178 WYNNE: GEOLOGY OE THE SALT EANGE IN THE PUNJAB. 



some very red shaly bands, and higher up, the coal shales, below the 

 mass of the nummulitic limestone, are seen just under the village of 

 Karuli in the subsided portion of the cliff on 

 which this village stands. The section is th-us — 



Feet. 

 6. Lumpy white limestone, part of a cliff of more than 130 



5. Black coaly shales, with much pyrites ... to 34 



(In these coal-shales is a lenticular mass of limestone 

 from 18 inches to 3 feet thick). 

 4. Lumpy limestone ... ... •■• ••• 6 to 8 



3. Black shale ... ... ... ■•• ^ 



2. Hsematitic and lateritic hand ... .. .•• 3 to 30 



1. Eed and pale purple, and ferruginous shale, with plant 



fragments ... ... ... ••• ^" 



The coal is merely in strings and lenticular layers in the shale. 



Some of it was tried in my tent-stove at night, but the fumes were too 



sulphurous to be borne. The general section near Karuli is as follows : — 



Groups. Feet. 



f Nummulitic limestone, lumpy and cherty below ... ... 300 



No. 11 .^Coal-shales ... ... ... ... ..- ••• 20 



I Lateritic band, hsematitic clay ... ... ... ... 3 to 30 



*{ Pale purple clay or shale ... ... •■• ••• 1" 



I White flaggy beds, with black filmy layers and") 



I beds of red clay ... ... ... r" ••. 30 



I ■' ,1 



Olive conglomerate and conglomeratic sandstone ) 



No. 5. Reddish, speckled and whitish sandstone with many alterna- 

 tions of red shale ... ... ... ... 300 



Light coloured, flaggy and strong sandstone ... ... 250 



Black, clunchy, micaceous shales, parts flaggy ... ... 100 



Purple sandstone, marly below ... ... ... 300 



Red salt-marl — seen ... ... ... 300 to 500 



The great gorge of Sardi (or the Seriarik Wan), west of Karuli, 

 is cut back into the plateau country for a distance 

 of six and a half miles from the plains in a north- 

 erly direction ; three miles more of excavation wpuld have carried it 

 right across the whole range. Its depth is not marked upon the map, 

 but appears from aneroid observation to be from 1,500 to 1,600 feet. 

 ( 178 ) 



No. 



4. 



No. 



3. 



No. 



2. 



No. 



1. 



