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by the Cretaceous and Jurassic formations beneath them ; the whole 

 group being in normal order with a dip of 40 N.W. The last two series 

 follow a gap in the ridge, and continue down the stream which divides 

 the final spur of Trias limestone from the rest of the ridge. Finally, 

 beneath the not very thick exposure of Trias in a bold scarped cliff, 

 there appears the Slate series, outcropping at the foot of the cliff and 

 along the edge of the fields in close proximity to the high-road. This 

 normal exposure of the Infra-Nummulitic formations down to the 

 Slates is obviously a direct continuation of the same formations near 

 Shawali in the Sirban sections. 



Dhumtour itself is a fairly large village, situated on a flat triangle 

 of gravel and clay terraces, and with a steep descent of 200 — 300 feet 

 down to the Dore river ; these recent accumulations being part of 

 the same continuous valley deposits, which, following the bed of the 

 Dore, ascend gradually by the little stream of the Jub to join up with 

 those of the Abbottabad plain. 



I have already referred to the section north-west of Gulee. To the 

 „ . ,,„ south-west of that little pass the Nummulitic 



Section through Bun- _ * 



yan hill from Gulee to series of Bunyan hill shews the ordinary grey 



the Hertoh river. . ' ' ~ 



and ochre coloured shales with nodular lime- 

 stone, all crowded with foraminifera of rather large size on its 

 north-western slopes, and more massive beds of Nummulitic lime- 

 stone with a few marked bands of shale on its south-eastern side as 

 it descends in a fine convex slope to Mohar village. The apparent 

 dip on each side of the hill is in towards the hill, but it is more than 

 likely that this does not indicate a synclinal, but is an example of 

 surface deflection on a large scale (see section fig. 13, corresponding 

 to this in the N.N.W.— S.S.E. reach of the Hertoh river). Near 

 Mohar a rough anticlinal, with several breaks or slips of the strata 

 above it to the north-west, brings in several good exposures of the 

 Cretaceous and Spiti shales, the latter being marked as usual by a 

 copious spring of water and a pipal tree, as well as by a flattening 

 out of the hill-spur. Below Mohar the section down to the lower reach 

 of the Hertoh river is an ascending one over the south-eastern limb 



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