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Spinkai formation
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Spinkai formation
Northern Indus Suture · Malakand
A limestone-and-shale unit of the Malakand area near Spinkai.
Spinkai formation is named after the Spinkai village in the upper part of Baraghat nala by Tahirkheli et al. (1975). It is exposed in the north of Bara valley, extending eastward from Spinkai to Mughabagh Kandao and Chora Hoda valley. It consists of limestone and shale.
Significance. A limestone-and-shale unit of the Malakand/Swat area (Tahirkheli et al., 1975).
- Lithology
- Limestone and shale.
- Type locality
- Spinkai, Malakand area
- Basin
- Northern Indus Suture
- Region
- Malakand
- Environment
- marine
- Introduced by
- Tahirkheli et al. (1975)
Provinces
References
- Malkani, M.S. & Mahmood, Z. (2017). Stratigraphy of Pakistan. Geological Survey of Pakistan, Memoir Vol. 24.
Reviewer confidence: medium
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