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Westward of Viehia, in the more open ground about Budlee, numer- 

 ous small hills are either traversed by trap dykes 

 Budlee. in- • i i ■ 



or formed of intrusive trap and white columnar 



sandstone.* The remainder of this country is occupied by the lower 

 beds of the upper group, generally undulating at low angles and some- 

 times traversed by faults, which but slightly affect the general hori- 

 zontality of the rocks, although sometimes accompanied by sharp local 

 contortion. 



North-west of the ground just now described the country is 

 crossed by a great intrusion of coarsely crys- 



Trap intrusion. ^^■ ^ i -i i i . , . .„ 



tallme dolerite, rendered magnetic by titaniferous 

 iron ; traversing both the upper and lower Jurassic groups. Its felspar 

 sometimes crystallizes separately, giving it a syenitic appearance. 

 Ramifying in an irregular manner, it crosses the stratification of the 

 adjacent rocks through most of its course, but at its south-western 

 end seems to die out between the beds there crossed by an east-north-east 

 fault. It forms a hilly range, sometimes standiug by itself, sometimes 

 flanked by portions of the containing rocks, but always conspicuous as a 

 ridge, with summits occasionally reaching a height of 400 feet or 

 rather more. 



The hill of Darmia between this and Dhenodur is covered by 

 intrusive trap, and a branching dyke occurs near it on the north-west. 



The rocks of this part of the country, colored as lower Jurassic, 

 partake more of the character of the transition or middle portion 

 of the group, a long depression of the Jooria anticlinal axis here allowing 

 the upper beds and those immediately below them to extend across 

 nearly the whole country to the borders of the Runn. 



* In some of these hills, particularly those near Budlee, the sandstones appear to have 

 heen altered to an extreme extent, being partially blended with the traps, in a manner very 

 similar to that of the re-melted block of syenitic granite enclosed in the traps at Mundlaisir 

 in the Nerbudda valley. — See Mem. Geol. Surv., India, VI. p. 291. 



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