FLEMING ON THE SALT RANGE OF THE PUNJAUB. 



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The principal strata, in ascending order, are — 



1 . Gypseous red marl with rock-salt. 



2. Red sandstone, with clays, grits, and conglomerates. 



3. Bluish shales and greenish micaceous sandstone. Indistinct 



vegetable impressions. 400 feet thick. 



4. Variegated sandstone and variegated shales. Cupriferous no- 



dules. 150 to 200 feet thick. 



5. Limestone, with chert. Productus, &c. 200 to 300 feet thick. 



6. Sandstone, bituminous and pyritous shales and limestones. 



Lignite. Ferns. 



7. Bituminous shales, blue clays with septaria, and lignite. 



8. White limestone. Alveolina, &c. 



9. Nummulitic limestone, with flint. Nummulites, &c. 300 to 



400 feet thick. 

 10. Soft sandstone, marls, and red clays. Mammalian bones. 



The following Table is compiled from Dr. A. Fleming's collection 

 of organic remains, sent to England since his first two letters were 

 read before the Society, and the lists of fossils in his letters. 



Belonging to No. 5 of the Section : — 



Productus Limestone, Moosakhail, Athyris Royssii, L'Ev. 



„ „ „ Terebratulae (Rliynchonella, &c.). 



„ „ „ Echinodermata. 



„ „ ? Spirifer, n. sp. 



„ „ ? Strophomena, n. sp. 



„ „ ? Retepora fastuosa ?, De Kon. 



Lithodeiidron (Subbee?). 

 Encrinites. 

 Orthoceratite ? 



Fish bone and teeth (Helodus, Orodus, &c.) 

 Upper beds of the lower productus-lime- 

 stone. 

 Ceratites. 



Bellerophon hiulcus, Sow. (Coarse calca- 

 reous shale.) 

 Spirifer, alhed to Sp. liijeatus, Sow. 

 Fish-bone. Upper bed of lower productus- 



limestone. 

 Nautilus, like N. tuberculatus, Sow. 

 Ceratites, 2 species. 1 ^ , „. ,. 

 Small Pecten; &c. \ CrystaUme hmestone. 



Subbee, 

 Chederoo, 



Vurcha, 



„ Bellerophon. 



„ Ceratites. 



,, Cardinia. 



„ Productus. 



„ Strophomena, like S. crenistria. 



,, Dentalium * ingens, De ^OH. 

 Kafir Kote, Ceratites. 



„ Productus Cora, D'Orb. 



„ Humboldtii, D'Orb. 



,, costatus. Sow. 



„ Spirifer ? 



,, Encrinites. 



Coarse 

 limestone. 



* In the author's earlier notes on the Salt Range, the obscure casts and frag- 

 ments of this fossil were referred to provisionally as Belemnites. 



