2l8 MIDDLEM1SS: GEOLOGY OF HAZARA AND BLACK MOUNTAIN. 



in the usually well-marked way, and is quarried for the railway. The 

 structure of the intervening bands of rock are as given below, fig. 35, 

 10 the gap north-east of the temple-crowned hill. Wynne has marked 



Fig- 35- 



/— Nummulitic limestone. 

 e — Echinolampas zone, 3 feet. 

 d — Thin-bedded ochre-coloured limestone marls and shales 



full of gasteropods and bivalves, 10 feet. 

 c — Variegated sandstone, 6 feet. 

 b — Pisolitic iron-bed, 6 feet. 

 a — Trias limestone. 



a band of Jurassics along this line, but I was unable to find anything 

 resembling them. The pisolitic iron-bed certainly lies directly upon 

 the Trias, and I can only regard it as of an horizon at least higher 

 than Cretaceous. The Echinolampas zone is characteristic of this 

 section and occurs crowded with that genus. 



On the other side of the rail, in a north-easterly direction, the 

 following section, fig. 36, is exposed in a bare hill-side : — 



Village, 



N.E 



s.w. 



Fig. 36. 



c — Nummulitic limestone. 

 b = Pisolitic bed. 

 a — Trias limestone. 



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