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Page 90
... valley in Kashmir , exposures of Palaeozoic rocks are seen . In the Hundwar area the Dogra Slates are conformably overlain by clay slates , greywackes and quartzites containing annelid tracks and some badly preserved organic remains of ...
... valley in Kashmir , exposures of Palaeozoic rocks are seen . In the Hundwar area the Dogra Slates are conformably overlain by clay slates , greywackes and quartzites containing annelid tracks and some badly preserved organic remains of ...
Page 96
... valley , it is only 300 feet thick . To the west , it is exposed in the Zanskar range . The Variegated Series is of Silurian age and is of littoral facies . 3. Kashmir The existence of Cambrian rocks in the Lidar valley has been ...
... valley , it is only 300 feet thick . To the west , it is exposed in the Zanskar range . The Variegated Series is of Silurian age and is of littoral facies . 3. Kashmir The existence of Cambrian rocks in the Lidar valley has been ...
Page 135
... valley to the Nepal border . The Triassic of the cis - Indus Salt Range is , however , incompletely developed ; only the lower part of the middle division being observed . The component mem- bers of the system are principally dark ...
... valley to the Nepal border . The Triassic of the cis - Indus Salt Range is , however , incompletely developed ; only the lower part of the middle division being observed . The component mem- bers of the system are principally dark ...
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Ajabgarh Aravalli Archaean Assam Assilina Baluchistan bands Barail basal basin Belemnites Bhander Boulder Bed Brachiopods calcareous Cambrian carbonaceous Carboniferous Cephalopods Charnockites clays coal seams colour conglomerates consists corals Cretaceous Cuddapah Cuddapah system deposits developed Devonian Dharwar district dolomitic east Eastern Ghats Eocene exposed facies fauna feet thick Fenestella ferruginous Flysch folding foliated formations fossils Gastropods geosyncline gneiss Gondwana granite greenish grey Hazara hills Himalayas igneous India indicating intercalated intrusion Iron-ore series Jurassic Kashmir Kirthar Kumaon Kutch Laki Lamellibranchs layers limestone limestone and shales Lower Cretaceous Madhya Pradesh marine marls metamorphism MICHIGAN LIBRARIES Middle miles Miocene Nummulites oolite Ordovician Orissa orogenic outcrops overlain overlying Panjal Peninsular Permian phyllites plateau Productus purple quartzites Rajasthan Ranikot region rocks Salt Range sandstone Sausar schists sediments shales Silurian Siwalik slates Spirifer Spiti valley stage succession syncline TABLE Tertiary Tethys thin Trias Triassic unconformity unfossiliferous Upper Cretaceous Vindhyan volcanic western zone