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conglomerate seemed to be visible in a southerly direction.; with older 

 beds coming out from beneath, as far as an anticlinal-looking limestone 

 hill just beyond the meridian 70° 30' east longitude. 



The lower part of this section comprising the usual gray and pur- 

 plish beds of the basal part of the series overlies, 



Lower tertiary sand- 

 stones embracing Balm- curving and enfolding the western part of the 

 dur Khel anticlinal. 



Bahadur Khel anticlinal where the nummulitic 

 limestone may be seen conforming to the curves of the sandstones and 

 followed within by the red clay zone intervening between the limestone 

 and gypsum, the soft sandstone and shale or clay group with nummulites 

 seen to the northward being absent here. 



Starting from this place the limestone on both sides of the anticH- 

 Inversion of limestone, nal as far as the Kurshru Algad (stream) south of 

 &c - Bahadur Khel is either much disturbed or 



vertical or inverted as usual, appearing to overlie the sandstones, &c., 

 beneath which it passes to the west. Towards its base it contains some 

 marly light coloured bands full of fossils, large Lucina and such bivalves 



in numbers ; also cones and some other gastropoda. 

 Fossils. 



In other layers it also contains the large thin 

 rotalince so characteristic of the ( Subathu' nummulitic bands in the 

 Potwar ; these, on the one hand, and the larger forms previously men- 

 tioned on the other, both combining to link together here and elsewhere 



certain of the characteristics of the Salt Range and 

 Subathu characters. 



of the Subathu nummulitic types in a way which 



may have some Weight towards the identification of all three as belong- 

 ing to the same ( Subathu' nummulitic period rather than forming 

 different eocene stages. 



The red clays underlying the limestone display themselves most 



largely to the west where the axis of the anti- 

 Red zone. 



clinal sinks, and the gypsum within occurs as a 



narrow zone, from the confused stratification of which little of the rela- 

 tions can be ascertained. 



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