214 WYNNE: GEOLOGY OF KUTCII. [P ART 11. 



They dip to the north by west at low angles up to 20", evidently the 

 continuation of the similar northerly dip on this side of the Manjal 

 hills, and at one spot the dark shales, showing a thickness of 35 feet, 

 have thin layers containing some poor but recognizable impressions of 

 Palceozamice and Pecopteris or Aletliopteris. 



Close to this place a two-foot band of concretionary trap, somewhat 

 shaly above and below, lies between the flaggy shales and some sand- 

 stones below them ; notwithstanding its position, it is probably part of 

 a local intrusion. 



Some of the strong sandstones overlying the shales close to the 

 west side of the village contain obscure casts of large bivalve shells, and 

 one Belemnite, though badly preserved, was detected in them. Thus, 

 within a short distance, shales containing terrestrial plants were found 

 interstratified between the marine beds of the Manjal hills and a newer 

 band also containing marine fossils. A few hun- 

 dred yards to the west-south-west along the strike, 

 this section is crossed by a strong intrusion of basaltic trap, sending 

 out dykes in several directions from Jogibit hill between and across the 

 beds, and apparently linking the trap of the Manjal hills with the larger 

 intrusion to the westward. It is unlikely that the fracture occupied by 

 the trap here was not accompanied by dislocation to some amount, but 

 this may not have been very great. 



Just to the westward of the trap in thin, flaggy, and shaly pink and 

 variegated beds, dipping slightly to the northwards, like those containing 

 the Zamim, are small Nuculce, Pecfen-like shells, and TngonicB, which, if 

 displacement did not occur, would occupy a place very near the horizon 

 of the Zamici layers. 



These marine beds underlie olive, gray, greenish, purple, sandy and 

 flao"gy beds, with some black altered shales on the small hill called 



Jogibit. 



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