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West side is a plain of golden yellow soil, except where a basalt intrusion 

 has forced up the rock, (and hardened it) into a biggish pile of hills. 



- CHARWAR HILLS 



From this mass of hills the yellow fields and slope away to the East, till 

 crimson black slabs come sloping up from under the yellow fields and rise 

 into high hills at the East end of the stadium, break off into very rough 

 and tumbled ground and sink down again below a broadish yellow belt. 

 Here too in one place are some hummocks of basalt, the intrusion of which 

 is probably responsible for the upheave. At the South-East corner the 

 hills rise up and join a projecting angle of the Charwar range : but I 

 have not yet had time to study the junction point. 



To the "West and South except for a South-West extension for a long way 

 not yet mapped the wet blanket of shale-coated with small broken red stone 

 covers up the warm yellow beds, just as it does on the South side of the 

 Fakirwadi beds: on the North side, the line of the fault is visible, hard 

 cold coarse sandstone dipping South, i.e., against the Ammonite dip. To 

 the East the yellow beds of Ammonite extend to some distance yet fully 

 exjolored. I call the shale beds a wet blanket because you may hunt for 

 hours in them and find nothing.* Its deposition seems to have cut off all 

 (shelly) life. 



* In a bit of coarse sandstone of the tipper Jurassics lying- apparently a fair 

 height above the shale beds I have to-day fou d the relics of an Ammonite so per- 

 haps Ammonites did struggle through the shale period : anyhow they must have 

 done so to continue through into Cretaceou times, unless as I sometimes think 

 these masses of shale beds and upper Jurassic sandstones are contemporary with the 

 European cretaceous deposits. But there has been an intrusion of basalt not far off 

 the spot, which may have carried up some of the Ammonite rocks through the 

 overlying shale and sandstone left this waif here. 



