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130 WYNNE ; GEOLOGY OP KUTCH. [PART II. 



The following succession was observed here : — 



General dip to toest- 

 f 9. — Perrnginous and lateritio teds, 



18. — Soft white and sandy ditto. 

 7. — Thin flags and shales. 



6. — Orange red and brownish sandstones, 50 feet. 

 5. — Thin red flaggy sandstones. 



4. — Pale yellow beds, thicker and more smooth, slightly calcareous, soft 

 SUB-NUMMtTLl- j yellow clay and shale layers ; these contain TrigonirB. 



3. — Red and yellow coarse and fine calcareous beds, full of large 

 Astarte major, Sfc, Trigonia Smeei, OervilUa and some fossil 

 wood. 



12.— Coarse red sandstone. 

 1. — Yellow, shaly, and rugged sandstones (beds of Iddurghur scarp 

 I apparently). 



In a red ferruginous conglomerate resting upon a bed of red bole 

 and underlying a thin band of the concretionary 



Reptilian bones. -, -, ,- , ■,^ , ■, ,. 



rock tigured at p. 115, (all three overlying those 

 marked 3 and 4 above, but at some distance from that locality,) part of 

 a large crocodilian bone, 8 inches in length, with a few other fragments 

 near it, were obtained. These and the part of a skull from beyond 

 Burrooria already mentioned are almost the only reptilian remains that 

 have been met with in the Jurassic beds of Kutch, 



From the highly fossiliferous beds of the Iddur- 



Below Iddurghur. . . ^^ . 



ghur escarpment downwards the succession is this — 



5.— A thin, red, sandy band with traces of Ammonites and Ostrea Marshii. 



4. — Hard calcareous grits full of small sub-angular pebbles of quartz, in parts 



quite gravelly. 

 3. — Ragged, earthy, and fiine yellow and gray calcareous gritty beds. 



Fossils here become numerous, and include Gervillia, Astarte, GryphcBa, and 



2. — Strong light coloured sandstones and flaggy purple and brown sandstones, 

 some of which contain numerous straight striated plant fragments. 



1. — Slightly calcareous whitish sandstones and gnarled ferruginous beds, with 

 gravelly and sandy layers full of shell fragments. 



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