164 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF THE SALT RANGE IN THE PUNJAB, 



aspect^ including portions of its flaggy layers^ looking as if detached by 

 river action. The thickness of this red zone is about 40 or 50 feet, but the 

 *^ olive group " above it is still very largely developed, and includes some 

 reddish sandstone bands in its lower conglomeratic portion. Layers of 

 this metamorphic-pebble conglomerate, 19 feet in thickness, occur, and 

 the whole group may be over 200 feet thick. The beds become flatter as 

 the plateau is reached, the road passing hereabouts chiefly through this 

 olive group and slipped masses of the nummulitic limestone. The glen to 

 the westward below the road is so full of fallen and displaced masses 

 of the series that it is difiicult to say which rocks are in situ. 



Section VI. — Dandot Plateau and Spuk. 

 The undulating table land of Dandot forms a sort of continuation 

 „ -„^ of the Eastern Plateau, but at a lower level, and is 



Dandot. ' ' 



covered as usual by the nummulitic limestone, 

 detached portions of which cap the spur extending from the plateau to 

 the west and south of the glen of Makrach. The village of Dandot 

 is perched upon the edge of lofty cliflPs which over- 

 look the plains and expose a fine section of the 

 rocks (fig. 25, PI. XVIII) ; the arrangement, however, presented by this 

 differs much from others in the neighbourhood, and in one respect, from 

 all others of the range, — namely, in the occurrence of a dark zone of sandy 

 and shaly beds apparently near the base of the 



Peciiliar shaly band. 



purple sandstone. This zone so exactly resembles 

 the silurian one above those rocks, as to afford reason for the supposition 

 that it has been faulted into its present position, although the dip of the 

 whole cliff-section seems regular, and would indicate a sequence from top 

 to bottom. 



Either such faulting would seem to have occurred, or else there is an 

 unusual development of the shaly group No. 3, accompanied by a great 

 diminution of the purple group No. 2, and a sudden appearance of 

 another large group of red sandstones, overlying the silurian zone, and. 

 interposed between this and the magnesian sandstone. 

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