Provenance of the lower Cretaceous Lumshiwal Formation, Surghar Range, northwestern Indian Plate, Pakistan: Insights from new petrographical and geochemical analysis

•The depositional environment of the Lumshiwal Formation ranges from shallow marine to deltaic.•Terrigenous sediments found in the Lumshiwal Formation derived from rocks of the Indian Shield.•The well rounded heavy mineral assemblage indicates multiple episodes of sediment recycling.