Precambrian Stratigraphy of

Hazara Kashmir Syntaxis

Stratigraphy
Age Formations
Precambrian Tanawal Formation
Dogra Formation (Equivalent
to Hazara Formation)
Salkhala Formation
 Salkhala Formation
 Wadia 1930, Salkhala series
 Calkins et al 1975, Salkhala Formation

Type Locality
 Village Salkhala on the Kishanganga river

Lithology
 Slates, phyllites, shists, interbeds of dolomite and quartzite

Thickness/Distribution
 In Hazara area, crops out in Hazara Kashmir Syntaxis
 1800 to 3000m thick in Kashmir area

Fossils
 No fossils

Age
 Precambrian

Contact
 Lower: Not exposed
 Upper: conformable with Dogra Slates
 Dogra Slates
 At the type locality Salkhala Formation overlain
by Dogra Slates; equivalent of Hazara by
volume