Precambrian • Neoproterozoic-Cambrian

Misgar Slate

Late Precambrian-Cambrian

Neoproterozoic-Cambrian in the time scale →

Stratigraphic position

In the Karakoram column

LimestoneMetamorphicConformableUnconformity

Band colour = period; texture = dominant rock type. Lines between bands mark the contact type (wavy = unconformity inferred from a missing period). True scale makes height ∝ recorded thickness; hatched = thickness not recorded. Ages approximate, for ordering.

This unit (highlighted) within its province column; faded ends continue above and below. Line style marks the contact type.

Exposed in Misgar area of upper Hunza. Low-grade metamorphic sequence representing deep marine conditions on the southern margin of the Asian plate.

Significance. Records Precambrian-Cambrian sedimentation on Laurasian margin

Lithology: Black slate, phyllite, quartzite
Thickness: 1500-2000 m
Type locality: Misgar, Upper Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan

Provinces

Karakoram

Related units

Above · younger

Gircha formation

Permian