Mesoscopic Structures can give Insights to the Regional Ones –An Example of Pumpelly’s Rule from a part of Kala-Chitta Range near Kahi Village, Nizampur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: An Insight into Economic Geology

The Himalayan mountain belt is comprised of southward-propagating thrust sheets that formed soon after the collision of Indian and Eurasian plates in Eocene. The Pakistani Himalayan Thrust System from hinterland in the north to foreland in the south consists of Main Karakoram Thrust (MKT), Main Mantle Thrust (MMT), Main Boundary Thrust (MBT) and Salt Range Thrust (SRT) (Treloar, 1989; Kazmi and Rana, 1982). In Pakistani Himalayas, the general trend of the major structures (thrusts) is east-west (Nakata and Kumhara, 2002)