Khunjerab Pass & National Park
Karakoram · also Khunjerab top
At 4,693 m the Khunjerab Pass is the highest paved border crossing in the world, cut across the Permian Karakoram succession (Gircha and Kundil formations). It lies within Khunjerab National Park, a high-altitude refuge for snow leopard and Marco Polo sheep.
- Highest paved international border crossing on Earth
- Permian Northern Karakoram section (Gircha–Kundil)
- Khunjerab National Park high-alpine ecosystem
The geology here
The stratigraphic units exposed at this site — every geological fact above traces to their cited sources.
Kundil Formation
PermianCherty limestone with marl and fine tuff: a lower thick-bedded cherty limestone unit, a middle grey cherty limestone unit, and an upper unit, with a metabreccia…
Gircha Formation
Late Carboniferous–Early PermianThick-bedded to massive arkosic and quartzarenitic sandstone with slate (argillite) intercalations, passing upward into dark argillites with thin limestone–dolo…
Quantitative assessment
Scored with the Brilha (2016) method — each value 0–400. Desk-based first pass; the full score matrix ships with the open dataset.
Nearby geosites
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