SEC. 6.] PORTION OF THE CENTRAL PLAIN NEAR BEOOJ. 169 



From Bhoojia to the conical sandstone Mil on wliieli Soorul temple 

 standsj and near the latter, the sub-trappean grits are occasionally seen, 

 the trappean blotches and interstitial portions weathered out into little 

 cavities on the surface of the rock, which sometimes occupies pockets 

 or wide fissure-like spaces in the underlying Jurassic beds. In the vicinity 

 of this temple also some small intrusions of basaltic trap form little hills 

 associated with white sandstones, which, apparently from contact, have 

 assumed for some distance a perfectly columnar, pentagonal, or hexagonal 

 structure. 



One or two strongly marked escarpments of the white and ferru- 

 ginous upper Jurassic rocks extend from the parade- 

 Outcrops. 



ground westward, crossing the Mandavee road, 



their beds passing at low angles into the portion of the plain to the 

 south. They are ci'ossed by ' reefs' as usual, and on the hill over the 

 Butts, these and oblique lamination unite to produce utter confusion of 

 the stratification in one ]Aa,ce, while alternations of thinner and more 

 ferruginous beds beneath are strongly contrasted by reason of their re- 

 gularity close beneath and along the scarp. 



North-west of the city a small basin surrounded by sandstone 



hills, on one of which is a conspicuous white temple, 

 North-west of city. _ 



is occupied by ordinary gray and basaltic trap, 

 some of the red variety with white amygdala, and a rubbly sub- 

 trappean looking deposit largely composed of trap with numerous grains 

 of white quartz and some enclosed masses of lumpy basalt. 



The lower country to the north of Bhooj is at first flat and sandy, 



but rising slightly becomes rocky and occupied 



North of Bhooj. t -i n- f n n 



by wide rolling exposures oi naggy lerrugmous 



sandstone, red and yellow, hard and shaly beds, and some bands of 



hard fine, bluish gray, silicious grit. All these dip to the east by 



south, have a more prevailing red colour than the upper Jurassic 



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