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Chapter 5. — Metamorphic Series. 



The area occupied by the various forms of inetamoi*phic rocks, com- 

 prising granite, syenite, gneiss, homblend-schist. 

 Tracts occupied by 

 crystalline rocks. quartzite and other crystalline formations, is con- 



siderable, and consists mainly of three large detached tracts : 1, around 

 Baitoolj 2, west of Hurda, Nimawur and Hindia; 3, west of Bagh, 

 comprising a considerable portion of AUeerajpoor and Chota Oodipoor. 

 Besides these principal tracts, small outliers are exposed in several 

 places. 



Each of the three areas, as laid down upon the map, is but a por- 



„ , , ^ ,. tion of a more extensive region occupied by the 



Each tract a portion ° r j 



of a more extensive area, crystalline rocks. From near Baitool they extend 

 far to the eastward beyond Chindwara ; the exposure near Hurda is 

 but a portion of the great spread of metamorphics underlying the 

 alluvium of the Nerbudda valley, while the surface of the country is 

 continuously occupied in great measure by these beds from near Bagh to 

 beyond Aboo and Neemuch, a very large portion of Kajpootana being 

 covered by them. 



It is evident that, as the tracts comprised in the districts to which 



. ,. this Memoir refers are merely portions, and small 



Minute description un- 

 necessary, portions, of extensive areas of the same forma- 

 tions, all general descriptions of the rocks included may best be deferred 

 until those areas have been examined. The examination, moreover, of 

 the ciystalline rocks on the map now published was of the most cursory 

 description, the principal object being merely to determine the absence 

 of other formations. It is only necessary now to point out the peculi- 

 arities of the small portions which have been surveyed. For this pur- 

 pose each tract requires a few remarks in detail. 



1. Baitool metamorphic tract. 



To the south this is bounded by the traps a few miles from 

 Baitool; to the north it is covered on its edges by the Talchir 



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