132 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF KUTCH. [PAUT II. 



Eastward of the country, the rocks of which have been just now 

 Country to the east- "iescribed, the Continuation of the Iddurghur es- 

 ward of Mhow, &c. earpment near Kuntkote exposes from 100 to 150 



feet of thick^ coarse, and flaggy sandstone, resting upon some 50 feet of 

 gray shales, with yellow partings and strings of gypsum, the shales con- 

 taining small plant fragments, and the ' other beds a few imperfect 

 bivalves and belemnites. Other yellowish and red sandstones come out 

 from beneath these and undulate over the country, frequently alternat- 

 ing with gray shales and soft red sandstone bands enclosing Belemnites 

 and numerous Ammonites, some of the PerispJiynctes type being most 

 common. With these are also two or three species of oyster, while some 

 silicious beds harder than usual contain Astarte and CucuUea, &c., which 

 ar.e nearly impossible to get out of the rock. 



North by east of Kuntkote are some intrusions of gray trap, 

 a strong dyke of which becoming wider extends 



Trap dyke. 



for two or three miles to the east-south-east, as 

 if to join that occurring at Badurghud. 



In the direction of Adhooe white sandstones appear more fre- 

 quently among the red ones associated with purple shales and some 

 harder bands. Just at the town ferruginous, ripple-marked, calcareous, 

 and soft white sandstones form an anticlinal curve, the beds to the south, 

 as usual, along this line of disturbance dipping at high angles in that 

 direction, if not vertical, while those to the north have lower inclinations. 



At the northern base of the ridge here formed by the contortion, 



a calcareous conglomeritic bed was traced for a 

 Possiliferous beds. 



long distance near the road from this to Chitrore. 



Its fossils are numerous, but difficult to separate from the matrix ; they 



include Astarte, Belemnites, of somewhat lanceolate form in section, 



Gervillia, 8 inches in length, a large corrugated oyster, 0. Marshii ? 



0. deltoidea, a CucuUea, a finely striated Fecten ? and a coarsely ribbed 



Ammonite; also Trigonia Smeei, a Triffonia very like T. ti'imcata, a 



Veniella, n. sp., and some other undetermined forms. 



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