300. WYNNE: GEOLOGY OF KTJTCH. [PAET II 



Section 8. — The Countey North-West of Bhooj and further West, 



INCLUDING THE JoORIAj WuRRAR, AND ViCHIA HiLLS. 



The steep escarpment which rises gradually from the low country 



west of Bhooj and edged by rugged cliffs overlooks the valley of the 



Kara river north-north-west of the city, is formed of a series of 



ferruginous, red and purple sandstones, alternating many times with grey 



shales in which plant fragments may be found and numerous curving 



narrow worm (?) tracks with a central line, on the surfaces of flaggy beds. 



All are overlaid by strong, white and red sandstones forming the edge of 



the escarpment. Near where the road from Bhooj 

 Dhosa road. 



to Dhosa crosses these hills, a spur formed of the 



more shaly beds below stretches out northward, and the escarpment turns 



sharply to the south of west, edging the valley to the south of Wurrar 



Hill, and is crossed by a long dyke of dark-grey trap, checked and crossed 



by another close to the village of Dhosa. Small veins of the red variety 



of trap accompany these dykes near the village. 



In this neighbourhood purple craggy sandstones, with few shale beds, 

 overspread the country, harder bands forming such abrupt rectangular 

 hills as that called ' Palkiari', supposed to resemble a palanquin in shape. 

 Some reddish and pale purple beds have red hard nodules, and certain 

 white shaly bands with ferruginous partings, south of Wurrar and east 

 of Dhosa, indicate that the rocks around the village underlie the thick 

 shale zone which forms the heap-shaped hills in the latter direction and 

 probably caused the precipitous forms of the scarp to the south and 

 also that of the massive flat-topped hill of Wurrar. 



In the open valley between Dhosa and the Jooria Hills, nearly hori- 

 zontal olive and brownish grits and shales contain 

 Nortli of Dhosa. 



some of the first indications of the more highly 



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