Type or reference section of a named unit Palaeozoic
Sirban Hill (Abbottabad Formation)
Hazara Basin · also Sirban Maira
Sirban Hill above Abbottabad is the type area of the Cambrian Abbottabad Formation, a dolomite–sandstone–phosphate–chert succession correlated with the Krol Group of India and the Doushantuo Formation of South China, and host to the region's phosphate deposits.
ScientificEducational
- Type area of the Abbottabad Formation
- Neoproterozoic–Cambrian carbonate-phosphate platform
- Economic phosphate horizons
The geology here
The stratigraphic units exposed at this site — every geological fact above traces to their cited sources.
Quantitative assessment
Scored with the Brilha (2016) method — each value 0–400. Desk-based first pass; the full score matrix ships with the open dataset.
Scientific value 235/400 · 58.8%
Educational use 280/400 · 70%
Touristic use 265/400 · 66.3%
Degradation risk 365/400 · 91.3%
Urgent — high value, high risk
Nearby geosites
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