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fossils of Cretaceous age. After this the record is scanty and 
uneventful and comprises a few beds of presumed Tertiary age in 
Travancore, the Cuddalore Sandstones of the East Coast from 
ound in the lava flows forming the Deccan Trap, the remains 
of which form a horizontal layer covering an area of 200,000 
square miles in Bombay, Central India and Hyderabad. 
n Southern India, therefore, if we exclude the coastal 
strips we have an area which is formed almost entirely of the 
the Binns ain gneisses and ohio as the Bengal gnei 
th 
lacking ar age. Clear evidence on the latter point is however 
can reg : 
880g] ® Dharwar schists are largely composed of lava flows, 
