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Kaghan group
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Kaghan group
Northern Indus Suture · Hazara Sub-Basin
Stratigraphic position
Band colour = period; texture = dominant rock type. Lines between bands mark the contact type. True scale makes height ∝ recorded thickness; hatched = thickness not recorded. Ages approximate, for ordering.
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The lower-grade metasedimentary sequence of the Lower Kaghan Nappe, below the Sharda Group across the Batal Fault.
Significance. The lower-grade (greenschist-facies) metasedimentary sequence of the Lower Kaghan Nappe, originally correlated with the Precambrian Salkhala Formation; it is separated from the higher-grade Sharda Group to the north by the Batal Fault (regarded as the Main Central Thrust).
- Lithology
- Metapelite, schist, quartzite, marble, metaconglomerate and pegmatite (greenschist facies).
- Type locality
- Lower Kaghan valley, west of Balakot
- Basin
- Northern Indus Suture
- Region
- Hazara Sub-Basin
- Introduced by
- Ghazanfar and Chaudhry (1986)
Provinces
References
- Malkani, M.S. & Mahmood, Z. (2017). Stratigraphy of Pakistan. Geological Survey of Pakistan, Memoir Vol. 24.
- Kazmi, A.H. & Jan, M.Q. (1997). Geology and Tectonics of Pakistan. Graphic Publishers, Karachi.
Reviewer confidence: medium
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