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general grounds one would hardly expect the answer to this 
to be in the affirmative. 
A possible extension of the belt into Jammu Province 
has already been discussed by me in a paper in the Records 
of the Geological Survey of India! describing the Nar-Budhan 
dome; but since that time other as yet unpublished evidence 
has come to light. It is no part of my idea in this address 
to describe technical details that more fittingly would find 
a place in the Section devoted to Geology, but I may say 
here that another semi-dome, or ‘terrace,’ of very large size, 
occurring in formations of the same geological age, has been 
identified by the Mineral Survey at Ramnagar in Jammu 
Province, and that, besides the discovery of two gas seepages 
in the neighbourhood, the rocks at the actual semi-dome 
have yielded a considerable fauna of vertebrate remains which 
correlate them exactly as regards their geological age with 
the Chinji stage as developed at the Khaur oil-field. The 
work of identification and description of these fossil remains 
is now in the hands of Dr. G. E. Pilgrim, of the Geological 
Survey of India, and it is hoped that, apart from yielding 
evidence as to the age of the beds, the teeth and bones them- 
in this direction even more plausible, is the discovery in 
Poonch State by Mr. Wadia, of the Geological Survey of 
India, of an extensive outcrop of bituminous limestone in 
the underlying Murree Series. 
signal for a renewed interest in all the surrounding areas ; for 
it is very unlikely that a single group of wells at that one place 
will be allowed to stand as the sole representative of the effort 
_ of industry to tap the underground resources of this north- 
west oil belt. 
Bauxite. 
in some remarkable ways from th any u 
found in India; and at the same time their geological history 


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