Source provenance
Cronin, V.S. (1989). Structural setting of the Skardu intermontane basin, Karakoram Himalaya, Pakistan. In: Malinconico, L.L. & Lillie, R.J. (eds) Tectonics of the Western Himalayas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 232, 183-201.
Cited by 2 units (2 published) · 8 field-level citations · 1 revision note.
Structural/seismotectonic setting of the Skardu intermontane basin along the Indus in the Karakoram Himalaya. Defines four structural-seismotectonic domains (Himalayan seismic zone, Hindu Kush-Pamir zone, Skardu quiet zone, Eurasian lithosphere). The ~1.3-km-thick upper Cenozoic Bunthang sedimentary sequence (named Cronin 1982) records a Skardu basin phase between ~3.2 and 0.73 Ma, when uplift of the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh syntaxis downstream ponded the Indus River.
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- Geological significance: Cronin (1989): the metasedimentary rocks around Skardu are overlain, in the Skardu intermontane basin, by the ~1.3-km-thick late Cenozoic Bunthang Sequence (~3.2–0.73 Ma; now recorded as a separate unit). The basin lies in the 'Skardu quiet zone' — a low-seismicity domain of the Himalayan thrust prism dominated by strike-slip, extensional and rotational tectonics — and its basin phase is linked to ponding of the Indus during uplift of the Nanga Parbat–Haramosh syntaxis.