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Just in the neighbourhood of Varcha (Wureha) the rocks are again 



,, , .„ tremendously broken and slipped, great shifted 



varcha village, . . _ ri j & 



disintegrating masses of the carboniferous lime- 

 stone directly overlying the red marl^ and portions of the other rocks 

 being entangled with this marl, at many points, without any of their 

 consecutive relationship being preserved. The shaken and displaced 

 limestone overlying the salt-marl can be continuously traced into 

 connexion with that which is still in situ, horizontally undulating 

 over the higher ground, the transition from one condition to the other 

 being imperceptible. Open fissures and chasms, of great depth but in- 

 considerable width, occurring in the limestone are probably due to the 

 instability of the underlying salt marl. 



Between the village of Varcha and the Varcha gorge to the northwards 

 Between Varcha villao-e ^^® " ^^^ salt-marl " is seen, forming a part of the 

 and gorge. Varcha exposure of the Saline group, one of the 



largest in the western part of the range. 



The red marl here is conspicuous from the plain at the foot of the 

 escarpment, and fills a small rugged valley. Gypseous interstratifications 

 occur, and parts of the formation appear in many places to have subsided. 

 The marl lies very high, entirely forming hills, which measured by aneroid 

 740 feet in height above the plains (see fig. 41, Plate XXIV). 



Crossing these hills into the Varcha gorge the same marked appearance 

 of interstratifieation at its junction with the purple beds above, was again 

 observed, there being more than one alternation of bands each about 

 50 feet in thickness. 



The ground in this neighbourhood is, however, greatly dislocated, so 

 that some doubt attaches to the occurrence of alternations ; an appearance 

 which might very easily be caused by subsidence along concealed lines 

 of slippage. 



Within the Varcha gorge itself there is again much disturbance and 

 dislocation ; portions of the purple sandstone are so 

 slipped or faulted on the left-hand side of the gorge 



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