3. View to east from the central Astor River valley. Ladakh-Kohistan mafic rocks form the peak of the mountain on the skyline. Metasediments of the Indian cover sequence dip east below this, with Nanga Parbat gneisses below them. Rocks in the near ridge are the gently-dipping gneisses at the core of the major (western) antiform.

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