I70 MIDDLEMISS: GEOLOGY OF HAZARA AND BLACK MOUNTAIN. 



described (stratigraphical elements, chap. II, p. 29). The following 

 is a section with the fossiiiferous layers indicated. The spot was 

 marked by Wynne on his unfinished map. 



Ordinary Trias limestone. 



Grey shales and marls with imperfect fossils . . ,8 feet. 



Limestone with fossils . . . . . . . 10 „ 



Fine pebbly layer 1 foot. 



Shales . 1 „ 



Quartzite — about ........ 12 feet. 



Slate series. 



The section will be seen to bear a considerable resemblance 

 to that of the same horizon near Bagh. If we leave the road and 

 climb a short distance up to the ridge to the east along the line of 

 the base of the Trias, we reach the marked indentation on the ridge 

 overlooking the Kula N., and can follow perfectly by the eye the same 

 line as it strikes down into that stream and crosses it to the Maira side- 

 spur from the Mian-Jani ridge, which it divides immediately under 

 the village of that name (see horizontal section No. 2). Allowing 

 the gaze to travel down the spur from Maira towards Jhootmung, it 

 naturally selects some darkly coloured fields for the position of the 

 Jura-Cretaceous band. 



The Kula N. in its upper parts among the slates, where it drains 



down from the great Mian-Jani peak, is a wild 

 Section up the Kula N. ° • r \ 



open grassy valley, bare 01 torest on the Mian- 



Jani side. But below Maira the stream has cut for itself a deep and 

 rocky channel with rugged side-spurs of limestone, first of Trias and. 

 then of Nummulitic, descending into it and covered with dense and 

 beautiful forest of Biar, Chir, Oak, Barungi, etc. Our endeavour to 

 penetrate up this valley from Dhukkee w^as frustrated by the diffi- 

 culty of the narrow path, which, having broken away in a precipitous 

 place, compelled us to return. 



The stream from Tirati opens into the Dore by a vertically walled 

 canon in the limestone, only a few feet wide, 



fr SC T1ri;L P ^ Str6am along the bed ° f which ll WaS necessai 7 to wade 

 for a considerable distance. The Abbottabad 



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