HILLY RANGES AND THEIR NEIGHBOURHOOD FROM BAHADUR KHEL, &C. 177 



To the north of this place in the neighbourhood of Sundd Kulla- 



Tertiary sandstones EM « the tertiai T sandstones undulate in wide 

 nearSundaKullaKhel. curveg oyer the groun ^ but dip steeply to the 



south in the banks of the Teeree Towey (Tiri Taui) river. Red clays 

 are largely associated with the gray sandstones towards the hills south- 

 west of the above-named village, forming a large anticlinal curve in the 

 direction of the axis of the Shah Baz Ghur basin. Where this curve 

 is crossed by the deep Algud from the Lakkona ravine, much irregularity 

 of deposition was observed at one place on a sufficient scale to have been 

 mistaken in a smaller exposure for unconformity or overlap. See Fig. 52. 



The Kurar salt locality on the southern side of the hills is a very 



large exposure in the lower part of the cliff, in 

 Kurar salt locality. , 



which the faulted and apparently rugged surface 



of the salt has been so clearly pressed against the sandy clays and inco- 

 herent sandstones of the adjacent middle portion of the tertiary beds 

 that portions of these have been left as it were inserted between the 

 salt and gypsum as well as entangled along the outcrop of the salt. 



Above the gypsum the red clay zone and nummulitic limestone 



are seen in the escarpment, the top of which is 

 Limestone outcrop. 



formed by lower tertiary sandstones, the num- 

 mulitic band at one spot appearing twice, separated by over 150 feet 

 of the former, as if a portion of the escarpment had slipped downwards. 



The salt, of which fully 150 feet is exposed, is here exceptionally 

 pure, having* less traces even of intermixture with 



Salt. 



blue clay than usual, and the upper beds, as at Jatta 



and several of the eastern localities, contain black bituminous bands. 



The pale, bluish-gray, micaceous sandstones, with many alternations 



Character of upper ° f bri § >ht red cla ^ haVe a Ve1 ^ Sott texture J and 



tertiary sandstone. appear to belong to the upper rather than the lower 



portion of the tertiary sandstone series, brought into this place by a 

 y ( 281 ) 



