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Early investigators; Medlicott’s classification; Oldham’s investigations in Jaunsar and Bawar; Proposal of Nappes in Simla area; Opinions at variance; Auden on Krol Belt; Shali window: West’s version; Further investigations in Simla–Krol belt; Pre-Tertiary outliers in Sub-Himalaya; Lithostratigraphic correlation and other issues: Simla Slates and allied rocks, Blaini boulderbeds, carbonate sequences, depositional environment of Simla Slates and Krol Formation, Subathu–Dagshai passage-beds.

In General Strachey’s paper on this part of the Himalayas a very important observation is recorded, that the trap-rock of the Lower Himalayas enters the sandstone of the Sub-Himalayan zone. The position is in the Gola river south of Bhimtál. No fact of the kind has been noticed elsewhere.

—Medlicott and Blanford (1879, p. 543)

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Dhital, M.R. (2015). Northwest Himalaya. In: Geology of the Nepal Himalaya. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02496-7_4

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