f Structure identification in a deformed belt - A wrench system in Pakistan

Amoco's exploration team for the Kohat Plateau in the Northern Pakistan Foreland Region acquired and integrated a comprehensive data package which identified structures formed by oblique compression (transpression). Our data shows that basement is involved with the development of structures in this area and that each structure has very high vertical relief with thrust faults and reverse faults radiating outward. Our interpretation suggests that transpressional deformation resulted in forming en echelon tears which caused basement and the sediment cover to buckle to foren shishtarays (Pivnik & Sercombe, 1992), or structures which fit the 'Kohat Anticline Model' (Sercombe & etal, in prep.).