248 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF Kt'TCH. [PAUT II. 



In the stream valleys below tlie village of Barinda, the soft 

 Barinda, sub-nummu- many-colorsd beds of the lateritic or sub-num- 

 htic, &c. mulitic group appear as usual much decomposed 



and exhibit little or no regularity. A lateritic bed at one spot close 

 to the base of the group bears some similarity to the ferruginous trap 

 last mentioned. West of the village soft decomposed trap occupies 

 low ground overlooked by a scarped rugged outcrop of strong laterite, 

 dipping to the west-south-west. 



The stratified traps of this neighbourhood form large dome-shaped 

 hills overrun with splintery debris. In some of the trap ravines east 

 of the village much sub-recent white calcareous concrete occurs. Its 

 structure here being unusually oolitic. Many of the minute spherical 

 grains are hollow, but nothing organic could be detected among them 

 even under a microscope. 



Westward of the rocky lateritic outcrop already mentioned the 

 overlying gypseous shales can be traced, and the slight escarpment of 

 the nummulitic beds here dies out, and the country which they form 

 presents large, white, barren, open, undulations. Their dip is generally 

 to the south-west at very low angles, and their lowest stratum is as 

 usual characterized by the occurrence of a thick species of Nummulite 

 (N. perforata) among other fossils. 



(Koond district). 



A conspicuous flat-topped hill called Gade Putar, p' nt 100 feet 



in height, rising to the west of Khoodec (deserted), 

 Gade Putar coral mass. • , <. n p t 



consists or a rugged mass oi limestone, compact 



below, while its upper portion is almost entirely composed of coral and 



hio-hly crystalline. This, although just beyond the nummulitic zone, 



may possibly be the remains of an old reef originating at the same 



period as the band of corals which marks its upper boundary. 



Soft and barder dark and light yellow thick bedded sandstones with 

 fi ner muddy sandstones occupy the country south of this hill. In a deep 



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