'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎169] (340/524)

FROM BUSHIRE TO SHIRAUZ.
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The valley of Kazeroon, five miles wide, is bounded on the East
and West by high ranges of limestone, both having the quaquaversal
dip. Kazeroon Nos. 37 and 38 represent specimens from the range
on the West, and Kazeroon Nos. 3, 40, 41, and 42, are of strata from
the rana:e on the East side ; these were found at the pass of the ivutal-
Dociitar ; they are marked from above down. In this valley, at the
base of the East range, is a string of mounds composed 01 sandstone,
marl, and gypsum. The strata dip West at an angle of 75 , and are
from twelve to fifteen feet thick. They are numbered from above down
Kazeroon Nos. 43, 44, 45,and 46.
Passing over the Kutal-Dochtar we get into the valley of Desht-i-
Per, which is an oak forest. Bounding the South of this valley is a
low dentated range of limestone, of which Desht-i-Ber No. 47 is a
specimen.
Bounding the east of the valley of Desht-i-Ber is the range over
which the Kutal Peer-i-Zan passes ; Desht-i-Ber No. 48 is the specimen.
This is the highest range round, and is the water-shed in this part of
the country. It rims NNW., has a quacpaaversal dip, is blacK on
the surface, and is covered with masses of rock, from the crevices of
which the dwarf oak grows. In those crevices and in the rents a soil,
formed from the debris of the rock, has been deposited ; Desht-i-Ber
No. 49 is a specimen of the soil.
The plain of Desht-i-Arjen has evidently, within a recent period,
been the bed of a lake ; indeed, halt of it is still a marsh. It has the
highest elevation of any plain between this and Persepolis, and is about
one thousand feet higher than Shirauz itself.
It is hounded on the South by limestone rocits in irregular masses
divided by valleys filled with dwarf oak and hawthorn ; on the East and
West are limestone cliffs about twm hundred feet high, and on the
North sandstone and gypsum. The soil is a black alluvial deposit.
The Eastern cliff at the North end is very distinctly seen escaping
from underneath the gypsum, the whole dipping Northward at an angle
of 15°. Desht-i-Arjen No. 50 is a specimen of that cliff, and No. 50a
are a few fragments of fossils or their casts found there. Nos. 51 and
52 are from the two strata of rocks between No. 50 and the gypsum
above.
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