NUMMULITIC ELLIPSOID FROM MANZULLI TO BANDA. 113 



There seem to be different beds of gypsum among the sandstones of 

 this escarpment, one evidently subsided portion of the hill exposing the 

 following succession : — 



Feet. 

 5. — Light coloured clays 

 4.— Gypsum ... ... ... ... Q 



3. — Calcareous saudstoue ... ... ... 8 



2. — Sandstones and clays ... ... ... 50 



1. — Greenish clays ... ... ... 70 



Mere faulting along the face of the nummulitic limestone at the 

 northern side of the section appears insufficient to account for the re- 

 lations here, and yet the occurrence of these gypsum bands close to 

 the limestone and among the sandy and earthy 



Limestone and gyp- 

 sum both belonging to beds, elsewhere below it, together with^ the oc- 

 currence of numnmlitic layers in the greenish 

 clays down in the khud immediately to the west, would seem to point 

 strongly to the important fact of the limestone and gypsum series both 

 forming parts of the same nummulitic group. 



The ground about the salt sepoys' (sipahis) boorj or chowki at the 

 foot of the escarpment just now described is all 



Salt locality. 



of clay, clay debris, and fragments of the local 



rocks, some deep circular openings at the heads of streams running to 



the eastward, exposing from 50 to 70 feet of this heading over the gray 



rock-salt which was from appearances estimated to have a depth of 100 



feet, and an uncertain dip to the west and north-west. 



A high tabular hill to the eastward overlooking the salt locality 



Ca of th low r an( ^ sa ^ chowki shows the sandstones and purple 



nummulitic series. or red clayg f the sync li na l nor th of the chowki 



forming a nearly horizontal cap to the hill, the lower slopes of which 



are composed chiefly of the clays beneath. 



To the southward of the chowki a long rib of gypsum stretches 



in the direction of the range, traces of red clay 

 Gypsum and limestone 

 of the southern side of occurring both along its northern and southern 

 range. Inversion. 



sides, the former between it and the clays associated 

 p ( 217 ) 



