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



Traversing a ravine we meet the spur which descends towards the 

 village of Mandikpal, and the following section is met with : 



1. Amygdaloidal greenstone. 



2. Amygdaloid. 



3. Quartzite. 



4. Rotten Augitic ash. 



Some of the ground is covered with ths debris- of the ash, so that its relation 

 to the next bed is not seen. 



5. Limestone, argillaceous, pale bluish-grey, weathering fawn-coloured : after- 

 wards patchy blue and brownish. It is thin-bedded and breaks in slabs about 

 one to one and a half inch thick. It contains an abundance of Goniatites of 2 or 

 3 species. The bed is about 30 ft. 



The dip of these several layers of rock is N. N. E. 25°. 



This is the only locality where I have seen Weean limestone resting 

 immediately on volcanic rocks. 



From Mandikpal, our section goes through a succession of limestone 

 ridges which, from the appearance of the ribbons described at the 

 hillocks over Weean and Kohew (para. 31), are conjectured to 

 be Weean limestone, but I had not time to visit them. The general 

 dip of their beds is north-easterly. 



36. The western aspect of the Wastarwan I shall describe from 

 S. to N., that is from Avantipoor to Reechpoora. It is a series 

 of spurs with a general westwardly direction, and at the end of one 

 of these spurs is a little knoll which I shall call for convenience sake 

 the " Pampur knoll." 



The following is the section of these spurs from S. to N. (see 

 Map C). 



1. The whole of the spurs between Avantipoor and Tangur are composed 

 entirely of volcanic rocks, viz., amgydaloidal greenstone, coarse basalt and 

 ash, and black slate without fossils. The limestone is first seen about three 

 quarters of a mile south of Barus, where two spurs approach very near the 

 river Jheelum. 



2. As we ascend the most southern of these spurs, we find, resting confor- 

 mably on dark amygdaloidal greenstone, a bed of white quartzite about 2 feet 

 thick, 2 ft, 



3. A coarse and rough trachyte, 12 ft. 



A fault N. N. E.— S. S. W. It opens towards the northern end, whilst the 

 edges of it are crushed one against the other at its southern extremity. On 

 the northern side of the fault we find : — 



