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Trans-Alai subzone

geological feature, Asia

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Pamirs

  • The Kunlun and Pamir mountain ranges.
    In Pamirs: Geology of Pamirs

    It is separated from the Trans-Alai subzone by the Karakul fracture, through which flows the Kyzylsu-Surkhob-Vakhsh river system. The Trans-Alai subzone is highly complex. Its western part is a fan-shaped anticline in the centre of which emerge Jurassic deposits; radiating outward are more recent, dislocated rocks of the Early Cretaceous…

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