I I 6 WYNNE : TRANS-INDUS SALT REGION, KOllAT DISTRICT. 



Fig. 23 shows this section near the Merandi path from Teeree 

 (Tiri) to Totukhi, about three miles. 



2. Gypseous series. 3. Red clay zone. 4. Nummulitic limestone 5. Tertiary sandstone and clay. F. Fault . 



The red clay zone, as seen at the southern part of this section, con- 

 Nummulitic bands in * ams some hard gray sandstone layers and earthy 

 calcareous bands with nummulites and other fossils, 

 these layers being sometimes ripple-marked; some purple flaggy beds 

 also occur, and layers of this red clay and of gypsum alternate near the 

 junction of the two groups as if to unite the gypseous series with the 

 overlying nummulitic rocks. 



The whole section so steadily and plainly exposed beneath the 

 tertiary sandstone capping the limestone in the 



Sharp inversion. 



above section becomes sharply reversed to the 

 southwards near where the Merandi pathway issues through a narrow 

 gorge cut in the nummulitic limestone, here pushed over so as to incline 

 to the northward at 50°. 



On the east side of the pathway before it leaves the gypsum, which 

 is in this neighbourhood intensely contorted, and 



Salt locality. 



in the middle of a bank of gypseous rubble, there 

 is a small exposure of rock-salt purposely concealed in the left bank of 

 the stream which makes its exit through the gorge just mentioned, and 

 which near the place leaves upon the stones in its bed a thick incrustation 

 of salt. 



South of the Little Pass, the tertiary sandstones at first dip north- 

 Tertiary sandstones, wards with the limestone, being very calcareous for 

 4 or 5 feet at the junction, but further out are 

 inclined both ways at high angles towards a synclinal axis ; another 

 synclinal occurs further on, and between the two a fine anticlinal curve is 

 seen in the adjacent spur to the west. 



At a little distance from the hills, the purple sandstones and red 

 clays resting upon the limestone high up on the hills, as shown in the 

 ( 220 ) 



