PAUT 2.] Grieslach : 'Palaoniological notes, Lower Trias, Himalayas. 
97 
VO. 
VI. 
V2. 
V3. 
Hauptdolomit ... V4. 
VS. 
V6. 
VV. 
V8. 
Plattenlcalk 
of Giimbel. 
80. 
81. 
82. 
83. 
84. 
85. 
Hard crinoid limestone in thicker beds 
Dolomitic limestone 
„ „ in flaggy beds ... 
Massive gi’cy dolomite, towards bnj;e rather flaggy 
„ dolomite, with scarcely any bedding 
As (V4), but with partings of crinoid limestone ... 
Dolomite in beds of about 4 feet thickness towai'ds 
base, reddish, and containing Lithodendron ... 
Dark concretionary limestone with reddish purple 
cellular Rauchwackc appearance here and there, 
in beds of 6 incbe.s to 1 foot 
Crinoid llmc.stone in thicker beds 
Dark dolomites in massive beds, the contact sur¬ 
faces knitted together (resembling sutures, in 
the outcrop) 
Dolomites and limestone beds with “knitted” 
contact surfaces as (VO), full of Liihodendron, 
and with a few shaly partings 
Massive beds of dark blue limestone and dolomite 
alternating with flaggy beds of limestone; the 
latter form about 12 feet of the upper part. 
Some masse.s of it of dark purple colour with 
crinoid sections 
Dark dolomites with calcspar veins ... 
„ „ flaggy beds and partings of 
shaly sandstone 
Dark hard concretionary limestone alternating 
with dolomitic beds 
Grey and reddish dolomites in perfectly inacces¬ 
sible cliffs, .about 
Thickwess. 
Ft. In. 
V 6 
6 0 
3 6 
45 0 
135 0 
223 0 
98 0 
5 0 
11 0 
100 0 
48 0 
50 0 
14V 0 
241 0 
V4 0 
VOO 0 
Total ... 2,200 . Vi 
As I intend to give here only a short description of the lowest members of the 
Trias, I will only say so much, that in the main the above Rhsetic section cor¬ 
responds exactly with the typical sections of that formation in the Austrian Alps, 
namely, we have here in descending order : — 
1. Lithodendron-limestone, interbedded with limestone containing fossils belonging to the 
Alpine Kossen beds, which have been grouped into four horizons by Suess=Hauptlitho- 
dendronkalk with Kossen beds. 
2. Thick-bedded limestones, hero and there dolomitic, still with Lithodendrons here and 
there, and beds with Megalodon=nachsteinkalk. 
3. Great development of dolomites and flaggy limestones=Hanptdolomit with GiimbeTs 
Plattenkalk. 
The undercliff consists of a series of beds which represent the whole of the 
marine Trias beds of the Eastern Alps. The series rests on the denuded and 
rugged carboniferous quartzites, which again form a steep cliff falling almost 
vertically down to the base of the valley. 
