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Pakistan Stratigraphy

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Provinces & basins

Pakistan’s geological provinces on an interactive map. Tap a marker for its details and stratigraphic column, or browse the full basin index below.

Markers show an indicative location for each province. The heavy dashed lines are the major plate boundaries (Bird 2003, PB2002 model); internal sutures, terrane and fold-belt outlines are not drawn.

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Base map © OpenStreetMap contributors. Plate boundaries after Bird (2003), An updated digital model of plate boundaries, G-Cubed 4(3), 1027 (PB2002 model). Province markers are representative regional centroids, not precise type-locality points.

Kohat-Potwar Basin (Upper Indus)
Salt Range 38
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Potwar Basin 42
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Kohat Basin 63
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Khyber-Hazara-Kashmir Basin (Uppermost Indus)
Hazara Basin 37
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Azad Kashmir 12
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Khyber–Nowshera Belt 27
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Swat–Malakand 17
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Sulaiman Basin (Middle Indus)
Sulaiman Fold Belt 44
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Kirthar Basin (Lower Indus)
Kirthar Range 22
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Sindh Province 20
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Chagai-Raskoh Magmatic Arc
Chagai Hills 10
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Makran-Siahan Basin (Arc-Trench Gap)
Makran Coast 13
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Kakar-Khurasan Basin (Back Arc)
Zhob-Muslim Bagh 26
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Western Indus Suture
Bela-Khuzdar 2
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Kohistan-Ladakh Magmatic Arc
Kohistan Arc 22
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Karakoram-Hindukush Basin (Laurasia)
Karakoram 56
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Hindukush-Chitral 21
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Himalayan Crystalline
Nanga Parbat Massif 4
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Indo-Pakistan Shield (Precambrian Craton)
Indo-Pakistan Shield 20
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