main Mantle Thrust suture between India and the arc
- Classic locality for arc lower-crust and metamorphic petrology
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.
Nearby geosites
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