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  A. 
  B. 
  WYNNE 
  ON 
  SOME 
  FEATUEES 
  IN 
  1HE 
  

  

  dissimilarity 
  may 
  be 
  traced, 
  inasmuch 
  as 
  the 
  sandstones 
  and 
  clays 
  

   which 
  rest 
  with 
  apparent 
  entire 
  conformity 
  upon 
  the 
  Nummulitic 
  

   limestones 
  of 
  the 
  Salt 
  range, 
  differ 
  in 
  character 
  from 
  those 
  beds 
  of 
  

   the 
  outer 
  Tertiary 
  belt 
  which 
  are 
  brought 
  into 
  violently 
  discordant 
  

   junction 
  with 
  the 
  hill-limestones 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  Himalaya*. 
  

  

  The 
  recurrence 
  of 
  these 
  mountain 
  and 
  extra-mountain 
  features, 
  

   so 
  to 
  speak, 
  at 
  such 
  great 
  distances 
  may 
  indicate 
  a 
  connexion 
  

   between 
  the 
  former 
  conditions 
  of 
  deposition 
  and 
  the 
  early 
  history 
  of 
  

   the 
  great 
  chains 
  themselves 
  ; 
  at 
  least 
  causes 
  which 
  would 
  affect 
  the 
  

   distribution 
  of 
  land 
  and 
  water 
  appear 
  most 
  competent 
  to 
  have 
  

   originated 
  the 
  diversity 
  f. 
  

  

  10. 
  In 
  the 
  table 
  given 
  at 
  p. 
  63 
  an 
  effort 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  to 
  corre- 
  

   late 
  the 
  newer 
  Tertiary 
  series 
  of 
  this 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Punjab 
  with 
  the 
  suc- 
  

   cession 
  in 
  the 
  Simla 
  area, 
  as 
  gathered 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Medlicott's 
  descrip- 
  

   tion 
  ; 
  but 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  as 
  well 
  to 
  give 
  a 
  slightly 
  more 
  comprehensive 
  

   account 
  of 
  these 
  Upper- 
  Punjab 
  newer 
  Tertiary 
  beds, 
  for 
  the 
  sake 
  of 
  

   comparison 
  with 
  the 
  series 
  recorded 
  by 
  that 
  gentleman 
  (see 
  Report 
  

   previously 
  cited). 
  

  

  From 
  the 
  sections 
  exposed 
  in 
  the 
  river 
  Indus, 
  and 
  numerous 
  

   observations 
  over 
  the 
  Pot'war 
  or 
  Sind 
  Saugor 
  Doab 
  (which 
  has 
  been 
  

   called 
  also 
  the 
  Rawul 
  Pindi 
  plateau), 
  it 
  appears 
  that 
  the 
  only 
  

   natural 
  base 
  of 
  these 
  rocks 
  of 
  any 
  extent 
  to 
  be 
  met 
  with 
  is 
  along 
  

   their 
  upturned 
  edge 
  flanking 
  the 
  northern 
  slopes 
  of 
  and 
  rising 
  on 
  to 
  

   the 
  Salt 
  range. 
  Here, 
  notwithstanding 
  the 
  perfect 
  parallelism 
  of 
  

   the 
  sandstone 
  and 
  clay 
  beds 
  to 
  the 
  strong 
  underlying 
  Nummulitic 
  

   limestone, 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  subjacent 
  erosion 
  of 
  the 
  latter, 
  and 
  the 
  

   great 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  apparent 
  conformable 
  contact, 
  there 
  is 
  reason 
  to 
  

   suspect 
  that 
  the 
  conformity 
  may 
  be 
  but 
  local 
  and 
  not 
  general, 
  or 
  

   else 
  that 
  the 
  Salt-range 
  Nummulitic 
  limestone 
  is 
  not 
  a 
  strictly 
  

   synchronous 
  extension 
  of 
  the 
  Nummulitic 
  limestone 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  

   in 
  other 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  district. 
  

  

  A. 
  The 
  bottom 
  rocks 
  of 
  this 
  region 
  are 
  soft 
  or 
  harder 
  grey 
  or 
  

   greenish 
  sandstones, 
  in 
  places 
  slightly 
  calcareous, 
  alternating 
  with 
  

   red, 
  or 
  sometimes 
  dull 
  grey 
  or 
  greenish 
  olive 
  clays. 
  The 
  contained 
  

   fossils 
  are 
  blocks 
  of 
  petrified 
  timber, 
  crocodilian 
  and 
  chelonian 
  bones 
  

   and 
  plates, 
  with 
  rarely 
  (derived, 
  or 
  perhaps 
  sometimes 
  contempora- 
  

   neous 
  ?) 
  Nummulites 
  in 
  the 
  lower 
  part. 
  

  

  B. 
  Where 
  the 
  Nummulitic 
  limestone 
  has 
  thinned 
  out, 
  these 
  beds 
  

   rest 
  on 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  older 
  groups 
  of 
  supposed 
  Cretaceous 
  or 
  Triassic 
  

   age, 
  and 
  they 
  are 
  overlain 
  by 
  a 
  strongly 
  marked 
  zone 
  (B) 
  of 
  red 
  

  

  * 
  The 
  rocks 
  of 
  this 
  belt 
  have 
  been 
  stated 
  to 
  possess 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  affinity 
  with 
  

   those 
  of 
  the 
  Simla 
  area 
  ; 
  but 
  they 
  differ 
  en 
  masse 
  and 
  in 
  detail 
  from 
  the 
  large 
  

   Tertiary 
  deposits 
  newer 
  than 
  Eocene 
  (Nummulitic) 
  of 
  the 
  distant 
  province 
  of 
  

   Kutch. 
  It 
  remains 
  to 
  be 
  seen 
  whether 
  and 
  where 
  a 
  transition 
  between 
  the 
  two 
  

   types 
  may 
  be 
  found, 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  types 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  Himalaya 
  region, 
  the 
  

   other 
  more 
  nearly 
  associated 
  with 
  the 
  southern 
  extension 
  of 
  the 
  Suliman 
  chain, 
  

   two 
  great 
  mountain-ranges 
  which 
  inosculate 
  near 
  the 
  frontier 
  of 
  the 
  Punjab, 
  

   where 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  the 
  Tertiary 
  rocks 
  resemble 
  in 
  character 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  Salt 
  

   range 
  and 
  outer 
  Himalaya. 
  

  

  t 
  It 
  is 
  perhaps 
  hardly 
  necessary 
  to 
  note 
  that 
  the 
  features 
  referred 
  to 
  in 
  this 
  

   section 
  as 
  bearing 
  relation 
  to 
  the 
  mountain-ranges 
  include, 
  in 
  consequence 
  of 
  

   this 
  relation, 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  common 
  mutability 
  of 
  formations. 
  

  

  