Research At COMSATS

Petroleum Geosciences and Geophysics

Dr. Muhammad Qasim

	Designation:	Assistant Professor
	Email:	qasimtanoli@cuiatd.edu.pk
	Phone No. :	0092-992-383591
	Role:	Faculty
	Research Interests:	Structural Geology and Sedimentary Tectonics

Academics/ Degrees

PhD (2017) Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS-TWAS China
BS (Pakistan)

Projects

SUTURING PROCESS AND TIMING OF INDIA-ASIA COLLISION ALONG THE NORTHWESTERN MARGIN OF INDIAN PLATE, PAKISTAN

Publications/Papers

2023

Journal

Umar, M.,M. Qasim,M.Jamil "Facies analysis and depositional framework of Late Permian-Jurassic sedimentary successions, Western Salt Range, Pakistan: implications for sequence stratigraphic trends and paleogeography of the Neo-Tethys Sea" , Kuwait Journal Of Science ,Volume 50 ,Page 1-22 , 2023

J.I.Tanoli,Jadoon, I. A. K.,M. Qasim,S.T.H. Shah "Application of bivariate statistical techniques for landslide susceptibility mapping: A case study in Kaghan valley, NW Pakistan" , Geological Journal , 2023

M. Qasim,J.I.Tanoli,L. Ding,Jadoon, I. A. K. "Exhumation of the Higher Himalaya: Insights from Detrital Zircon U–Pb Ages of the Oligocene–Miocene Chitarwatta Formation, Sulaiman Fold–Thrust Belt, Pakistan" , Applied Sciences ,Volume 13 ,Issue 6 ,Page 3418 , 2023

M. Qasim,J.I.Tanoli,L. Ding,Jadoon, I. A. K. "The Early Paleocene Ranikot Formation, Sulaiman Fold-Thrust Belt, Pakistan: Detrital Zircon Provenance and Tectonic Implications" , Minerals ,Volume 13 ,Issue 3 ,Page 413 , 2023

Pan Bing,M. Qasim "Occurrence of Tannuolina in the early Cambrian siltstones of the Hazara Basin, North Pakistan, and its biostratigraphical significance" , Journal of the Geological Society ,Volume 180 ,Issue 4 , 2023

M. Qasim,J.I.Tanoli,L. Ding,Dr. Wahid Abbas,M.Jamil "Foreland basin unconformity, Western Himalaya, Pakistan: timing gap, regional correlation and tectonic implications" , Progress in Earth and Planetary Science ,Volume 10 ,Page 51 , 2023

2022

Journal

L. Ding,M. Qasim "Two contrasting exhumation scenarios of deeply subducted continental crust in North Pakistan" , Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems ,Volume 23 ,Issue 2 , 2022

M. Qasim,Umbreen Umber,J.I.Tanoli "First U-Pb Detrital Zircon Ages from Kamlial Formation (Kashmir, Pakistan): Tectonic Implications for Himalayan Exhumation" , Minerals ,Volume 12 ,Issue 3 ,Page 298 , 2022

J.I.Tanoli,M. Qasim,Umbreen Umber "Modified “Rockfall Hazard Rating System for Pakistan (RHRSP)”: An Application for Hazard and Risk Assessment along the Karakoram Highway, Northwest Pakista" , Applied Sciences ,Volume 12 ,Issue 8 ,Page 3778 , 2022

MMSS. Khan,M. Qasim "A newly discovered Neoproterozoic diamictite-cap carbonate couplet from the Western Himalaya: The expansion of the Marinoan snowball Earth glaciation to the northwestern margin of the Indian Plate in North Pakistan" , Precambrian Research ,Volume 378 ,Page 106759 , 2022

M.Awais,M. Qasim "U(-Th)–Pb age and petrogenesis of Shigar leucogranites, Karakoram Metamorphic Complex, North Pakistan" , Geological Journal ,Volume 57 ,Issue 10 ,Page 3973-4392 , 2022

M. Qasim,J.I.Tanoli "Provenance of the Late Cretaceous Pab Formation, Sulaiman fold-thrust belt, Pakistan: Insight from the Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Sandstone Petrography" , Geological Journal ,Volume 57 ,Issue 11 ,Page 4439-4450 , 2022

2021

Journal

M.Arif,M. Qasim "Petrology of granitoids from Indus syntaxis, northern Pakistan: Implications for Paleo-Proterozoic A-type magmatism in north-western Indian Plate" , Geochemistry, April, 2021 ,Volume 81 ,Issue 1 ,Page 125693 , 2021

Jadoon, I. A. K.,L. Ding,S.T.H. Shah,M. Qasim "Lithospheric Deformation and Active Tectonics of the NW Himalayas, Hindukush, and Tibet" , Lithosphere, Geoscience World ,Volume 2021 ,Page 0-17 , 2021

Z.Zhidan,M. Qasim "The detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes of the Triassic sediments in northern Pakistan: Implications for crustal evolution of the NW Indian continen" , Precambrian Research, June, 2021 ,Volume 357 ,Page 106146 , 2021

M. Qasim,J.I.Tanoli "INTEGRATED PROVENANCE AND TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOCENE CLASTIC SEQUENCE, CHHANGLA GALI, LESSER HIMALAYA, PAKISTAN" , Geological Journal , 2021

M. Qasim,J.I.Tanoli "Detrital Zircon Provenance of the Cenozoic Sequence, Kotli, Northwestern Himalaya, Pakistan; Implications for India–Asia Collision" , Minerals ,Volume 15 ,Issue 11 ,Page 399 , 2021

2020

Journal

M. Qasim "Provenance of the Hangu Formation, Lesser Himalaya, Pakistan: Insight from the detrital Zircon U-Pb dating and Spinel geochemistry " , Palaeoworld ,Volume 29 ,Issue 4 ,Page 729-743 , 2020

M. Qasim "The latest Jurassic protoliths of the Sangsang mafic schists in southern Tibet: Implications for the spatial extent of Greater India." , Gondwana Research, March, 2020 ,Volume 79 ,Page 248-262 , 2020

L. Ding,M. Qasim "Early Cretaceous to Eocene magmatic records in Ladakh arc: Constraints from U–Pb ages of Deosai volcanics, northern Pakistan" , Geological Journal ,Volume 55 ,Issue 7 ,Page 5384-5397 , 2020

L. Ding,M. Qasim "Provenance analysis of Cretaceous peripheral foreland basin in central Tibet: Implications to precise timing on the initial Lhasa-Qiangtang collision" , Tectonophysics, January, 2020 ,Volume 775 ,Page 228311 , 2020

Umar, M.,M. Qasim "Sedimentology of Galdanian Formation Hazara Basin Lesser Himalaya Pakistan: The signatures of Cambrian-Ordovician Pan-African Orogeny" , Himalayan Geology, March, 2020 ,Volume 41 ,Issue 1 ,Page 93-104 , 2020

2019

Journal

M. Qasim "Detrital zircon U–Pb ages, Hf isotopic constraints, and trace element analysis of Upper Cretaceous–Neogene sedimentary units in the Western Nepal Himalaya: Implications for provenance changes and India–Asia collision" , Geological Journal ,Volume 54 ,Issue 1 ,Page 120-132 , 2019

U. Baral,M. Qasim "Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology of a Cenozoic foreland basin in Northeast India: Implications for zircon provenance during the collision of the Indian and Asian plates" , Terra Nova, 10, October, 2018 ,Volume 31 ,Issue 1 ,Page 18-27 , 2019

L. Ding,M. Qasim "Interpretation of the Eastern Sulaiman fold-and-thrust belt, Pakistan: A passive roof duplex" , Journal of Structural Geology ,Volume 126 ,Page 231-244 , 2019

2018

Journal

M. Qasim,Jadoon, I. A. K.,Umar, M. "Late Neoproterozoic–Early Palaeozoic stratigraphic succession, Western Himalaya, North Pakistan: Detrital zircon provenance and tectonic implications" , Geological Journal ,Volume 53 ,Issue 5 ,Page 2258-2279 , 2018

M. Qasim,Jadoon, I. A. K.,L. Ding,U. Baral "Tectonic implications of detrital zircon ages from Lesser Himalayan Mesozoic-Cenozoic strata, Pakistan" , Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystem, 26-March ,Volume 19 ,Issue 5 ,Page 1636-1659 , 2018

2017

Journal

L. Ding,M. Qasim "Processes of initial collision and suturing between India and Asia" , Science-China Earth Sciences ,Volume 60 ,Issue 4 ,Page 635-651 , 2017

U. Baral,M. Qasim "Erosional unroofing of Himalaya in far western Nepal: a detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and petrography study" , Journal of Nepal Geological Society, 31-12-2017 ,Volume 53 ,Page 1-8 , 2017

2016

Journal

M. Qasim,L. Ding,Jadoon, I. A. K. "The India–Asia collision in north Pakistan: Insight from the U–Pb detrital zircon provenance of Cenozoic foreland basin" , 25) Ling Ding, Muhammad Qasim, Ishtiaq A.K Jadoon, Muhammad Asif Khan, Qiang Xu, Fulong Cai1, Houqi Wang, Upendra Baral, Yahui Yue, Earth and Planetary Science Letters ,Volume 455 ,Page 49–61 , 2016

M. Qasim "Potential health risk associated with arsenic and heavy metal through drinking water consumption in the Peshawar District, Pakistan." , Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, September, 2016 ,Volume 22 ,Issue 3 ,Page 581-596 , 2016

Muhammad, S.,M. Qasim "Arsenic and heavy metals health risk assessment through drinking water consumption in the Peshawar District, Pakistan" , Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal ,Volume 22 ,Issue 3 ,Page 581-596 , 2016

2015

Journal

M. Qasim "Stratigraphic characterization and structural analysis of the northwestern Hazara Ranges across Panjal Thrust, northern Pakistan" , Arabian Journal of Geosciences ,Volume 8 ,Issue 10 ,Page 7811-7829 , 2015

2014

Journal

M. Qasim "Stratigraphic characterization of the Early Cambrian Abbottabad Formation in the Sherwan area, Hazara region, N. Pakistan: Implications for Early Paleozoic stratigraphic correlation in NW Himalayas, Pakistan" , Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences, 1 March, 2014 ,Volume 47 ,Issue 1 ,Page 25-45 , 2014

2013

Journal

Wazir, B.,,Z. U. H. Abbassi, R. Yousaf, S. Bahadar, M. Hassan,M. Qasim,S.Daud,Jadoon, I. A. K. "Hydrocarbon prospects and reserves in the Salt Range/Potwar Plateau. " , SPE/PAPG Annual Technical Conference (November 26-27, 2013), Islamabad, p. 317-326. , 2013