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



in the direction of the village of Tuppee (Tupi) . To the south of the 

 outcrop is the sandy bed of the upper Koshee Algud bounding a large 

 cultivated tract in the Barak valley (an oasis in this barren country), 

 between the Bahadur Khel hills and the rugged lofty Sheenghur 

 mountains to the south. 



The salt at the Tuppee (Tupi) drung locality dips to the north at 



30° and 40°, and shows the horizontal joints noticed 

 Salt of Tuppee drung. . . . 



at Bahadur Khel. Lying low, its quarrying is 



much interfered with by springs of brine. At this locality again a 



broken band 20 feet wide of nummulitic limestone occurs in the tertiary 



sandstones dipping towards and close up to the salt, the faulted junction 



here bending to the northwards beyond the general face of the high 



gypsum-covered hill to the west. In these sandstones, too, dipping 



o j 4. „ 4.„-«;«« northwards at 55° close to the fault, a soft coarse 



Sandstones containing ' 



scattered nummuhtes. g rav i aver was observed enclosing scattered num- 

 muliles which may have been rolled, though the usual rounded lumps of 

 limestone which occur so frequently near similar evidences of derived 

 nummulitic materials did not accompany them. The beds near are 

 also much contorted. Gypseous seams were here again noticed in crossing 

 the clays of the red zone. Here, too, the overlying 



Valley bed. 



detrital valley beds seemed not to have escaped 



disturbance, a synclinal fold being seen in them close to the gypsum and 

 oypseous clay. Under ground wasting of some of this soft series, how- 

 ever, may have produced the result. 



At Kurruk the salt is two or three hundred yards wide and less 



than a mile long, but has very indefinite limits of 



exposure. It dips steeply to the northward, and 



possesses much of the appearance of that at Bahadur Khel in some beds, 



though clearer looking on the whole and said to be heavier. 



In this neighbourhood other fault complications affect the rocks, 

 one slip making a portion of the gypsum apparently 

 dip beneath the salt. Another strike fault coin- 

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