250 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF THE SALT EANGE IN THE PUNJAB. 



Ill the dry stony channel here the banks expose many slips, and 



some of the limestone is brecciated-looking' and 

 Mouth of Bazar Wan. . , • i i ji i />; -i <? .1 



ma^^nesian, certain beds on the leit side 01 tne 



channel near its mouth being- crowded with finely-weathered corals, &c. 



Just beyond this a fault, or perhaps two, are marked by the wedging 



into the section of a small mass of the speckled sandstones. Further 



up the stream on the side of the hills next the open stony flat of the 



Bazar valley, the red salt-marl is exposed, and here some old salt-mines 



are said to exist but to be inaccessible. Small portions of the purple and 



speckled sandstone groups are also seen, much cut up by faults (or slips), 



and the hills above the right side of the Wan are covered by contorted 



carboniferous limestone. 



The Chiderii group of hills ends in some small isolated elevations 



rising from the stony zone east-by-south from 

 End of these hills. ... 



Musakhel. The same limestone m these is contort- 

 ed, in places rusty, cherty, and magnesian, or pink, whitish, crinoidal, or 

 grey ; the hard rusty-coloured bands having small ferruginous project- 

 ing pieces of corals, crinoids, or Ecbinid club-spines; and the grey beds 

 containing sections of Bellerophon or Goniatites and some other fossils. 



The Bazar river between these Chideru hills and the narrow part of 

 the range from Sakesar north-westwards does not seem to flow out at 

 the natural mouth of the valley, but turns to the south and escapes 

 through the hilly country towards the Tliar and the Indus plains. On 

 this side of the glen at the upper waters of a tributary branch of the 

 main stream, is the small mass of the cherty nummulitic limestone previ- 

 ously mentioned, faulted into the carboniferous limestone and nearly 

 surrounded by it, without any appearance of the intervening beds. 

 Whatever the process by which this mass became so placed, it must 

 have undergone considerable disturbance, for its layers are much con- 

 torted, being in some places vertical and in others horizontal. 



Where this Bazar river-valley becomes contracted and hilly, the 

 Where valley becomes stream flows between high banks of the carboni- 

 contracted. ferous limestone above which, on the side of the 



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