Group

Age Middle-late Miocene

Name

Lithology

Fossils

Diagnostic feature Sst., Sh.,Congl. (Purple) Clay is dark red and purple,sand stone is purple and greenish gray Lime stone is light gray. Massive ,marl is creamed to light gray. Shale is grey to olive green and marl and lime stone is grey to bluish grey

Kamlial Sand stone,shale and Mammalian Fossils formation conglomerate Murree Clay,sand stone and Formation conglomerates Few plant remains,silicified wood,fish remain, mammalian bones are found Foraminifers, Molluscs and Echinoids

Rwalpindi Group Early Miocene

Early Eocene Charat Group Early eocene

Sakesar Lime stone and lime stone subordinate marl

Nammal Shale,marl and lime Formation stone

Foraminifers and molluscs

Late Paleocene Makarwal Early Group middle Paleocene

Patala shale,sand stone and Formation marl Lockhart Lime stone

Shale is dark greenish grey Molluscs,foraminiferas and lime stone and ostracode is white-light grey lime stone is Foraminiferas,molluscs grey to medium and ostracodes grey

Lime stone

White,light grey Hangu Foraminiferas,corals,an Early Paleoce Sand stone and shale sand stone and Formation s gastropods grey shale. Lumshiwa Early-middle Gastopods,belemenites l Sand stone and shale cretaceous and bivalves Formation Surghar Group Late jurassic Chichali formation Sand stone,shale. Molluscs,belemnites and ammonoids Thickmassive,light grey sand stone.shae is silty and sandy. Dark green,greenish grey sand stone and sandy silty shale.has and uncinformity

Middle Jurassic

Samana Brachiopods,bivalves,g Lime stone, marl,and suk astropods and shale Formation ammonoids

Grey to dard grey,mediumthick beds of lime stone Lime stone os grey,shale is grey and dark grey,sand sone is calcareous Red,maroon,gre y,green and white

Baroch Group

Lime Early-middle Shinawari stone,marl,shale,and Corals,gastropods,brac Jurassic Formation calcarreous sand hiopods. stone Early Jurassic Datta Sand stone,shale,silt Formation stone and mud stone Dolomite and dolomitic lime stone,marl. Micacious sand stone,shale and dolomite Has no fossil

Late Triassic

Kingriali FormTion

Thin to thick Fossils are poorly bedded,massive preserved. fine to coarse brachiopodsand grained,lightbivalves reported here grey brown. Micaceous sand It contains micro plant stone is pinkish fossils ans redish grey. Mostly Ammonoid is found here Narmia,mittiwal i and kathwai are its three members

MusaKhel Group

Middle Triasic

Tredian Formation

Lime stone,marl,sand Mianwali Early Triassic stone,silt stone,and Formation dolomite

Clay,sandy lime stone Pale yellow and Chiddru an Brachiopods,ammonoid Late Permian grey to medium Formation d calcareous sand s,scaphopods grey in colour stone Wargal Lime stone Lime stone and dolomite Dolomite light Bryozoans,bivalves,bra to medium grey chiopods,ammonoids,tr and lime stone ilobites and nautiloids light,olive and yellowish grey

Late Permian Zaluch Group

Sand stone is brownish Bryozoans,brachiopods grey.shale is Amb Sand ston,Lime stone Early Permian ,bivavles,and grey to dark Formation and Shale gastropods grey.lime stone is brownish grey Nilawahan Early to late Sardhai Clay major and sand Largely Clay is bluish to Group Permian Formation stone silt stone minor unfossileferous;though greenish-grey. have occassional plant remains

Warcha Early Permian Sand stone

Sand stone

Some plants remains are found here.

Red,purple or lighter shades of pink

Early Permian

Dandot Formation

Sand stone major.shale minor.

Light green to olive green Brachiopods,Bivalves,a yellowish sand nd species of Conularia stone,dard grey shale.

Has Granite,sand three Tobra stone,silt Lower part contains Early Permian facies;tillitic,fre Formation stone,clay,clay stone some pollen and spores shwater and A in eastern salt range. complex facies Baghanwa la Formation Red shale and clay with flaggy Sand stone Ripple marks and mud cracks,pseudom orphic casts of salt crystals in bedding planes. light green dolomite. Sst. & Siltst. Greenish Grey.

Early Mid.cambrian

Has no fossil

Mid Cambrian Jehlum Group Early Cambrian

Jutana formation

Dolomite

linguleila fuchsi,botsfordia granulate,gastropod as pseudotheca Neobolus warthi, Botsfordia Granulata,

Kussak Sandstone, siltstone Formation

Early Cambrian

Khewra Sst.

Sandstone fine grained,thick bedded to massive

Trace fossil trilobite trails

Sandstone purple brown,ripple marks and mud cracks Khewrite it consists of decomposed needles of mineral pyroxene

Precambrian

Upper part gypsum, dolomite, clay, Salt Range lr prt. Marl with salt Formatiun consisting of thick seams

Tertiary microfossils