48 W. BT>ANFOIlD^ WKSTERN INDIA. [PaRT I. 



highly characteristic. In many places the bed exhibits oblique lamina- 

 tion, showing" that it accumulated in a current. Beneath it, at Cherakhan, 

 twenty-two miles east of Bagh, and one or two other places in the neigh- 

 Fossiliferous limestone ^ourhood, is the bed, an impure argillaceous lime- 



have hitherto been described were obtained ; this again rests upon unfossi- 



liferous nodular limestone, similar to that which forms the top of the beds 



at Bagh. Beneath this there is probably sandstone. Some red marl, 



with calcareous concretions and sandstone a little further east, is found 



resting upon the limestone, but it appears to be local. 



The general section of the Bagh beds about Chcrakhan appears to be 



Coralline limestone ... ... 10 to 20 feet. 



Fossiliferous argillaceous limestone abounding 



in Echinoderms (Hemiaster) ... about 10 feet. 



Unfossiliferous nodular limestone ... 20 feet. 



Sandstone and conglomerate ... 20 feet. 



Further to the eastward, the conglomerates and sandstones, which 



reappear along the edges of the Dhar forest, are 

 Rocks fm-ther east. 



similar to those of Buttunmul and Kanas. The 



limestones are wanting, or represented by a calcareous gritty band at the 



top. 



From the above remarks it will be apparent that these beds vary 



greatly both in mineral character and in thickness. The latter, however, 



appears to change according to a well marked rule, 



Increase in thickness ^nd to increase towards the south. Along the north- 

 towards the south. ^ 



ern portion of the present map, the Bagh beds never 

 exceed about 60 feet, and they frequently appear to thin out almost en- 

 tirely. To the southward, they even amoimt to 1,000 feet in the Deva 

 valley, and their base is not seen. At Bagh they are about 100 feet 

 thick, and they appear to be still more a little to the south, while 

 10 or 12 miles to the north, near Tanda, they are represented by from 

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