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PART 1.] Lydel’ker; Geology of Kashmir, Kislitwar, and Pangi. 
Iiere continuous A^^th rhasto-triassic strata, described by Dr. Stolickza, which 
we shall again refer to. To the east of Amrnath we have a descending series 
of limestones and dolomites ; these rocks are more blue in color, to the west, and 
may probably be in part carboniferous. 
The dolomites and limestones to the south of Panjtarni station also bear 
round to the north, and seem to be continuous with the tria.ssic limestones and 
slates described by Dr. Stolickza, on the Kashmir side of the Zoji-la. 
In a section from Shisha-Kag to Panjtai-ni, we have much the same rock- 
series as from Chandanwari, except that immediately below the slates of Panj¬ 
tarni station, the dolomites are mixed with sandstones, slates, and light-blue 
limestones, in jjlace of being nearly homogeneous as at Aston-Marg. 
As to the age of the above strata, we have seen that the slates and lime,stones 
of Chandanwari are carboniferous; the strata above this blue limestone do 
not contain recognisable fossils, but belong in all probability to the triassic period. 
The dolomites of Amrnath are continuous with the dolomitic limestones north 
of the Zoji-la, which Dr. Stolickza considers as equivalent to the Para lime.stone. 
The similar dolomites to the south of Panjtarni, which we have seen are partly 
replaced to the eastward by limestones and sandstones, will consequently bo of 
the same age, and, as I have said before, seem to be continuous with the undoubted 
trias.sic limestones to the south of the Zoji-la. 
There now only remains the question of the slates and sandstones of Panj¬ 
tarni, and the sandstones of the Zoji-la; the latter were considered by Dr. 
Stolickza to underlie the triassic limestones and consequently to be of carboni¬ 
ferous age; it, however, appears that the section was not clear, and we must 
consider it to bo a case of inversion, since wo have seen that these slates and 
sandstones most distinctly overlie and occur in a trough of the dolomites which 
occur to the south-east of the Zoji-la. As before said, therefore, these slates 
must be the highest beds of the rlneto-triassic series. 
The dolomites to the north-east of the Zoji-la, according to Dr. Stoliezka, 
overlie the triassic limestones ; the same limestones must therefore be represented 
to the east of Amrnath; while still further east I think the underlying strata 
must be carboniferous; these lower rocks would sweep round to underlie the 
triassic beds of the Dras river. 
The strata of piu’e triassic dolomite are easily recognised from great distances 
by weatheiing into the most fantastically-shaped pinnacle crags ; this is particu¬ 
larly well shown near Amrnath cave. 
lieturning now to Palgam, we have to continue our section to the north-west 
into the Sind valley; immediately to the north-west of Palgam, the limestones 
and slates of the carboniferous series continue as far as the villarj-e of Aru 
where they are faulted against the silurian slates, and where they bend round 
to the eastward to join the Praslung boundary. 
Prom this point to the Sind valley at Kulan, we have a succession of chloritic 
sandstones and grey and black slates of the siluilan series, intermingled with 
a few bands of amygdaloidal trap, with a north-easterly dip to the north of 
Lidarwat, and a south-westerly dip to the southward of this place. These 
Silurian rocks continue as far as the north side of the Kolahoi range, beyond 
