DAMUDA SERIES : BARAK ARS, 35 



43. A thin bed of Coal and carbonaceous shale very imperfectly seen. 



44. Compact quartzose saudstones, 70 yards horizontal. 



This sandstone is not well seen, and indeed, after No. 42, the sec- 

 tion is very imperfectly exposed. 



The boundary is not more than 300 yards north of the last-mentioned 



sandstone. 



The next section occurs in the river close to Puchmo, which joins 

 the Bhagalatta before that stream unites with the Chootooa. 



The lowest strata are, as in the Bhagalatta, pebble beds. The 

 section is by no means perfect, and the immense amount of juno-le^ 

 surrounding- prevents the possibility of determining the exact position of 

 a seam or other bed, which one might feel anxious to do. Two outcrops 

 of coal occur north of the road from Puchmo to Monda. Sotith of the 

 road coarse sandstones show, and then another seam of coal measuring 

 eight feet. This crops out along the banks of the nullah which courses 

 here parallel to the strike of the seam. A change in direction of dip 

 is observable from that which holds near Dhunneeya, and in the 

 Bhagalatta, being south-west or south-south-west. 



Higher in the series than the eight feet seam, is a bed of coal one 

 foot two inches thick. Sixteen feet above this there is a three feet seam. 



South of this nothing shows in the stream excepting some pieces 

 of trap whose source is hid. Near the mouth of the river the strata are 

 inclined at high angles, and four seams occur, which are also exposed 

 in the Chootooa. 



The following is the section in descending order, as the river flows 

 northwards : — 



Ft. In. 



1. Coaly shale. Dip 60° S. W, ... ... .,. ,^^ 4 



2. Ribboned black and white sandstone ... ,.'. .*.' 8 6 



3. Carbonaceous shale .., ,,. ..' '"' s 



4. Coal ... ... ... ' "_' ''' 2 ^Q 



5. Fine grained micaceous slightly felspathic siliceous sandstone, thick- 



bedded ... ... . ^g Q 



6. Variegated black and white sandstone !." ^.. |". 10 n 



7. Coaly shale ... ... _ ^_^ '" , „ 



8. Arenaceous and carbonaceous shale ... ... ]] 38 



9. Sandstone, highly micaceous and felspathic ... '" 40 n 

 10. Coa^ (good) S. S. W. 70° ... ... ... ;;; 2 



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