DAMUDA SERIES: BARAKARS. 



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Brought forward 



7. Coal 



8. Coaly shale 



9. Coal 



10. Stony shale 



11. Coal 



12. Stony shale 



13. Shale with streaks of coal 



14. Coal 



15. Stony shale 



16. Coal 



17. Brown earthy Coal... 



18. Coaly shale 



19. Coal 



20. Shale 



21. Coal (inferior) 



22. Shale 



23. Coal 



24. Stony shale 



25. Coal 



26. Stony shale 



27. Coaly shale 



28. Stony shale 



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2 



10 



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 5 

 2 

 1 

 

 3 

 9 

 4 



5j 

 4 

 8 

 6 



This portion might perhaps be 

 woi-ked profitably. The total 

 thickness is six feet two in- 

 ches, of which five feet one inch 

 are Coal. 



20 8 



Trap Dyke. 



Plants. 



The remainder is much covered up, but appears to be of the 

 same changeable character. The section was measured on the down- 

 throw side of a small slip which traverses the 

 seam. Close to this is the only trap dyke which 

 occurs in the field ; it is of very similar character to those found in the 

 Raniganj field. 



Some very fine plant stems {calamites) occur in the neighbouring 

 sandstones ; one measured five feet in length and 

 was four inches broad. Before proceeding to speak 

 of the geology further to the west it will be well to allude to the sections 

 in the rivers which meet the Damoodah within that portion which we 

 have just described. 



In the Hurdgudha river, east of the village of Gopo, two crushed 

 seams are seen j the coal is of inferior quality. A 

 little further down at the mouth of a small tribu- 

 tary there is a coal-seam about 12 feet thick^ dip 8° S. W. 



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