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A little further ou the salt clay and gypsum with the same arrangement 

 takes even more the appearance of an open curve, but complications 

 soon set in, the stratification of the salt becomes vertical or curved, so as 

 to correspond with the northern side of the anticlinal into which the 

 stream seems to have worked its way. 



From this place to where the road to Banmi crosses the salt, some 

 Faulted southern gypsum and less of the nummulitic limestone is 

 boundary of salt. seen edging the salt, but close to the road the 



latter disappears entirely, and soft red clays and tertiary sandstones 

 coming into junction with the salt, the crushing and confusion dis- 

 played at the faulted contact is extreme. In the line of the fault small 

 and apparently displaced representatives of the gypsum, the red clay 

 zone with purple sandstones in its upper part, and a little of the nummu- 

 litic limestone growing thinner downwards, are inverted, dipping at high 

 angles in a northerly direction. 



Not far from the road and south from the furthest eastward of 

 Gypsum capping ter- the two hi^ s ( one °f which is seen in the frontis- 

 tiary san stone. piece) there are some horizontal patches of the 



gypsum forming caps upon hillocks of red clay and tertiary sandstone, 

 while in the same neighbourhood more of this gypsum rests partly on 

 the same sandstone series and partly on the salt, see Fig 38, which shews 

 the section through the Bahadur Khel salt, east of the quarries. Bearing 

 in mind the Kurshru Algud section and its arrangement, it is difficult to 

 account for such appearances as these except under the supposition that 

 before the ground assumed its present denuded form, the solution and 

 removal of salt beneath allowed portions of the gypsum to slide bodily 

 from their places to lower positions. 



1. Rock-salt, 1,500 feet exposure. 2. Gypseous series. 3. Red clay zone. (1. Saudstoue in 3.) 5. Xum- 

 uiulitic limestone. 6. Tertiary saudstoue series. F. Faults. 



The salt of this exposure and method of working il will be found 

 fully described in the appendix, so that it will be sufficient to mention its 

 relations here as one of the rocks of the country only. 



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