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but this description only applies to their precipitous sides, the beds 

 themselves being very thick, soft sandstones gently dipping to the north, 

 or more nearly horizontal. In these beds there are again, but rarely, 

 small conglomeratic layers with the same quartzite, syenite, and other 

 crystalline pebbles as strew the neighbouring ground, of much smaller 

 size and wholly insufficient to account for the quantity of the latter. 

 Some dark gray shale bands also occur at wide intervals, and one 

 peculiar orange layer of ferruginous clay is seen near the base of the 

 cliffs. The sandstone is coarse, minutely specked with white atoms, 

 micaceous and homogeneous, weathering into fantastic crags, one of 

 which is perforated so as to look exactly like an artificial ( chhappar ' 

 or shed. One peculiarity of these cliffs is that they show in places a. 

 steeply sloping talus, in which there would be nothing strange if it were 



JttM 





/'-Ifc 



' WAS 





mm 



Fig. 56. Upper tertiary sandstone cliff near Hassaushud. 



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