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Pakistan Stratigraphy

Kohat-Potwar Basin (Upper Indus)

Salt Range

Northern Punjab, between Jhelum and Indus rivers · Foreland fold-and-thrust belt

A mountain range in Punjab province with the most complete stratigraphic record from Precambrian to Recent. Exposes one of the most complete and fossiliferous Paleozoic-Mesozoic sequences in the world, including the famous Khewra Salt Mine.

Units

34

Basin

Kohat-Potwar Basin (Upper Indus)

Tectonic setting

Foreland fold-and-thrust belt

Units in this province

34 units

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Stratigraphic column
  1. Chinji FormationFossils recordedNeogene
  2. Dhok Pathan FormationNeogene
  3. Kamlial FormationFossils recordedNeogene
  4. Nagri FormationFossils recordedNeogene
  5. Hangu FormationFossils recordedPaleogene
  6. Kuldana FormationFossils recordedPaleogene
  7. Nammal FormationFossils recordedPaleogene
  8. Chorgali FormationFossils recordedPaleogene
  9. Lockhart LimestoneFossils recordedPaleogene
  10. Patala FormationFossils recordedPaleogene
  11. Sakesar FormationFossils recordedPaleogene
  12. Lumshiwal FormationCretaceous
  13. Kawagarh FormationCretaceous
  14. Chichali FormationJurassic-Cretaceous
  15. Datta FormationFossils recordedJurassic
  16. Samana Suk FormationFossils recordedJurassic
  17. Shinawari FormationFossils recordedJurassic
  18. Mianwali FormationFossils recordedTriassic
  19. Tredian FormationFossils recordedTriassic
  20. Kingriali FormationFossils recordedTriassic
  21. Amb FormationFossils recordedPermian
  22. Chhidru FormationFossils recordedPermian
  23. Chidru FormationFossils recordedPermian
  24. Dandot FormationFossils recordedPermian
  25. Sardhi FormationFossils recordedPermian
  26. Tobra FormationFossils recordedPermian
  27. Warcha FormationFossils recordedPermian
  28. Wargal LimestoneFossils recordedPermian
  29. Baghanwala FormationFossils recordedCambrian
  30. Jutana FormationFossils recordedCambrian
  31. Khewra SandstoneFossils recordedCambrian
  32. Khisor FormationCambrian
  33. Kussak FormationFossils recordedCambrian
  34. Salt Range FormationFossils recordedEdiacaran
SandstoneShale / mudLimestoneMixedGypsum / evaporiteFossils 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.