CHICHALI RANGE. 49 



Coniferous (and trias) rocks to the west according to Dr. Fleming's paper 

 (l. c. } p. 367) , which gives a section across the range here, repeating much 

 of the dislocation seen at Chichali pass. 1 There are, as usual, signs in 

 this part of the range of disturbance along the foot of the escarpment, 

 but the outcrops of the Jurassic and eocene rocks occupy all the promi- 

 nent features of the frontage. 



These form high cliffs to the south of Shoh, a village only inhabited 

 in the hot weather, and situated in a rocky de- 

 pression among nummulitic limestone crags high 

 up on the north slopes of the range, near the elevation marked 4,063 feet. 

 A local anticlinal in this nummulitic limestone forms the crest of the 

 range, and increases somewhat the apparent thickness of the group ; just 

 below which the thick supra- Jurassic sandstone shows itself strongly, with 

 its accompanying black underlying zone. At one spot this appeared to 

 have been unconf ormably deposited upon an eroded surface of the Jurassic 

 limestones, but the general relations of these groups would not indicate 

 any great amount of discordance between them. The Jurassic groups 

 form a wild rugged and precipitous tract full of inaccessible places 

 in that portion of the escarpment overlooking the neighbourhood of 

 Chashmai. 



A short distance beyond this hamlet to the westward, at a place called 



Paranga, the carboniferous beds re-appear, dipping 

 Paranga. 



under the escarpment at 60 , and as usual succeeded 



by the triassic beds ; the latter being sharply folded, and from their nature 

 and position at the foot of the hills, imperfectly exposed. The carboni- 

 ferous formation shows alternating bands of gray sandstone and lime- 

 stone, with Goniatites and Belleroplion above and Products prevailing 

 below ; the whole of the formation is not seen. In the dark upper part 

 of the Jurassic group Belemnites occur, and a large flat form of 

 Ammonites. 



1 The soluble matter from these beds forms a thick gelatinous scum along some of the 

 nearly dried up streamlets. On examination by Mr. Mallet at the Survey laboratory, this 

 was found to consist of silicate and sulphate of alumina, with oxide of iron, carbonate of 

 lime and organic matter. 



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