A mountain range in the north of the Punjab, along the south of the Potohar Plateau and north of the Jhelum River, named for its great beds of rock salt, the Himalayan salt dug at Khewra, Kalabagh and Warcha. Its highest peak is Sakesar, and it was known in history as Koh-i-Jud. Its rocks hold fossils of sea life that go back to the Ediacaran, up to 570 million years ago, proof that they were laid down as sediment on the floor of a sea where the Himalayas now stand. The salt itself moves: buried under later rock, it flowed and bulged upward, so that Cambrian salt now lies on top of much younger Cenozoic strata. The range holds history too; an inscription found at Kura records the building of a Buddhist monastery.
Marine fossils going back to the Ediacaran, in the rocks of an ancient seabed · Ediacaran (up to 570 million years ago) to Cenozoic
This ground is protected. Photograph it, record it, leave it where it lies. On US federal land the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act 2009 makes collecting vertebrate fossils an offence, and penalties are real.
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