60 WYNNE : TRANS-INDUS EXTENSION OF THE PUNJAB SALT RANGE, 



SlWALIE ? 



Upper part op the 

 Ceeatite group ? 



Fig. 7. Junction of the conglomerate and underlying beds of Basti algad at the petroleum sources. 

 1. Sandy limestone. 2. Sandstone passing into conglomerate. 3. Sandy limestone with detached fragments, 

 4. Conglomerate. 



The section seen at this place is as follows : — 



f 10. Red and gray clays with pebbly and other 



soft sandstones of grayish colour . . 500 feet. 

 I 9. Thick conglomerate with irregular sandy 

 l_ limestone layers at base .... 15 — 20 „ 

 f 8. Brown limestone with white carbonate of 



lime geodes 5 „ 



7. Sandstone layer 1 foot. 



6. Brown calcareous sandstone, joint-spaces 

 filled with calcareous mudstone, thickness 



varying much 10 feet. 



5. Grayish-pink shale with calcareous sandy 



layers, pink at top ..... 3 „ 



4. Brown sligbtly calcareous layer saturated 

 with mineral tar ...'•• 



^ 3. Soft grayish-white sandstone . 

 C 2. Shaly variegated pink, purple, gray, and 

 olive flaggy beds and brown fossiliferous 

 limestone layers with small Ceratites 

 l_ 1. Hard thin limestones with Ceratites . 



Of the petroleum springs of this locality Mr. Lyman says in his 

 report 1 : — " The asphalte deposits extend in spots 

 for about a quarter of a mile along the east side of 



Ceratite beds 



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7 

 100 



50 



Mr. Lyman's account. 



1 Report on Punjab Oil-lands by Benjamin Smith Lyman, published by Public Works 

 Department at Lahore, 1870. Aluggud oil-lands, p. 36, &c. The name given to this 

 locality should have been the Basti algad. Algad or algada is the Pashtu for Nala or 

 stream-course- 



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