Ongoing Projects

Research Highlights

• Project under the PAK-US Science & Technology Collaboration Program. Read More

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• Pakistan is prone to high seismicity (Armbruster et al., 1978; Thingbaijam et al., 2009) as revealed by the recent earthquakes, for example, 2005 Kashmir earthquake, and 2008 Quetta earthquake.  Read More

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• DelPHE (British Council) International Project (2010-2013) Institutional Support and Twinning in Geoscience between Kabul, Peshawar, Leicester, Prague and Keele Universities.



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• Research work on geo-environmental study over Karak thrust and adjoining areas using radon monitoring as a tool.
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• Seismic site characterization from space. Seismic site characterization group has applied remote sensing DEMs for evaluating the impact of topography on seismic response.
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Shah, S. Z., Sayab, M., Aerden, D., Khan. M. A., 2011. Foliation intersection axes preserved in garnet porphyroblasts from the Swat area, NW Himalaya: a record of successive crustal shortening directions between the Indian plate and Kohistan-Ladakh Island Arc. Tectonophyscis, 509, 14-32.

Muhammad, S., Shah, M.T. & Khan, S. 2011. Heavy metal concentrations in soil and wild plants growing around Pb-Zn sulfide terrain in the Kohistan region northern Pakistan. Microchem. Jour. 99, 67-75.

Muhammad, S., Shah, M.T., Khan, S. 2011. Health risk assessment of heavy metals and their source apportionment in drinking water of Kohistan region, northern Pakistan. Microchem. Jour., 98, 334-343.

Jan, I. U. & Stephenson, M. H. 2011. Palynology and regional correlation of the Upper Pennsylvanian Tobra Formation, Zaluch Nala, Salt Range, Pakistan, American Association of Sratigraphic Palynologists' journal "Palynology", 35, 212-225.