158 WYNNE: TRANS-INDUS SALT REGION, KOHAT DISTRICT. 



clay, the underlying salt being seen in the beds of small nullahs which 



cut through thick displaced masses of the gypseous series. The latter 



Gypsum : passage into was here again observed to pass by numerous 



c ay ' platy alternations into the purplish red clay above, 



these harder bands being ripple-marked, and at the place of transition 



partaking of the color of the upper rock. Some green clays (Sheen- 



koura) are seen below masses of the gypsum, and 



Green clays. 



the whole hill side presents such a confused 

 and disordered appearance, that there is little certainty about the relations 

 of anything below the beds forming the scarp and crest of the hill. 



In the continuation of the Kurshru stream at the east end of this 



Rindghur mountain (here called the Zawa Xlgud), 

 Goorooza section. 



a more satisfactory section of the rocks is exposed, 



from the rock-salt upwards, the latter occupying a width of 500 yards, or 



560 paces, measured in the bed of the stream (see Fig. 42). 



1. Rock-salt. 2 Gypseous series. 3. Red clay zone. 4. Nummulitic limestone. 5. Tertiary sandstone. 



6. Upper ditto. 7. Valley beds ; detrital, hard, sandy, and conglomeratic. F. Fault. 



Dip north, under 45°. 



6.— Salt, gray sandstone, and reddish clays.— Upper tertiary sandstones faulted. 



f Tertiary sandstones, gray sandstones, with a strong band of purple") „ ., , _ _ . 

 5.— -J ' v ,B J., . ' . , £- Several hundred feet. 



1 clay ; below lowest bed a layer of purple clay ... ...) 



( Solid nummulitic limestone— AlveoUna horizon. 95 „ 



| Nammulitic limestone alternating with shales, most shaly below 90 to 100 „ 



1 Black shales, with a thin irregular layer of whitish, waxy, soapy clay near top 6 „ 



t^Thin, lumpy, calcareous layers 



10 



("Violet variegated clay, hard, light coloured and soft red and gray 

 (Red clay, sandy at top, with two sandstone bands, lowest 4 feet, upper 9 feet 

 f Gypsum, compact, whitish, and gray ... 

 (Green clay 

 1. — Rock-salt measured horizontally, bedding not clear, exposed for 



400 



150 



1,400 



This large exposure of salt is almost due south of the quarries at 



Bahadur KheL where the horizontal width was 



Rock-salt. 



little larger \ here the bedding lines could not be 

 distinguished with the same facility as there, probably by reason of the 

 lower situation having favoured the accumulation of debris and increased 

 the effect of meteoric water passing over the surfaces. If a general dip 

 of even 35° be allowed for the salt here, however, which would seem lower 

 ( 262 ) 



