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of whicli overlooks the Pid end of the long- valley previously mentioned 

 as bounding" the Eastern Plateau. Above the opposite side of that valley, 

 the termination of the plateau undulates much_, following the bedding of 

 the nummulitic limestone^ but the deeper excavations pass through the 

 latter and expose the '^ olive group/' the " red salt- crystal " zone, and the 

 magnesian sandstone group below. 



The southern side of this Eastern Plateau is remarkable for the 

 Southern side of quantity of salt-marl exposed^ and the suddenness 



as ern a eau. with which it makes its appearance in force west 



of Jutana. (See section, fig. 30, Plate XVI.) 



Doctor Warth is of opinion that sudden increase of the salt-marl is 



due rather to undulation of the strata than to any 

 Jutana neighbourhood. 

 Sudden development of dislocation. During the examination of the ground, 



some disturbance was observed in the glen north- 

 west of Jutana, just where the red marl commences to show itself strongly : 

 but this was more like the results of slipping than of violent faulting, 

 and no great fault could be traced, intersecting the plateau north- 

 wards ; where such a fault would in all probability have existed if 

 dislocation were the structural cause of the development of this red 

 marl in the Jutana ' beat.''^ A certain amount of disturbance has never- 

 theless occurred, and where landslips are less numerous, such appear- 

 ances as the small outlying hill of the magnesian group, upon which 

 a chowki (No. 4) stands, west of Jutana village, and the abrupt way 

 in which different groups abut against each other in the glen further 

 north, would be taken as sufficient evidence of fracture, although 

 here they are referable rather to the mere presence of the marl 

 and the tendency of this rock to produce landslips than to faulting. 

 In this and the next (the Kusak " beat'') the largest exposures of the marl 



, , . , , in the whole range occur. This salt-marl rises at 

 Large size and height ^ 



of marl exposures. the Chambal (west) hills between the two '^ beats " 



* The southern side of the Salt Range is divided into " beats " for patrolling purposes 

 by the Salt Department. 



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