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5. Thin, brownish, red, ferniglnous nodular sandy bed. 



4. Brown ferruginous sand. 



3. Here a 50 feet cliff, chiefly of greenish variegated shales. The 

 upper 10 feet, a gravelly conglomerate of irregular thickness, 

 deposited on an uneven surface, under which is yellowish and red 

 dai-k slantingly oblique bedded sandy shale and clay, the lowest 

 band being sandy ; 20 feet seen ... ... . , , 50 



2. Another yellow, calcareous, marly bed full of small Auomia ? 



1. Brown strong sandstone with fragments of bone. 



The beds 2, 6, and 9 are all very similar, and the irregularity of those 

 with which they are associated suggested the possibility of their being 

 the same, but it is quite as possible that they may be three different 

 beds ; the shells in No. 2 were smaller than in the others. The clay 

 or shale bands in this country seem to be more than usually thick, and 

 some hard bands about the coral zone No. 6 form an indefinite escarp- 

 ment extending to the eastward. 



Flaggy sandstones and soft concretionary shales, with calcareous 



bands containing pectens, oysters, and other broken 

 Woostea. 



shells, lower in the series than the above, form 



small detached flat topped hills in the neighbourhood of Woostea 



and Goa. 



In the channel of the Zeyrah river near Trummo, Eampoor, and 



Wursur some of the most highly fossiliferous beds 

 Trummo. 



of the group occur. They consist of thick gray 



shaly clays alternating with several bands of rough, yellow, marly lime- 

 stone. The matrix of the latter disintegrating rapidly leaves the 

 fossils in high relief, and in a fine state of preservation on the surfaces 

 of exposed slabs. Many of the shales are also equally fossiliferous. ,0f 

 the fossils collected hereabouts, 14 genera were Gasiro^ods and 17 Bivalves, 

 together with Crabs, Balani, Serpula, Corals, Bryozoa, BcJdnoderms , 

 and fish teeth. Amongst them are Xenophora cumulans, Solarium afflne, 

 Cerithium rude, Rele^ora, Cupiilaria, Oliva pupa, Venus granosa, Nucula 

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