MEMOIRS 



OP THE 



GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



Note on the Geology of the neighbourhood of Lynyan and Etjnneekote, 

 North- West of Kotree^ in Sind^ h?/ Wm. T. Blanfoed, Assoc. Roy. 

 School of Mines ; F. G. 8., By. &u]}t. ; Geol. Survey of India. 



CONTENTS. 



1. Introduction. 



2. Tract of country examined. 



3. Geological observations. 



4. Relations and classification of beds. 



5. Eecapitulation of conclusions. 



1. — Introduction, 



The following slight contributioii to our knowledge of the geo- 

 logical structure . of Sind is the result of a visit paid in November 

 1863 to the country immediately north-west of Kotree on the Indus, 

 the present terminus of the Sind Eailway, for the purpose of examin- 

 ing the locality at Lynyan, whence an inferior 

 Object of visit. 



kind of coal (or rather of lignite) was extracted 



in 1858-59; and of determining, so far as was practicable in a brief 

 visit, whether there was a probability of the existence of other de- 

 posits of fossil fuel in the neighbourhood. The results of the visit, 

 so far as the prospects of finding coal were concerned, were detailed in 

 a Report to the Government of Bombay dated December 23rd, 1863, 



a portion of which is appended. As that Report, 

 Report in 1863. , i • i i i ^ i • , 



however, was designed solely to explam the reasons 



for the unfavorable opinion expressed of the economical value of the 

 Mem. Geplogical Survey, India, Vol. VI., Art. 1. 



