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probably obscured by dislocation as well as contortion of the beds in 

 this locality. 



The main portioa of the Jooria Hills is formed of grey shales and 

 hard, pale-lavender grits or flags, with numerous 



Shales and limestones. „ ... . 



beds of silicious and earthy, compact, pale-grey or 

 dun-colored limestone. At some depth in these, and forming the higher 

 portion of the hills, are several beds of golden oolite, which takes its 

 brilliant metallic color from the calcareous grains being thinly coated 

 with an oxide of iron. Many of the beds are fossiliferous, — to a slighter 

 extent, however, than the overlying zone, surrounding and forming outer 

 portions of the hills, — the fossils being of the usual kinds found in the 

 lower part of the formation. 



Taking the average angles of dip and the distance from the central 

 portions of the quaquaversal arrangement of the 



Thickness. . „ . ., 



rocks, the thickness of the beds forming these hills 

 is estimated at £,000 feet, to which must be added largely for the great 

 series of beds coming in to the south forming Wurrar Hill, and extend- 

 ing with southerly low dips the whole way to the fault at the northern 

 foot of the Charwar range. 



The thickness of the whole Jurassic series from the Jooria Hills 

 southward to the Charwar and Katrol fault, is probably quite as great as 

 that to the east of Bhooj ; for though the rocks of these hills have not 

 so large a calculated depth as that of the lower rocks near Lodye, the 

 space occupied by the transition and upper beds is much broader. The 

 extent of ground where the rocks undulate nearly horizontally makes 

 it difficult to estimate closely their vertical depth, and the impossibility 

 of ascertaining the amount of displacement caused by faults adds much 

 to the uncertainty of the results. 



Taking everything into consideration, the total thickness may be 

 taken at from five to six thousand feet. 



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