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Recent field work on the Kohistan complex in the Karakorum Range of North Pakistan has shown its stratigraphy to be repeated by several phases of tight to isoclinal folding. This reveals a close association between igneous activity and a late deformation and complicates the previously proposed island arc model.
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Coward, M., Jan, M., Rex, D. et al. Structural evolution of a crustal section in the western Himalaya. Nature 295, 22–24 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/295022a0
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