SHEKH BUDiN HILLS. 



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the ravine just south of the lower part of the steep zigzag ascent from 

 Pezu. The section here is as follows :— 





Fig. 12. Diagram of a small section near the Pezu ascent to Sliekh Budin. 

 (References given in the following paragraph). 



Just at the mouth of the ravine some soft whitish sandstones are 

 visible, and following it upwards for a few chains, to where a small elbow 

 occurs, the uppermost beds of the Jurassic group and those of the in- 

 tervening zone between these and the Siwaliks are found in the abnor- 

 mally crushed, faulted, and overslipped position seen in the sketch. The 

 mass to the right (No. 10) is of gray strong limestone, similar to that 

 of the rest of the Jurassic formation adjacent. The subsided mass No. 9 

 is of similar limestone also, and fully 50 feet, or more, in thickness or 

 height, passing into shattered rubble to the left : — 



Feet. 



No. 8. Massive, soft, milk-white sandstone 39 



— underlying grayer sandy beds imperfectly seen, and over= 

 lying— 

 „ 7. Rusty and white sandstone, thin-bedded and alternating 



with gray saline clays ....... 20 



„ 6. Red sandstone ......... 10 



„ 5. Gray thin-bedded shale . ... 10 



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