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one side over the gypsum and limestones and clays at the other. In a 

 sharp curve like this, the sides of which are pressed into parallelism, whole 

 groups of layers might have been squeezed out of their places in the 

 curve. Something may be attributed to the existence of the salt, strong 

 traces of which are present, and the removal of which by solution could 

 well be supposed to have initiated lines of weakness, inducing displace- 

 ment quite irrespective of any kind or amount of contortion which 

 might have occurred. 



In approaching the region of this section from the north or south, 



any ravine from the hills might show a local differ- 

 Local differences. 



ence ; along the line taken the lower tertiary sand- 



stones and clays appeared at the north side as above, while other contor- 

 tions off the line could also be seen, one of them coinciding with the 

 conspicuous northern limestone arch. 



Among the gray sandstones and red clays, close to these northern 

 exposures of the limestone, are a few beds of cal- 



Liinestone pebbles in 



lower sandstone of ter- careous pseudo-conglomerate, containing fragments, 

 nodules, or pebbles of a rock exactly like the adja- 

 cent limestone, but showing no signs of unconformity. 



The limestone is whitish and lumpy, of the Alveolina kind, and 



seems to include a small lenticular mass of red clays. This limestone 



zone where the usual ' bad step ' caused by it occurs a little further 



south, does not seem to be more than from 50 to 70 



Inversion. 



feet thick, and owing to the inversion has the 



appearance of being .overlaid by gray clays and sandstones with some 



purplish bands, amongst which are limestone layers containing num- 

 mulitic fossils. 



Southward of these are gray clays close to the few and small 

 exposures of the rock-salt seen hereabouts. These are presumably 

 faulted against masses of white amorphous gypsum. 



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