oa Paleozoic Limestone of the Kinta Valley: Paleogeography and Implications to the Regional and Petroleum Geology of Peninsular Malaysia

A number of isolated limestone hills, distributed over a 1,200 km2 area in the Kinta Valley, display a striking tower-like<br>morphology. The limestone hills are the remnants of thick Paleozoic limestone deposits, mainly Carboniferous to Permian in<br>age, that have been severely eroded and karstified. Layers of shale and siltstone, several hundreds of meters thick, are<br>interbedded with or underlie the limestone. The hills overlie extensive younger granite bodies, which have affected the<br>limestone through contact metamorphism.