D4 WYNNE : TRANS-INDUS EXTENSION OF THE PUNJAB SALT KANOE. 



oecurrence again, at the base of the range not far from Karandi, of 

 the same beds above described as representing the upper nummulitie 

 rocks, and with them there is again a band of conglomerate wholly made 

 up of nummulitie limestone pebbles. As usual, in such a situation these 

 beds are dislocated and disturbed. 



A deep has to the southward again exposes the supra-jurassic sand- 

 stone, and still further south, between Karandi and Sultan Khel, a larger 

 anticlinal exposure of these and the Jurassic beds occurs, the newer lime- 

 stone having been denuded over the axis of the main anticlinal of the 

 range. 



Some of these deep cuts with vertical sides enable black alum shales 

 situated towards the middle region of the nummulitie limestone to be 

 seen, having a thickness of about 150 feet; but though the central portions 

 of the limestone is frequently shaly, it is not certain that this alum shale 

 is present everywhere in the group. 



The summit of the Maidan range opposite to Sultan Khel is marked 

 Cliffs of the Maidan as baving an elevation of 4,357 feet ; the Indus to 

 rau S e - the east as 78:2 feet. Of the difference (3,575 feet), 



if 375 be allowed for the rise from the river to the foot of the hill, this 

 would leave 3,200 feet for the height of the escarpment, at least half of 

 which is occupied by mural cliffs of the nummulitie limestone, the beds 

 being so slightly curved from the horizontal that the formation here 

 may be fairly estimated at 1,500 to 1,600 feet. For height and boldness 

 these precipices are as grand as any in the whole district, those of Dangot 

 perhaps excepted. 



In the neighbourhood of Mitha, 4 miles south-west of Sultan Khel, 



the eocene limestone part of the anticlinal dis- 

 Near Mitha. 



appears, being wrapped round and covered over by 



the tertiary sandstones of the uppermost nummulitie and Siwalik groups. 



The beds which succeed the limestone are a mass formed about equally of 



greenish and red clays, with dull brown sandstones and thick conglomeratic 



zones, layers of conglomerate being scattered through 30-feet spaces among 



the sandstones, in beds of 5 to 10 feet thick, and the whole group is at least 



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