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Northwards from this the irregularly branching eastern termination 



of the great intrusion of West Kuteh runs among 

 Eastern termination of 

 the great intrusion of the hiUs in the neighbourhood of that called 

 West Kutcb. . . . 1 , , 



Thassa, sometimes forming a considerable portion 



of their bulk and supporting caps of whitened altered sandstonCj or 



occupying hollows between them. 



To the north-west of Nurrhaj the eastern slopes of these hills are 

 formed of coarse, gravelly, and fine light-coloured sandstones, flags, and 

 dark-gray shales, dipping to the south-east at 15° and 20°, so as to form a 

 synclinal curve with the beds near the village and in the river. They were 

 not observed to have any fossils ; but crossing the northern spurs of these 

 hills, a small patch of dark-colored shales, with flaggy bands strongly 

 ripple-marked, being almost surrounded by the intrusive traps, contained 

 Falmozamim again in better preservation than those found at Nurrha. 



From the position of these shales it is not possible to fix their 



horizon more nearly than by saying that they 

 Zamia bearing sbales . . 



north-west of Nurrba. appear to belong to the adjacent lower jurassic 



beds. 



The trap of the vicinity is coarsely crystalline, and the lower Jurassic 

 beds present several varieties of gray silicious grits, weathering of a 

 bluish color, red and greenish, sandy and flaggy beds, brown, pink and 

 whitish sandstones, with some dark shales having ferruginous nodules. 



In order to illustrate better the positions of the Zamia bearing beds 

 abovementioned, the following sketch section, taken about north-west 

 through both localities, is subjoined. 



Fig. 17.— Sketch aectiou across the marine aad iutcrstratified plaat beds of Nurrlia. 



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