122 Mr. Verchere on the Geology of Kashmir, [No. 2, 



The Soolimanite has a thickness of , 15 ft. 



14. The band of Soolimanite gradually passes into a felspathic ash, 

 often friable, but often also hard and compact and full of oval nodules of 

 dark augite, vaiying in magnitude from the size of a pea to that of a pin's head. 

 Occasionally the ash passes, along the strike, into a hard compact quartzite. 

 The whole bed appears irregular and lenticular, and has been probably formed 

 by ejecta falling into shallow pools of water ... 15 ft. 



15. A calcareous rock which is not seen on the hill side, but gives 

 out, on the brow of the hill, a good deal of nodular muddy carbonate 

 of lime (kunkur). Here and there a brown ferruginous rotten ash (or 

 metamorphosed calcareous shale ?) crops through the grass on the top of the 

 hill. It effervesces feebly with acid, and is probably the rock which gives 

 out the kunkur. This layer, which is probably squeezed out of its place near 

 the foot of the hill by the gradual curving of the strike of the harder rocks, 

 is, at the top of the mount, at least 20 ft. 



16. A thin band of amygdaloidal greenstone 12 ft. 



17. Slate, grey. On the western side of the bed it dips W. N. W. 65°. 

 In the centre it is much folded ; on the eastern side it dips E. S. E. 75°. 

 This angle, however, diminishing quickly to 65° 20 ft. 



18. Greenstone alternately coarse and fine 20 ft. 



19. Slaty basalt, dark bluish black, fracture conchoidal. It dips E. a few 

 degrees S. 70° 30 ft. 



20. A crumbling, brown, lumpy metamorphic mud, slightly amygdaloidal. 

 It decays rapidly into a dirty yellow coarse gravel. It is interbedded with bands 

 of agglomerate, the lapilli being mostly basalt 50 ft. 



21. Sandstone, hard, rough, quartzose and micaceous ; apparently much 

 altered by heat. No organisms 3 ft. 



22. Coarse quartzose grit, very hard and rough. It appears to be composed 

 up of angular grains of quartz, variously coloured, cemented together by a 

 siliceous paste. It may be a siliceous deposit in which crystallization of the 

 purer quartz has begun to take place ■ 15 ft. 



23. Sandstone like 21. Dip. S. E , 10 ft. 



24. Blue compact slate, becoming gradually first coarser and more like a 

 shale, and then more silty or like yellow and grey clay-slate. The stratification 

 is best seen by the coloured markings which indicate it to be only 25° and E. 

 The bed has probably been squeezed out of its place 150 ft. 



25. Coarse yellow sandstone with a calcareous cement. Cleavage well 

 marked. No organisms 20 ft. 



26. Slate, thin bedded and falling into angular fragments. It is mostly 

 deep blue with bands or ribbands of yellow and grey. The dip is more regular 

 than that of the slates seen before. It is nearly due E. with an angle 

 of 40° \ 200 ft. 



