At Jijal in the Indus valley the Main Mantle Thrust (the India–Kohistan suture) is spectacularly exposed, and the Jijal Complex reveals the high-pressure garnet-granulite and ultramafic root of the Kohistan island arc — a natural cross-section through the base of an intra-oceanic arc.

• Exposed root of the Kohistan island arc (garnet granulite, dunite, pyroxenite)
• The Main Mantle Thrust suture between India and the arc
• Classic locality for arc lower-crust and metamorphic petrology

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