'Military Report on South-West Persia, Including the Provinces of Khuzistan (Arabistan), Luristan, and Part of Fars' [364] (411/466)
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At Imam Mir A'chmet, between BA slit and Faylaun (Fabliau) tb
neighbouring range is composed as follows;— ' e
(1) Hard, yellow, eompaet, crystalline limestone, probably belono-in ff to
tbe nummnhtic limestone. In tbe lowest beds it becomes cream
coloured, and passes into—
(2) Hard, reddisb, grey or cream-coloured
lithographic
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limestone very
compact, but splitting into thin layers, with abundant specimens of
ammonites (crushed), gryphata, and
Interstratified with this limestone are numerous tabular layers of a black
siliceous substance giving out a remarkably strong odour of bitumen
when struck.
(3) Highly crystalline, blue, fcetid limestone.
c ^ ^ Iff between the plains of Sar Ab-f-Sfr and Faylaun (Section
fig. 7), the blue limestone ( 5 ) is much contorted and surrounded by the
yellow ( 4 )^ wliicn appears to be conformably deposited upon it.
In this neighbourhood the yellow limestone constitutes the summits of
many isolated tabular forts, and rests on a base of blue limestone. The
notorious Kal a Sand is a fine example of this.
IV.—P aleozoic E ocks.
The only instance in which undoubted deposits of this age were observed
by me was on the east side of the Kub-i-Kellar range, between Nauo-dn
PkU- 0 ' P M m f Chera „S Mr (^bigakhor, in tbe heart of "the
Bakhtiari Mountains. This range is composed of the ambiguous, altered,
blue limestone; but I had only an opportunity of examining an insignificant
portion of it, overlooking the plain of Cheragbur, where I gained no in-
formation whatever. Just before entering the plain from the west, however,
I stumbled upon two or three blocks of highly crystalline grey limestone;
weathering rusty-yellow, filled with a species of ort/tis, which Mr J Morris
considers as a form intermediate between tbe Devonian and Silurian species,
tho durmg a hasty journey prevented my giving the locality
the attention it deserve..; but I was informed by the natives that at the
summit of the range are great quantities of similar fossils.
fossil forms ^ associate<i a sma11 and a few other indistinct
V.—M etamorphic S chists.
P0rti . ns o£ blue limestone we have nothing
hateyer to guide us in determining the age of tbe underlying rocks.
dark 1 ? 0SltlOn With the rocks are vast deposits of
west of K,11? m e^ Icar e o ns, and fissile elay slates, which extend on the
through ^ p (Alwand) from the district of Fendun, in tbe Baklitfarf,
the fia fn fi i P " k S of Buruju'dand Nehawand, to Essadabad. On the east of
ey continue along the skirts of the same range to Hamadan.
VI.—P lutonic R ocks.
are Along the southern portion of the frontier no igneous rocks
posed m its immediate vicinity; but tbe central axis of tbe chain at
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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.
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- 'Military Report on South-West Persia, Including the Provinces of Khuzistan (Arabistan), Luristan, and Part of Fars'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1:4, i-r:ii-v, 1:8, 1:2, 2a:2b, 3:4, 4a:4b, 5:40, 40a:40b, 41:54, 54a:54b, 55:60, 60a:60b, 61:64, 64a:64b, 65:96, 96a:96b, 97:98, 98a:98b, 99:108, 108a:108b, 109:112, 112a:112b, 113:116, 116a:116b, 167:176, 176a:176b, 177:178, 178a:178b, 179:184, 184a:184b, 185:190, 190a:190d, 191:192, 192a:192b, 193:204, 204a:204b, 205:208, 208a:208d, 209:210, 210a:210b, 211:212, 212a:212b, 213:230, 230a:230b, 231:236, 236a:236b, 237:240, 240a:240b, 241:244, 244a:244d, 245:246, 246a:246b, 247:248, 248a:248b, 249:252, 252a:252b, 253:254, 254a:254b, 255:264, 264a:264b, 265:270, 270a:270b, 271:272, 272a:272d, 273:334, 334a:334b, 335:366, 366a:366n, 367:390, 1:10, iii-r:iv-v, 1:2, back-i
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- Bell, Mark Sever
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