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Pakistan Stratigraphy

Makran-Siahan Basin (Arc-Trench Gap)

Makran Coast

Coastal Balochistan along Arabian Sea · Active accretionary prism

Accretionary prism complex with thick Cenozoic turbidite sequences. Active subduction zone with mud volcanoes. World's largest accretionary wedge.

Units

11

Basin

Makran-Siahan Basin (Arc-Trench Gap)

Tectonic setting

Active accretionary prism

Units in this province

11 units

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Stratigraphic column
  1. Jiwani FormationFossils recordedQuaternary
  2. Kech formationQuaternary
  3. Chatti FormationNeogene
  4. Ormara FormationFossils recordedNeogene
  5. Parkini FormationFossils recordedNeogene
  6. Talar FormationNeogene
  7. Panjgur FormationFossils recordedPaleogene–Neogene
  8. Hoshab FormationFossils recordedPaleogene–Neogene
  9. Wakai limestonePaleogene
  10. Siahan FormationFossils recordedPaleogene
  11. Zurati formationPaleogene
LimestoneConglomerateShale / mudSandstoneFossils recordedConformable

Band colour = period; texture = dominant rock type. Lines between bands mark the contact type. True scale makes height ∝ recorded thickness; hatched = thickness not recorded. Ages approximate, for ordering.