Tectonic analysis of the Mula River Basin, Kirthar fold belt, Pakistan, using hypsometric index

Author:

Hussain Ammar1ORCID,Afzal Amna2ORCID,Khan Shuhab D.2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, Texas, USA. (corresponding author)

2. University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, Texas, USA.

Abstract

The Mula River Basin is in an active tectonic region of the Kirthar fold fault belt in the Western Himalayas. The presence of numerous major faults like Chaman Fault, Kirthar Frontal Fault, and Bannh Fault near the study suggests complex tectonic processes in the region. The seismic record of the study area also indicates that this area is tectonically active. This makes the study area an ideal site to measure tectonic activity through geomorphic indices like hypsometric integrals (HI). For tectonic analysis of the Mula River Basin, we divided the study area into 309 subbasins. The results obtained from the HI calculations for the subbasins led us to the classification of the study area into three classes, i.e., class 1 (0.51–0.78), class 2 (0.37–0.50), and class 3 ([Formula: see text]), where class 1 is for the highest tectonic activity, class 2 responds to moderate, and class 3 is for the lowest tectonic activity. We calculated the hypsometric curves to understand the geomorphological cycle of the Mula River Basin. We quantified the subbasins of the Mula River Basin inside the highly active tectonic zone of Kirthar fold and fault zone as per their tectonic activity and found that a major portion of the study area indicates low tectonic activity (44.33%), medium tectonically active, and high tectonically active subbasins are 37.86% and 17.79%, respectively. These findings are supported by the presence of high-relief areas and known faults in the study area.

Publisher

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

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