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'Military Report on South-West Persia, Including the Provinces of Khuzistan (Arabistan), Luristan, and Part of Fars' [‎356] (403/466)

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valley is composed are red gravel and sandstone. Upon these rest conform
ably solid beds of limestone, which rise to the summits of the mountains
around forming the sides of the basin. The dip of the whole series is 8° 30'
towards the south.
The following is a section from the top of the great cliff at the foot of
which our camp was situated (see fig. 5) :—•
(1) Limestone-breccia, derived from the underlying beds, and cemented
in a yellow calcareous matrix.
(2) (fig. 5, 3«) Grey compact limestone, sometimes of a light slate
colour; fracture saccharoida.1, emitting a bell-sound when struck
with the hammer; surface rough, weathering in deep and large
holes, as if bored by gigantic lithodomous mollusca. It contains
a few ostrece, pecfines, echini, casts of cerithia, and univalves,
which, however, it is impossible to extract, owing to the flinty
hardness of the rock. In the upper layers are huge tabular masses
of opaque, white, and dark-brown flint.
(3) (3 a) Thick bed of very hard, compact, somewhat argillaceous, light-
grey limestone, with fossils similar to the above.
(4) (3^) Compact greyish-yellow limestone; the lower portion in very
thin layers. Fossils very rare.
(5) ( 3 5) Very hard gravel conglomerate, in a deep-red argillo-calcareous
matrix ; the pebbles consist of highly indurated, dark-red, and dull-
green clays and cherts, mixed with a few of dark-blue limestone and
yellow sandstone ; the fragments of cliert and clay being small and
much, worn by transport.
(6) { 3 c) Yellowisb and reddish sandstone, with thin and regular layers
of the above pebbles, which are most frequent in the upper part of
the bed.
(7) (3^) Blue, grey, or fawn-coloured limestone, exceedingly hard, com
pact, and heavy, containing mmmulites perforata (small variety),
iV. [Assilina) exponens, Orhitoide\s dispansus, Alveolina subpyre-
naiea, with a few spines and broken shells of Echinoderms. This
bed passes into the following—
(8) (3^) Bluish-grey rock, consisting of nummulites, &c., cemented in
carbonate of lime, and containing the same fossils as occur in bed
No. 7 : interspersed are a few layers of fragile grey marl.
By barometrical measurement, our camp on the gravel conglomerate (bed
No. 5) was 1 ,951 feet below the summit edge of the overhanging cliff. The
above section, therefore, cannot be less than 3,000 feet in height. I regret
that I am unable to give the thickness of the several beds; but the nature
of the cliff renders measurement quite out of the question.
From the presence of an ostrea (sp. undet.) in the limestone No. 2-, and
also at the head of the Tauk-i-Girrah Pass, in connection with the gypseous
deposits, there is reason to believe that the bed No. 2 lies near, if not quite W
at the top of the nummulitic rocks. It is just possible that it may represent
the fossiliferous marls of the gypsum series discovered at Karind, since the
forms of the contained fossils appear to be nearly allied, although casts sucn ^
as these are always difficult to identify.
The beds Nos. 7 and 8 were well exposed in the sides- ,of a deep ravine,
formed by a mountain torrent in the basin of Mungerrah, which afterwards ^
forces its way through a difficult gorge to join the Balad-Rud river. Large jjk
blocks of this shell conglomerate, literally composed of Nummulites perforata %
and N* exponens with Alveolina subpyrenaica, lie in the channel of the stream ^

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Military Report on South-West Persia, Including the Provinces of Khuzistan (Arabistan), Luristan, and Part of Fars by Major and Bt. Lieut-Col. Mark S. Bell, V.C., R.E.

Publication Details: Simla: Government Central Branch Press, 1885. Prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India.

Physical Description: 3 maps in end pockets. 41 plates.

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