SEC. 10.] NORTH-WESTEUN KUTCH. "SS.T 



Further down the same stream a clifF section exposes some nearly 

 „ .... , ,, vertical beds with the usual Nnmmulites of the 



Nummulitic and other 



tertiary beds. nummulitic rocks, overlying red and variegated 



clays which are in places gypseous, and a promontory jutting out into the 

 Runn is formed of greenish, yellow, sandy and more compact earthy ter- 

 tiary beds with intervening shales. These beds contain Plicatula, Fenus, 

 Cardium and other tertiary fossils. They are, however, much concealed 

 by sub-recent concrete. 



To the south-westward some rising ground is occupied by coarse 



, T ■ 1. J red or white sandstones nearly surrounded by 



? Jurassic beds near -' •' 



Lnkput, shales, and having undulating westerly and other 



dips at angles up to 25°. These sandstones from their great similarity 

 to the Jurassic rocks, in the absence of any evidence to prove them 

 newer, are supposed mainly to belong to that formation and have been 

 . coloured as such on the map. 



In some gypseous reddish shales projecting from the south over a 

 Fossils in beds over- POi'tioD of t^iis ground, there are thin ferruginous 

 lying them. highly fossiliferous layers containing fragmentary 



oysters, Corhula, quantities of small bivalve casts, a Valuta, 8fc., the 

 casts being chiefly internal or not in good preservation, so that they 

 could only be indefinitely supposed of perhaps eocene age. 



The occurrence of some rocks of cretaceous age here, with or over- 

 „ , . . lying the uppermost portion of the Kutch iu- 



Kocks upper jurassie .' = rx r j 



or cretaceous. rassics however obscurely, would have consider- 



able interest. The upper beds in the neighbourhood of Goonaree con- 

 taining ashy bands, and the calcareous layer with Belemnites and shell 

 fragments, differ in these particulars from the ordinary occurrence of 

 sandstones, &c., similar to those accompanying these bands, but contain- 

 ing, as a rule, only terrestrial plant remains in other places. No better 

 evidence of unconformity occurs than the single case mentioned (p. 234), 



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