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



considerable quantity of the dark conglomeratic shale, with metamorphie 

 pebbles,, forming or replacing the lower part of the "^ purple sandstone^' 

 group. 



The water used at this village is brought from a glen about a mile 



and a half to the northward, in which the thin_ 

 Budi-khel. iiiii n -to 



bedded, brown, rusty, lossihierous and grey lime- 

 stones of the carboniferous group are seen, resting immediately upon 

 the upper clays of group No. 5, here brightly coloured and variegated, 

 a band of grey clay coming next below the limestone. In this glen 

 also some of the red gypseous salt-marl is directly in junction with 

 beds of the " speckled sandstone " group, all the rocks being much dis- 

 turbed. In the hills above, the white and grey shaly clays of the 

 nummulitic group have again hard limestones both above and below 

 them ; and in the Jurassic group below, ferruginous, purple and white, 

 flaggy or solid, fine and coarse or conglomeratic sandstones alternate 

 with hard yellow marls, or lithographic limestone bands, containing 

 brown crystalline hsematitic nodules. The triassic group occurs in its 

 usual place, and a large tract among the interior hills is occupied by the 

 carboniferous limestones, &c. 



In an angle of the hills about two and a half miles north-west of 



Budi-khel is the Shuriwali glen, round which the 

 Shuriwali glen. . , . . . „ . 



carboniferous, triassic, and. jurassic formations 



bend in a horse-shoe form. Beneath the carboniferous limestone some 500 



feet of the " speckled sandstones " crop out. They are dull crimson and 



white, variegated and grey, with purple bands above, while the lower part 



is a mass of dark conglomeratic shales and clays, with green layers and 



black carbonaceous bands. The junction between 

 Carbonaceous bands. i i • i • i i 



these beds and the underlying highly gypseous 



red "^ salt-marl '' is very indistinct, and there are indications of one or two 



narrow bands of the red marl alternating with the lower part of the 



blackish conglomeratic shale. It is, however, hard to speak with certainty 



of so incoherent and soft a mass in a country where dislocation prevails to 



the extent which it does all along the outer hills of this neighbourhood. 



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