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systems follow in regular succession to the top of the Painkanda peak 

 itself, which is formed of the sugar-grained, white quartzite (8) of the 

 upper carboniferous. 



Standing on the heights east of the Painkanda peak, which over- 

 Profile from Malla han g the valley, the upper portion of which is 

 ShilancheastofMalan. filled by the Uja Tirche glacier, an ice stream 

 some 7 miles long, one may observe the structure of the lower 



Fig. 15. Palaeozoic group of the Kurkuti heights from Malla Shilanch grazing grounds. 



palaeozoic groups, which form the stupendous and almost inaccessible 

 heights on the left side of the Girthi river (see fig. 15). Here again 

 the red quartz shales (3) which closes the haimanta system upwards ser- 

 ves to mark out the boundaries. It divides the dark purple rocks at 

 the base from the dark greenish blue strata of the silunan. A band 

 of the densely red shales runs like a red thread along the entire south- 

 west slope of the peaks, at the base of which the grazing grounds of 

 Lam Shiru£ns are situated. 



Again, nearer the foot of the Uja Tirche glacier the red shales of 

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