Faults of Indian Plate

Faults of Indian Plate
Muzaffarabad Fault
Jhelum fault
Sagaing Fault
Kalabagh Fault
Chaman Fault
Balakot Fault
MBT Fault
MKT Fault
Harnai Fault
Ornach-Nal Fault

1. Azhar Mahmood Roll no 225 Evening [b]

2. Faults of Indian Plate Muzaffarabad Fault Jhelum fault Sagaing Fault Kalabagh Fault Chaman Fault Balakot Fault MBT Fault MKT Fault Harnai Fault Ornach-Nal Fault

3. Pakistan Geology Pakistan geologically overlaps both with the  Indian  and the  Eurasian   tectonic plates  where its  Sindh  and  Punjab  provinces lie on the north-western corner of the Indian plate while  Balochistan  and most of the  Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa  lie within the Eurasian plate which mainly comprises the  Iranian plateau , some parts of the  Middle East  and  Central Asia . The  Northern Areas  and  Azad Kashmir  lie mainly in Central Asia along the edge of the Indian plate and hence are prone to violent  earthquakes  where the two tectonic plates collide.

4. Muzaffarabad Fault Muzaffarabad fault occurred between the late Cambrian Abbottabad Formation and the Miocene Murree Formation from Balakot to Muzaffarabad city which is a major unconformity, while from Muzaffarabad city to Bagh through Chikar it runs within the Murree Formation

5. Muzaffarabad Fault The city of Muzaffarabad lies close to the junction of two active faults, the Muzaffarabad Thrust and the Jhelum Fault. The former is responsible for the deadly earthquake of October 08, 2005; whereas the Jhelum Fault has been relatively inactive in the recent past .

6. Jhelum Fault Jhelum Fault is a NS oriented upright strike slip fault, marking the southern continuation of western limb of Hazara Kashmir Syntaxis from Muzaffarabad In the mapped area the Murree Formation is exposed to the east of Jhelum Fault and is found only in the axial zone of the Hazara Kashmir Syntaxis After crossing Chathar area in Muzaffarabad , Jhelum Fault runs parallel to the Jhelum River in N-S direction and exhibits a sharp contact at most of its exposures

7. Sagaing Fault the  Sagaing Fault , a 1500 km long tectonic fault that passes through the cities of Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar's capital since 2007), Bago , Sagaing and Mandalay, and close to Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon

8. Geomorphic expression of the Sagaing Fault: 6 km long elongate pressure ridge, part of a system of ridges bounded by the active fault forcing the Ayeyawady River to flow straight. View from the Indian plate side (west) to the Eurasian side (east

9. Kalabagh Fault The 120-km-long Kalabagh fault zone is formed by transpressive right-lateral strike-slip along the western Salt Range Kalabagh fault indicate 12–14 km of middle to late Quaternary right-lateral offset western Salt Range

10. Chaman Fault The  Chaman Fault  is a major, active  geological fault  in Pakistan and  Afghanistan  that runs for over 850 km. [1]   Tectonically , it is actually a system of related geologic faults that separates the  Eurasian Plate  from the  Indo-Australian Plate . It is a terrestrial, primarily  transform ,  left-lateral  strike-slip fault The Chaman fault system has a  compressional component  as the  Indian Plate  is colliding with the Eurasian Plate. This type of plate boundary is sometimes called a transpressional boundary

11. Chaman Fault From the south, the Chaman fault starts at the  triple junction  where the  Arabian Plate , the  Eurasian Plate  and the  Indo-Australian Plate  meet, which is just off the  Makran Coast  of Pakistan. The fault tracks northeast across  Balochistan  and then north-northeast into Afghanistan, runs just to the west of  Kabul ,

12. Balakot Fault Balakot Fault at the western limb of the Hazara -Kashmir Syntaxis and the Raikot-Sassi Fault at the western limb of the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis

13. Main Mantle Thrust Rocks south of the Main Mantle Thrust (MMT) in Swat, Pakistan consist predominantly of Precambrian to Paleozoic granitic gneisses and metasedimentary rocks that represent the deformed and metamorphosed northern margin of the Indian subcontinent

14. Karakoram Fault The  Karakoram fault  is an  oblique-slip fault  system in the  Himalaya  region across  India  and Asia The creation of the Karakoram fault started with the closing of the ancient  Tethys ocean  seaway which once separated the two modern continents of Asia and India .