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strated, but is deduced by analogy with other areas. One here and 

 there gets the impression of an arching over in the central core oi 

 limestone. This admittedly may be the result merely of the up- 

 ward thrust of the beds, but, comparing it with less disturbed folds, 

 I am more inclined to the view that the original crestal area is present 

 and that the faulting has taken place a little to the south-west of this. 

 Near Gil a distinct south-westerly dip flanking an arch can be seen. 

 As already .stated, in the complete north-eastern limb, the central 

 ■ core of limestone is succeeded by a thick bed of clay with locally some 

 gypsum, then by a thin limestone band, and finally b}' several 

 hundred feet of red clays belonging to the lowest horizons of the 

 Kurd series. Dislocation in the south-western limb would most 

 .naturally take place along the junction of the hard central limestone 

 core and the succeeding soft beds of Fars clay, and this, I think, is 

 what has happened along most of its length. The section on 

 plate 7 will illustrate this. 



A traverse from north-east to south-west shows the following 

 succession. Commencing about 4 miles east of Kani Qadir, we see 

 the massive light brown clays of phase " c " of the Kurd beds 

 dipping north-east at 15.° Further south-west sandstones become a 

 little more frequent, and the dip sinks to 13° and 9.° The dip soon 

 after begins to steepen, producing the " ridging up"" referred to ; 

 one mile east of Kani Qadir it is 23°, and at the Fars upper 

 boundary it varies from 30° to 50° with locally still greater dips. 

 The north-eastern limb of the Fars outcrop is not unduly contorted 

 — in fact it shows comparative regularity — but the central core 

 of the anticline is disturbed. This core, what remains of the 

 south-western limb, and the reversed fault, are all largely concealed 

 by gravel and other detritus which have spilled over it from the 

 Jabal Nasaz above. Beyond the fault south-westwards are the 

 conglomerates of phase " d " dipping at angles scarcely more 

 than 2° or 3° towards the north-east. The missing beds cut out by 

 the fault, therefore, include a small thickness of the Fars, and the 

 whole of the Lower stage of the Kurd series, viz., phases " a," " b " 

 and " c." Crossing the Jabal Nasaz the conglomerates are seen to 

 overlie zone ' ; c " which forms a low flat anticline between the Jabal 

 Nasaz and the Zindanah ridge, the latter consisting of zone " d " 

 much reduced in thickness. Still further south-west comes the flat 

 syncline of the Dasht-i-Pataki, occupied by brown clays of phase 

 " e," followed by a third belt of conglomerate near Balagah Rashid, 



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