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122 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF KUTCH. [PART 11. 



Southward of Adeysur, tlie same varieties occur, and in a mound 

 of gypseous clay and shale, associated with the 

 lateritic and white beds, three miles east of 

 Paraswa or (Palauswa), a quantity of fossil wood was found, one fine log 

 measuring 3 feet 9 inches in length. The position of these clays is 

 rather uncertain. On the right bank of the Paraswa stream, west of the 

 village, the following section in the lateritic bed was noted : — 



Dip N. 30°; W. 20°. 



f 4. — Ferruginoas and white chalky beds with lateritic hands ... 



Sttb- J 3. — Deep red lateritic heds, the upper part most highly ferru- 



NUMMULITIC. 1 o-inous 



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L 2. — Mnddy light colored and shaly clays 



( 1. — Highly ferruginous dark purple sandstones rapidly de- 



JUEASSIC ) composing, variously colored, saline, handed nodular 



(. and haematitio ... ... ... ... ... 20 



About a quarter of a mile further down the stream a different 



set of rocks occurs resting unconformably upon the denuded surface of 



the Jurassic beds and dipping gently to the south-west. They consist 



of hard calcareous, overlying finely laminated, sandstone spangled by 



minute micaceous specks, with which are some reddish clays. In one 



place the section is — 



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 C Hard calcareous sandstone ... ... ... ... 30 



Teetiaey ... -J Softer gravelly conglomerate ... ... ... ... 3 6 



(. Pale clays not well seen. 



In the upper beds, a band, 13 to 14 inches thick, just above the 

 conglomerate, is full of very perfect casts, both external and internal, of 

 a spu-al shell, apparently a species of Cerithium, the easts bearing the 

 impressions of nodes or blunt spines on the outer sides of the whorls. 

 In the conglomerate are pebbles of ferruginous lateritic rock, fragments 

 of ferruginous clay, and sandstone polished lateritic gravel, all embedded 

 in a fine gray sandy cement. The conglomerate thins out, and the fossil 

 bed disappears altogether, the whole patch having a very limited extent. 



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