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strew the ground at the foot of the spur. Towards its end, the spur 

 bifurcates into two digitations, the most westerly being entirely made 

 up of agglomerate, whilst the most easterly presents the following 

 section : — 



Section of the end of the Zeeawan spur above the village of Zee- 

 awan. (See Sections B. and C.) 



1. Volcanic agglomerate with a shining, dark, semi-vitreous cement. It is 

 interstratified with bands of amygdaloid and thin layers of peperfno. 



2. Quartzite, white, opaque, stratified ; it breaks into cuboid fragments^ 

 owing to numerous well-marked joints. It is sometimes yellowish, but 

 usually quite white. It is a conspicuous layer and deserves to be remembered 

 as it always occurs between the volcanic rocks and the beds of limestone to be 



thereafter described.* , _ ,., 

 Io ft. 

 3. Compact basalt, of a dark colour and breaking in prismatic pieces. It is 

 often scoriaceous on the surface of layers 20 ft 



4. Compact amygdaloidal greenstone 3 f t 



5. Grey id i-blue basalt; heavy; much fissured 5 f t 



6. Coarse yellow sand, with numerous water-worn pebbles' of the basalt 

 No. 5 imbedded in the sand. The pebbles are lenticular in shape, such as are 

 seen on the shores of lakes and sluggish rivers, and unlike those rounded 

 by torrents. 



7. Sandstone, grey and bluish, but weathering to a fawn-colour. It contai 

 a few water- worn pebbles similar to those seen in the preceding layer. 3 ft. 



8. Slate, greyish-blue ; fissured and foliated 5 f t 



9. Sandstone of rolled grains of quartz 3 ft 



10. Slate, as before. , g f " 



11. Compact and dark rock, much jointed and breaking "in" flat square 

 pieces. Either a baked clay or a laterite. It is all broken to pieces on the sur- 

 face of the bed 



12. A conglomerate of water-worn pebbles of trap united by a calcareous 

 cement. The pebbles are not lenticular, but rounded 2 ft 



13. Dark shales containing debris of fossils not determinable. ' 10 ft' 



_ 14. Limestone; dark greyish-blue; coarsely crystalline; in places very 

 impure, argillaceous and shaly. It is a mass of fossils 5 fl# 



wJ/^ n T reached the fossilifer °us strata, I shall not, in charity to the 

 reader give the section of the spurs of the Tukt-i-Suliman and Zebanwan 

 which face the little lake or Dal But the map (see Map B) wUl eS 

 anyonew^hingtoknow the geology of these spurs to satisfy hS Liositv 

 LlmSn't K ^° l0glZe l° rthe "™»***"«* ^e section /of the TukS 



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