Geomorphology of the Kabula basins

Abstract

The city of Kabul occupies two intermountain basins within the limits of the Kabul tectonic block which is an Early Alpine 'geoanticlinal uplift. Principal topographic elements of the region are bordering mountain ridges, Late Pleistocene and Holocene alluvial-lacustrine plains, Pliocene-Pleistocene piedmont plains and Pliocene-Pleistocene inselbergs. Three main tectonic-climatic stages are distinguished in the basins' topography evolution which began at the Miocene.