44 Records of the Geological Survey of India. [voL. xi. 
age; the present section, however, makes me think that it must he of carboni¬ 
ferous age. 
The carboniferous rocks of Eishmakam continue nearly up to the village of 
Bhatkot, where wo come upon a bold escarjjmcnt of amygdaloidal and green¬ 
stone-like rocks, which seem to be faulted against the carboniferous rocks, cut¬ 
ting them out to the south-east along the ridge on which stands Liwarpatar 
station. Above the traj)s we have rocks consisting chiefly of massive blue and 
green sandstones and some amygdaloids; as these traps are overlaid by slates, and 
are not in close relation to the carboniferous series, they may probably he some¬ 
what lower in the serie.s than those of the Sind valley and Pir Panjal. To the 
west of the Lidar river, the carboniferous rocks seem to ho faulted against the 
trap of Churn station. 
The Panjal slates continue nearly as far as the village of Palgam; near the 
latter place we come upon another outlier of carboniferous lime.stones and slates, 
overlying the Panjals ; on the Shisha-Nag road to the south-west of Praslung the 
Panjals again come in beneath the carboniferous limestones, wliich have here 
a northerly strike and we.stei-ly dip. The Panjals here consist chiefly of slates and 
bluish-green slaty sandstones, partially metamor;i3ho.scd. 
The same Panjal rocks continue to Chandanwuri, whore they have a north¬ 
easterly dip, and underlie the white sandstones and dark blue limestones of 
the carboniferous serie.s, which hero stretches in a south-easterly direction below 
the Shisha-Nag into the Wardwan valley; the Panjals in places contain a few 
beds of amygdaloids interstratified with the slates. 
Taking a direct section from Chandanwari across the strike to Amrnath, 
via the Koun-Nag, we find that the dark blue carboniferous limestones (contain¬ 
ing corals and crinoids) arc inter,stratified wfith thick beds of slate and sandstone, 
and continue nearly up to Aston-lfarg; at the latter place bands of white 
dolomitic limestones become common, and beyond this the series consists of almost 
pure white dolomite with the same north-easterly dip up to the Koun-Iiag; hero 
we find the dolomites ovoi'laid by light blue limestones, sandstones, and slates ; 
further in still (to the west of Panjtami station) the strata consist entirely of 
slfites and sandstones overlying the limestones; near this place the strata are greatly 
disturbed by contortions. Further north, however, to the south of Panjtami 
halting-place, we again come uf)on strata of wbite dolomite, with a south-westerly 
dip, which immediately underlie the slates and sandstones of Panjtami station 
without any intervening limestones ; these slates will consequently be the highest 
of the series in this district. 
Taking the road to Amraath vid Nag-, we find that to the north of Panjtami 
the strike of the white dolomites has become due north and their dip due w-ost; 
about a mile to the east of Nag, the dolomites are overlaid conformably by 
slates and sandstones, the former with a bacillar structure. These slates and sand¬ 
stones are continuous with those of Panjtami, and to the west of Amrnath cave 
strike into the Zoji-la pass, where they form the “ bacillar sandstones ” noticed 
by Dr. Stoliezka at page 349 of “ Observations in Western Tibet.” 
The dolomites strike through the .station and sacred cave of Amrnath and 
appear again on the Dras road to the north-east of the Zoji-la pass, and are 
