DAMUDA series: BARAKARS. 11 



quite natural. The cong-lomerates at the base of the Barakars form a 

 slight elevation at this spot, and are seen in the river west of Angwalee. 

 The dips of the beds are exeeeding-ly high, being as much as 70° and 80°, 

 but notwithstanding this fact, there is no proof of their having been 

 shifted. This knowledge is important, and its application will be very- 

 useful in explaining some of the complications regarding the boundary 

 further to the west. 



From Angw£ilee to Chulkurree we find no fault excepting a cross 

 one, which brings up metamorphics in the Damoodah. Between Chul- 

 kurree and Khetko a boundary fault occurs close to the former 

 village ; it has a few feet of Barakars to the south of it. In the 

 neighbourhood of Khetko considerable disturbance has taken place, 

 and the displacement of the rocks is very apparent. 



Prom this point the fault extends to the western extremity of the 

 field, without being thrown (as far as I could make out) by any cross 

 ones. It skirts along the boundary, keeping inside the coal measures, as 

 far as the Dhurdurwa River. From thence it forms the actual boundary, 

 but south of Teelaya it once more enters sedimentary rocks, and keeps 

 within them, until eventually it passes exclusively into metamorphics. 



The occurrence of this southern fault, as I have described it, might 

 be doubted, if only a cursory examination of the field were made. 

 For instance, any one striking across the boundary near Khetko, and 

 meeting the pebble beds would in all likelihood at once infer that 

 no fault existed, the bottom beds of the Barakars being seen to rest 

 naturally upon the gneiss. No displacement, it is true, has taken place 

 along the outer edge of the field, and the discovery of a natural border 

 would probably suggest a doubt as to the occurrence of any fault in the 

 immediate neighbourhood. Nearly due north of Lalpunneea and west- 

 wards from there, no mistake can be made as to the character of the 

 boundary. The upper beds of the Lower Panchets are found abutting 



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