DESCRIPTION OF SECTIONS. 26 1 



The section (Fig. 11) shows the succession of strata from which 

 the fossils were obtained. The thick-bedded limestone that rests 

 immediately upon the agglomerates is unfossiliferous, but in the 

 more thinly bedded rock that rests upon it a number of Khirthar 

 forms were met with, the commonest amongst those that could be 

 identified being Nummulites granulosa, d'A. and H., Micropsia 

 venustula, D. and S., Velates schmideliana, Chemn. Above this 

 limestone the section is hidden by talus up to a higher horizon from 

 which the fossils obtained are nevertheless very similar, including 

 Nummulites granulosa, d'A. and H., and spira ) d'A. and H., Micropsis 

 venustula, D. and S., Velates schmideliana, Chemn. At a slightly 

 higher horizon some European forms were met with, Cerithium 

 van-den-Heckei, Bell., and Ovula bellardii, Desh,, of the upper eocene 

 of Nice. The highest fossiliferous beds contain several species of 

 Cardita, Cor&ula, Natica, Tumtella. Dr. Noetling ,who kindly 

 examined them assigned them to the base of the Nari. Above these 

 beds there is still a considerable thickness of unfossiliferous red 

 shales containing a great deal of gypsum. 



From Sain dak to Robdt. 



From Saindak to Robdt the strike of the ridges is generally con- 

 stant being north-west. The syncline of eocene strata extends about 

 eight miles north-west of Saindak. From there up to Kacha Koh or 

 even beyond, all the ranges consist entirely of strata of the volcanic 

 flysch series. North-west of Kacha Koh, at Piran Zidrat, there 

 appear again green shales and calcareous sandstones probably of 

 Ranikot age. The flysch strata consist of agglomerates and tuffs 

 interbedded with greenish shales and sandstones that weather into 

 brilliant colours, greatly resembling the rocks of the same age 

 described in the Saindak section. Limestones also are frequent. 



Indications of the great lateral pressure to which all these rocks 

 have been subjected are present everywhere ; they are nearly all 

 more or less slaty often to a considerable degree. It is only in some 



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