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Section 5. — Lodaee and Jookun Range. 

 The east and west chain of hills lying along the Runnj north-east 

 of Bhooj, coincides with a portion of the anticlinal axis which has been 

 already stated to traverse the largest part of the province on the side 

 next the Runn. 



They have a summit elevation of some 800 feet above the Runn 



at Hullaman hill towards the western end of 



the rangBj but others of 400 feet occurs the 



heights declining into the valley of the Kara river to the west, and 



more gradually to the east, where the range becomes much narrower, 



and the axis sinks to the level of the low eoimtry. 



As usual in all the Kutch anticlinals, the curve is unequal, dipping 

 steeply (on the north side in this case) towards 

 the Runn, and on the south coinciding with the 

 longer hill slopes, and passing beneath the undulating beds which 

 occupy adjacent portions of the central plain of the district. All the 

 lofty ground of this range is occupied by the Jurassic marine beds, 

 frequently fossiliferous, and consisting of numerous alternations of hard 

 and soft sandstones with various coloured shales, the whole being 

 traversed in places by trap dykes and intrusions. 



At the extreme end of the range north of Doodaee white and 

 pale purple ferruginous beds with harder flaggy 



North of Doodaee. ... ,1,1,1 



layers containing imperiect but large impressions 

 of longitudinally striated plants undulate over the axis of the anticlinal 

 with low general dips to the north and south, the latter, as usual, the 

 lowest. In these are some beds of dull gray felted looking shale 

 weathering to a whitish clay, generally a few feet in thickness, or 

 even lesf, 



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