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the Manchhar beds. On the top of the cliffs is a mass of subrecent 



conglomerate. Farther west grey and buff sandstones occur, evidently of 



Manchhar age, with masses of the characteristic Manchhar conglomerate, 



containing pebbles of clay and sandstone precisely 

 Ranikot. 



like the associated beds, and some of laterite. At 



the extreme base of these, resting unconformably on the Khirthar lime- 

 stone, is some laterite with variegated shales. Similar beds are seen 

 between the Manchhars and Khirthars, both to the north and south, 

 and may probably be of Gaj age, as they are occasionally associated with 

 strata containing Gaj fossils. 



Inside the eastern range a great change has taken place since 1863, 

 At that time the inner scarp of the range exhibited a very fine section 

 of Upper Eanikot beds. Now the scarp has been so covered over by 

 masses of Khirthar limestone fallen from above, that no Eanikot beds 

 can be seen in the cliff. It is said that the talus from above was thrown 

 ■down by an earthquake in the interim. 



The Eanikot beds on the western scarp of the outer range must be 

 east of the fault, if the latter has not died out. Probably, as already 

 noticed, it comes to an end about this, but still there appears to be rather 

 a smaller thickness of Eanikot beds east of the anticlinal in the Mohan 

 stream than west of it, so some may be cut out in the former direction. 

 The only places, to the north of Eanikot, where Eanikot beds are 

 found east of the main fault, are those already mentioned south of 

 Jakhmari and at Barrah hill. 



South of Eanikot, on the road to the Girran pass, a path leading 



across the hills about 5 miles south of the 

 South of Ranikot. 



fortress, the Eanikot beds are found dipping at 



low angles and in places horizontal ; they consist mostly of soft sand- 

 stones with beds of sandy shale ; they are very false-bedded, and variable 

 in composition and colour. There is much soft brownish-yellow sand- 

 stone, and an open textured earthy brown sandstone, speckled with 

 white, and having much resemblance to some Damuda rocks. "With 

 these are occasionally associated purplish shales and ferruginous beds, 



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