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red in patches ; it is not stratified, but mamrnilated, globular, 

 irregular, and branching like a dyke. This intrusion of a feldspathose 

 solution or paste took place before the final upheaval of the Himalayas, 

 as there is evidence that some of the beds have been redisturbed by 

 this upheaval, and as the Miocene conglomerate which partially fills 

 the fault is unconformable to the limestone. A full description of 

 this locality would be complicated, and I have no intention of giving 

 here such a description. I merely want to point out that we have 

 here Weean beds disturbed and baked by a geyserian action, similar 

 to that which we have seen at Ishlamabad and at the Manus Bal. 



61. The Sheikh Bodeen Range is mostly composed of miocene 

 sandstone, clay and conglomerate. These beds are thrown into an 

 anticlinal, the south-eastern and southern slopes dipping to the 

 S. E., and the S. and the north-western and northern slopes dipping 

 N. W. and N. One can see, from the top of the highest summit, 

 that deeper rocks have endeavoured to push their way through the 

 miocene, the beds of sandstone and conglomerate being arranged in 

 semi-theatres on both sides of the points where an underground mass 

 has endeavoured to break through. But everywhere these under- 

 ground masses have failed to find a way to the surface except at one 

 point, viz., the Sheikh Bodeen summit, in the centre of the Range. 

 This summit is 4604 feet above the level of the sea, whilst the 

 Miocene range does not reach higher than 2800 feet and is generally 

 very much lower. There is evidence that the Miocene was at one 



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Horizontal appearance of the Miocene beds, Sheikh Bodeen range. 



time much higher and reached to within 8 or 900 feet of the summit of 

 Sheikh Bodeen. But the friable sandstone and loose conglomerate 

 disintegrate very quickly, whilst the limestones of Sheikh Bodeen 

 summits decay but slowly ; hence the Miocene portions of the Range 



