HILLY RANGES AND THEIR NEIGHBOURHOOD FROM BAHADUR KI1EL, &C. 151 



below occupy the whole of the interior of the curve, and bend round the 



northern slopes of the hills to adjoin the Nurree (Nurri) outcrop beyond 



m „ . a M Raffho. The remains of the southern side of the 



Southern side of an- ° 



ticlinal. anticlinal rise boldly, forming a fine portion of the 



arch from Charpurra to Shoh (Shagh) and on eastwards to Nurree. In 

 the gypseous series below Shoh one mass of gypsum rested at an angle 

 of 30° unconformably upon reddish gypseous clay rendered flaggy by 

 gypsum layers, showing its stratification inclined at 60° in the same di- 

 rection as the overlying patch. This is supposed to be another instance 



of subsidence, en masse, of portion of the gypsum 

 Gypsum series. . . T n 



owing to removal or its support. In the same 



vicinity the series seems to have a larger thickness than usual, for regular 



interstratifications of gypsum and greenish clay in 10 to 50 feet bands 



undulate to the southward at 45° with a thickness of nearly 300 feet 



above the salt. 



The f red zone' follows in its place, showing a transition from the 

 gypsum by alternating ripple-marked layers of 



Transition by ripple- 

 marked gypsum layers the latter with red clay, but the nummulitic lime- 

 into red zone. . . 



stone has greatly thinned away, there being in 



some places but 15 or 20 feet of yellowish, calcareous, marly beds to 



represent it. A few feet above these, there is a peculiar band among 



Concretionary bed the tertiai T sandstones, almost entirely made up 

 above limestone. f j^g f li mes tone enclosing sometimes black 



chert nodules. This band makes itself very evident from the way in 

 which its concretions strew the ground, and may be looked upon as, 

 perhaps, the last trace of the calcareous rock producing conditions of the 



Tbinning out of lime- £ rou P Preceding. Concomitant with thinning out 

 stone - of the limestone, there are near the highest point 



of the ridge evidences of unequal accumulation of the materials forming 

 the succeeding group ; a thick layer of purple clay which rests on the 

 limestone being seen to thin out to nothing, so that an overlying band 

 of sandstone takes its place. Twenty feet above there is a band of 



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