166 Mr. Verchére on the Geology of Kashmir, [ No. 3, 
patches coloured brown. It weathers a dirty dark yellow, and becomes extremely 
rough and pitted by exposure. The organisms it contains are quite indistin- 
SUISHADIE, 22.10. secses sec cce sce soeser see tee cer ees censcenenseecessee san aesaeg recess res 3 ft. 
15. Fawn-coloured limestone like 18,................ nates wan LOPE 
16. A wall of very hard and compact limestone, grey and very arenaceous. 
Where it is tolerably free of sand, it is bluer and contains the debris of fos- 
SIS dda soo nade AaGase dee socbe asoan od cocs5obodaodeds sou aecsabscasonboouauddccobcnced 0dr 15 ft. 
17. Sandstone, pale and calcareous, with bands of crystalline carbonate 
of lime. It decays fast and forms a depression, .................ss00005 10 ft. 
18. A well marked wall of dark greyish-blue limestone, very rough and 
pitted; it is arenaceous and in places cherty, ..............cscss.e sense 5 ft. 
19. Sandstone, micaceous, very false-bedded and very muddy. It efferves- 
ces with acid along the scum-markings of the false bedding only,... 16 ft. 
20. A very arenaceous and argillaceous limestone, extremely variable in 
its appearance, but being generally of a pale clayey yellow. It is formed of 
extremely thin layers of two distinct rocks, one being a yellow marl, and 
the other a bluish grey arenaceous limestone, and these thin layers are also 
very false-bedded. When we make a vertical section of a hand specimen, we 
have a Striped rock; and ina horizontal one, a succession of regularly round- 
ed patches of bluish grey and sickly yellow. This alternation of very thin and 
very false-bedded layers of rocks of two different colours is the cause of the 
patchy appearance of many beds of the Weean group. But it is rarely 
so well defined as in this present layer. In other places, the bluish limestone 
forms irregularly-rounded balls or nodules cemented together by the yellow 
marl, or the marl forms lumps imbedded in the limestone. Then again mi- 
caceous sand forms, here and there, small false-bedded layers or bands in the 
rock: and lenticular beds of a hard, brittle, pale yellowish, limestone, full of 
the fragments of bivalves and of small crinoid stems, are also found. But all 
these varieties of rock constitute a thick course of impure limestone, 60 ft. 
Total ... 425 ft. 
We have now arrived at the little ravine which indicates the centre 
of the fold of the beds; on its other side the same beds are repeated in 
an inverse manner as far as the bed 16 of the above section; the re- 
maining beds have been denuded from the western branch of the fold. 
This fold deserves notice, as showing well how completely beds may 
be reversed in their position. It is probable that the beds nearest 
to the ravine are the deepest or oldest, whilst the bed which we have 
numbered No. 1, in the section, is the most superficial. If the hill 
had been denuded to half its present height above the village, the beds 
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