198 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF THE SALT EANGE IN THE PUNJAB, 



thickness of about 150 feet. The Fusulina baud here has a thickness 

 ol 12 feet, and overlies some 80 feet of sandy^ massive calcareous 

 beds. All the beds within reach of examination here were of very 

 sandy limestone ; soft, shaly beds were seen to overlie these, just 

 Ijeneatli the nummulitie limestoneSj but none of the coal shales were 

 visible. 



Wmm the crest of this pass towards Pail the path lies through a flat^ 

 narrow valley at about the level of the top beds of the carboniferous 

 group ; two similar little valleys running off to the west-south-west, and 

 the whole being closed in by considerable hills of undulating nummuli- 

 tie limestone. 



The interval between the Niirpur plateau and the commencement 

 p., , f 1 t a of the Son country near Chamil may be considered 

 country. ^^ ^^ extension of either, or a sort of lower step 



between the two. 



After descending from the Nurpur country over an escarpment of the 



nummulitie limestone, the flat, cultivated, long and 

 Nurpur. i ^ • i t • 



narrow valley of Badrar is entered, extendmg m a 



north-easterly direction towards Vasnal. At the Badrar end the valley is 

 divided into two by some hills of contorted nummulitie limestone, and 

 between that village and Dheri the red gypseous salt-marl forms rounded 

 hillocky ground, without any of the intervening rocks between it and the 

 nummulitie limestone on one side ; but on the other, just below the escarp- 

 ment, some rolling beds of the speckled sandstone group are seen. The 

 dislocations which produced this exposure in such a place must have been 

 both large and complicated, but unfortunately the cultivated flat ground 

 renders it impossible to trace them, or to say which are the rocks in 

 contact with the salt-marl. On one side the nummulitie limestone is 

 steady, dipping at a low angle to the south-east; on the other it is 

 considerably contorted, so as to suggest the existence of a line or lines 

 of fracture, coinciding with the long valley stretching towards Vasnal, 

 and meeting other faults intersecting the main fracture between Dheri 

 and Pail. 



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