THE LAKI RANGE, ETC. 



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Ranikot beds 



Section of lower Ranileot and underlying beds at Jakhmari. 



fl. Sandstones of various colours, grey, brown, red, 

 yellow, &c., much false-bedded 



Similar sandstones, but less compact and less false- 

 bedded, sometimes with ferruginous nodules 



Grey and greenish-brown sandstones, with many 

 more or less ferruginous concretionary nodules, 

 some fragments of bones, apparently of tortoises, 

 and of teeth which may be saurian ... 

 -{ 4. Coarse grey sandstone, with ferruginous nodules 

 and light-coloured variegated sandy shales ; also 

 grey and pale brown sandstones, with patches of 

 yellow and red 



5. Pinkish-grey sandy shale, yellow and red in patches 



6. Dark-greenish and brown sandstones, rather coarse, 



soft and shaly 



Deccan teap 



Ceetaceotjs ? 



]_N. B.—In some of the beds, from 2 to 5 inclusive, frag- 

 ments of wood occur, apparently dicotyledonous.] 

 Basalt 

 ("1. Olive-green sandstones and sandy shales, with 

 gypsum, containing Cardita heaumonti, Natica, 

 Twritella, &c, mostly weathering out as casts. 

 The uppermost sandstones beneath the trap are 

 reddish -brown 

 2. Olive clays or shales with occasional bands of sand- 

 stone and a few thin layers of dull olive or 

 dark-coloured impure limestone. This is the 

 most fossiliferous bed, with Cardita beawnonti, 

 Nautili, Corals, &c. .,, 



FL 



40 



20 



10 



30 to 40 

 5 



30 



70 



200 



100 to 150 



The Cardita leaumonti shales are well seen along the course of a 

 torrent bed which drains the hills close to the police post at Jakhmari, and 

 the trap bed overlies the shales. Beneath these beds are found the dark 

 sandstones rolling over in an anticlinal, the uppermost layer being full of 

 oysters. At the fault cutting off the lower beds there is again a bed 

 of trap, but owing to the crushing that has taken place, the relations 

 of this band to the sandstones are extremely obscure. Probably the 

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