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Pakistan Stratigraphy
Glacier or glaciogenic feature Cenozoic

Baltoro Glacier, Concordia & K2

Karakoram · also Central Karakoram National Park

The Baltoro Glacier leads to Concordia, where the greatest concentration of high peaks on Earth — including K2 (8,611 m) — rises from the Miocene Baltoro granite batholith. The area lies within Central Karakoram National Park, Pakistan's largest protected area.

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The geology here

The stratigraphic units exposed at this site — every geological fact above traces to their cited sources.

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