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



quantity. Even where the limestone band has entirely disappeared, the 

 sandy beds with limestone lumps resembling conglomerate are seen, 

 sometimes containing nummulites in the matrix, and showing that 

 these have not been derived from very local erosion of the limestone, nor 

 does the junction of these beds with the underlying violet clays of the 

 red zone show any sign of previous erosion or disturbance of the latter, 

 the impression conveyed being that the limestone has tranquilly died out,- 

 sometimes leaving a couple of thin marly streaks to mark its position, 

 and that the next succeeding beds as tranquilly took its place, the lime- 

 stone lumps in these being in some cases mere nodules, indicating that 

 the calcareous conditions had not altogether ceased, in others, perhaps 

 slightly removed, and slightly rolled fragments conveyed by currents 

 possibly even before the rock had acquired any high degree of hardness. 



On the Andai plateau and the slopes above, the lower sandstones are 



Bone beds : fossil tini- tnm > an( ^ nere contain numerous fragments of exo- 



ber ' genous fossil-wood as well as fragmentary bones 



and lumps of the nummulitic limestone, all of which occurring near each 



other are especially characteristic of the lower beds. 



Eastward of Kurruk in the neighbourhood of Lukhi small exposures 

 of salt again occur near the banks of the stream 



Lukhi salt exposures. . 



from Turkhakooa, and not far from the fault, the 



existence of which is shown by the tertiary sandstone, red and gray beds 



dipping northerly at 45° towards the gypseous, red and tertiary series 



on the northern side of the stream. Here at the termination of a patch 



or lobe of the sandstone series the rocks are greatly broken up and cut 



through by faults, between two of which a wedge of 



Faults. 



these beds is deeply let into the gypsum. Green 

 clays are associated with the latter, and patches of the red clay zone are 

 rather confusedly distributed. 



From Turkhakooa (Turkakua) to Nurree (Nurri) the whole range 



becomes reduced to a width of about two miles, 



Turkhakooa to Nurree. 



and though of no great height, the hills are so 



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