84 HUGHES: WARDHA VALLEY COAL-FIELD. 



pur and Pdrsa, on the left bank of the river, dip- 



Wardlia River. r ' _ . 



ping at a low angle in an easterly direction, but 

 they are better exposed on the other side near Enkatpiir. Combining the 

 sections visible on both banks of the river, the following are the rocks : 

 fine-grained sandy beds, light-grey with streaks and blotches of red, 

 occasional large particles of felspar scattered through the- mass; beds 

 coarser than the former, somewhat pisolitic, considerably argillaceous j 

 greenish grey fine-grained silicio-argillaceous sandstones slightly 

 calcareous, with green clay-galls. Above these beds, and jutting some way 

 into the river a little below Enkatpiir, is a compact grey sandstone that at 

 some distance off looks like a Barakar rock, but on breaking it, green and 

 red clay galls are found in it. These clay galls are very decisive indices. 

 A peculiar sandstone that occurs is a frosty -looking bed, preparing, as it 

 were to effloresce. Color, greyish white. 



The red and green clays are not so prominent at Enkatpur as lower 

 down the Wardha near Sakmtfr, and inland from that village in the 

 Bapur nala. A fair though disconnected section of the group is seen 

 in that river. There is no definite dip, and this remark applies to a 

 large extent of area over which the Kota-Maleri series is developed. 



Ked and green clays in separate beds and intermixed in lenticular 



„ , , patches in the same bed, sandstones with a 



B&pur nala. 



granular texture greyish green or greenish grey 

 in color, with small dashes of red clay, and white unctuous sand- 

 stones, are the most conspicuous rocks to the eye in the Bapur nala. 



The endeavour to trace these beds into contact with the Kamthis of 

 the Dabha hills (Halgoba, Tomta, Chaki, &c.) was defeated by the fact 

 that barren ground always intervened between the two series. 



I may here remark that of all the coal-basins which it has been 



my fortune to survey, in none have my anticipations been so often 



dashed as in this one. Just when one-half mile, and sometimes 

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