214 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OP THE SALT RANGE IN THE PUNJAB. 



appear above it. The speckled sandstone group (No. 5) is cong-lomeratic^ 

 containing also eartliy beds both above and below, and there is a regular 

 transition upwards from its variegated and dark grey clays (here 130 

 feet thick), through 100 feet of black sandy shale, with hard muddy, 

 thin, calcareous and cherty bands, into the limestones of the carbon- 

 iferous group. At the head of the ravine this limestone forms a surface 

 wild and broken by small cliifs, crags and escarpments. The nummulitic 

 limestone generally rises above the carboniferous in long scarps with 

 outlying portions here and there. 



On the sides of these outliers towards the plains, masses of the car- 

 boniferous limestones still occur, shaken and 

 Country about Morah. , . , , c i t> 



slightly out 01 place, isetween these masses the 



red sandstone group No. 5 is seen predominating towards the escarpment 

 and supporting large slipped fragments and outliers of the limestone. 

 Above the village of Morah in the broken limestone ground, the car- 

 boniferous limestones are often fossiliferous, the weathered state of the 

 beds enabling numbers of Uliynclionellce, small Terebratula, and other 

 Brachiopoda to be collected, as well as many corals ; certain white lime- 

 stones being crowded with Lithostrotion. 



Among the carboniferous fossils found here (and in other places also) 



there occurs a peculiar form with a large flatfish 

 Peculiar fossil. 



palmate structure, having on one side a well-defined 



midrib, from which smaller deeply separated ribs diverge in opposite 



directions, sometimes at right angles, sometimes more obliquely placed. 



What this fossil is has not been discovered, but there is a similarity in 



some small curved specimens to internal casts of Belerophon decipiens, 



DeKonink. 



A great boulder conglomerate of crystalline blocks occurs here just 

 above the now greenish shales of the silurian zone, and bands of light 

 grey sandstone occur in the lower part of the purple group No. 2. 



Between Morah and the gh^t (or ascent) on the road from Shahpur 

 Country eastward of ^^ Sakesar, the escarpment of the hills is greatlj^ 

 Kund Ghat. broken. The speckled sandstones occur in force, 



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