198 ■ WYNNE: GEOLOGY OF KUTCH. [PAKT II. 



Belemniie was found in one of the river pebbles. The general dip is 

 westerly. 



Further down the stream the low dip comes round to the south, and 



■XT ■ , ^ ,. J ^ c strong red and purple sandstones, with highly 

 Neighbourhood of See- ° r r a j 



saghud. ferruginous beds, some wholly composed of vertical 



cylinders Hke fulgurites, underlie purple and light colored, more 

 flaggy rocks, in which fine-grained, pure white beds become numerous. 

 In these beds a brown carbonaceous shale, full of ordinary plant frag- 

 ments, and containing a few fragments of Taxodites, occurs. 



It was on this horizon probably that the search for coal mentioned 

 by Colonel Grant as having been made near Seesaghud was carried out, 

 but the exact spot was not discovered. The situation of the beds with 

 carbonaceous shale and Taxodites having regard to those below, is, 

 it will be observed, very similar to that of the Trombow coal locality. 



White and ferruginous, yellowish and gravelly sandstones of the 

 usual upper character occur in the country about Seesaghud, and are 

 crossed by a double parallel Hne of fault on the road from Verani to 

 Seesaghud. 



The Killa or Fort of the latter town surmounts a peak of white 



sandstones traversed by a strong north-by-west 

 Eeef and dyke. ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^.^j^^ ^ j.^^j^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ 



portions of an ordinary trap dyke are traceable. 



The basal escarpment of the stratified traps passes close to the 

 town of Seesaghud, the lower flows of this neighbourhood being amyg- 

 daloidal, with zeolites, agates and quartz geodes, locally very numerous 

 towards Mhow. Southwards some more compact beds form a continua- 

 tion of the escarpment mentioned as occurring in the trap area south of 

 Rampur. This forms a well-marked feature for a long distance, but dies 

 out further to the west. 

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