SEC. 9.] 



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Section 9. — Country West of DhenoduBj including that near 



NUBRHA, MaLKA, and THE HaTHRIA Es^ARPMENT. 



From Dhenodur in a north-westerly direction the ground is greatly 



N th t f Dh - hrokenj consisting of alternations of flaggy, shaly 



^"'■- and sandstone beds, occasionally traversed by trap 



dykeSj the shales often forming mounds strewed over by the remains of an 



overlying flaggy band, and the harder beds cropping out as usual; the 



whole undulating horizontally rather than assuming a general dip. 



Plant fragments, Jogee Near Jogee Arul, an escarpment in the upper 



portion of these transition beds commences to 



show itself, just above which are some blue shales associated with strong, 



white, red, saline and blue sandstone^ weathering brown. In the shalc; after 



an hour^s search, a few leaflets of plants, showing some of the venation, 



were found indicating an approach to the upper plant-bearing beds, 



such as were met with on Dhenodur hill. The escarpment is but 



slightly marked for some distance to the north-west, but further on 



shows more strongly south of the Keera hill, and extends as a bold 



and lofty demarcation for many miles between the internal sandy plain 



to the south and much lower ground to the north. 

 Escarpment. 



formed almost entirely of shales, with small 



ferruginous nodules which thickly cover the surface. 



A large outlier of the stratified traps occurs in this open plain 



Outlier of the strati- between the villages of Koombree and Oogulree, 



rap , ogu lee. j^ ^^^ portion of which a few horizontal beds of 



ferruginous and shaly sandstone had strongly the appearance of being 



interstratified between one of its soft, decomposed lower flows and more 



compact basaltic trap above. 



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