PART L] LydeTiher ■. Geology of Laddk and Neighbouring T)istricts. 45 
Trias (Mirschclkalk and Bunter) being absent. Subsequently, however, Stoliczka 
incidentally mentions i shales of lower Triassic age in Kujjsu, and it may jjossibly 
be therefore that the Shar’gol shales (as I shall frequently style these rocks) are 
partly of lower Triassic ago. As, however, they are unfossiliforous, and as more 
to the south, they overlie metamorphic Silurians, there is little doubt, both in 
Stoliezka’s and my own opinion, that they are mainly Carboniferoirs, and they 
have accordingly been so colored in the map. 
Dr. Stoliczka, as I have said, mentions the difficulty which he found in distin¬ 
guishing the Tertiary from the Carboniferous shales, and it is not quite clear to 
me to w’hich group he referred some shales to the east of Shargol, which I think 
are certainly the Carboniferous; he speaks of “lumps and 2 )atches of it (Trias 
limestone) sticking out of the so-called Tertiaiy shales,” as if he thought, as I 
think, that the shales were not Tertiary. I incline to think that the limestone in 
these shales is mainly in the form of lenticular masses, interstratitiod with them, 
though some of them may be outlying masses of the Trias overlying the shales. 
Before discussing further the south-easterly extension of the Shargol shales, 
I proceed to notice two sections taken from the northei'n border of these shales 
to the south. The first of these extends from the Kashmir and Ladak road near 
Mulbeck up the ravine known as Miilbeck Rdng. Leaving the Kargil river, we 
first cross the blue limestone corresponding to the Shargol Megalodon bods, which 
has a southerly dip. These rocks are succeeded for a distance of about 3 miles 
by alternations of hard and massive white, green, and purple slates, with sand¬ 
stones and limestones, the whole scries being much folded, and its thickness 
difficult to estimate; these slaty rocks are much like those of the Trias of Tilel.^ 
The slaty rocks seem to be succeeded by a great thickness of nearly horizontal 
strata of white dolomites and blue limestones, like those occurring in a similar 
position in Tilcl, as described in my jjaper quoted above, and appai’ently corresj^ond- 
ing to the higher i)art of the Trias of Dris (Para limestone) ; the slates between 
the Megalodan beds and the dolomites being much thicker than the intermediate 
(limestone and shale) beds at Dras. The dolomitic rocks continue across the 
ridge at the head of Mulbeck Rung in a rolling series to the north of G onpa Lama 
Serai, where they were noticed by Stoliczka (Rangdum Gonpa),’’ and are appar¬ 
ently faulted against the Silurians of the Dras series. Stoliczka merely noticed 
these strata from a distance, but speaks of them as “secondary deposits, un¬ 
doubtedly of different formations.” As I have said, I think, their highest beds 
are the topmost Trias (Para), and the series is undoubtedly the same as that 
which I have included in the Trias in Tilel and the Zoji-La. 
The second section runs southward from the village of Hiniskot, on the 
Kashmir and Ladak road, across the Kangi-La. At Hiniskot itself we find cliffs 
of nearly vertical blue and buff limestones, corresfionding to the Shargol Mega¬ 
lodon gryphoides bods, with a few slaty beds; those rocks continue in a rolled 
and much bent series till within some 2 miles of the village of Kangi, where 
we cross a synclinal axis in bright colored shaly slates, again underlaid by the 
* Mem. Geol. Surv. India, Vol. V, p. 345. 
2 Rec. Geol. Surv. India, Vol. XII, p, 21. 
^ Mem. Geol. Surv. India, Vol. V, p. 347. 
