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GOD WIN- AUSTEN KASHMEKE CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS. 33
On the hornblendic slaty rock, which here everywhere imderlies
the Carboniferous series, there is in ascending order —
feet.
1. White flinty quartzite 12
Passing up into
2. Altered sandstone and shaly beds, very hard and spHntery 15
3. A bed of water-worn pebbles and shingle, of quartz and hornblendic
rock, imbedded in a sandy crumbling matrix 4
The shingle at the bottom is much the coarsest.
4. Sandstone, also containing water-worn pebbles 2
5. Alternations of shaly slate and sands 30
6. Calcareous shales 20
Passing up into
7. Hard compact crystalline limestone, of a dark -blue grey, interstratified
with grey shales, which weather to a green tint.
Both the limestones and shales are extremely fossiliferous, con-
taining many Brachiopoda. I have given this part of the series
(Nos. 6 & 7) the name of the Zewan beds, from the village near.
The section (fig. 7) near Barns, on the right bank of the Jhelnm
Eiver, Kashmcre, under Wasterwan Peak, exhibits the following
strata, having a dip of 50° W.
Pig. 7. — Section on the right hank of the Jheliim River, near Barus.
Eoad.
f^^^^W^
1 b a 5 432 1
6
feet.
1. Quartzite 20
2. Hard compact limestone, Productus scabriculus, Ter. sacculus, Athyris
suhtilita 40
3. Shaly limestone, full of Fenestella, Streptorhynchus crenistria. Zewan
beds 50
Spirifer Moosakailensis, Dav., and Productus semireticulatus.
4. Compact limestone, with few and obscure fossils 100
5. Calcareous slate or shale 30
6. Micaceous sandy calcareous beds — in all 60
6a. Sjpirifera Bajah.
66. Productus semireticulatus, P. scabriculus (large form), Chonetes
Icsvis, C. Austeniana, in great number.
30 feet between. Beds 5, fig. 3.
7. Hard compact grey limestones. No fossils seen, about 150
Section across the Entrance of Ravine.^ — Above the village of
Khoonmoo there is a very interesting section, as a great thickness of
the Carboniferous series is exhibited. On the left, and overlying the
Hornblende-slate series, are the beds represented in Sect. B, dipping
in the same direction as all the other beds at this place.

• A large Chunar tree stands at the entrance into the ravine.