94 WYNNE : TRANS-INDUS SALT REGION, KOHaT DISTRICT. 



but the tertiary sandstones may be plainly seen beneath intervening 

 between it and the limestone which forms the crest of the hill. 



On ascending to the spot, the escarpment of the southern side of 

 the ridge is found (as usual along here) faced by a talus of debris, from 

 which project some slipped and broken fragments of the limestone which 

 forms the crest. Just beneath the c edge' are traces of the red clay zone 

 quickly succeeded by the nummulitic limestone of the scarp. This is at 

 first nearly horizontal, but curving downwards becomes perfectly vertical 

 here and along the northern side of the ridge towards the village of 

 Malgheen, (Malgin). Following the curvature of the limestone are per- 

 fectly parallel bands of purple sandstone and clay with filmy, metallic 

 sliclcensides as in many other exposures of the ' Murree group' or lowest 

 of the tertiary sandstone series. At the contact of these ' Murree beds ' 

 with the nummulitic limestone is a band formed almost entirely of or 

 containing very numerous small concretionary nodules of brown haematite 

 elsewhere seen in a similar situation. These beds form the base of the 

 peak, expanding also on either side as a thin patch to the west, but much 

 thicker to the east. At more than half way up the side of the peak its 

 capping of craggy ^^0^0-limestone is reached, and the apparently 

 lowest portion of this in contact with the sandstones is found to be a 

 brecciated-looking bed very commonly forming the uppermost layer of 

 the nummulitic limestone, and here containing the hsematitic nodules 

 again, as noticed at the normal contact between the limestones and sand- 

 stones beneath. 



The capping is entirely of the hard Alveolina limestone, greatly 

 Alveolina limestone, weathered and not more than 25 feet thick, if so 

 Two other such outliers. much. A smaller similar outlying cap occurs im- 

 mediately to the north, and another longer one north of it, close to an 

 anticlinal convolution of the ordinary limestone, ending suddenly close to 

 the place, and used by the Mussulman natives as a conspicuous point 

 whereon to light their signal fire, signifying that the new moon has been 

 seen and the fast of the Roza accomplished. 

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