However, the geomorphic signatures at different spatial scales provided enough evidence of the active dextral strike–slip
subsurface structure in the Kashmir basin. The lateral and oblique displacement along the strike–slip structure resulted in development of the NNE–SSWoriented elliptical pull-apart sedimentary trough bounded by the Great HimalayanMountain Range fromthe northeast and the Pir Panjal Mountain Range from the southwest: that is the present-day Kashmir basin.