148 GR1ESBACII : GEOLOGY OF THE CENTRAL HIMALAYAS. 



naturally tempted 1 to give expression to this in my former paper on 

 the Himalayan trias ; this view, however, I find untenable. 



We have therefore in the Shal-Shal cliff the following permo- 

 trias section : — 



Divisions. 



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Upper Trias 



Lower Trias and 

 Passage-bed. 



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10 



Character of leading rocks. 



Zones. 



Liver coloured limestones with 

 greenish shales ; earthy beds 

 135 to 144. 



Limestones ; beds 129 to 134 . 



Black limestones, dolomites 

 and splintery black shales; 

 beds 123 to 128. 



Hard grey limestone; bed ic»2 



Earthy limestone ; bed 121 



Cor bis mellingi Hau. 

 var. 



Tropites ehrhchi Hau. 



Daonella sp. 



ptychites gerardi Blfd. 



Rhynchonella semiplec- 

 ta Mun. var. 



Black limestones and shales; 

 beds 71 to 120. 



Upper Permian 



Black limestone and shales 

 beds 2 to 70. 



Norites planulatus De- 

 Kon. 



Otoceras woodward i n. 



Black shales ; bed 1 



. Productus sp. 



Profile plate 13 gives the view of the Shal-Shal cliff from the 

 opposite, or western side of the valley, and it will be seen that the 

 carboniferous white quartzite (8) below the trias section forms a pre- 

 cipitous cliff down to the river gorge. Some casts of Brachiopods> 

 Producti and Orthis with Corals are common oh the weathered 



1 Rec. Geol. Surv. XIII, 91—113 (1880). 



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