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



5. Limestone, very impure and containing immense numbers of a Spirifer of 

 large size, veiy similar to Spirifera Vercheri, De Vernueil PI. I. (fig. la. lb. 4 ft. 



6. Limestone with a few fossils, 30 ft. 



7. Limestone, filled with. Productus costatus (S. W.) often extremely depressed 

 by pressure. Many other fossils associated with the Productus, such as Athyris 

 Spirifera, and a species of Chonetes, &c. The limestone is arenaceous and mica- 

 ceous, often so much so that it passes into a calcareous sandstone. This passes 

 gradually into the next bed, the fossils becoming less frequent and the rock 

 less sandy. 



8. Shaly limestone. The beds 7 and 8 are together about, 60 ft. 



All these beds are evidently, from their fossils, members of the Zeeawan 



group. The series is continued by beds of the Weean limestone. 



9. Sandstone, grey, then pale brown. It contains lenticular beds of lime- 

 stone. The bed is much disintegrated and overgrown with grass 

 Goniatites, ? 



10. Flinty -looking, shining limestone of a bluish grey colour. Divided by 

 pastings of shale, thin and irregular. It weathers rugose and contains no 

 fossils, 15 ft, 



11. Calcareous slate, thin-bedded and exfoliating, 1 ft. 



12. Flinty limestone like 10, 3 ft. 



A lacustrine deposit covers any further bed which may exist. 



The total thickness of this section is about 260 feet. The Zeeawan 

 bed is nowhere so thick as it is here, being about 220 feet thick from 

 stratum 1 to 8. 



The remainder of the section is Weean limestone, but only partially 

 seen here. 



38. The end of the spur, immediatly north of Bams, presents also 

 some Zeeawan limestone, but it was not examined. The two following 

 spurs are entirely composed of volcanic ash and agglomerate. 



39. Then comes the long spur which ends in the somewhat 

 detached hillock which I have called the Pampur knoll. We find 

 in this spur the beds we have just seen above Barus, precisely in the 

 same position and relation. The similarity is so complete that it is 

 evident that the Barus beds once extended to the Pampur knoll with- 

 out a break, but that a great portion of this limestone has been 

 denuded. 



The volcanic rocks, in the long spur, are well stratified and rather 

 thin-bedded as they approach the limestone. They dip W. N. W. 

 with an angle of about 45°. The Zeeawan bed rests on quartzite 



