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Section 3. — Wagur, E. Kutch. 

 The strata of Wagur have at a glance a sort of circular or oval 

 arrangement, their dips carrying them at all points beneath the alluvial 

 plains and low ground or Runn which, whether broad or narrow, every- 

 where forms the margin of this parganna. 



The outward beds in many spots are detached representatives of 

 the sub-nummulitic group with its constant late- 



Sub-nummulitic. 



rites, gypseous shales, and white earthy rock. In 

 one or two places outlying patches of these beds occur, and the small 

 representatives of them edging parts of the shore on the Bela side are 

 crowded with agates weathered out, and lying thickly spread over the 

 surface. The -underlying white beds are absent here. 



It has been already observed that in the extreme west portion of 

 the district, much difficulty was found in separating these sub-nummulitic 

 rocks from the jurassies. Here at the opposite end of the province the 

 same difficulty recurs, particularly where red ferruginous or gypseous 

 Jurassic beds underlie, with every appearance of conformity, rocks which 

 from their strikingly characteristic aspect, have been unhesitatingly placed 

 in the higher group. 



In one place at the western side of the Wagur tract, west of 



Kuntkote, these lateritie beds are brought against 

 Fault west of Kuntkote. . . f. i i i • i i 



the jurassics by a fault along which the upper 



rocks have frequently a deep brownish red colour and a texture identical 

 with that of ordinary quartzite except for the occurrence of some 

 grains of quartz in the highly silicious matrix. Similar silicious beds 

 occur in several parts of the district both in these and among the Juras- 

 sic rocks. Their origin is obscure, but their metamorphie nature is more 

 than probable, seeing that they are in numerous cases more or less closely 

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