SEC. 2.] EUNN-ISLAND RANGE PROM PUTCHUM TO CHORAR. Ill 



salt. The general arrangement of tlie rocks is quite the same as in 

 Kurreer and Putchumj except that the general strike is deflected south- 

 wards at its eastern end, giving to the hills east of Bela town some- 

 what of an axial elongation in a north and south direction. The 

 anticlinal axis, of which the range here forms the southern side, 

 becomes so much depressed north-east of the town that a synclinal is 

 formed across it, and a deep open gap occupied by alluvium inter- 

 sects the range. 



In the neighbourhood of Lodranee at the west end of the island, 

 the sub-nummulitic rocks rest upon the lower 



Lodranee. 



Jurassic beds with the appearance of complete 

 conformity usual at their junction along the range. The following 

 section was observed to the eastward of the village : — 



Dip south, 5°. 

 f5 Strong red laterite ... ... •■• ~\ 



ci_„ „„,„,„,T„,„ 4 Sandy black variety of ditto ... ... on f„„j. 



StTB-NTJMMULITIC ... J J ■! L 30 feet. 



I 3 White clayey bed, in places sandy, with a hard i 



1^ quartzose layer ... ... ... J 



' 2 Very soft ferruginous and other sandstone, some- I 

 times conglomeritic or gravelly and loose 



JUEASSIC ... ■{ ]^ gofi; crumbling sandstone, variegated red and (■ 10 f^et. 



white, with wood and plant fragments and a 



1_ Corbula ... ... ... ... J 



Flaggy, shaly and thick brown sandstone, some gypsum in the shales. 



In this section it is difficult to fix a lower boundary for the 

 lateritic series, as the beds under the white clayey stratum have a strong 

 resemblance to some more intimately associated with the upper group 

 in other places. The white rock, however, probably marks the lower 

 limit as elsewhere. 



Coming out from beneath the beds of the above section, northwards, 



are coarse nearly horizontal thick sandstones overlying harder and closer 



yellow calcareous rocks containing numerous fossils ; lying usually in 



somewhat reddish partings. They are chiefly bivalves with some 



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