446 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIV, 
Khondalite Series may represent an intensely metamorphosed 
facies of the Dharwars and of their equivalents. 
DykE-RocKS APPARENTLY CONNECTED WITH THE 
CHARNOCKITES AND DHARWARS. — 
believe that a large proportion, perhaps the largest proportion 
of the Charnockites, represents truly bedded rocks, the 
possibility nevertheless remains that some of them are 
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rt from the fringe of the large Charnockite outcrops - 
Coimbatore and of Coorg, the edge of which penetrates into 
Mysore territory and is therefore represented on the Mysore 
geological map, this map also shows, in their neighbourhood. a 
number of dykes of “ basic Charnockite, norite, pyroxenite, 
ete.”, cutting across the Fundamental Gneiss, which might be 
regarded as fissure dykes connected with the eruptives of the 
neighbouring large outcrops. : 
With reference to these Charnockite dykes it is interesting 
to notice that the map also shows a number of dykes describ 
m the index as “hornblendic, epidiorites, hornblende and 
Pytoxene granulites’’ These also traverse the Fundamental 
Gneiss and; in a few instances, are shown to penetrate minor 
outliers of the Dharwars. It would seem at first sight that 
blende and pyroxene ite”? te 
: m2) granulite oup are represen : 
in the neighbourhood of the Shares outcrops, those ° tne 
