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Section XI. — Chideri^ Hills and narrow part of the Salt Range. 



The hills to the westward of Sakesar are divided into two principal 



„.„ , „ „ , groups by the rug-g-ed valley of the Bazar Wan 



Hills west of Sakesar. _ 



running in a north-west direction towards Mu.sa- 

 khel. Both of these groups are closely connected with the Sakesar 

 mountain^ the north-eastern one being a continuation of it and the 

 other united by the spur of Seran-ki-dok. 



The latter group has been alluded to as the Chideru hills. These 



are in places lofty, one summit rising to within a foot of 3^000 feet, and 



the group has a general north-west and south-east extension. All over 



these hills the carboniferous limestone is laro-elv 

 Series. , S3 J 



exposed, the beds rolling or contorted, dipping in 

 various directions ; the rocks consisting of the usual light-coloured com- 

 pact or crinoidal, and sometimes magnesian, limestone, some more sandy 

 rocks and shaly beds. Beneath these the "speckled sandstone'" group, 

 with its coarse conglomeratic sandstones, grey and lavender clays, and red 

 ferruginous shales, very frequently makes its appearance. The " purple 

 sandstone " group is thinner and more fugitive in its occurrence, and the 

 " red salt-marl " is seen in very many places, both among the hills and 

 along their outer portions. Above the carboniferous limestone near 

 Chideru, there is a considerable development of the triassic rocks and 

 at one spot on the opposite side of the hills from that village a small 

 fault-enclosed patch of the nummulitic limestone occurs in the Bazar 

 Wan. 



Two considerable but irregular lines of fault traverse these hills and 



coincide generally with the direction of the ranges 

 Faults. • 1 • 1 e 1 ^ 



on either side of the most lofty ground ; there are 



also, both in the lower outer regions and within among the hills, very 

 numerous dislocations of the character usual along the whole southern 

 face of the range. These dislocations are most numerous and most com- 

 plicated from the opening of the Amb glen to the hills above Golawala- 

 keii or Dhoda. (See fig. 46, Plate XXVII.) 



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