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taining plicated Terebratulce {Rhi/nchonellce), and apparently Corals, 

 Exogyra, &c., referable to the Chalk. The stone was not observed in 

 the immediate locaUty, but Baron de Bode, in his " Travels in Louris- 

 tan" (vol. i. p. 79), says that "he heard of quarries of this stone 

 near Deh-bid, about 9 farsangs (or 27 miles) to the north of Miir- 

 gab, and that there are none nearer." 



Between this place and Persepolis the range which bounds the 

 plain of Kemin on the south, dipping at an angle of 65° towards the 

 N.E., is composed of beds of yellow clunch, overlaid by crystalline, 

 white, unfossiUferous limestone. In the clunch-beds I found a single 

 crushed specimen of Ammonite. 



[iVofe.— The localities that have yielded Cretaceous fossils appear 

 to have been — 



East ofZohdb (p. 279). Zdngdledn Range (p. 287). 



Small Ammonite. Ammonites. 



Fuci. Kilgird Range (p. 288). 



Worm-casts. Ammonites. 



Bi A'h ? (p. 273). Small plicate Ostrea. 



Ammonites. Venus. 



Mush Kuh (p. 284). Turbinate and turrited Univalves. 

 Radiolites. 



Kdldh Kdzz (p. 287). • „^ ^ ^'^^'^ ■ (P- 289). 



Terebratula (like T. carnea, Sow.). Rhynchonellae. 



Nucula ? Exogyra. 



Plant-remains. Corals. 



Bishiwah Plain (p. 286). Imdm Meer Jchmet (p. 289, infra). 

 Turrilites ; resembling T. tuberculatus . Ammonites. 

 Ammonites, one of them 2^ ft. in diam. Voluta. 



Am. planulatus. Tellina. 



Belemnites. Gryphsea. 



Pecten. Serpula. 



Turrited Univalve. t7„,„„„ -i 

 Fuel. ■• 



2. Lower Secondary Series. 



In describing the Nummulitic rocks, I have remarked that some 

 portions of the great masses of altered and foetid blue limestone may 

 belong to the Lower Secondary Series (p. 281). That such is the 

 case cannot be doubted in many instances, seeing that the altered 

 limestone is certainly overlaid by the Cretaceous rocks, as shown in 

 sections figs. 12 & 13, p. 335 & 336. 



At Imam Meer A'chmet, between Basht and Faylaiin, the neigh- 

 bouring range is composed as follows : — 



1 . Hard, yellow, compact, crystalline limestone, probably belonging 

 to the Numnmlitic Limestone. In the lowest beds it becomes 

 cream-coloured, and passes into — 



2. Hard, reddish, grey or cream-coloured, lithographic limestone, 

 very compact, but sphtting into thin layers, with abundant spe- 

 cimens of Ammonites (crushed), Grypkcea, Serpula, Tellina, 

 and Voluta. 



Interstratified with this limestone are numerous tabular layers 



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