SOUTHERN KHIRTHAR, BHIT AND BADHRA RANGES. 119 



on the 1-inch map, east of the road between Chorlo and Maliri. These 

 shaly beds abound in fossils. Besides Nummulites, Patellina cooJci, 

 some corals, and several species of echinoderms ; Corbula subexarata, 

 Cardita depressa, and several other Lamellibranchs, Nerita sclimideliana, a 

 large Cyprcea, two species of Foluta, Turritella affiuis, Solarium affine, and 

 a Rostellaria, were found at this locality. 



The marly shales pass up into light yellow and brown limestone, with 



Passage beds between a coral zone abounding in several species of coral. 



Nari and Khirthar. A little above thig ig a band containing- Pecten. 



in abundance, and the beds gradually assume the character of the brown 



Nari limestone. About this horizon there is found a small rather 



convex species of Ostrea, often met with in the bottom Nari beds, 



and just above it, or associated with it, Nummulites garansensis and 



N. sublavigata are generally found. The Pecten and the coral zones 



may be considered as the uppermost Khirthar beds, or as forming 



a transition between the Khirthar and Nari groups. These zones 



are tolerably constant in this neighbourhood and to the southward 



as far as Trak, a distance of about 60 miles, but to the southwest, on 



the other side of the Khirthar range, the uppermost Khirthar beds are 



very different. 



There seems to be some faulting hereabouts just west of the small 



dharmshala at Maliri, at the foot of a low anti- 

 Fault near Maliri. 



clinal ridge of Khirthar limestone. Nari beds 



occur, dipping sharply to the eastward, and containing Orbitoides papy- 

 racea, Cardita subcomplanata, and a Turbo with its operculum ; whilst 

 a few hundred yards farther east, at the dharmshala, Khirthar lime- 

 stone occurs, containing Nummulites granulosa, and dipping west at a low 

 angle. There may be merely a sharp synclinal, but probably a small 

 fault intervenes. 



The Badhra ridge terminates to the southward, a little north of 



Southern end of Badhra Pokran, and the Nari beds lap round the extremity 



ran £ e ' of the ridge, as already mentioned, a small patch 



of Manchhar ; without any Gaj beds below it, occurring west of the 



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