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



may, for the present at all events, be left together with the group on 

 which it rests. 



On the mountain slope above the junction there are large patches of 



the conglomerate somewhat displaced by faults, 

 Faults. 11- 



but so clearly resting upon a lower part 01 the 



Ceratite group that its total unconformity to the triassic rocks is 



proved. 



For many miles to the southward of this, the north-westerly slopes of 



North-westerly slopes the ran £ e snow a stead y ni » hl J inclined and some- 

 of the range. what curving dip corresponding with its general 



surface, the triassic and upper part of the carboniferous beds forming 

 zones with deeply mitred edges, the V-like points running upward be- 

 tween every considerable nala. The tertiary beds form a long scarp at 

 the foot of the hill ; they are mainly gray sandstones, but a few bands of 

 red or dull orange clay are often seen among the lowest layers. 



Returning to the scarped south-eastern face of the ridge, the carboni- 

 ferous formation first appears at the Dumanwali 

 hamlet (already mentioned) in high bluffs of dark 

 coloured unfossiliferous and rather magnesian-looking limestone ; but in 

 the nalas near, the beds are seen to undulate in bold curves, corresponding 

 with an open anticlinal structure, and to contain numerous Products and 

 others of the common carboniferous fossils. 



At the extensive ruins of the northern, or Til Rajah, Kafir Kot, the 

 K&fir K6t (North). enormous blocks of which the walls are built have 

 Carho rous. been chiefly taken from the carboniferous limestones 



of the neighbouring hills. Greenish sandy, gray or rusty, limestones 

 are the most common, but a beautiful white compact or crinoidal kind, 

 which rings like a bell when struck and seems to have been dressed with 

 facility, occurs in situ in the nala to the west, and a very simitar zone also 

 occurs at the foot of the cliffs, here bordering the crest of the ridge. All 

 the lower parts of the hill-flanks expose undulating strong limestones, 

 often with the appearance of having slipped, but still belonging mostly 

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