REGIONAL SYNTHESIS
Geological story
Permian to Triassic successions include sedimentary and volcanic records related to back-arc and subduction–accretion systems. Middle to late Miocene sediment provenance changes in the adjacent basin record renewed deformation and surface uplift.
- Time represented
- Permian–present
- Tectonic setting
- An outer zone of folded Mesozoic–Cenozoic rocks thrust over the Tien Shan along the Vakhsh–Transalay thrust, and an inner zone of older rocks thrust over it along the Karakul–Darvaz fault
- Rock record
- Clastic and carbonate successions, volcanic rocks, accretionary complexes, and younger basin-derived conglomerates
DOCUMENTED PROVENANCE
Linked minerals
No reviewed mineral occurrence has been linked yet. This is an evidence gap, not evidence that minerals are absent.
EVIDENCE BASE
Sources for this region
Middle to late Miocene growth of the North PamirLi et al. · 2022Constrains uplift and sediment-source change from magnetostratigraphy, zircon, and isotopes.
The geodynamics of the Pamir–Punjab syntaxisBurtman · 2013Maps the outer and inner zones of the North Pamir and the Vakhsh–Transalay thrust at the Pamir front.