Southern Hazara

Introduction
Stratigraphy Age
Miocene
Formation/Group
Muree Formation
Eocene Kuldana Formation
Chorgali Formation
Margala Hill Limestone
Palaeocene Patala Formation
Lockhart Limestone
Hangu Formation
Cretaceous Kawagarh Formation
Lumshiwal Formation
Chichali Formation
Jurassic Samana Suk Formation
Shinawari Formation
Datta Formation
Triassic Kingriali Formation
Cambrian Hazira Formation
Abbottabad Group
Prcambrian Tanawal Foramtion
Hazara Formation
 Hazara Formation
 Middlemiss 1896, Hazara Slate series
 Marks and Ali 1961, Hazara Slate Formation
 Calkins et al 1969, Hazara Formation

Type Locality/section
 Not yet designated

Lithology
 Mostly slates+phyllites+shale with minor occurences of limestone and graphite, at
some places sandstone
 slate+phyllite; dark green to black but rusty brown on weather surface
 Shale; dark green to black, interclated with slates at places
 Sandstone; fine to medium grained, thick bedded
 Limestone; grey, nodular, having stromatolites
Thickness/Distribution
 Well distributed in southern Hazara and Kashmir (Calkins 1969)
 Maximum thickness recorded 150m
Fossils
 Having stromatolite and rare fossils
Age
 Radioactive dating Precambrian
Contact
 Lower: not exposed
 Upper: unconformable with Tanawal Formation
 Tanawal Formation
 Middlemiss 1896, Tanol quartzite
 Ali 1962, Latif 1970, Butt 1972; called Tanol Formation
 Pascoe 1959, change the spelling from Tanol to Tanawal
Type Locality
 After village Tanol
Lithology
 Quartzite with interbeds of dark phyllite
 Quartzite; well bedded, thin-medim bedded, cross bedding common
 In NE of Tarbala; argillaceous content and metamorphic grade increases
Thickness/Distribution
 Tanawal Formation confines to west and north of Khairabad-Panjal Fault
 At Haripur Ali 1962, estimated 1500m thickness
Fossils
 Fossil less
Age
 Intruded by Mansehra granitic complex age is assigned as Late Precambrian
contact
 Lower: conformable with Hazar Formation (SE Hazara), unconformable with
sobrah Formation NE of Ghandghar Range
 Upper: unconformable with Abbottabad Group (SE Hazara) and Shekhai
Foramtion SE of Ghandghar Range
 Abbottabad Group
 Middlemiss 1896, Infra Trias
 Marks 1962, Abbottabad Formation
 Latif 1970, Abbottabad Group
Type Locality
 Sirban hill, Abbottabad
Lithology
 Mainly dolomite, quartzite and phyllite
 Latif 1970, divide it into two formations;
 2. Sirban Formation
 1. Kakul Formation
1. Kakul Formation
 Lower part contains, thick bedded sanstone, shale, siltstone and dolomite
2. Sirban Formation
 Upper part contains; thick bedded dolomite, limestone and quartzitic sandstone
Thickness/Distribution
 Well distributed in Hazara area, thickness recorded at type locality as 660m
Fossils
 Some specie of fossils but poorly preserved
Age
 cambrian
Contact
 Lower: unconformable with Hazara Formation and Tanawal Formation at Western
Hazara
 Upper: unconformable with Hazira Formation
 Hazira Formation
 Term introduced by Ghazanfar et al (1965)
 Ghazanfar 1965, Hematitic Formation
 Latif 1970, Tarnawai Group

Type Locality
 Hazira Village, Abbottabad

Lithology
 Lower part; purple quartzite, siltstone with shale also some volcanic rocks observed
 The shale are hematitic, silstone has manganese oxide
 Upper part; grey to yellowish brown, calcareous siltstone and sandstone

Fossils
 Prorifera, sponges etc

Age
 Early Cambrian

Contact
 Lower: unconformable with Kingrali Formation
 Upper: unconforamblw with Abbottabad Group