174 MIDDLEMISS: GEOLOGY OF HAZARA AND BLACK MOUNTAIN, 



intervening country between this point and Bugnotur via Khetur. 

 As this fault crosses the Kula N„ the Beibur N., and the intervening 

 spurs, it will be seen that it Vs slightly up the gorges indicating 

 a hade to the south-east of the reversed fault along this part of its 

 course. 



We have only now to note the dying-out of the outcrops of the 

 younger formations along this line of section as 



Neighbourhood of fch trend north- east towards Beerun Gulee, 

 Beerun Gulee. J ' 



and the hill-spurs which rise north-west and 

 south-east of it. The narrow strip of Spiti shales near Nerrian has 

 already been stated to die out about a mile from that village. The 

 Trias band, among which they lie, continues much further in that 

 direction, but also dies out against the fault about the "B" of Beerun 

 Gulee, although it is continued on the hill-spur just north of the pass 

 at Beerun Gulee, beyond which in the direction of the Silole N., as 

 has already been described, the country descends steeply and is cut out 

 entirely in the heart of the great Slate series. The thin slate band 

 near Batungi, which in the sketch-section (fig. 19) has only just 

 emerged from beneath the Trias, expands on the contrary in a north- 

 easterly direction and joins the great slate area beyond Beerun 

 Gulee. The rest of the section in the Trias, and the briefly extended 

 band of Spiti shales, die out against a prolongation of the fold-fault 

 which starts near the " i " of Batungi, the last fragment of the Trias 

 being just to the south of the " G" of Beerun Gulee. 



North-west of Beerun Gulee, and north of the villages Malsuh, 

 Batungi, etc., the hill-spurs begin to rise steeply towards Musta 

 peak, 8,435 feet, and to be covered with the usual north temperate 

 conifers, oaks, etc. At Malsuh several oak trees, forming a small 

 grove, were covered thickly with mistletoe at the time of our visit. 

 Beerun Gulee itself marks the end of the Tandia"ni Musta hill-range 

 and the beginning of the side spurs projecting from the Mian-Jani 

 and Oocha-Truppi range. 



The continuation of the Bugnotur-Jhootmung outcrop of the 

 Nummulitic limestone, with the underlying Jura-Cretaceous and Trias, 

 ( 174 ) 



