244 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF KUTCH. [PAUT II. 



Near Panundrow village the ground is much covered by detrital 

 deposits. The fact that erratics from the trap hills 



South of and near ., j_i i i /-i i i 



Panundrow. ^^'^ numerous among these apparently led Colonel 



Grant to suppose that the bedded traps reached 

 nearer to Baboa hill than they really do. In the river south of the village 

 the basaltic traps appear in force, forming its high banks, and still further 

 south a detached basin of the sub-nummulitic rocks occurs, the beds 

 where plainly seen having sufficiently high angles to carry them above 

 the neighbouring trap hills. At one place within five yards the follow- 

 ing succession was observed : — 



3. — Ferruginous red Ijreccia interstratlfied with soft layers of white, smooth, earthy 



rock and containing nodular patches of the same. 

 2. — Blue, soft, ashy-looking gypseous hand with amygdaloidal aspect, — ? volcanic. 

 1. — Splintery amygdaloidal trap. 



Some of the lateritic breccia here has a peculiar appearance^ passing 

 horizontally from a red to a greenish trappean-looking rock. It has 

 greenish specks and a blotched concretionary structure, which on wea- 

 thering gives the appearance of a conglomerate, containing large 

 pebble-like blotches of white aluminous rock, and some of a compact 

 dove-coloured calcareous earthy variety, this bed underlying brick red 

 laterite. Some yellow, earthy, decomposed beds also seen beneath this 

 laterite contain trap concretions of similar character, but smaller size 

 than those already mentioned as found to the north-east of this place. 



Between this outlying patch and the low ground to the north-west, 



a rugged hollow on the outside edge of the trap 



nundrow.^^^ ° ^' ^^^^^ presents a most peculiar variety of brilliant 



colouring ; earthy laterites, and ferruginous breccia 



once continuous, being crossed by miniature valleys exposing the soft, 



purple, and white unctuous beds beneath, the whole under the influence 



of the weather assuming warm orange, red, black, bright blue, and 



pink tints strongly contrasted with the natural colours of the rocks, 



where seen unacted upon by the atmosphere. 



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