TABLE OF CONTENTS

Ch. No.

Topics

Page No.

1.

INTRODUCTION

1.1

General

1.2

Regional Tectonics

1.3

Major Tectonic sub-division of Himalayas

1.3.1

Higher Himalayas

1.3.2

Lesser Himalayas

1.3.3

Sub-Himalayas

1.4

Hazara Kashmir Syntaxis (HKS)

1.5

Main Central Thrust (MCT)

1.6

Main Boundary Thrust ( MBT)

1.7

Panjal Thrust (PT)

10

1.8

Jhelum Fault (JF)

10

1.9

Kashmir Boundary Thrust (KBT)

11

1.10

Project Formulation

11

1.11

Previous Geophysical Work

12
CHAPTER- 2

2.

GEOLOGY OF THE AREA

Geological Succession Of The Study Area
3.

16

CHAPTER-3
PLANNING, ACQUISITION AND REDUCTION OF GRAVITY
DATA

3.1

Planning of Gravity Survey

17

3.2

Data Acquisition

17

Gravity Measurement

18

3.2.1

3.2.2

Elevation Determination

18

3.2.3

Establishment of Base station

18

3.2.4

Profile Layout

20

Data Processing

20

3.3.1

Bouguer Anomaly Determination

21

3.3.2

Free Air Anomaly Determination

21

Gravity Data

21

3.4.1

Drift Correction (D.C)

22

3.4.2

Free Air Correction (F.A.C)

22

3.4.3

Bouguer Correction (B.C)

22

3.4.4

Latitude Correction (L.C)

23

3.4.5

Terrain Correction (T.C)

23

3.3

3.4

CHAPTER 4

4.

THE DESCRIPTION OF GRAVITY DATA

4.1

Talwani Method

5.

25
CHAPTER- 5

INTERPRETATION AND DISCUSSION

5.1

Interpretation

29

5.1.1

Qualitative Interpretation

29

5.1.2

Quantitative Interpretation

30

Discussion

31

5.2
6.

7.

CHAPTER- 6
CONCLUSION

33

REFERENCES

34

Fig No.

LIST OF FIGURES

1.1
Description
Tectonic Map of Northern Pakistan.
1.2

Generalized Tectonic Map of Hazara Kashmir Syntaxis in northern

Pakistan and Kashmir.

1.3

Geological and Tectonic Map of Hazara Kashmir Syntaxis.

2.1

Geological Map of the study area.

4.1

Bouguer Anomaly Map of the study area.

4.2

Polygon of Talwani Method.

4.3

Geological Model of Sedimentary wedge in Study Area between Riwat

and Sri Alamgir Based on Gravity Data.

4.4

Gravity Model Shows the Combine Sediments and Moho Effect along
the profile A-A/.
LIST OF TABLES

Table No.

Description

2.1

Geological Succession of The study area.

3.1

National, main and auxiliary gravity based station in the study area.

3.2

Profile Layout of the study area.

LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS

Photo No.

Description

3.1

Showing CG-5 Autograve.