10 HOLLAND AND TIPPER : INDIAN GEOLOGICAL TERMINOLOGY* 



Classified List of Formations in Extra-Peninsular Territories belonging to 



India. 



(H. B. Medlicott and W. T. Blanford, 1879.) 



Recent and Post- Alluvial and lake deposits. Sub-Himalayan high-level 



Tertiary. gravels. 



Pliocene - . . Upper Manchhars of Sind. Upper and middle Siwaliks of 



Sub-Himalayas, Punjab, etc. Mammaliferous deposits of 



Western Tibet. Dehing group of Assam. Fossil-wood 



deposits of Pegu. 

 Miocene . . Lower Manchhars and Gaj of Sind. Murree beds (in part). 



Nahan. Tipam group of Assam ? Pegu group of Burma. 



1/ Upper . . Nari group of Sind. Kasauli and Dagshai 



groups of Sub-Himalayas. 

 Middle . . Nummulitic limestone of Sind, Punjab, 

 Assam, Burma, etc. Khirthar of Sind, 

 !Subathu of Sub-Himalayas. Indus or 

 Shingo beds of Western Tibet. Coal- 

 measures of Assam ? 

 Lower . . Ranikot beds of Sind. Lower nummulitics 



of Salt Range. 

 Upper . . Deccan trap. Cardita beaumonii beds and 

 cretaceous sandstones of Sind. Olive 

 group of Punjab Salt Range. Disang 

 group of Assam ? Upper cretaceous of 

 Cretaceous Khasi Hills. Negrais beds of Burma? 



(N.B. — It is not certain that some of these 

 formations may not be, in part at least, 

 eocene). 

 Middle . . Hippuritic limestone of Sind. Cretaceous 



beds of Mount Sirban in Hazara and of 

 Kohat. Chikkini beds of North-Western 

 Himalayas. Cretaceous beds of Assam 

 in part. Mai-i group of Burma. 

 Lower or Neoco- Beds in Chichali Pass, Salt Range. 



Jurassic 



Trias 



Upper 



Middle 



Lower or Lias . 



Upper including 

 Rhaetic. 



Middle 



I Lower 



Salt Range. Gieurnal and Spiti beds of 

 Northern Punjab and North-Western 

 Himalayas. 



Variegated group of Salt Range. Part of 

 Spiti shales in North -Western Himalayas ? 



Upper Tagling limestone of North-Western 

 Himalayas. Sylhet trap ? 



Lower Tagling limestone of North-Western 

 Himalayas. Nerinma beds of Mount 

 Sirban, Hazara. Para limestone of North- 

 Western Himalayas. Beds with Mega- 

 lodon and Dicerocardivm at Mount Sirban, 

 Hazara. 



Salt Range ? Lilang series of North- 

 Western Himalayas and Kashmir. Axial 

 group of Burma. 



Ceratite beds of Salt Range. Infra- triassic 

 of Hazara, in part ? 



