Nanga Parbat–Haramosh Massif
Nanga Parbat Massif · also Nanga Parbat syntaxis
Photo: Lareb Qudsi, CC BY-SA 4.0
The western Himalayan syntaxis, where Indian-plate gneiss is being exhumed faster than almost anywhere on Earth, driving the 8,126 m peak of Nanga Parbat. The massif exposes deep-crustal rocks and young (Pliocene–Recent) metamorphism and granites.
- Among the fastest-exhuming crust on the planet
- Indian-plate basement gneiss cored into a tectonic 'pop-up'
- Ninth-highest mountain on Earth
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.
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