Locality
70°0´ east longitude, 35°0´ north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Sulaiman Range, Afghanistan, Asien

Personal relationship of donor
Geological mapping within the scope of Technical Cooperation

Geological relevance of location
Brachiopod limestone is one of the characteristic rocks of the southern Himalayas. This type of marine sediment was deposited in the southern Alps and large parts of Asia during the Permo-Carboniferous.

Classification of the earth

Structure	brachiopod limestone
Colour	grey
Age	PermoCarboniferous, 240 - 290 million years

Donor

Geoscientific Collections Section of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
 Geological Survey of Lower Saxony,
 Hannover,
 Germany