178 WYNNE: TRANS-INDUS SALT REGION, KOHAT DISTRICT, 



continuation of the Baruk fault. They strike pretty steadily east 20° 

 north/ and are either vertical, or dip at high angles from the hill. 



To the eastward of the Kurar synclinal, which is here much more 



simple in its structure, the nummulitic limestone 

 Limestone. 



forms a large sheet conforming to the curve, but 



most exposed at its southern side lying between the two bands of 



gypsum embracing Kurar mountain. Owing to some irregularity of 



the axis of the curve, the limestone sinks compa- 

 Dund* 



ratively low to the north of Dund, a village which 



takes its name from a small rushy lake without an outlet situated in this 



low ground. An east and west fault is believed to pass just to the 



north of this little lake separating" the limestone 

 Fault. . . 



from a long rib of gypsum, between which and 



this limestone tertiary sandstones, also believed to be faulted, come in to 



the east. 



In this direction also, within a couple of miles of Dund, the other 



(southern) gypsum zone rises as the adjacent river 

 Gypsum. 



falls, till it becomes a lofty mass closely flanked 



by the sandstones, &c, to the south, contorted, nearly vertical, or sloping 

 away from it. Upon this gypsum the red clay band rests, and is suc- 

 ceeded by the limestone, while in the southern face of the gypsum itself 

 are one or two small exposures of the rock-salt. 



One of these is called Durvee or Durree drung, situated at the 



bottom of a deep ravine in the gypsum ; but little 

 Durree salt locality. 



of the salt is seen, and this shows a northerly dip. 



The gypsum above is much disturbed, and often covered with its 

 own debris, or that of the red clay zone, sometimes appearing as if en- 

 closed within it, or caught in contortions. 



In the sandstone layer of the latter band there occurs here a purple 



and green gravelly-looking finely concretionary 

 Pisolitic hffimatite. 



hsematitic bed only worth noticing as it may 

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