Economic geology of the carbonate rocks from Mesozoic Alpurai group, Peshawar basin, Pakistan
Subject Areas : Economic GeologyMuhammad Anjum 1 , Muhammad Ishfaq 2 , Sibghat Ullah 3 , Muhammad Yaseen 4 , Liaqat Ali 5 , Jaroslav Prsek 6 , Gohar Rehman 7
1 - Department of Geology, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
2 - Department of Geology, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
3 - Frontier Works Organization, Pakistan
4 - Department of Geology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Marden, Pakistan
5 - National Centre of Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
6 - Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, Department of Economic Geology, Kraków, Poland
7 - Department of Geology, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
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