l6S MIDDLEMISS: GEOLOGY OF HAZARA AND BLACK MOUNTAIN. 



the fault on the eastern spur of Tope. The Trias limestone, which 

 we now enter upon, is in an extraordinary state of disturbance. The 

 cliff to the north-east of the deep bed of the Dore is over 1,500 feet 

 in height and a mile long as far as where the Tirati stream enters the 

 Dore, and its steep and bare precipices exhibit fold after fold in the 

 Trias limestone, especially confusing near the north-western faulted 

 junction with the slates. I have attempted to render these in hori- 

 zontal section No. 2, where the portion of the section alluded to 

 above is seen forming the base of the great hill south of Uzeezmung. 

 Far above our heads we know, from what we saw from the eastern 

 spur of Tope, that the Jura-Cretaceous and Nummulitic rocks 

 appear in normal order above this cliff, but the gorge of the Dore is 

 much too steep and shut-in for us to see any trace of them from 

 our present position in its bed. Still ascending up the river, and 

 shortly after reaching the stream which joins the Dore from Tirati, 

 there is very much disturbance of the Trias once more as a preliminary 

 to another faulted junction between it and the little wedge of Grey 

 limestone referred to (p. 163) as the north-eastern continuation of 

 the Maira-Bandee outcrop (horizontal section No. 2 crosses the 

 Tirati stream further to the north-east and shews this faulted [wedge 

 on the Uzeezmung side of the stream). It is barely 3 mile wide, after 

 which there is another line of faults dividing it from the next set of 

 slates. The slate outcrop now entered upon continues the whole way 

 up to Bugnotur, after which up the hill-side immediately south-east 

 of the staging bungalow there is an abrupt contact of them with 

 Nummulitic limestone to the south-east. The slates here are very 

 much crushed and shattered, being in some places reduced to a fine 

 powder, and the Nummulitics next them are also much shattered. 

 To the south-west along this strike and across the Karati N. the 

 fault gradually dies out, its place being taken by a normal ascending 

 series through the Trias and Jura-Cretaceous, which form the north- 

 western limb of the synclinal, noticed in the spur north-west of Bara 

 Gali when ascending the Taumi section from Bagh. At one point 

 on the "B" of Bugnotur there is seen for the last time a little 

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