Glaciation in the Jammu Hills

Abstract

MUCH evidence of the last or Pleistocene Ice Age has been observed in various parts of the Central and the Lesser Himalayas. Lieut.-Col. J. L. Grinlinton has referred to the shape of polished and striated or grooved rock surfaces in the Liddar and Sind Valleys of the Kashmir Himalayas¹. Many terminal moraines have also been noticed on the southern flank of the Pirpanjal at altitudes of somewhat less than 8,900 ft.; but no traces of the Pleistocene glaciation have been so far discovered anywhere in the Jammu Hills south of the Pirpanjal.