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In the glen south-by-west of the village of Kota, lower beds, 



but not quite so low as the last, occur ; they are 

 Kota glen. 



chiefly shaly with thin calcareous shelly bands. 



Within this glen, which is formed by the meeting of three or four 



mountain ravines, are some picturesque ruins (called, after a former 



celebrity of Kutch history, Lakafullane-ka gud, i. e., fort) surrounded 



by the remains of a wall which encircled the whole glen. Not 



far from these ruins, the stream courses from the 



Traps resembling eon- i i , i p -i -, , 



temporaneous deposits. '^est and south expose a mass or dark trappean 



muddy shales and dark masses much resembling 



contemporaneous flows with black shaly partings; among these are 



some hard, black, shelly bands, and in a concretionary rubbly bed 



between two greenish trappean shales or ash beds, some Belemnites, 



&c., were observed, not, however, in good preservation : a few other 



fossils occur higher in the series. The occurrence of these apparently 



contemporaneous traps is so complicated by the existence of intrusive 



dykes of the ordinary doleritie or basaltic character that little certainty 



could be felt as to most of them not being merely injected between 



the beds. The associated black pencilly shales also closely resemble those 



of the stream section south of Joorun, or the altered rock on the north side 



of the great dyke figured at page 150 (stream west of Joorun, called 



the Bothor or Narriery nuddi by different natives) . The upper portions 



of the glen and neighbouring hills are formed of light coloured pink^ 



purple, and variegated sandstones nearly horizontal or sloping slightly to 



the west over the axis of the anticlinal and dipping 

 Subrecent concrete. 



to the north at 30° on that side of the range, but 



passing on the south more gently downwards with the slope of the hills. 



High up in some of the ravines of Kota glen at elevations of 

 some 300 feet above the Runn are diift-like patches of subrecent 

 concrete which evidently once occupied larger spaces in the hollows, but 

 are now in course of removal. 



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