Nilawahan Gorge — Tobra Formation glacial tillite
Salt Range · also Warcha–Nilawahan section
Exposures of the Early Permian Tobra Formation preserve glacial tillite and glacio-marine diamictite deposited when the Indian plate lay near the South Pole on the margin of Gondwana — the Salt Range record of the late Palaeozoic Gondwanan glaciation, correlative with the Talchir boulder beds of India.
- Gondwanan glacial diamictite with striated, faceted clasts
- Base of the Nilawahan Group; overlies the Cambrian across a major hiatus
- Also a producing oil reservoir in the subsurface Potwar Basin
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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