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Published 2007

Regional Studies of the Potwar Plateau Area, Northern Pakistan

Edited by Peter D. Warwick and Bruce R. Wardlaw

Prepared in cooperation with the Geological Survey of Pakistan, under the auspices of the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of State, and the Government of Pakistan.

Abstract

The papers in this volume are products of a cooperative program between the Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), sponsored by the Government of Pakistan and the U.S. Agency for International Development. The focus of the program, the Coal Resources Exploration and Assessment Program (COALREAP), was to explore and assess Pakistan’s indigenous coal resources. As part of COALREAP, GSP and USGS geologists conducted regional geologic studies from 1988 to 1991 of the coal-bearing areas in the Potwar region of northern Pakistan. A reference section was selected from which to obtain faunal and floral analyses. The composite sections at Nammal Pass and Nammal Dam served as the basis for this regional reference.

Although this Bulletin 2078 is being released in 2007, the writing and technical reviews were completed in 1993, and the chapters reflect the work done until that time. During the long production process for the Bulletin, which ultimately resulted in the oversize plates being digitized, the scientific content of the chapters was not changed, and most reports published since 1993 were not cited. A change in the age of the Patala Formation is discussed below [in the full preface], but the age discussions and illustrations in the chapters were not updated.

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Suggested Citations

Warwick, P.D., and Wardlaw, B.R., eds., 2007, Regional studies of the Potwar Plateau area, northern Pakistan: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2078–A–I, chapters are separately paged, 5 oversize plates in pocket.

Edwards, L.E., 2007, Paleocene and Eocene dinocysts from the Salt Range, Punjab, northern Pakistan, chap. Cof Warwick, P.D., and Wardlaw, B.R., eds., Regional studies of the Potwar Plateau area, northern Pakistan: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2078, p. C1–C10, fossil pls. C1, C2.

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