SANDSTONE SERIES. 19 



The rocks in the quarries at Kamthi have the same dip as near 

 Silewada^ and appear to he on a continuation of the same heds. It is 

 therefore unnecessary to describe them in any detail. 



The quarry whence Mr. Hislop obtained most of his fossils is a little 

 to the east of the high road from Nagpur to Jabalpiir. The fossiliferous 

 blocks which he looked upon as boulders derived from a lower bed appeared 

 to me to be the remnants of a band of sandstone very similar in character 

 to that (No. 11) containing Glossopteris at Silewada, but^ as is frequently 



Large blocks or se- ^^^ ^^^^ ^^°^^ *° *^® surface, a large portion of 

 parate portions of bed. ^i^^ t^^^ j^^s decomposed, and the remainder ap- 

 pears in the form of irregular rounded blocks loose in the soil. That 

 these are in their original position, and that they form parts of one bed, 

 is evident from their arrangement along one line, and from the planes 

 of bedding in all being parallel. The forms of fossil plants are more 

 numerous than at Silew£da. Pecopteris and other forms occur besides 

 Glossopteris. 



No other exposure of Kamthi rocks has been detected in this 

 neighbourhood to the south or south-east within 



Chorkherf: Kutkheri. ^ 



the limits of the Nagpur district, but within the 

 trap area west and north-west from Nagpur there are three inhers* of 

 the same beds. Two of these, one being very small, are near the 

 villages of Chorkheri and Kutkheri, 12 miles west of Kelod, the third 

 is near the town of Bazargaon, 20 miles west of Nagpur. 



The Chorkheri inlier is about four miles in diameter from north- 

 west to south-east, and nearly thi-ee miles broad 

 Chorkheri. , • i 



at right angles to the above. Except at the 



north-west corner, where some infratrappean limestone occurs, the only 

 beds met with are Kamthi, the most common being the usual coarse 



* These are all mentioned and briefly described by Mr. Hislop— Q. J. G. S., vol. xi 

 pp. 352-353. 



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