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The sections of these southern cliffs and spurs are very unsatisfac- 

 tory ; towards the south-east end of the scarp they resemble the section 

 west of Makrach. In other directions the sandstone group No. 5 appears 

 to have increased, being- from 250 to 300 feet thick. 



In the Karuli glen, the red marl may be exposed to a depth of 



from 460 to more than 500 feet; numerous ap- 

 Karuli glen. . 



pearances of discordance caused by slips fronts 



above occur in the overlying strata. The purple sandstone above the 

 marl is about 300 feet thick, and atone spot contains, just at its upper 

 limit, a thin band of granular red haematite. A commanding and 

 rather detached peak of about 900 feet altitude shows a large portion 

 of the series horizontally bedded, the upper half being formed of light- 

 coloured massive sandstones, with a dark shaly band at their base, 

 resting on the purple sandstone ; the whole being capped by some of 

 the reddish sandstone of No. 5. 



Underneath Malot, at the head of this glen, there are vertical cliffs 



showing sections at least 300 feet thick of the light- 

 Malot sandstones. -si, i i t i 



coloured, speckled, and reddish sandstones of the 



last-named group (No. 5) , alternating eight times with bands of red and 

 crimson shale^ and overlying brownish sandstone, or sometimes conglom- 

 eratic bands, probably the locally uppermost portion of the group No. 4>. 

 Within this thickness of sandstones, &c., there is some diversity ; the 

 majority of the beds are whitish, some greenish or purple or darkly 

 speckled, some are soft, and some silicious and ferruginous. All varieties 

 of sandy lamination occur in them, and all are much ripple-marked, the 

 red colour which pervades them being less apparent on the freshly 

 broken than on weathered surfaces. 



Above this group are whitish flags with black filmy layers, and 



some few bands of greenish shale, with marks like 

 Overlying beds. 



worm-tracks, these beds becoming gravelly and 



conglomeratic with metamorphic pebbles in a soft olive sandstone 



matrix. At irregular positions in the upper part of these beds are also 



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