Margalla Hills nummulitic limestone
Hazara Basin · also Margalla Hills National Park
Photo: Lareb Qudsi, CC BY-SA 4.0
The forested ridge overlooking Islamabad is built of Eocene Margalla Hill Limestone and Chorgali Formation carbonates packed with Nummulites and other larger foraminifera — an accessible Palaeogene shallow-marine section within a national park at the capital's edge.
- Eocene Nummulites and Assilina in roadside outcrops
- Part of the Kala Chitta–Margalla thrust belt
- Within Margalla Hills National Park
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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