Where is sulaiman range on map

April 11, TIFF. The false-color images above and below it show a closer view of two interesting areas within the larger scene. The top image shows an imbricate fan to the east of Murgha Kibzai. The fan is comprised of a series of parallel, closely-spaced slices of rock that are bounded by faults on either side.

Light-colored rock is limestone; darker-colored rock is sandstone. The presence of this feature is a sign that rock layers near the surface have become disconnected from the underlying rock below and are moving independently it. See the map published in Geomorphology from Space for a detailed look at the location and orientation of the faults.

The lower image shows a plunging syncline east of Zhob, Pakistan. A syncline is a type of fold that often forms when plates are pushing together to build mountains. The youngest layers of a syncline are at the center. The rocks making up this syncline are part of the Loralai formation, a series of sedimentary rocks that formed off the northern coast of India in the Jurassic period.

Just to the west of this scene, there are dark rocks called ophiolite, which are bits of ocean crust uplifted during the collision. The presence of ophiolite is a clue that separate continental plates were sutured together in this area. Caption by Adam Voiland. The collision of India and Eurasia pushed up tectonically complex mountains in western Pakistan. Image of the Day Land. Pakistan is prone to earthquakes because it lies in the collision zone of the India tectonic plate to the south and the Eurasian plate to the north.

A magnitude 6. Image of the Day Land Earthquakes. Image of the Day Land Life Earthquakes. Image of the Day Land Remote Sensing. Image of the Day Land Water Earthquakes.

EO Explorer. Bordering the Sulaimans to the north are the arid highlands of Central Hindu Kush or Paropamisadae , whose heights extend up to 6, metres.

In Balochistan , its highest peak is Zarghun Ghar at 3, metres near Quetta city; while the second-highest is Khilafat Hill at 3, metres in Ziarat district.

The eastern slopes drop very quickly to the Indus River , but towards west, the mountain range drops gradually in Kandahar southwest into Helmand and the Sistan Basin.

Rivers that flow out from the Sulaimans include the Gomal River which flows eastward into the Indus River , and the Dori River and other small tributaries of the Arghandab River , which flows southwestward into the Helmand River. In the Pashtun and Gandhara legend, one of the highest peaks of the Takht-i Sulaiman "Throne of Solomon" , 3, metres high, is associated with Prophet Solomon.

Ibn Battuta names it Koh-i Sulaiman. It is related that Prophet Solomon climbed this mountain and looked out over the land of South Asia, which was then covered with darkness, but he turned back without descending into this new frontier, and left only the mountain which is named after him from Ibn Battuta.

The legend has it that from there, his different descendants migrated west, north, and south.