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which are very common in the stream-bed at Ustarzai. 1 Above this 



.... ., k ... , sandstone is a thick bed of light-coloured lime- 

 White quartzitic sand- & 



^ one> stone. Both these beds appear to be devoid of 



fossils. 

 As the Chagru stream approaches the Khanki river, the rocks on 

 either side of the valley show signs of much 



Khanki Valley. . 



folding, and are thrown into a series of small 



anticlinals and synclinals, frequently faulted. At the junction of the 



Khanki and Kandi rivers, the lower beds of the 



Rocks much folded, 



cretaceous series are again seen, but a little fur- 

 ther to the north a fault has brought them into contact with the 

 higher white quartzitic sandstone, which here dips at 6o° to the 

 south. The dip of the rocks then continues steep for some three 



miles, but on the Sanpagha Pass the beds are 



Sanpagha Pass. 



almost horizontal, dipping at low angles to the 



north. On the north side of the Sanpagha. 



Masiv**, Valley. l 



in the Mastura valley, the beds, which are still 



cretaceous, are thrown into a series of sharp folds. These rocks 



are hard limestones, in which I could find no fossils. They continue 



northwards, with a slight undulating dip, to the Arhanga Pass, 



where again they have been thrown into the 

 Arhanga Pass. ° ( * 



folds characteristic of all the mountain ranges 

 of this area. This folding is very well seen on a spur running south 

 from the summit of the pass ( PI. V, fig. 2). 



At about 2\ miles north of the pass, limestones are found 



containing numerous fossils, chiefly belemnites 



c , . and brachiopods ) which, however, are not suffi- 



bandstone and limestone £ 



with belemnites, etc. ciently well preserved for identification. This 



limestone is overlain by a narrow band (18 ins.) of bright red ferru- 

 ginous sandstone, quite soft and rotten, containing casts of belemnites 

 and fragments of other cephalopods* Although these fossils were too 



1 Cf. Wynne, Rec, XII, p. 105. 



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