26 Dr. Verchbre on the Geology of Kashmir i [No. 1, 



As the carboniferous limestone thins out in approaching the Indus, 

 the Oolitic formation increases in importance and forms much dis- 

 turbed hills, all the way from Moosa Khel to Kalabag. It is con- 

 tinued west of the Indus in the Chichalee Range and the northern 

 end of the Speen Ghur ; a little above Moola Khel it disappears 

 under the alluvial, and does not reappear till Sheikh Bodeen, where, 

 as we have seen, it attains a considerable thickness. 



65, The salt and gypsum is continued on the west side of the 

 Indus, in the hilly country of the Kuttuks, but it is there much 

 covered by tertiary clays and sandstones. It crops out near Bahadoor 

 Khel and along the course of the Teeree Towe. At the first named 

 place the Saliferian forms an anticlinal arch ; the salt, above fifty feet 

 thick, is the lowest bed seen, and is very regularly stratified ; above 

 it is a thin bed of red marl, another of grey sandstone, also thin ; then 

 gypsum, about twenty-five to thirty feet thick ; then a thin band of 

 a limestone with minute debris of fossils, and which resembles 

 lithologically the Oolitic bed of Kalabag and Maree on the Indus ; 

 then the dark, brown, sandstone which often forms the base of the 

 nummulitic formation ; some coarse and crumbling shales without 

 fossils ; and finally, a bed of limestone rich in nummulites, volutes, 

 veneridae, &c, and about ten to twelve feet thick. This is at last 

 covered by the marly lumpy clayey beds of Miocene. A fault running 

 approximately W. E. through the Soordak Pass, has caused an up- 

 throw of the beds on its southern side, and there the nummulitic 

 limestone, much tilted up, forms a pretty high hill. 



Along the Teeree Towe the Saliferian is immediately covered by 

 Tertiary. As far as Lachee the rocks seen are Miocene sandstone, clay 

 and conglomerates ; thence to Peshawur the country is entirely covered 

 by nummulitic limestone and shale, and the Miocene sandstone is only 

 seen here and there in small detached beds and patches, which are 

 evidently the remains of layers which have been mostly removed by 

 denudation. 



66. North of the Salt Range we have also a great extent of 

 Tertiaries. Nummulitic. limestone, shale and sandstone first covers 

 in the secondary layers in the western portion of the range, but rests 

 directly on the salt marl and gypsum in the eastern half of it. It 

 attains a great thickness, where well developed, (4500 feet,) and forms 



