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Pakistan Stratigraphy

Kohat-Potwar Basin (Upper Indus)

Potwar Basin

Northern Punjab, Potwar Plateau between Salt Range and Margalla Hills · Foreland basin with active deformation

Eastern part of Upper Indus Basin with less evaporitic and more molasse-dominated sequences. Does NOT include Bahadurkhel Salt, Jatta Gypsum, Panoba–Chashmai–Gurguri facies, or Kahan Group. Famous for world-class Siwalik mammal fossils including early hominoid primates.

Units

36

Basin

Kohat-Potwar Basin (Upper Indus)

Tectonic setting

Foreland basin with active deformation

Units in this province

36 units

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Stratigraphic column
  1. Lei ConglomerateFossils recordedQuaternary
  2. Soan FormationQuaternary
  3. Chinji FormationFossils recordedNeogene
  4. Dhok Pathan FormationNeogene
  5. Kamlial FormationFossils recordedNeogene
  6. Murree FormationFossils recordedNeogene
  7. Nagri FormationFossils recordedNeogene
  8. Hangu FormationFossils recordedPaleogene
  9. Kuldana FormationFossils recordedPaleogene
  10. Nammal FormationFossils recordedPaleogene
  11. Chorgali FormationFossils recordedPaleogene
  12. Lockhart LimestoneFossils recordedPaleogene
  13. Margala Hill LimestoneFossils recordedPaleogene
  14. Sakesar FormationFossils recordedPaleogene
  15. Lumshiwal FormationCretaceous
  16. Indus FormationFossils recordedCretaceous
  17. Kawagarh FormationCretaceous
  18. Chichali FormationJurassic-Cretaceous
  19. Datta FormationFossils recordedJurassic
  20. Samana Suk FormationFossils recordedJurassic
  21. Shinawari FormationFossils recordedJurassic
  22. Mianwali FormationFossils recordedTriassic
  23. Tredian FormationFossils recordedTriassic
  24. Kingriali FormationFossils recordedTriassic
  25. Amb FormationFossils recordedPermian
  26. Chidru FormationFossils recordedPermian
  27. Sardhi FormationFossils recordedPermian
  28. Tobra FormationFossils recordedPermian
  29. Warcha FormationFossils recordedPermian
  30. Wargal LimestoneFossils recordedPermian
  31. Baghanwala FormationFossils recordedCambrian
  32. Jutana FormationFossils recordedCambrian
  33. Khewra SandstoneFossils recordedCambrian
  34. Kussak FormationFossils recordedCambrian
  35. Salt Range FormationFossils recordedEdiacaran
  36. Kirana GroupNeoproterozoic
ConglomerateSandstoneShale / mudLimestoneMixedGypsum / evaporiteIgneousFossils recordedConformableUnconformity

Band colour = period; texture = dominant rock type. Lines between bands mark the contact type (wavy = unconformity inferred from a missing period). True scale makes height ∝ recorded thickness; hatched = thickness not recorded. Ages approximate, for ordering.