The Kharganii am-1 Project area is primarily underlain by deformed Paleozoic metasediments ofthe Kharaa Series. The Kharaa metasediments are a relatively uniform sequence of marine flyschtypedeposits of sandstone, greywacke, siltstone and slate. The rocks have been assigned to theMiddle Cambrian to Lower Ordovician based on regional relationships.The lower metasediments of the Kharaa Series are mainly composed of thinly (centimeter scale)bedded sandstone and pelitic schist or locally siltstone with sandstone predominate. The upperKharaa Series meta-sediments are more thickly (decimeter to meter scale) bedded sandstone andpelitic schist with higher proportions of pelitic schist.