CARBONIFEROUS – PERMIAN

AGE STRATIGRAPHY OF PAKISTAN

(PART 2)

CARBONIFEROUS – PERMIAN
AGE STRATIGRAPHY OF PAKISTAN
(PART 1)
 Darkot group
 Rawat formation
 White marble
 Gum formation
 Barum formation
 Basal shale
 Chalt schiest
 Baltit group
 Pasu slate
 Chitral slate
 Krinj formation
 Dobargar formation
 Nialthi formation
(Darkot group)
1. Rawat formation:
 Type locality:
The type section of rawat formation lies near rawat, where it has
major development.
 Lithology:
It is composed of dark slate, dark limestone, locally interbedded with
marble layers.
 Fossil:
It is fossiliferous. The fossils of bryozoans, and brachiopods are
common in this formation.
2. White Marble:
 Type locality:
It lies between qalandar gum and kerun bar glaciers.
 Lithology:
The formation is underlain by the rawat formation and overlain by the gum
formation.
Marbles are intercalated within the slate
This indicate that the marble is associated with rawat formation and white
marble may will be the upper part of the rawat formation.
 3. Gum formation:
 Type locality:
Not designed.
 lithology:
This formation is thin bedded, grey dark limestone often intercalated with
slates and marls.
 Fossil:
It is fossiliferous. Gastropods and bivalves are common in this formation.
 4. Barum formation:
 TYPE LOCALITY:
 Not designed.
 LITHOLOGY:
It consists of sandstone which is slightly metamorphosed and intercalated with
siltstone and slates. Sandstone is rich in quartz.
 FOSSILS:
It is non fossiliferous.
 5. Basal shale:
 Type locality:
Not designed.
 Lithology:
It consists of black shales slate and siltstone.
6. Chalt schiest:

 Type locality:
Not designed.
 Lithology:
It consist of dark grey quartz biotite schiest.
Also include small portion of quartzite, Marble and conglomerate and
Quartzite beds.
(BALTIT GROUP)
1. PASU SLATE:

TYPE LOCALITY:
Not designed.
LITHOLOGY:
It is composed of predominantly dark-
grey and black slate interbedded with limestone
and quartzite.
 2. CHITRAL SLATE


TYPE LOCALITY:
The type section of chitral slate lies near chitral town.
LITHOLOGY:
It consists of fined grained black slate, dark grey phyllite, quartzite and
dark grey limestone.
FOSSIL:
It is fossiliferous.

Spirifer, small dielasma fossil are most common fossils in this formation.
3. Krinj limestone:

 Type locality:
Not designed
 Lithology:
It consists of grey and black massive limestone.
 Fossil:
It consists of fossils orbitolina and rudist overlain by black
limestone.
 3. Dobargar Formation:
 Type Locality:
It is situated in northern slop of Hindu Raj range. The formation extends westwards
from darkot glacier to the right bank of the yarkhun valley.

 Lithology:
It is made up of narrow band of sedimentary metamorphic rocks which are almost vertically
diping.it is extensively deformed to the north.
4. Nialthi formation
 Lithology:

It consists of very thick package of dark grey slates with

conglomerate. Their size is about 30 cm.