WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF THE SALT RANGE IN THE PUNJAB. 



The instructive section whieli this valley affords is as follows (accord- 

 Section inside valley i^g" ^o my notes and those subsequently made by 



below village. 



Dr. Waagen): — 



JUEASSIC (?) 



9. Jtjeassic 



1 



rNummulitic alum-shales with few fossils (same as 



11. NUMMFLITIC -; at Chichali pass, Trans-Indus) TwrrJ^eZ/ajTrocAMs 



(^ and little corals. 



White soft sandstone with numerous fragments of 



lignite ... ,., 



("Alum-shales thicker than above and with more 



C pyrites ..- ... ... ... 



^Strong red ferruginous sandstone with Ostrea, 

 Exogyra, some indistinct Gastropods and frag- 

 ments of unsymmetrical JEcliinidcB ; section not 

 quite clear, and part seems as if some grey 

 sandstones came in above these ferruginous ones. 

 ,. ■{ Grey and variegated sandstones and shales, coarse 

 yellowish flaggy sandstone with numerous 

 TerehratulcB 

 Variegated red shales 

 Thick white sandstones 

 l^Variegated shales, blackish, grey and red . . . 

 fHard limestones, numerous species of bivalves, cal-'^ 

 careous sandstone with spinose Ceratites, sandstones I 

 with C. Flemingu, Bellerophon bed of the Ceratite I 

 group with many Cera^j^es... ... ... f 



Ceratite marls, grey and green .. , ... ..^ | 



l^ Lower Ceratite limestone ... ... ... ) 



fSoft white sandstones intercalated with coaly shales, 

 fossils numerous, Bellerophon, small bivalves,"&c.... 



Compact carboniferous limestone 

 TeUow dolomitic sandy limestones 



Feet. 



50 



50 



V 100 to 150 

 I 



7. Teiassic ...•{ 



160 



6. CAEBOiriFEEOtrS i^ 



100 



200 

 150 to 200 



Grey sandy brittle layers with numerous StrophalosicB 



and LeptcBtiee ... 

 Rusty -brown, coarse, ferruginous sandstone, Spirifer, &c. ") 

 Fine white sandstone with Fusulince, Orthis, &c. ... ) 



Black coaly sand or sandstone, with much pyrites and 



many fossils, Aulosteges, &c. 



f Lavender clay 



5. Speckled sand- j ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ sandstone 



STONE ... I 



(^Lavender clay 



( 238 ) 



6 

 15 



10 

 30 



