chichali range. 45 



magnesian limestones, with subordinate shales and arenaceous beds ; the 

 „ , .. Ceratite group shows its thin limestones and 



Carboniferous. 



characteristic clays, and the Jurassic has its two 



divisions — a great mass of variegated red, white, and yellow sandstones 



with black and gray clays, and yellowish magnesian or gray limestones 



below, succeeded by hard limestones with marine fossils. The eocene 



limestones, black alum shales, &c, are quite of the usual type ; the white or 



yellowish, nodular, compact and nummulitic limestone containing many 



_ fossils, among which the nummulites only are well 



Peculiar fossils. J 



preserved. Fossils also are numerous in the older 



mesozoic and carboniferous rocks, among the latter being the unnamed 



fossil of the Salt Range, already mentioned (page 30). 



The sections north of Kalabagh, represented in fig. 2 at page 46, are 

 estimated to expose the following thickness of each group : — 



Tertiary sandstones ... ... ... Several thousand feet. 



Eocene limestone, &c. ... ... ... ... 800 



Cretaceous, not found ... ... ... „, (10?) 



(Upper part ... ... ... ... 500 



Jurassic J 



(Lower „ ... ... ,., ... 800 



Triassic ... ... ... ... ... 350 



Carboniferous ... ... ... ... ... 800 



From the summits of this part of the range one looks northward 



for 5 or 6 miles across a large valley, a verv 

 Valley to the north. . & . J 



wilderness of bare sandstone rock in gray mono- 

 chrome, some thousand ledges rising one above another, and the cliffs 

 growing more vertical and inaccessible as the summit of the Lakargarh 

 is reached. 



To the westward of the embayment the range rises higher than 



Range towards Chi- elsewhere in the vicinity, and there cannot be much 

 chali pass. less than ^ 000 f eet of rockg in the seetion# Allow- 



ing somewhat for undulation and concealment below, the groups would 



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