230 •WYNNE : GEOLOGY OP KUTCH. [PART II. 



but they have peculiarities not elsewhere observed, and their arrangement 

 is obscured by the occurrence of faults, which, owing to a general 

 similarity of the beds, are difficult to trace, except where these are 

 brought into highly disturbed contact with the nummulitic rocks. 



In a stream-course south-west of the village and at a short distance 

 from it, thick light-coloured sandstones and dark gray shales dip to 

 the westward at angles up to 30°. These shales contain several faintly 

 marked indefinite stars of many radiating lines, but whether of organic 

 structure or not was undeterminable. One fragment of a Zamia was 

 found in the shales, and not far from the spot the same beds more nearly 

 horizontal contain a coaly layer, composed of thin bright seams in a 

 carbonaceous shale 2 feet thick. The appearance of the rocks here 

 much resembled that of the Trombow coal locality. 



Further up the stream there is a sudden change in the dip of the 

 sandstones and shales from south-west at very low angles to 40°, 55°, 

 and 60° in the same direction, accompanied by a fracture along the 

 strike of the more highly tilted beds bearing east 15° south. This high 

 dip extends for a few yards across the strike of some bed's differing from 

 those in the neighbourhood, cut off to the east and west, and in fact 

 surrounded by faults. The section of the group thus let in is as 

 follows : — 



Natural order. 



6. — Green ashy trappeau beds ... 



5. — Rotten green ash 



4. — Ashy shales 



3. — Decomposed green ash 



2. — Ferruginous bed, red speckled with green (? ash) with 



sub-angular quartz grains, and fragments of wood 3 

 1. — Dark-green, friable, ashy looking rock with quartz 



grains. Entire thickness not seen. 



The only fossils found were the woody fragments, and something 

 resembling part of a shell in the bed No. 6. The proper place of these 

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