222 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF THE SALT RANGE IN THE PUNJAB. 



P. spinosus, p. com, P. Humholclti, a Betzia described by Davidson, Terebra- 

 tula Himalayensis, Fenestella, Macrocheilus, Goniatites, Ceratites, and many- 

 other carboniferous forms. 



From the mouth of the Dokri gorg-e a steep path near a salt ehowki 

 leads up the cliffs on the right side of the glen to the undulating 

 plateau above. From this path the broken and dislocated positions of 



the 'several groups can be seen. Where the rocks 

 Carboniferous rocks 

 north-west of Kavhad begin to appear in situ at the cliffs of the escarp- 

 and Dokri gorge. ., -, ,^ • ^ ^ -.in 



ment, greenish and thinly laminated liags occur in 



the upper part of group No. 5, and the white and red variegated clays 

 of that horizon are sometimes hard and jaspery, the beds with the harder 

 layers being 50 feet thick. Over them are 55 feet of grey calcareous 

 sandstone with a one-foot fossiliferous band containing Spirifera, Fro- 

 clucti, small Bellerophon, Terebratula, &c. Succeeding to this band are 

 10 feet of greenish clay, overlaid by 12 feet of sandy limestone, 

 weathering brownish, with Fusulina. This limestone is overlaid by 

 30 feet of greenish micaceous clay, then 150 to 200 feet of solid 

 limestone with corals, passing upwards into 120 feet of brown, rusty, 

 thin-bedded BelleropJwn hmestone, forming the cliff-edge. Other rusty 

 calcareous beds succeed and undulate over the neighbouring hilly 

 plateau, the nearest prominent elevation of which is capped by the 

 whitish-yellow disintegrating lower beds of the nummulitic series. 



Viewed from one of these heights, the plateau appears like a grey 



limestone sea thrown into huge waves, some turn- 

 Plateau. 



ing over as if about to break, and the slopes of 



all " dressed,^^ or rendered smooth, with detritus. Among all these grey 



rocks the whiter debris of the nummulitic limestone can be occasionally 



detected, and some smoother greenish slopes show where the soft triassic 



strata may be found. 



To the north-eastward the country between the Kavhad gorge and 



Between Jalar and Jalar Kahar is most peculiar. It is, as usual, hilly 



^'^^^^^^ and covered with the detritus and masses of the 



carboniferous limestone in such a state that it is almost impossible to 



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