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WYNNE : TRANS-INDUS SALT REGION, KOHAT DISTRICT. 



passes common along the limestone zone. Above this apparently, but 

 really of older age, come the following, arranged in their natural order 

 from the limestone of the gorge downwards, as seen in the stream 

 bank : — 



Detailed list of beds at ha in Section above loiver nummulitie series, bed- 

 ding vertical to south-ioest at 70°-80°. 



Feet. 

 15. Greenish clay and earthy limestone in thin bands overlying a 



layer of oyster fragments ... ... ... ... 5 



Interval of 50 yards, probably soft beds. 



14. Purple sandstones ... 



13. Gray clay ... ... ... ... "^ 



12. Sandstone layer 



11. Gray clays 



10. Purple clay 



9. Purplish and gray clay alternating with layers of sparkling 

 sandstone 



8. Earthy, calcareous, sandy Alveolina bed 



7. Sandstone and gray clay alternating ... ... j 



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6. Gray clay 



5. Greenish-gray, lumpy, impure nummulitie limestone 



4. Greenish, gypseous clay faulted. 



3. Mass of crushed green clay and shales, with hard, flaggy, lumpy 

 bands, the latter full of Nummulites. All much contorted, 

 any clear dips to south-west, exposure 150 yards. 



1. Oblique fault and place of rock-salt, 



2. Gray, smooth, and gypseous clays alternating with masses and 



laminated bands of gray and white gypsum. 



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20 



These latter beds, (the gypseous series), are pushed over, or obliquely 

 faulted, so as to overlie the beds No. 3, and at the 

 junction the small salt exposure of Zawa-drung 

 occurs. 



Displacement. 



Greenish clays next to The r <*k-salt Here is immediately covered by 



salt - greenish clays, over which a portion of the gyp- 



sum is seen. 



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