Tectonics of the Nanga Parbat syntaxis and the western Himalaya: an introduction • The gravity field of the Karakoram Mountain Range and the surrounding areas • Mafic sheets from Indian plate gneisses in the Nanga Parbat syntaxis: their significance in dating crustal growth and metamorphic deformation events • Structural evolution of the western margin of the Nanga Parbat massif, Pakistan Himalaya: insights from the Raikhot-Liachar area • Tectonics of the SW margin of the Nanga Parbat massif • The evolution of the Main Mantle Thrust in the Western Syntaxis, Northern Pakistan • Geological structure of the southern part of the Nanga Parbat massif, Pakistan Himalaya, and its tectonic implications • Geochronological constraints on the evolution of the Nanga Parbat syntaxis, Pakistan Himalaya • Unroofing of the Nanga Parbat Himalaya • Remote sensing and geomorphometric assessment of topographic complexity and erosion dynamics in the Nanga Parbat massif • Tracing the origins of the western Himalaya: an isotopic comparison of the Nanga Parbat massif and Zanskar Himalaya • From buckling to asymmetric folding of the continental lithosphere: numerical modelling and application to the Himalayan syntaxes • Mantle exhumation along the Tirich Mir Fault Zone, NW Pakistan: pre-mid-Cretaceous accretion of the Karakoram terrane to the Asian margin • New field, structural and geochronological data from the Shyok and Nubra valleys, northern Ladakh: linking Kohistan to Tibet • Geological evolution of the Hindu Kush, NW Frontier Pakistan: active margin to continent-continent collision zone • Pre-collisional anastomosing shear zones in the Kohistan arc, NW Pakistan • Timing of magmatic and metamorphic events in the Jijal complex of the Kohistan are deduced from the Sm-Nd dating of mafic granulites • Isotopic constraints on the evolution of metamorphic conditions in the jijal-Patan complex and the Kamila Belt of the Kohistan arc, Pakistan Himalaya • Formation of melanges in the Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh Himalaya by successive subduction-related, collisional and post-collisional processes during Late Mesozoic-Late Tertiary time • The Main Mantle Thrust in Pakistan: its character and extent • Crustal shortening estimates across the north Indian continental margin, Ladakh, NW India • Glaucophane and barroisite eclogites from the Upper Kaghan nappe: implications for the metamorphic history of the NW Himalaya • Metamorphic evolution Ar-Ar chronology and tectonic model for the Neelum valley, Azad Kashmir, NE Pakistan • Exotic conglomerates of the Neogene Siwalik succession and their implications for the tectonic and topographic evolution of the Western Himalaya • Stratigraphic and tectonic evolution of the northwestern Indian plate and Kabul block • Index