Khewra Salt Mine
Salt Range · also Mayo Salt Mine
Photo: Lareb Qudsi, CC BY-SA 4.0
One of the world's oldest and largest rock-salt mines, worked into the Ediacaran–Early Cambrian Salt Range Formation at the eastern end of the Salt Range. The mine exposes the halite–gypsum–marl evaporite sequence that also forms the basal décollement of the Salt Range–Potwar fold-and-thrust belt.
- Halite with up to ten potassic layers; the type region of the Salt Range Formation
- The evaporites are the regional seal and the basal thrust detachment of the Potwar Plateau
- Major public tourist attraction (illuminated chambers, a brine 'lake' and salt-brick architecture)
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.
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Sources
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