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associated rocks rise into bold thickly-bedded rock-masses as they 

 proceed by jagged vertically-stratified spurs to join up with the Sichar 

 peak (8,654 feet). The Icher N. drains between these spurs from 

 Sichar peak and receives branches from the direction of Koond and 

 other prominent ridges. Its gorge is very steep and shut-in 

 in places, and its final gathering slopes under Sichar present 3,000 

 feet of steep untrodden precipice. 



The section exposed up this gorge is, in all essentials, a duplicate 

 of that in the neighbourhood of Kakool. The first rock met 

 with east of Turnawaee after the great fault is passed is Trias lime- 

 stone striking a trifle east of north. Next comes Infra-Trias lime- 

 stone for a considerable distance, and that is followed by thin bands 

 of felsite, Trias, etc., as seen in the annexed section, fig. 9. 



Atharari. 



I, |)c b 



Fig. 9. 

 b = Trias limestone. 

 £'- Felsitic and haematitic rock. 

 c = Infra-Trias limestone. 

 c'= Yellow shales in c. 

 a = Schistose series. 



The reader will find little difficulty in joining up the Kakool and 

 Turnawaee sections. The almost vertical lie of the rocks makes the 

 strike and outcrop almost coincident, and the narrow bands travel in 

 a perfectly straight course from point to point. 



But the difficulty of understanding rocks packed together in this 

 marvellous way in thin strips divided up by numerous faults is so 

 great that a reconstruction of the folds originally taken by the rocks 



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