Precambrian • Neoproterozoic GSP memoir

Chiniot Granite

Precambrian (850-900 Ma)

Cited in 3 sources Last reviewed Jul 30, 2026

Unit summary

Rank: Not recorded
Status: Published
Age: Precambrian · NeoproterozoicPrecambrian (850-900 Ma)
Named by: Not recorded
Type locality: Chiniot, Punjab31.7200°N, 72.9800°E
Thickness: Variable
Lithology: Pink biotite granite, aplite, pegmatite
Synonyms: Not recorded

A pink biotite granite (with aplite and pegmatite) exposed near Chiniot, part of the Neoproterozoic Kirana Hills basement complex intruding the Kirana volcanics.

Part of the Kirana Hills complex exposed near Chiniot. Represents plutonic intrusion into Kirana volcanics.

Fossils

Not recorded

Contacts

In the Sindh Province column

MarlIgneousFossils recordedUnconformityContact not recorded

Band colour = period; texture = dominant rock type. Lines between bands mark the contact type (wavy = unconformity inferred from a missing period); dotted = no contact recorded in the sources (not a claim of conformity). True scale makes height ∝ recorded thickness; hatched = thickness not recorded. Ages approximate, for ordering.

This unit (highlighted) within its province column; faded ends continue above and below. Line style marks the contact type.

Distribution & setting

Sindh Province Indo-Pakistan Shield

Basin: Not recorded
Region: Not recorded
Depositional environment: Not recorded
Coordinates: 31.7200°N, 72.9800°E

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Correlation

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Economic significance

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Remarks

A plutonic component of the exposed Indian-shield basement of Punjab (Kirana Complex); of Neoproterozoic age, it belongs to the same felsic magmatic province as the Kirana Group volcanics.

Research notes (1)

Field-by-field findings drawn from the cited literature. Every statement is traced to a registered source — follow a citation for the full reference.

Lithology (1)

Kazmi & Jan (1997) NAMING FLAG: the book does not use 'Chiniot Granite' and describes the Chiniot (Buland Hill) rocks as predominantly rhyolitic flows, tuffs (some welded), breccia and concordant dolerite sheets — the bimodal Kirana Hills igneous suite (Late Proterozoic, ~870 Ma), NOT a granite. The DB name/lithology should be reviewed against this.

Kazmi, A.H. & Jan, M.Q. (1997)

Sources (4)

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.
Ahmed, T. & Hassan, I. (2025). Regional Geodynamic Implications of Proterozoic Volcanic and Metasedimentary Sequences in the Kirana Hills, Punjab, Pakistan. Indonesian Journal on Geoscience, 12(3), 437-465.
Kazmi, A.H. & Jan, M.Q. (1997). Geology and Tectonics of Pakistan. Graphic Publishers, Karachi.

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.

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Cite this unit

APA

Qudsi, L. (2026). Chiniot Granite. In Pakistan Stratigraphy Dataset [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21363991

BibTeX

@misc{stratigraphypk_chiniotgranite,
  author    = {Qudsi, Lareb},
  title     = {{Chiniot Granite} --- 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/chiniot-granite (accessed October 29, 2026).