The Geology of Hazara and the Black Mountain Volume 26 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...east to a marked gap in the main ridge, and they then pass round to the eastern side of the ridge allowing the Nummulitics now to constitute the crest of the main ridge the rest of the way to Musta. For some distance south of the-S- of Seree the Jura-Cretaceous band follows a hollow between the main ridge and a little spur formed of fnas on the - r " of Seree, whilst beyond, the eastern slopes of Musta though deeply wooded, embrace a normal section from the Slate senes through the Trias, Jurassic, and Cretaceous, up to the NummuUtic. About one mile north of Musta the Cretaceous band, in the form of a sharp anticlinal (already referred to in the neighbourhood, h r f," the Hertoh " p3SSeS by a deep ap to Join up with the band on the eastern side of the main ridge, s TlTspur the base of the Trias was followed-f as the T of Telkandi; but beyond this no exploration was made by Hira Lal; so that the hill-spurs in that direction, which are rugged and preapitous, have eluded our survey on the two occasions when our party were in the neighbourhood. (See p, 26 ) The sections noted in the margin were approached from the KoonSections in the Slate har river as a a base of operations. The headIn?."o-thl o Streams of the Booee N-ain down from Phoot ISs. 3nd Si'le hi" (6'654 ft-)-Edwards explored the junction between the Infra-Trias and the slates. He found purple limestone and sandstone and shale belonging to the former, but the basal conglomerate was not visible. Their dip was 70 W.N.W. Some pale blue-grey slates in the Slate series were pyritous, the small cubical crystals of iron-pyrites being inch across. Along the Booee N. and on the hill-spurs round about the uniform slate hills present a very bare appearance...