Distinctive erosional/structural landform or scenery Mesozoic
Kala Chitta Range
Potwar Basin · also Kala Chitta hills
A narrow east–west range north of the Potwar Plateau exposing a near-complete Jurassic-to-Palaeogene Tethyan shelf succession — Samana Suk carbonates, glauconitic Chichali shales and Kawagarh limestones — in a single, accessible thrust belt.
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- Jurassic Samana Suk to Cretaceous Kawagarh shelf section
- Classic Kala Chitta–Margalla thrust belt
- A much-studied teaching transect near Attock
The geology here
The stratigraphic units exposed at this site — every geological fact above traces to their cited sources.
Nearby geosites
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