90 WYNNE: GEOLOGY OF KBTCH. [PART I. 



Lime is obtained from tlie sub-recent concrete 

 Lime. 



or calcareous tufa, widely but irregularly distribut- 

 ed over the country. , 



Large quantities of gypsum occur in shales belonging to the Jurassic, 



sub-nummulitic, and tertiary groups : the most 

 Gypsum. • _ j b r > 



^g^^J gypsiferous being those of the sub-num- 

 mulitic band. The mineral is generally translucent ; and clean blocks up 

 to several inches by two or three may be found weathered out on the surface 

 of the ground. Although much of it might be obtained without greater 

 trouble than picking up the pieces, it does not appear to be utilized 

 except to a slight extent by goldsmiths, who are said to use it in 

 a powdered state for polishing their wares. Among other places it 

 occurs — near a small outlying patch of tertiary rocks on the Runn 

 east of Adeysur ; near Chitrore ; between Adhooe and Badurgud ; all in 

 Wagir : — and in the western part of the district about 2 miles soutli- 

 west of Mhurr ; also east and north-east of Oomirsir and nearer Lukput. 

 Some of the decomposed red highly ferruginous beds of the sub- 

 nummulitic series near Lukput are quarried, and 

 Ochre. . 



the mass exported to form a colouring material 



or dye. 



The pale whitish shales of the Jurassic rocks are very generally 



„ , . . used to make a kind of white-wash for the hum- 



l^olounng materials. 



bier dwellings of the natives. And the unctuous 

 greenish and white aluminous rocks of the sub-nummulitic band are used 

 as soap, being believed to have particularly cooling properties. Some 

 similar rock occurring as a pocket enveloping a mass of sandstone in 

 an intrusion of ordinary doleritic trap near the village of Euttria 

 (i. e., red) is excavated for sale in the bazaar at Bhooj. Some of the soft 

 white aluminous beds of the sub-nummulitic band, are mined after a 

 fashion, on the west side of Babooa hill in the Gaira country, the 

 material being exported at Kot^sir. 

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