Shaigalu

formation: It is
named after the
militia post of
Shaigalu
about 50Km
southwest of
Zhob (39A/16).
It consists of
sandstone and
shale but at
places
conglomerate
and limestone.
The sandstone
is fine
to coarse
grained, gritty,
thin to thick
bedded, grey to
greenish grey,
brown and
weathers light
grey, brown,
rusty with
patches of black
desert varnish
on its surface.
In the central
and eastern part
of Kaker
Khurasan range
the sandstone is
more coarsely
grained and
thick
bedded than
western part. It
shows the
source from the
Indus Suture,
however the
western part
may have
northern and
northwestern
source.
Some sandstone
is pebbly, red
and maroon.
Cross bedded
and ripple
marks are
common. The
shale is
maroon, red
ochre type,
grey,
greenish grey
and calcareous.
The red and
maroon color is
dominant
in the Kaker
Khurasan area
while grey to
greenish grey
shale color is
dominate in the
southern
Balochistan
basin. It is
6000m thick in
the
northern
Balochistan
Basin, and
1000-2000m
thick in the area
between the
Khwaja Amran
Range and
Jangal. This
formation
shows
the continental
(Molasse)
conditions in
the Kaker
Khurasan
range.
Continental
vertebrate
bones of
possibly
rhinoceros,
horses,
crocodiles, etc
are also found
in the Kaker
Khurasan areas.
Multana
formation
(name is
derived from
Multana/Multan
ai Kili west of
Mina
Bazar railway
station;
conglomerate
with
subordinate
shale and
sandstone;
39E/4; HSC,
1961) seems to
be a lateral
facies of
Shaigalu
and have coarse
materials due to
close source. So
this formation
is
here treated as
Shaigalu
formation.
Further GSP
teams have
discovered
some
vertebrates and
mineral
showings like
thin lenticular
iron beds from
Kakar-
Khurasan basin.