18 Records of the Geological Survey of hidia. [vOL. xii. 
tioii to this series I miist observe taat in my last pnblisbed maj^, tbe bonndary lines 
ci this foiTnation on tbe Dras side of tbe Koji pass were taken from nupublislied 
notes left ty tbe late Dr. Etoiiezka ; a traverse of tbis route by myself bas shown 
me that some error bad crept into tbe map as to tbe position of tbe north-eastern 
bonndary of tbe Zoji-la slates which was put much too near tbe pass; tbis 
error was most probably due to some misinterpretation of tbe notes left by 
Dr. Stoliczka. 
As I hail not proceeded beyond Sonamarg wben I wrote my last paper, I 
shall take up the section from that place; the preceding descriptions of this 
section will be found at page 46 of my last paper of which this must be taken 
as tbe sequel. 
An anticlinal axis traverses the Sonamarg limestone series in a north¬ 
westerly and south-easterly direction near the village of Thajwaz; this axis, as is 
noticed by Dr. Stoliczka,* is continued from thence along the course of the Sind 
river as far as the baiting place of Baltal, at which point it bends round abruptly to 
the southward. As we ascend the Sind valley from Sonamarg, we find higher 
and higher beds forming tbe exposed base of tbe anticlinal, till at Baltal the 
rocks consist in great part of white dolomitic limestones like those of Amrnath 
cave, described in my last paper. A great portion of the lower white dolomitic 
rocks of the latter place are replaced in the Sind valley by blue banded limestones 
intermingled vutb slates. 
Immediately above Baltal, the limestones, with a north-easterly dip, are 
succeeded by the slates of the Zop-la, with the same dip: these slates soon 
become nearly vertical; they are often columnar or bacillar in stmcture, and 
contain bands of limestone; immediately north of the Zoji pass, we find a band 
of this intercalated limestone some fifty feet in thickness; this limestone is 
underlaid by slates, and again appears further down across an anticlinal flexure 
in the same slates. Alternations of slates, micaceous sandstones, and quartzites, 
with occasional bands of limestone, continue along the Dras road, till we get 
within half a mile of Mataian: these rocks in many places are greatly disturbed 
by contortion. 
Above Mataian we come upon blue limestones underlying the slates; the 
former are again underlaid by white dolomitic limestones like those of Amrnath ; 
these limestones indeed bend round to the east of the Gumbar (Goomber) stream 
to meet those of the latter place. 
We have already seen that the triassic limestones and dolomites of Sonamarg, 
according to my view, underlie the slates at Baltal and Mataian, in which respect 
the sequence here exactly agrees with that w hich I have shown in my last paper* 
to occur more to the eastward at Panjtarni. Further, we have seen that a dis¬ 
tinct anticlinal flexure traverses the limestone series at Baltal, which disproves the 
* Scic'iiiitic royulfb (i’ VinliaiHl Gti'logy, ji. 12. 
^ Til go 45, 
