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A. B. Wynne (Mem., Geol. Sun., hid., XIV, 104, 1877). 

 Cardita Beaumonti has also been found in parts of Baluchistan, 

 for instance, at Mazar Drik (29° 50' ; 68° 41') and in the Pab 

 sandstones, which are regarded as Msestricktian to Lower 

 Danian by E. Vredenburg (Rec, Geol. Surv., Ind., XXXVI, 

 177, 192. 190S). Cardita Beaumonti has also been recog- 

 nised by G. H. Tipper {Rec, Geol. Surv., Ind., XXXV, 119, 

 1907) among fossils collected by W. Theobald from the " Axial 

 group " of Burma. A closely related form identified with 

 Cardita Jaquinoti d'Orb. occurs in the Ninniynr beds on the 

 Coromandel coast, and on account of this and other palseontolo- 

 gical correspondences, E. Vredenburg (Rec, Geol. Surv., Ind., 

 XXXVI. 195, 1908) correlates this well known formation in 

 Western India with the Ninniyur beds of Trichinopoly and 

 the Nerinsea beds of the Pondicherry Cretaceous. 



Carnatic gneiss.— Term proposed by W. King (Mem.. Geol. Surv., 

 Ind.. XVI, 125, 1880) for the schistose gneisses of South India, 

 including rocks like micaceous, talcose, hornblendic and quart- 

 zose schists, such as those of the Nellore mica-bearing area. 



Central gneiss of the Himalaya.— Applied by F. Stoliczka (Mem., 

 Geol. Surv., Ind., V, 15, 1866) to " the principal geological axis 

 of the North-Western Himalaya," and corresponding in its rela- 

 tionship to the stratified rock with the central gneiss of the Alps. 

 The granitic constituent of the central gneiss was proved by C. A. 

 McMahon (see literature indexed, Rec, Geol. Surv., Ind., XX, 

 206, 1887) to be intrusive ; and at one of Stoliczka's type locali- 

 ties, Changrizang (32° 2' ; 78° 41') on the Para river in Spiti it 

 was found to be intrusive into Permian strata (Hayden, Mem., 

 Geol. Surv., Ind., XXXVI, 8, 1904). 



Ceratite beds Of the Salt Range.— A. B. Wynne (Mem., Geol. Surv., 



I I'd.. XIV. 69, 96, 1878) described these as resting conformably 



(p. 66) on the " Carboniferous " (Productus) limestones. W. 



Waagen (Pal. Ind., Ser. XIII, Vol. II, 3, 1895) recognised the 



Triassic age of the beds and divided them into — 



-r. , r Topmost limestones. 



Dolomite series . . I „ , . A . , , 

 JDolomitic beds. 



■o- , ,. ( Bivalve beds. 



.Bivalve limestones . , _ „ ., ,. 



( Upper Ceratite limestone. 



C Ceratite sandstone. 



Ceratite beds proper . I Ceratite marl. 



(. Lower Ceratite sandstone. 



