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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12512113463).jpg 1853 FRERE GEOLOGY OF A PART OF SIND 349 <br> On January 18 1853 Dr A Fleming had the opportunity of <br> riding up with an escort to the mouth of the Vidone Pass opposite <br> Dera Ghazee Khan Here also he observed the deposits above <br> noticed and found boulders of white quartzite and of Productus-lime- <br> stone <br> 6 On the Geology of a part of Sind By H B E Frere <br> Esq Commissioner in Sind <br> In a letter to Col Sykes F R S F G S <br> I HAVE taken the opportunity of the Duke of Argyll going <br> direct from Kurachee to London to send a couple of cases to your <br> address They contain a number of tertiary fossils chiefly bones <br> of Mammalia very much resembling the Perim fossils ; these were <br> collected by Mr Arthur Young the Deputy Collector of Sehwan <br> who if they are of any interest would wish you to keep for your own <br> collection any you like and to present the rest if you consider them <br> worthy of presentation to the India House or any other public <br> museum Any account of what they are would be most acceptable <br> and any call for further information or more specimens would be <br> carefully attended to Neither he nor I have been able to reach the <br> exact locality where they are found <br> It is in the hills S W of the Munch ur Lake and Sehwan and <br> about half-way to Shah-billawull but on the E side of the Hubb <br> River I must have been very near it in traversing the hill-route <br> from Kurachee to Sehwan in November 1851 but all the rocks I saw <br> Avere nummulitic limestone greatly contorted the ranges of hills being <br> generally wrinkles as it were of nummulitic strata; which could <br> be for the most part traced with great clearness from the valley on one <br> side over the hill and down into the valley on the other see diagram <br> Diagram showing the Section of Nummulitic Range between Kura- <br> chee and Sehwan i7i Sind with the accompanying shale and gravel <br> beds ; as seen in the cross-valleys <br> \v e <br> 1 Beds of gravel and sandy conglomerate \ ˘ i - <br> 2 Variegated marls and shales or indurated mudrbeds J ' ' <br> 3 Nummulitic limestone forming the Range <br> The western slopes of the ranges the general direction of which is <br> For Observations on the Geology of Sind see Papers by Col Sykes and <br> Capt Smee Proc and Trans Geol Soc 18 34 ; by Capt Grant on Ciitch Proc <br> and Trans Geol Soc 1S47 ; by Capt Vjcary on the Beloochistan Hills Quart <br> Journ Geol Soc vol ii p 260 ; and on other parts of Sind ibid vol iii p 331 34983482 108767 51125 Page 349 Text v 9 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/34983482 1853 Geological Society of London NameFound Dera NameConfirmed Dera NameBankID 4139169 NameFound Mammalia NameConfirmed Mammalia EOLID 15503955 NameBankID 2478620 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 9 1853 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 34983482 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/34983482 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-14 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12512113463 2015-08-27 09 51 44 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1853 Photos uploaded from Flickr by FĂŚ using a script | ||||
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