GEOLOGY OF PAKISTAN

TOPIC:

“UPPER INDUS BASIN OF

PAKISTAN “
 KEY POINTS:
• Over view of Stratigraphy of
Pakistan
• Geological time scale
• Basins of Pakistan
• Kohat and potwar sub basin
• There age, lithology,
environment, type locality etc
• The KOHAT-POTWAR Basin also called UPPER INDUA BASIN is situated
in northern Pakistan located between lat.
32◦ and 34◦ N and, long 70◦ and 74◦ E.
DEPOSITIONAL SETTING OF KOHAT-
POTWAR PROVENCE:
• Sedimentation in Kohat- Potwar
are began in late Pre-Cambrian
and lasted in Pleistocene.
• Three major unconformities in
this area are Ordovician to
Carboniferous, Mesozoic to Late
Permian and Eocene to
Oligocene.
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