aOa WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF KUTCH. [PART II. 



have been deposited here, but it seems more likely that they are brought 

 in by a great and possibly very complex line of faulting passing along 

 the margin of the liunn from the eastern end of the Lodye and 

 Joorun range the whole way to Lukput. 



The hills south and south-west of Jooria are formed by one of the 

 South and south-west ^^^^ and west arches on the anticlinal line which 

 ° °°^^'^' ti-averses the whole northern side of this part of 



Kutch. Conforming to the decline of the axis or spring of the arch, 

 the beds fold round each end of the hills, being as it were pressed 

 inwards just to the south of Joorun ; the structure of the hillsj but 

 for this feature, much resembling that of the western portion of 

 the Lodye and Joorun range lying to the south of east. The rocks 

 are, however, somewhat different, calcareous beds being much more 

 frequent here. 



The uppermost of the highly fossiliferous series met with north of 

 Dhosa, after curving round the eastern extension 



Plant heds. ^ 



of the hills and appearing in the low ground there, 

 is again met with on the northern flanks of these hills passing beneath 

 some purple and red sandstones highly contorted and letting in, south of 

 Jooria village, close to the tertiary band a small basin of white sandy 

 beds, having greatly the appearance of the upper group and containing 

 the remains of fern-like plants, ramifying through the rock in such a 

 manner that only imperfect portions of their forms are exposed by frac- 

 ture. (These fossils present a striking resemblance to some found in the 

 upper jura rocks near Nunnao hill, ante p. 197.) 



Associated with these plant-bearing rocks in a very indefinite way, 

 and forming a narrowband along the base of the few tertiary beds seen, 

 are some of the red ferruginous and white earthy rocks, characteristic 

 of the subnummulitic group, the mode of their occurrence being- 



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