Baintha Group
Karakoram-Hindukush Basin · Southern Metamorphic Belt
Cited in 3 sources Last reviewed Jun 29, 2026
- Rank
- group
- Status
- Under review
- Age
- Not recorded
- Named by
- Not recorded
- Type locality
- Baintha Brak Peak, above the Biafo glacier35.9481°N, 75.7533°E
- Thickness
- Not recorded
- Lithology
- Massive beds of marble, locally intruded by granite.
- Synonyms
- Not recorded
A marble group along the Karakoram batholith–metamorphic complex contact near the Biafo glacier.
Baintha group is named after Baintha Brak Peak above the Biofo glacier, (and also the name of a summer pasture on the right bank of Biafo) and consists of massive beds of marble along the contact of Karakoram axial batholith with the metamorphic complex. At places it is intruded by granites. This group crops out near the middle part of Biafo glacier and may be traced towards the marble peak of Baltoro and farter westward to Chogo Lungma, Nagar and Hunza.
Fossils
Not recorded
Contacts
Not recorded
Distribution & setting
- Basin
- Karakoram-Hindukush Basin
- Region
- Southern Metamorphic Belt
- Depositional environment
- Not recorded
- Coordinates
- 35.9481°N, 75.7533°E
Correlation
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Economic significance
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Remarks
A marble group developed along the contact of the Karakoram axial batholith with the metamorphic complex; it crops out near the middle of the Biafo glacier and can be traced toward Baltoro, Chogo Lungma, Nagar and Hunza.
Sources (2)
- Malkani, M.S. & Mahmood, Z. (2017). Stratigraphy of Pakistan. Geological Survey of Pakistan, Memoir Vol. 24.
- OpenStreetMap contributors and GEOnet Names Server (public geographic gazetteers), used to geolocate named GSP type localities to approximate decimal coordinates.
Reviewer confidence: medium
Every fact on this page is source-cited. This entry is part of the peer-archived Pakistan Stratigraphy Dataset (doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21363991, CC‑BY‑4.0).
Lexicon status: Appears in a single-author Geological Survey of Pakistan memoir (Malkani & Mahmood 2017), not cross-confirmed against the Shah lexicon. The Stratigraphic Committee of Pakistan is largely inactive, so documented provenance — not formal ratification — is the available signal.
Cite this unit
Qudsi, L. (2026). Baintha Group. In Pakistan Stratigraphy Dataset [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21363991
@misc{stratigraphypk_bainthagroup,
author = {Qudsi, Lareb},
title = {{Baintha Group} --- Pakistan Stratigraphy Dataset},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Zenodo},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.21363991},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21363991}
} Archived dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21363991 (CC‑BY‑4.0) · Direct link to this entry: https://stratigraphy.pk/formation/baintha-group (accessed September 5, 2026).
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