Notable fossil or trace-fossil locality Palaeozoic
Misri Banda Ordovician Quartzite
Khyber–Nowshera Belt · also Misri Banda trace-fossil locality
The type area of the Ordovician Misri Banda Quartzite, whose cross-bedded quartzites carry abundant Cruziana rugosa and Skolithos trace fossils — among the clearest Lower Palaeozoic ichnofossil assemblages in the Peshawar basin.
ScientificEducational
- Type section of the Misri Banda Quartzite (Tremadoc–Llandeilo)
- Cruziana rugosa and Skolithos trace fossils
- Marks the Ordovician transgression over the Cambrian(?) Ambar Formation
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 315/400 · 78.8%
Educational use 290/400 · 72.5%
Touristic use 275/400 · 68.8%
Degradation risk 265/400 · 66.3%
Urgent — high value, high risk
Nearby geosites
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