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Section III. — Chambal Mountain^ East. 



There are two Chambal mountains, one west of Jutana and the other 



,^, , , ,, . . north of Jalalpur. This latter mountain presents 

 "Chambal Mountain, ^ ^ 



East. much peculiarity as to structure. In its vicinity- 



great fractures occur, and it appears to be itself a result of extreme and 



„ ,. .,. „ complicated dislocation, the ordinary anticlinal and 



Feculiar position or ^ ' j 



strata and dislocation. synclinal disturbance being interrupted by faults. 



The disturbance of Mount Tilla is great ; its dislocation and con- 

 tortion, however, appear natural and intelligible, but having crossed 

 the Tilla fault, the strike of the strata, their inclinations, and 

 positions are discontinuous and discordant, the later tertiary beds 

 striking so as to run against the earliest rock of the series, the red salt 

 marl ; and the only remnants of symmetry left being in the dips 

 of these newer beds, those of the two mountains tending to form 

 opposite sides of a broken synclinal valley, in which rest the broad 

 quicksands of the Bunhar river. 



One spot where extreme results of dislocation can be seen is the 



lowest and last, the Pind-Sevika gorge of the 

 Pind-Sevika gorge. 



Bunhar river; on the Tilla side of this are the 



undulating, nearly horizontal, but depressed, older beds of the whole 



series, with a little of the salt-marl at their very base (from whence 



brine-springs issue) ; while on the Chambal side the purple sandstones, 



Silurian zone, and magnesian sandstone incline at an angle of 45° to 



the north-east, being apparently checked by a fault ; the red zone and 



overlying beds of the upper tertiary series dip in the same direction 



at 50°, 60°, and 70°, in such a way that their strike, if prolonged, 



must abut against the older rocks of Tilla. 



Again to the north of Jalalpur the whole series is reduced to the 



similitude of a gigantic breccia, in each frag- 

 North, of Jalalpur. n i • i • 



ment of which several groups are included, the 



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