HILLY RANGES AND THEIR NEIGHBOURHOOD PROM BAHADUR KHEL, &C. 185 



In the opposite direction overlooking the Shukkurdurra (Shakar- 



darra) plain the outcrops of the tertiary beds are 



Towards the west. tit •pi • i i i 



seen displayed, as it drawn upon a map in bold 



open curves, which look all the more striking as miuor undulations are 



lost sight of in the distance, the nearer beds showing converging 



southerly dips as far as the strongly marked mural escarpment of a 



oreat patch of these sandstones in the vicinity of Hussunshood (Has- 



sanshud) which shows a gentle inclination to the north from the slopes 



of the Lukkur Ghur mountains. 



Descending from Sookawar (Sukawar) Hokunni to Shukkurdurra 



(Shakardarra) in crossing the outcrop of the 

 Limestone beds in ..... 



gypsum outcrop of gypsum, there were found associated with its 

 upper part a 3-foot band of compact gray 

 limestone overlying and indeed intercalated in gray, highly gypseous 

 ' Sheenkoura? shales with limestone layers. The whole group, including 

 the thick gray shales and some gypsum bands below, has a thickness of 

 25 or 30 feet, exclusive of the main gypsum beneath, which is much 

 concealed by debris. 



These limestones were closely looked to for fossils, but nothing could 

 be found except a fragment of an oyster, an imperfect cast of a small 

 Uvalved shell) and a few other shell fragments, all too indefinite to ex- 

 pect that they could be determined. The limestone, however, has much 

 the character of some basal beds in the nummulitic series, and also 

 resembles beds found occasionally in the gypseous portion of the 

 Potwar Subathu rocks. 



These indications of themselves are all too small to build any argu- 

 ment upon, but taken together with other appearances, help to fix the 

 idea that the gypsum at least, and possibly the salt as well, form part of 

 an extended nummulitic succession. 



The tertiary sandstones and clays of the Shukkurdurra (Shakkar- 



darra) plain have little to distinguish them from 

 Shukkurdurra plain. . . 



the great bulk ot this gray and red series. They 

 z ( 289 ) 



