58 WYNNE : TRANS-INDUS EXTENSION OF THE PUNJAB SALT RANGE. 



Below it on the eastern side of the range are from £00 to 350 feet 

 of the Ceratite shales, the lower part containing- thin-bedded limestone 

 layers, some full of broken shell fragments, others containing Ceratites as 

 usual; these beds alternate downwards with coarse pebbly sandstones 

 and flags, and among the lowest seen (apparently) are the usual thin and 

 somewhat shaly Ceratite limestones more than 100 feet thick. 



This part of the section on the shattered side of the outcrop is more 

 or less obscure, and repetitions of the beds might occur ; but superficial 

 subsidence of the rocks will not entirely account for the presence of a 

 group of white, red, and mottled sandstones, clays, and magnesian lime- 

 stone layers, having exactly the appearance of the variegated portion of 

 the Jurassic group. I suppose these to represent some of the sub-carboni- 

 ferous rocks brought into this position by faults ; unless indeed the group 

 be altogether a new one intermediate between the carboniferous and trias. 

 These are the rocks, doubtless, referred by Fleming to the salt group of 

 the Salt Range, and by Verchere to the same horizon, called by him sali- 

 ferian. 



In a deep Jcas between Ramkund and Duman-wali hamlet, or kiri, 

 I found these beds dipping west at 35°, apparently underlying the Cera- 

 tite beds without discordance of any kind, which nevertheless might 

 still be present, and thus arranged : — 



Ceratite flags, flaggy limestones, and marls : much more than 30 feet. 

 Thick reddish purple clay with small strings of a I 

 whitb fibrous* mineral, soft like gypsum and slightly 

 saline .........* 



Mottled sandstone and clays with gypseous strings 



Coarse gravelly white sandstones . 



Mottled purple and white sandstone .... 



Fine-grained soft white rock like a weathered sandy 



dolomite „ . . 



Variegated pink, lavender, white, and greenish clays and ' 



white sandstones 



White soft sandy rotten rock 



A few beds of white earthy limestone (magnesianj?), white 



and green clay partings 



White sands or decomposed sandstone (once calcareous or 



magnesian ?) 



, Variegated purple and greenish gray clays .... 



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