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About 40 miles N.-W. of Bhuj there is the village of Charee : if you 

 camp between that and the wattle huts of Phulfe, an easy ride of 4 miles 

 across a bay of the Runn brings you to the foot of a high conical hill, 

 which is Keera, but not Keera of the Ammonites. This latter is the wide 

 dome of hills lying to the south of the Cone, the Cone being merely trap. 

 The dome is some two miles across. Mr. Wynne has described its petro- 

 logical features ; but I have found no description of its various Ammonite 

 layers. Dr. Stoliczka must have written one from which Dr. Waagen was 

 enabled to mention the beds in which his various specimens were found : 

 but that description has not been published. So a few notes may be not 

 out of place. 



The Dome reproduces one great feature common to other hills (Habay 

 and Javria) of the North Coast, and to the hills along the edge of the 

 Cherwar Fault : its dip to the south is a good deal less steep than its dip 

 on the north side. Originally it was probably like this : — 



Denudation has worn away the softer and higher parts and left the 

 various beds exposed thus : — 



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But between some of the south side strata, intensive trap sheets have 

 forced their way and shoved the upper Ammonite strata further afield. 

 Thus Dhose Oolite, the last on the left is separated from the last but one 

 (Anceps) by Trap : and again beyond the Dhosa Oolite comes a great ridge 

 of Trap which has pushed the Katrol beds still further out — at least one 

 presumes it has : time failed me to reach the Katrol beds which Waagen 

 says are found here. From the north point in the sketch, it is roughly 

 1,000 yards to the top of the Dome : and I should judge it to be more than 

 2,000 yards from the summit to the outer south ridge. 



The ideal way of working these beds would be to take circle by circle, 

 and collect the specimens of each. But the circles are wide in extent and 

 numeroiis. Again one must allow for denudation having weathered many 

 specimens from higher beds into lower ones. Thus on the top I found a 

 neat little Stephanoceras with golden oolite particles stuck on it : now 

 I could not see any golden oolite rocks in situ on the top : so this 

 specimen most probably was left here when the upper layers of golden 

 oolite got worn away. An expert in fades would probably have little 

 difficulty in stating the bed to which each loose specimen owed its 

 origin. 



I have been warned by an eminent authority not to dream of having 

 identified any specimen from books and illustrations : each specimen should, 

 he says, be compared with its type. The warning is discouraging, but 

 sound : and I hope that means may be found of getting these fossils 



