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of the valley ; the Kahmard river flows between it and the gorge 

 (fig. 10). 



Fig. 10. 



Section through the Bajgah anticline and^Kahmard valley, near Bajgah. 



At the upper end of the Kahmard valley, there is a wide amphi- 

 theatre in the Cretaceous rocks filled with brilliantly coloured beds — 

 white, blue and red — representing the Tertiary system. On the right 

 side of the river at Banak, concretionary sandy clays with thin layers of 

 gypsum are overlain by limestone similar to that which contains sulphur 

 at Dasht-i-Safed. Over this are bright red conglomerate and sandstone, 

 lying unconformably on the older beds. The unconformity is well seen 

 at the base of the Kotal-i-Dandan Shikan, where the red conglomerate 

 lies with marked discordance on concretionary blue sandy clay which 

 is adopted as the basal bed of the eocene. 



To the north-west of Kahmard lies Hajar, a narrow valley closed 

 H at either- end by a magnificent gorge cut through 



the Cretaceous limestone. The centre of the 

 valley lies on the crest of an anticline, the oldest beds exposed being 

 the upper part of the Saighan series (fig. 11) ; the sides of the valley 



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