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Panoba Shale Formation
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Panoba Shale Fm base reconstruction

Panoba Shale Fm

Period: 
Paleogene

Age Interval: 
Early Eocene


Province: 
Pakistan Indus Basin

Type Locality and Naming

Charrat Gr – lowest formation in Kohat-Margala Province (Ko-MP). Holotype section: South of Panoba village. Author: F.E. Eames, 1952. Reference section: None.

Synonym: Panoba Shale


Lithology and Thickness

Gypsiferous claystone. At the type section, it consists of shale with occasional bands of sandstone. The shale is greenish grey to light grey, slightly silty and is calcareous towards the base. In places, greenish alum shale, with ferruginous and calcareous partings and veins of gypsum are common. Flaggy limestone bands occur at different levels. The unit grades into rock salt south of the type section. Gurguri sandstone, a localized unit exposed in western Ko-MP, towards the top of the formation, is not being discussed.

Thickness: 40-160 m. At the type section, it is 100 m thick. It is 40 m at Tarkhobi, and 160 m at Uch Bazar.


Lithology Pattern: 
Gypsiferous claystone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Conformably underlain by Patala Fm

Upper contact

Conformably overlain by Shekhan Fm or Jatta Gypsum Fm or Bahadur Khel Salt Fm in different areas. In western part of Ko-MP, it is unconformably overlain by Kohat Fm.

Regional extent

The formation is confined to the Kohat area (western Ko-MP).


GeoJSON

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Fossils

Globorotalia aequa, Assilina pustulossa, Orbitolites complanatus, Nummulites sp. Eponides sp.


Age 

Early Eocene

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Ypresian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
56.00

    Ending stage: 
Ypresian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.3

    Ending date (Ma):  
53.62

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Nusrat K. Siddiqui