138 MIDDLEMISS: GEOLOGY OF HAZARA AND BLACK MOUNTAIN. 



certain that these outcrops must represent very sharply reflexed 

 anticlinal folds, with very possibly faulting along them. Beyond 

 Gulee in a south-east direction horizontal section No. 2 continues 

 along the line of Bunyan hill and Mohar village, but the sketch-section 

 here given below is a view of the beds as seen along the line of 

 country we are now traversing, namely, towards Dhumtour. 



Line of Nuwanshuhr. Dhumtour. 



Fig. 11. 



g =» Nummulite-bearing, generally concretionary, 



limestone shales and marls. 

 / — Grey limestone. 

 e = Cretaceous. 

 d p Jurassic. 

 c = Trias. 

 b = Infra-Trias. 

 a = Slate series. 



From it we may gather that the lie of the Nummulitic formation in 

 this section is by no means a simple one, and that to regard it as a 

 great descending series, whereby a thickness of about a mile would 

 have to be assigned to it, would be a very grave mistake. There are 

 at least two points in the section where very compressed synclinals 

 — with or without faulting is doubtful— must be inserted, as the evi- 

 dence for them is clearly given by the hill-sides. Any closer work- 

 ing out of the structural features of these exposures would have 

 taken a long time, because the Nummulitic limestone, from its concre- 

 tionary habit and its want of well-beddedness, tends to obscure itself 

 with talus and surface-deflection. 



Not till we approach Dhumtour do we get a decided normal se- 

 quence in the series, indicated unmistakeably by the appearance of 

 the coal-bearing bed of Hewson's excavations on the high crest of the 

 ridge, by a good thickness of Grey limestone beneath this, and then 



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