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stones with hard compact flaggy beds. Under these is a strong four or 

 five-foot band of rough calcareous conglomerate with shell fragments, 

 polished ferruginous casts of a small crab, Typilohus granulosus, and 

 Turritella, sharks' teeth, and palatal teeth of other fish. 



The next bed below is a rubbly calcareous zone, crowded with 

 branching, asteroid, and other corals, overlying another thick set of soft 

 yellow sandstones. 



The variegated sandy group intervening between these and the 



nummulitic rocks appears in the neighbourhood 

 North of Saheind hill. „ „, ,, 



of Wallusera, forming uneven ground at a higher 



level than the plains to the east, or the nummulitic ground to the north. 



Sandy beds containing leaves continue to the north-north-east, with 

 open undulating stratification, their sinuous lower boundary passing near 

 the villages of Gooaylah and Joonagea. At this line the nummulitic 

 beds disappear, not being found in the country to the east, the manner 

 in which they terminate north of Joonagea being complicated by faults 

 and disturbances of the ground and further obscured by thick detrital 

 deposits. 



Kear both of these villages along the boundary of the nummulitic 

 rocks a similar bed to that numbered 2 in the last (Waieor) section 

 occurs here, containing, however, small Nummulites in abundance. 



Just below this bed, west of Joonagea, Alveolina are very numerous 

 in a soft yellow sandstone resting on the white 

 nummulitic beds, in one of which a number of 

 vertebral and rib bones of Mammalia were found \ymg together, but in 

 an imperfect state. 



Not far from this near some hilly ground to the north-west, these 

 nummulitic beds are seen to rest immediately upon strong pseudo- 

 brecciated laterite without the intervention of the gypseous shales found 

 a few miles further off in the neighbourhood of Wag-ka-puddur. 



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