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'Military Report on South-West Persia, Including the Provinces of Khuzistan (Arabistan), Luristan, and Part of Fars' [‎357] (404/466)

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a few miles below the showing that this bed is very largely developed
somewhere in the neighbourhood, though I was not so fortunate as to discover
the particular locality. The last-named fossil is called by the natives Sang-i-
Berinj/^ or nce-xtone, from its fancied resemblance to grains of rice.
The section (fig. 5) taken from the summit of Chaouni gives a general
idea of the arrangement of the beds of this formation, and of the strange
dislocation which has taken place near Mungerrah by the elevation of the
Be -Ab Mountain. The upper beds of the limestone, which is here white and
paccharoidal, are inverted, and form a high peak, with quantities of angular
debris upon the slope. This peak in the outline of the mountains as seen
from Dizful* is represented by a conical protuberance. Not having had an
opportunity of examining the Be -Ab, I am unable to say positively to what
formation the rocks composing it belong; but I have seen fragments of
ammonites which were said to have been picked up in crossing it. This,
together with the conformable dip of the overlying beds, leads me to the con
clusion that it is cretaceous.
From the great elevation of Chaouni, the order of the Mungerrah section
is seen prevailing throughout the adjoining mountains, for the deep-red of
the chert conglomerate (bed No. 6) may be distinctly traced, from its contrast
with the other beds, forming a wide band wherever a cliff section is pre-
sentedt [see page 219), See pages 214, '215, where the red band is noted to
be "red earth^ and <c red clay/"
The origin of the red chert gravel, which is very widely extended, is to
me a complete mystery. It is true that a bed of solid red chert is seen in the
Lur mountains at Harsin, and a thin bed (of the cretaceous age) crops out
in the plains of Karmanshah and Mahidasht, and at Kasley Gul near Mount
Ararat; but these are too insignificant to have been the nucleus from whence
such an enormous quantity of gravel was derived. In these two localities
there is no waxy green coloured chert, which is abundantly found mixed with
the red chert gravel wherever that occurs. These rocks may, however, exist in
mass in some unexplored region of the Lur or Kurd Mountains.
From the summit of Ghaoum, the red chert gravel is traceable in a
north-west direction for a distance of 20 or 30 miles, until it is shut out of view
by the intervening mountains.
Section (fig. 3) at Tang-i-KhdsJiow [see page 211, Tang-i-Vendwur). —The
lower portion of the Mungerrah section is crossed at the Tang-i-Khashow, be
tween Dizful and Khoramabad, about 40 miles north-west of Chaouni (see
%. 2.) Here the road passes through an easy gorge, having on either side a
cliff of about 800 feet high, with the strata dipping to the south-west at
an angle of 40°, or thereabouts. To the north-east is a broken face of rock
exposing the following section :—
f No. 4, a thin bed.
1 No 5.
Mungerrah beds ... ^ No. 6.
l No - 7 - . . . ,
^No. 8, containing' Alveolina suhpyTenaica m very great abundance,
with Nummulites perforata and N. exponens.
* The author has given in the original manuscript coloured sketch of the outline here alluded
to.— Editor.
t In the manuscript Memoir the author has given a diagram-sketch, geologically coloured,
sketched hy Lieutenant Glascott, E.N., with the theodolite from this position, and looking to the
ttorth-east. It shows the wild character of this region. Mr. Loftus adds that " the irregular upper
outline of the red gravel is owing to its being overlaid by limestone debris fallen from above. In
other sections the underlying beds are discernible, especially in the bluff south-eastern extremity
the Kealun range, and in the lofty mountain called Kus, across the Be-Ab, north of Chaouni.
1 Editor.

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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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