. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. fp~ ..??? •&? :?. fecit ? ?? irkiirf Lith SIWALIK CONGLOMERATE AND SANDSTONE. :A STI A LG AD, MAJtWAT AND KHASOR HILLS. 61 the brook and amount in all to about 350 cubic yards. It is some-what impure from sand and pebbles mixed with it, and would weigh per-haps in all 550 tons. Of liquid tar in pools, there was in May 1870 about100 gallons. He did not consider it likely the oil-bearing beds continuedbituminous to any great distance, but, owing to their thickness, thoughtit highly probable that borings would meet with success as to the yieldof oil. M
. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. fp~ ..??? •&? :?. fecit ? ?? irkiirf Lith SIWALIK CONGLOMERATE AND SANDSTONE. :A STI A LG AD, MAJtWAT AND KHASOR HILLS. 61 the brook and amount in all to about 350 cubic yards. It is some-what impure from sand and pebbles mixed with it, and would weigh per-haps in all 550 tons. Of liquid tar in pools, there was in May 1870 about100 gallons. He did not consider it likely the oil-bearing beds continuedbituminous to any great distance, but, owing to their thickness, thoughtit highly probable that borings would meet with success as to the yieldof oil. Mr. Lymans description of the section differs a good deal from thatrecorded in my note book (perhaps he refers to some neighbouring local-ity) , and he states that a brown sandy lime rock, evidently about thehorizon of the layers from 4 to 8 in the above list, contains Productusand other fossils. Of these I have found no trace, nor of any recogniza-ble fossil until I had reached the shaly and flaggy beds with small Cera-tites, beneath the soft greyish-w
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