160 Mr. Verchere on the Geology of Kashmir, [No. 3, 



Having crossed a ravine, we arrive at the spurs over Zowoor, where 

 we find the following beds along one section, from W. S. W. to 

 E. N. E. We begin with No. 4 of the Section : the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 

 refer to the volcanic rocks and black limestone just described. 



~1 Amygdaloidal greenstone, dips E. S. E. 



<2 Asa interbedded with thin beds of highly crystalline azoic limestone, 



^•3 Ash interbedded with black crystalline limestone in thin patches. 



4. Amygdaloid ; dip E. S. E. 20°. 



5. Quartzite, white and stratified. It becomes gradually sandy and coloured 

 blue, yellow or grey in places, 15 ft. 



6. Crystalline limestone with the debris of fossils, undeterminable, 5 ft. 



7. Lenticular beds of coarse granular limestone, full of Athyris sp. ? (see 

 PI. II. fig. 1 and la) and Productus Flemingi, 1 foot. 



8. Limestone ; grey, weathering brown, presenting abundant sections of 

 Ortlioceras and a few Fenestellides, 10 ft. 



9. Coarse limestone ; Fenestellides, Producti, &c. passes into. 



10. Calcareo-ferruginous, brown shales with some fossils : 9 and 10, 

 about 40 ft. 



These beds 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 are therefore the same beds as there seen at 

 Zeeawan, or they are in other words, Zeeawan limestone. They all dip E.S.E. 20°. 



11. Limestone, thin bedded and shaly : no fossils, 5 ft. 



A fault occurs here, and the following beds are seen on the eastern side 

 of it. 



12. Limestone of the Zeeawan bed brought up again. It presents the 

 same succession as above, viz. an Orthoceras bed, a Eenestellide bed, and a 

 brown shale bed ; the Fenestellide beds are, however, less abundant, and 

 the lenticular Athyris ones were not seen, 40 ft. 



27. Resting on this limestone, we find other beds of limestone 

 having a very different aspect. In fact we have the beginning of the 

 Weean bed of carboniferous limestone. The fauna changes consider- 

 ably : no Producti are found, no Fenestellides, no great flat Orthidce, 

 but instead a very great number of small bivalves, much broken and 

 comminuted, and here and there in lenticular beds, where fossils of 

 one or two species have been heaped together, some small Brachio- 

 poda of the genera Spiriferina and Terebratula ; some large mussel- 

 shaped bivalves which are probably Anthracosice or some other near 

 sub-genus of Gardinia ; some large and sometimes extremely gibbose 

 Aviculo-pectens ; some Pectens four inches across ; Goniatites and 

 an innumerable variety of Encrinite stems of all sizes. The appear- 

 ance of the rock will be noticed as we get on with our section. 





