Publications of the years
1981 to 1985

Year Contribution

1981
Jan, M.Q. & Howie, R.A., The mineralogy and geochemistry of the metamorphosed basic and ultrabasic rocks of the Jijal Complex, Kohistan, NW Pakistan. Jour. Petrol., vol. 22, pp. 85-126.

Johnson, G.D., Rey, P. H., Ardray, R. H., Visser, C. F., Opdyke, N.D. & Tahirkheli, R.A.K., Paleoenvironments of the Siwalik Group, Pakistan & India. In: G. Rapp, Jr. and C.F. Vondra, (eds.) Hominated Sites; their geologic setting. AAAS selected symposium, vol. 63, pp. 197-254.

Tahirkheli, R. A. K., An extended domain of the Yasin group in Karakoram and Hindukush. In "Contemporary Geoscientific Researches in Himalaya" 1 (A.K.Sinha, ed.). Singh Publ., Dehra Dun, India. p. 243.

Tahirkheli, R. A. K., Geological complexion of unfossiliferous Lesser Himalayan sequence in Pakistan: A review. In "Contemporary Geoscientific Researches in Himalayan, 1 (A.K.Sinha, ed.). Singh Publ., Dehra Dun, India, pp. 21-29.

Zeitler, P.K. & Tahirkheli, R.A.K., Uplift of the lesser Himalayas, Northern Pakistan, as inferred from fission-track ages of sphene, epidote, and zircon. Nuclear Track Detect., vol. 5, p. -7.


1982
Coward, M. P., Jan, M. Q., Rex, D., Tarney, J., Thirlwal, M. & Windley B.F., Geotectonic framework of the Himalaya of Northern Pakistan. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, vol. 139, pp. 299-308.

Coward, M.P., Jan, M.Q., Rex, D., Tarney, J., Thirlwal, M. & Windley, B.F., Structural evolution of a crustal section in the western Himalaya. Nature (London), vol. 295, pp. 22-24.

Jan, M.Q. & Howie, R.A., Hornblendic amphiboles from basic and intermediate rocks of Swat-Kohistan, northwest Pakistan. Am. Mineral., vol. 67, pp. 1155-1178.

Jan, M.Q., Chemical changes accompanying the granulite to amphibolite transition in Swat, NW Pakistan. In". Contemporary geoscientific researches in Himalaya", 2, (A.K. Sinha ed.), Singh Publ., Dehra Dun, India, pp. 49-52.

Jan, M.Q., Wilson, R.N. & Windley, B.F., Paragonite paragenesis from the garnet granulites of the Jijal Complex, Kohistan, NW Pakistan. Min. Mag., vol. 45, pp. 73-77.

Johnson, G.D., Opdyke, N.D., Pilbeam, D., Tahirkheli, R.A.K., & Shah, S.M.F., Introduction to special volume on Siwaliks. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclim. Palaeoecol., vol. 37, pp.1-11.

Johnson, G.D., Zeitler, P., Naeser, C.W., Johnson, N.M., Summers, D.M., Frost, C.D., Opdyke, N.D. & Tahirkheli, R.A.K., The occurrence and fission-track ages of Late Neogene and Quaternary volcanic sediments, Siwalik Group, N. Pakistan. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclim., Palaeoecol., vol. 37, pp.17-42.

Johnson, N.M., Opdyke, N.D., Johnson, G.D. & Tahirkheli, R.A.K., Paleomagnetism of the middle Siwalik Group rocks of the Potwar Plateau, Pakistan. Palaeogeog. Palaeoclim, Palaeoecol, vol. 37, pp. 17-45.

Opdyke, N.D., Johnson, N. M., Johnson, G. D. Landsay, E.H. & Tahirkheli R.A.K., Paleomagnetism of the Middle Siwalik formations of N. Pakistan and rotation of the Salt Range Decollement. Palaeogeog., Palaeoclim., Palaeoeocl.,vol. 37, pp. 1-15.

Zeitler, P.K., Johnson, N.M., Naseer, C.W. & Tahirkheli, R.A.K., Fission-track evidence for Quaternary uplift of the Nanga Parbat region, Pakistan. Nature, vol. 298, pp. 255-257.

Zeitler, P.K., Tahirkheli, R.A.K., Naseer, C.W. & Johnson, N.M., Unroofing history of a suture zone in the Himalaya of Pakistan by means of fission-track annealing ages. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., vol. 57, pp. 227-240.


1983
Jan, M.Q., & Asif, M. Geochemistry of tonalites and quartz-diorites of the Kohistan - Ladakh (Trans-Himalayan) granitic belt in Swat, N.W Pakistan. In: Granites of Himalayas, Karakoram & Hindukush. (F.A. Shams, ed.). Inst. Geology, Punjab Univ. Lahore, pp. 355-376.

Tahirkheli, R.A.K., Geological evolution of Kohistan island arc on the southern flank of the Karakoram-Hindukush in Pakistan. Bol. de Geofis. Theor. Applic., vol. 25, pp. 351-364.


1984
Coward, M.P., Jan, M.Q., Rex, D., Tarney, J., Thirlwall, M. & Windley, B.F. Geology of the south central Karakoram and Kohistan. In: International Karakoram Project, vol. 2, (K.J.Miller, ed.), pp. 71-85.

Ghauri, A.A., Tectonics of western Indus suture in Pakistan. EOS., vol. 65., No.45., p. 1094.

Jan, M.Q., Windley, B.F. & Wilson, R.N., Chromiam andradite and olivine-chromite relations in a chromitite layer in dunite from the Jijal complex, northwestern Pakistan. Canadian Mineral., vol. 22, pp. 341-345.

Tahirkheli, R.A.K. & Jan, M.Q., The geographic and geologic domains of the Karakoram. Int. Karakoram Project, vol.2. (K.J. Miller, ed.). Royal Geog. Soc. London, pp. 57-70.


1985
Burbank, D.W. & Tahirkheli, R.A.K., The magnetostratigraphy, fission-track dating and stratigraphic evolution of the Peshawar intermontane basin, northern Pakistan. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., vol. 96, pp. 539-552.

Jan, M.Q., Windley, B.F. & Khan, A., The Waziristan ophiolite, Pakistan: General geology and chemistry of chromite and associated phases. Econ. Geol., vol. 80, pp. 294-306.

Johnson, N.M. Stix, J., Tauxe, L., Cerveny, P.F. & Tahirkheli, R.A.K., Paleomagnetic chronology, fluvial processes & tectonic implications of the Siwalik deposits near Chinji village, Pakistan. Jour. Geol., vol.93, pp. 27-40.

Khan, M. A., Geology of the Babusar-Thak valley and its implications for the configuration of the Kohistan island arc sequence. Ist Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, Univ. of Leicester, UK. p.10.

Pickerill, R.K. & Tanoli, S.K., Revised lithostratigraphy of the Cambro-Ordovician St. John Group, southern New Brunswick-- a preliminary report. Current Research, Geol. Surv. Canada, paper 85-1B, pp. 441-449.

Pudsey, C.J., Coward, M.P., Luff, I.Q., Shackleton, R.M., Windley, B.F. & Jan M.Q., Collision zone between the Kohistan arc and the Asian plate in NW Pakistan. Trans. Royal Soc. Edinbrgh, vol. 76, pp. 463-479.

Rafiq, M. & Jan, M.Q., Emerald and green beryl from Bucha, Mohmand Agency, northwest Pakistan. Jour. Gemmol., vol. 19, pp. 404-411.

Tanoli S.K., Pickerill, R.K. & Currie, K.L., Distinction of Eocambrian and lower Cambrian redbeds, Saint John area, southern new Brunswick. Current Research, Geol. Surv. Canada, paper 85-1 A, pp, 699-702.