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internal colour and the association of gypsum identify it with that of the 

 south side of the range. 



At its last exposure in the Makrach direction, there are associated 

 with the marl a few beds of friable^ whitish and reddish,, or purplish 

 sandstones, probably of group No. 5, dipping to the northwards on that 

 side of the marl at about 35°, and the upper portion of these beds is 

 dark and shaly. The limestone on both sides of the marl dips also 

 northwards, or east of north, at nearly the same angle, and the whole 

 exposure has a width of a hundred feet or so. From the occurrence of 

 these few beds of sandstone, it may be presumed that the marl (the 

 softest rock of the series) was forced by pressure into an open fissure 

 caused by disturbance along the western continuation of the Makrach 

 and Choya fault. The water which flows by this fissure from the salt or 

 salt-marl near the lake, is so strongly saturated, that an ordinary gurra 

 full (more than two gallons) boiled down, yields two seers (4 lbs.) 

 of salt, according to the account of the natives, and information supplied 

 by Mr. Marshall of Sardi. Other springs on the same line of fracture 

 and in the same association are, however, fresh. 



In some places where no limestone intervenes between the marl 



Junction with sand- ^'^d the sandstones of the tertiary series, the latter 



^**^'^®^- are contorted, contain redder clays than usual, and 



dip sharply at the fault, while elsewhere, where the limestone does 



intervene, it is separated from the sandstones by smaller dislocations. 



Pig. I^.—Skeieh Section, S.-E.fro7n Kalar-Kahdr. 

 1— Salt-mavl ; 2— Sandstones ; 11— Niimmulitic limestone ; 12— Tertiary sandstone series : all faulted. 



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