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rocks is difficult to tell, seeing that the group as above is unknown else- 

 where, but a similarity of one of the beds to a rock found further up 

 in the series leads to the supposition that some of the higher Jurassic beds 

 have been let down here hj complicated faulting. The fracture which 

 cuts off these rocks to the west would seem also to have brought the 

 coaly shales above noticed into juxtaposition with lower beds. 



In the strike of the faulted rocks of the above section, to the east, 

 „ , ,., o is a small hill of rugged ferruginous sandstone, 



Reed or grass-like tos- t>& & ' 



sil plant. underlaid by blackish brown shales. At the base 



of this hill a small vesicular ferruginous deposit with quartz grains, 

 very obscurely related to any of the surrounding rocks, contains tubular 

 and striated casts of a Calamite-Yik& plant, very fragile, but in good 

 preservation. They are quite the same as the fossils mentioned as 

 occurring to the north of Kaira old fort. 



Around the faulted patch the rocks dip at low angles again to the 

 west and south-west, consisting generally of coarse sandstones, shales, 

 and ferruginous beds, traversed by many ''ramps^ and slips. 



To the west at a little distance, a soft purple highly ferruginous bed, 

 although associated with rocks of upper Jurassic aspect, contains obscure 

 casts of a small Astarte, an oyster, some Trigonice, like T. gibbosa, and 

 another species very like T. venlricosa* Kraus, from South Africa, the 

 same as that occurring at Oomia. Some coarse beds here also contain 

 fragments of fossil wood. 



Still further west is a strong, but very rugged and broken escarp- 



Esearpment near base "^""^ ^O^'^^^d of yellow sandstone, 50 feet thick, with 



of sub-nummulitics. ^ band of ferruginous bole associated with a thick 



* One of the fossils found about two miles west-soath-west of Goonaree, Trigonia 

 mntrxcosa, Kraus, or very closely aUied to it, according to Dr. Stoliczka, possesses interest, 

 a similar form of Trigonia having been hitherto met with only in cretaceous beds in South 

 India and in rocks which are said to be Jurassic in South Africa. It occurs here with 

 some other TrigonicB, &c., in beds apparently conformable to the rest of the upper Jurassic 

 rocks of the locality. 



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