The southern foreland of the Makran fold-thrust belt, SW Pakistan, exposes kilometre-scale extensional growth faults.

Satellite data show in unprecedented detail the structural and stratigraphic style of growth faults and growth sequences.

The Makran growth faults can be considered as field analogues for buried systems imaged in lower-resolution seismic data.

Sedimentation likely controlled the initiation of growth faulting by differential loading, compaction and fluid expulsion.