Abstract
OF all the debated questions of Indian geology there has been none so baffling as the age of the Saline Series in the Punjab1. The selected references cited will give an idea of the controversy that has raged round the question, still by no means closed. Two main theories are now in the field: (a) that in the eastern part of the Salt Range the Cambrian sequence, with the Purple Sandstone at its base, lies 'normally' over the Saline Series, which therefore must be Lower Cambrian or pre-Cambrian2; (b) that the Saline Series is of early Tertiary age and that its inferior position is due to an immense overthrust of post-Nummulitic date which has pushed the older beds bodily over it3.
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