Paleomagnetic results are presented from the Speckled Sandstones, of probably Early Permian age, from the Salt Range in Pakistan. The analysis includes 86 specimens from nine sites collected at three individual localities. All specimens were subjected to progressive, thermal treatment which revealed the characteristic directions of magnetization, with a mean value,of D = 92.2O, Z = +46.7', ags = 13ON, 137.5OE, with 6, = 5.1° and 6, = 7.3'. The paleomagnetic pole is located at 9.5'. This position agrees well with the paleomagnetic pole positions derived from Indian rocks of about the same age, thus giving no reason to postulate relative movements between the Salt Range and the Indian basement since the Carboniferous.
INTRODUCTIONThe ravines at the southern escarpment of the Salt Range in Pakistan exhibit beautiful geological sections. In general, th8 rock sequence starts with an impressive suite of sediments of Cambrian age qnd up to 400 m thick, comprising salts, red silts and sandstones, shales a@ dolomites. A considerable hiatus exists between these sediments and the oveylying detrital and calcareous deposits, which have Late Carboniferous and Permian age. Limestones of Eocene age cover the Upper Paleozoic rocks. Next follow the sediments of the Siwalik formation; these continental deposits of Miocene and Pliocene age are mainly exposed on the Potwar plateau (Fig, 1).
PERMO-CARBONIFERQUS DEPOSITSIn the Salt Range the basal layers of the sediments of Permo-Carboniferous age unconformably cover the rocks of the Cambrian. In the stratigraphical description of the rocks in the Salt Range we mainly
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