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The uppermost bed of the group is an olive and purple mottled 

 earthy laterite, with more splintery fracture than usual and the well- 

 known brown glazed surface. 



- The beds dip at about 10° in a southerly direction on the west side 

 of the stream here, but to the east the laterites undulate at low angles 

 over the equally undulating surface of the traps, widening out in 

 consequence until the neighbourhood of Syree is reached. 



Here at the conspicuous peak called Chendamatha, the laterite is 



30 to 40 feet thick and has a pseudo-conglo- 

 Syree. 



meritic form, many of the apparent pebbles being 



concretions, and it has some markings like woody plant fragments. This 

 laterite rests on amygdaloidal soft trap without the usual white unctuous 

 rock intervening, but at one place to the south-east there is instead 

 beneath the laterite a harder yellow argillaceous band veined with 

 strings of hsematite, and near this some more variegated earthy alumin- 

 ous rock occurs also below the laterite, which is crossed by large nodular 

 veins of the same. 



In the river south-westward of the village, white eonglomeritic 

 gravelly coarse sandstones with white clay patches and some bands of 

 red conglomerate occur, very similar to the rocks near Ruttria or in the 

 Mhurr valley, and not at all unlike some of the Jurassic beds. These 

 rocks are seen to follow an anticlinal curve with a steep dip to the north 

 and less inclination to the south, the centre of which is occupied by a 

 brownish purple band of shale 50 feet in thickness, crowded with 

 matted impressions of exogenous leaves generally of small size and 

 lanceolate form. As usual, the shale is very friable and the fossils 

 difficult to preserve. 



The white sandstones become variegated with purple and greenish- 

 gray at top, and are overlaid by massive laterite. The river section 

 ceases at this for a space, and the rusty olive shales of the tertiary rocks 

 are next seen in the neighbourhood of Chota Badye. 



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