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originated in a great fissure. There are, as we shall see, true faults 

 among these rocks, but they add force to the argument by con- 

 firming the opinion to which I appeal ; — they are essentially rectili- 

 near. It remains to be shown that the sharp irregularities in the main 

 boundary, such as that just east of Rajpoor, and again that east of the 

 Granges, are not due to cross faults. For this I must refer to the following 

 Chapter. 



The fact for which I here contend is but the continuation, or rather 



Analogy with pre-num- the repetition of a process for the action of which 



mulitic elevation. . ,..,. T1 . , .,., , 



m pre-nummulitic times 1 have already adduced 



evidence in discussing the relations of the Subathu group to the older 

 rocks, namely, a slow upheaval of the area corresponding approximately, 

 here at least, to the Lower Himalayan region, and involving the form- 

 ation of a succession of coast lines along which the several Sub-Hima- 

 layan groups were laid down. 



The following general remarks upon the fossils which I obtained from 

 the rocks of the Subathu group are due to my colleague Dr. Kane, who 

 very kindly made a careful examination of my small collection. The 

 plant remains are exclusively from, the Kasaoli beds, and from two 

 localities ; one in Kasaoli itself, on the lower mall, about a quarter of a 

 mile south of the water-tunnel ; the other locality is some miles north 

 of Kasaoli on the Budi road, near the stream in the chief re-entering 

 angle on the east side of the main ridge. The other fossils were 

 obtained from the true nummulitic beds at the base of the group, and 

 from scattered localities : — 



A number of well-preserved plant remains were found in the rocks of the Kasaoli range. 

 They are, probably, of middle tertiary age, and are embedded in an indurated shaly clay, 

 bluish, and slightly micaceous. It is evident from the regularity with which these remains 

 are disposed, — the leaves being in no case crumpled, or distorted, as well as from the fine 

 texture of the rock in which they occur, that they have been deposited from water either 

 perfectly still, or only slightly in motion ; and it is also evident, judging from their com- 

 paratively perfect state of preservation, and the general evidence of their all being mature 



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