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WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF THE SALT EANGE IN THE PUNJAB. 



7. Triassic— 

 contd. 



6. Caeboni- 



FEBOTJS. 



-Hard limestone with many bivalves and fragments of 



Greenish ferruginous sandy marls and sandstone with 



Qervillice, Ceratites, and Orthoceras 

 Hard sandstone with spinose Ceratites 

 Greenish sandy shales and sandstones 

 Bellerophon bed, calcareous sandstone 

 Soft greenish sandstone 

 Green marls 

 V Lower Ceratite limestone 

 rBrown dolomitic sandstone with Bellerophon 

 Calcareous layer with numerous fossils, Producti and 

 Ceratites 

 J Yellow dolomitic sandy beds 



iGrey clays 

 White compact limestone 

 (^Debris ... 

 r Lavender clay 



Feet. 



10 



-10 



5 to 6 



50 



1 



20 



20 to 30 



.10 



100 



10 



30 



20 



200 



...1 



5. Speckled 

 sandstone 



, Red, grey, and greenish sandstone, with lenticular masses I 

 I of yellow quartzite; light-coloured sandstones and shaly, i 

 t_ flaggy bands ... ... ... ...J 



2. Purple ( Deep pui-ple sandstones 



SANDSTONE. I purple g]ialy lower part 



450? 



200 

 100 



Gypseous salt-marl 



250 to 300 



The salt-marl disappears beneath the boulder-zone of the plains 

 beyond the faulted lower groups named immediately before this list, 

 the ground is chiefly formed of carboniferous limestone the whole way 

 across the hills to the Bazar Wan. 



Triassic section. 



East-by-north of Chideru in a country likewise mainly occupied 

 by carboniferous limestone, the following section 

 across another part of the triassic beds was noted 

 by Dr. Waagen : — ■ 



Feet. 

 Debris. 

 fVariegated sandstones 

 Peehaps BASE oeJ White sandstones .. 



JUBASSIC. 



I Purple and red ferruginous sandstones with sulphur- 

 l_^ coloured stripes 



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10 

 3 



10 



