. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India . al section of about 300 feet of infra-trappean beds near Belkera. Just south of thefault are the calcareous rocks mentioned, the lineof fracture itself is indicated by a low rocky ridge of limestone. Abovethis, sandstone is seen, followed by flaggy shales, red, purple, grey, andwhitish in colour, with obscure plant impressions. Upon these rests abed of sihcious limestone, and on that again other shales of variouscolours, deep purple, greenish and grey, some of them having a verygreat similarity to trappean ash, others being calcareous. With thesear
. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India . al section of about 300 feet of infra-trappean beds near Belkera. Just south of thefault are the calcareous rocks mentioned, the lineof fracture itself is indicated by a low rocky ridge of limestone. Abovethis, sandstone is seen, followed by flaggy shales, red, purple, grey, andwhitish in colour, with obscure plant impressions. Upon these rests abed of sihcious limestone, and on that again other shales of variouscolours, deep purple, greenish and grey, some of them having a verygreat similarity to trappean ash, others being calcareous. With theseare cherty sandstones, and nodular limestone like that of Bagh.^ In * Mr. Wynne, from whose notes of the rocks this is copied, calls this earthy lumpylimestone weathering into lumps, as seen often in the country west of Bagh, which givesa very good idea of the rock. Near Bagh it has much the appearance of a bed formedof consolidated kunkur, rather freer fiom clay than usual, A precisely similar bed occursat Lameta Ghat near Jubbulpoor. ( 282 ). Sec. 6.] detailed descriptions. 121 one of the latter a few shells of Melajiia were found. The uppermostbed is a hard coarse sandstone, which dips below the trap. West-north-west of Belkera_, in a similar section, more of theseshells occur. Besides the Melania, (which is allied to M. quadrilineatajSow., but differs in sculpture) a small bivalve, apparently a Gorbicula,is found. These fossils are only met with in the upper portion ofthe beds, those which appear to represent the rocks of Bagh andLameta. Before returning to the eastern edge of the map, a few words Southern scarp of °^ ^^® ^^^^® °^ *^® Gawilgurh hills west of this Gawilgurli range. j^ay be added. The sandstones die out just north of Ellichpoor, and thence to thewestward trap hills appear to rise both north and south of the line offault; the former, however, being by far the higher, and rising at Chikuldato 3,775 feet above the sea, while one peak a little farther west is
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