. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India . Fi£. east of Burturra Sal-. FoaaM- vary obU4£ S ration ? Section behind. Dmn^i NDMMULITIC ELLIPSOID FROM MANZULli TO BANDa. 121 present no trace of erosion, nor are there any sigus that the sandstone was deposited in these irregular hollows. The limestone here seems irregular, but thinner than in most other places, not being mpre than from 20 to 50 feet in thickness. On its inner side some greenish clays are in junction with it in the stream bed (c),Red clay zone. but on the height above the left bank of this (d)red
. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India . Fi£. east of Burturra Sal-. FoaaM- vary obU4£ S ration ? Section behind. Dmn^i NDMMULITIC ELLIPSOID FROM MANZULli TO BANDa. 121 present no trace of erosion, nor are there any sigus that the sandstone was deposited in these irregular hollows. The limestone here seems irregular, but thinner than in most other places, not being mpre than from 20 to 50 feet in thickness. On its inner side some greenish clays are in junction with it in the stream bed (c),Red clay zone. but on the height above the left bank of this (d)red clays occur in their natural place next to the limestone. Furtherup the stream, contorted and obscure masses of gypsum and greenishclay, the latter often wedged apparently among the former, are seenfilling up the interior portion of the range. At one spot where thestream crosses a mass of the gypsum, the latter is so deeply eaten intothat it becomes impracticable to keep to the river bed, and here a smallFaulted inlier of sand- mass of the tertiary gray sandstones (e) and red clays appears to have slipped from somewherea
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