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Reshit Formation
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Stratigraphic position
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A late Middle Jurassic cherty mudstone-and-wackestone unit above the Yashkuk Formation.
Named after Reshit village in Chapursan valley. Marine carbonates on southern Asian plate margin.
Significance. A late Middle Jurassic cherty carbonate unit overlying the Yashkuk Formation in the intensely faulted Chapursan valley succession.
- Lithology
- A monotonous sequence (about 300 m) of dark grey, cherty mudstone and wackestone.
- Thickness
- about 300 m
- Type locality
- Reshit village, Chapursan valley, upper Hunza
- Environment
- marine
- Introduced by
- Gaetani et al. (1990a)
Fossils
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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