STRATIGRAPIIIC GEOLOGY. 



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is greatly to be regretted that his examination of the Salt Range col- 

 lections, so unfortunately interrupted by his illness, was left incomplete."^ 

 Observe. — In this and following tables the rocks are arranged in 

 natural order, lowest beneath and newest at top, as printed : — 



Alluvial and " 

 sub-recent, i 



Post Ter- 

 tiary. 



Pliocene P 

 Miocene ... J 

 Eocene 



Salt Ran^e Series. 



Quartern AEY. 

 ■ Eain-wasli, alluvium, and superficial deposits. 



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Pebble beds 



Trias 



Carbonife- 

 rous. 



14. Upper Siwalik ... 

 13. Lower Siwalik ... 



.12. Nahan 



11. "Upper limestone" 

 of Salt Eange. 



Ci'etaceous 10. Olive series 

 Jurassic ... 9. Variegated group 



8. Pseudom o r p h i c 

 salt-crystal zone, 



7. Ceratite beds 



6. "Lower limestone'' 

 of Salt Range. 



? 5. Speckled sandstone 



? 4. Magnesian sand- 

 stone. 

 Silurian ... 3. Obolus or Sipho- 

 notreta beds. 



? 2. Purple sandstone.. 



Eruptive ... Diorite ? and Ash 



? 1. Saline Series 



Conglomerates 



Feet. 



various thickness. 



Cainozoic. 



Conglomerates, drab and pink clays ... 300 to 2,000 



Gray sandstones and red clays, with 



Bones ... ... ... 1,200 to 7,500 



Greenish-gray sandstones, crocodilian 



remains and fossil wood . . . 600 to 1,000 



Nummulite limestone. &c., large Gas- 

 tropods, Bivalves, Echinoderms, &c. 400 to 600 

 Mesozoic. 



Olive, reddish, and white sandstones, 

 calcareous beds, black shales with 

 boulders, TerebratulcB and Bivalves 150 to 350 



Red and white and variegated sand- 

 stones, yellow and gray limestones 

 and marls, some hsematitic layers. 

 Ammonites 1 Belemnites, &c. ... ' 200 to 500 



Eed and lighter-coloui-ed flaggy sand- 

 stones and blood-red clays or shales, 

 pseudomorphic salt-crystals ... 50 to 500 



Gray limestones, calcareous sandstones 

 and gray marls weathering greenish, 

 Ceratites, kc. ... ... 120 to 250 



Pal.s;ozoic. 



Gray and magnesian limestone, cal- 

 careous sandstone and argillaceous 

 beds, numerous Productce, Spiriferce, 

 Bellerophoii, Ooniatites, and many 

 other fossils ... ... 300 to 500 



Speckled, reddish and white sand- 

 stone, red and lavender clay ... 250 to 450 



Light-coloured magnesian sandstone, 



dolomite-sandstone, and shales ... 150 to 250 



Black shales with glauconitic cal- 

 careous layers and sandy bands, 

 Obolus or SipJionotreta ... 30 to 150 



Deep purple sandstones .. . ... 250 to 450 



A few exposures connected with the 

 salt marl close up to base of No. 2 lenticular. 



Bright scarlet gypseous marls with > 800 to 1,500 

 thick beds of rock-salt, gypsum, l Total un- 

 thin dolomitic layers • ...J known. 



* The whole of the collections from the palaeozoic and mesozoic formations of the 

 Salt Range have lately been sent to Dr. Waagen for description in the Palseontologia Indica. 



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