I36 M1DDLEMISS : GEOLOGY OF HAZARA AND BLACK MOUNTAIN. 



limestones differ in no possible way, not even in hardness or cohe- 

 rency, from their contemporaries along the southern border of 

 Hazara. 



Sections near Nuwanshuhr, north of the Dore river \ across Bunyan 



Hill and Gulee, up the Hertoh river, and in the neighbourhood 



of Tandidni, 



To the south-east of the last-described bands of rocks, which 



may be considered collectively as a sub-zone of 

 General remarks. . . 



Trias and Infra-Trias among the Slate zone, 



there comes a large area of hilly country, characterised by the upper 

 members of the stratigraphical sequence (Jura, Cretaceous, and 

 Nummulitic), and which is as manifestly a strike continuation of the 

 north-eastern portion of the Sirban massif, as the foregoing area is a 

 strike continuation of the north-western portion of the same. 

 Instead of the wide Abbottabad plain lying between the two areas, as 

 in the latter case, there is only the constricted valley of the Jub, 

 occupied by recent gravels and clays, through which the tiny but 

 rapid stream of that name scours its way. The three great hill-spurs, 

 given off from the Sirban mass between Kot Nawa, and Shakur 

 Eandee, composed of the rugged Nummulitic limestone, have very 

 palpably a structural continuation with the similar spurs on the north- 

 eastern side of the Jub, which run in parallel directions away towards 

 the north-east. 



Viewed from the south-west these hill-spurs, and Bunyan hill 

 rising behind them, present a very bare appearance. There is no 

 forest, scarcely any scrub-jungle, and only very seldom are there 

 sufficient soil-covered patches of ground on which a village can thrive. 

 But behind Bunyan Hill the heights of Tandidni, averaging 8,000 feet, 

 and the surrounding slopes are richly wooded with a temperate 

 flora. 



The section now to be described adjoins the one from Meerpoor 

 to Mundroch via Kakool, described p. 1 21. 



shabr Ct to Dhumtou U rr n " The P oint at which we left off the Ascription 

 of the latter was at the line of great fault 

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