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Pakistan Stratigraphy

Units

Geological units

363 formations · 19 provinces · 12 basins.

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Kohat-Potwar Basin (Upper Indus)

 67 units · 3 prov.
Salt Range38 Potwar Basin42 Kohat Basin63

Khyber-Hazara-Kashmir Basin (Uppermost Indus)

 88 units · 4 prov.
Hazara Basin37 Azad Kashmir12 Khyber–Nowshera Belt27 Swat–Malakand17

Sulaiman Basin (Middle Indus)

 44 units · 1 prov.
Sulaiman Fold Belt44

Kirthar Basin (Lower Indus)

 34 units · 2 prov.
Kirthar Range22 Sindh Province20

Chagai-Raskoh Magmatic Arc

 10 units · 1 prov.
Chagai Hills10

Makran-Siahan Basin (Arc-Trench Gap)

 13 units · 1 prov.
Makran Coast13

Kakar-Khurasan Basin (Back Arc)

 26 units · 1 prov.
Zhob-Muslim Bagh26

Western Indus Suture

 2 units · 1 prov.
Bela-Khuzdar2

Kohistan-Ladakh Magmatic Arc

 22 units · 1 prov.
Kohistan Arc22

Karakoram-Hindukush Basin (Laurasia)

 75 units · 2 prov.
Karakoram56 Hindukush-Chitral21

Himalayan Crystalline

 4 units · 1 prov.
Nanga Parbat Massif4

Indo-Pakistan Shield (Precambrian Craton)

 20 units · 1 prov.
Indo-Pakistan Shield20