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is obscured by a thick detrital deposit of similar character to that 

 last mentioned. Some yellowish earthy sandstones are, however, occa- 

 sionally seen, and numerous corals scattered over the fields on the east 

 side of the latter village indicate the upper boundary of the nummulite 

 group. 



Just at the village of Peepur, soft, sandy, and earthy beds with a 



few harder calcareous bands are traversed by a 

 South-east of Peepur. 



strong ' reef similar to those occurring in the 



Jurassic rocks, but much less frequently seen in the tertiary formation. 



To the south it crosses some fine calcareous and shelly sandstone, probably 



lower in the series than the fossiliferous beds under Peepur temple, 



the outcrop forming a small escarpment traceable eastwards to the 



neighbourhood of Bayr. 



Some sandy hillocks rest upon the southern slopes of this escarp- 

 ment, beyond which rocky ground exposes mottled 

 marly clays overlaid by hard calcareous conglo- 

 meratic and flaggy beds containing only a few JSalani, oysters, and shell 

 fragments; these pass upwards into yellow, calcareous, rough, raggy 

 marls containing UcMnoderms, Foraminifera and Bryozoa similar to those 

 found at Peepur and Nariensir, also Echinantkus profundus, a Pecten, sp. 

 and other fossils. 



A deep ravine with vertical sides 60 to 70 feet in height here 

 opens to the sea, exposing only the detrital deposits previously 

 mentioned, portions of which assume a concrete structure and occa- 

 sionally contain large Ostrea lingua of very recent appearance. Beyond 

 this ravine, in the low ground bordering the coast, a calcareous 

 rago-y bed containing Tarriiella, Cardium and Area {?) is overlaid by 

 60 feet of gypseous clays, to which succeed some highly fossiliferous 

 beds containing easts of Foluta, Solarium, Turritella, Cyprea, Ceri- 

 thium, Natica, Venus, Cardium, Stromlus nodosus, XenopJwra mmulans, 



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