4. View to E from Nashkin Valley, looking across Manogush Ridge (foreground) to Airl Gali pass (notch just left of centre in skyline). Viewer is standing within the up to 8 km (structural thickness) of carbonates, amphibolites, and metapelites of the local Indian plate cover rocks that make up the "original" MMT footwall, and looking across to Airl Gali pass, the eastern margin of the Jalhari Granite deformed in the Airl-Gah/Diamir Shear Zone (see geologic cross section). Compare photo (5) taken from Airl Gali pass.

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