Indus Gorge
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The Indus Gorge with Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth-highest mountain, rising to the south
The Indus Gorge is formed by the Indus River as it skirts the Nanga Parbat massif, the western anchor of the Himalayas, and before it debouches into the plains of Punjab in Pakistan. The gorge is 4,500–5,200 m (14,800–17,100 ft) deep near the Nanga Parbat. In the Nanga Parbat region, the massive amounts of erosion due to the Indus River following the capture and rerouting through that area is thought to bring middle and lower crustal rocks to the surface.[1]gilgit is western most tributary of Indus
References[]
- ^ Zeitler, Peter K.; Koons, Peter O.; Bishop, Michael P.; Chamberlain, C. Page; Craw, David; Edwards, Michael A.; Hamidullah, Syed; Jan, M. Qasim; Khan, M. Asif; Khattak, M. Umar Khan; Kidd, William S. F.; MacKie, Randall L.; Meltzer, Anne S.; Park, Stephen K.; Pecher, Arnaud; Poage, Michael A.; Sarker, Golam; Schneider, David A.; Seeber, Leonardo; Shroder, John F. (2001). "Crustal reworking at Nanga Parbat, Pakistan: Metamorphic consequences of thermal-mechanical coupling facilitated by erosion". Tectonics. 20 (5): 712–28. Bibcode:2001Tecto..20..712Z. doi:10.1029/2000TC001243.
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