."id ^y. Br.AXFORi)^ avestern indta. [Part I. 



Several inliers of metamorphic rocks associated with Bijawars and 

 cretaceous sandstones are met with east of Bagh. They are surrounded 

 on all sides by trap. 



3. Alleerajpoor and Chota Oodipoor tract. 



This is a far more extensive and important region than the other 

 two. 



About Bagh the trap^ which to the east covers the surface of the 

 Nerbudda valley^ has been cut away by denudation, and the underlying 

 metamorphic rocks come to the surface. Along the Nerbudda itself 

 and its immediate neighbourhood the traps still continue to the west- 

 wardj but owing to their southerly dip, the metamorphics crop out 

 from beneath them a few miles north of the river : the south boundary 

 of the metamorphics running nearly east and west for 70 or 80 miles. 

 It then turns slightly south, and soon after is lost beneath the alluvium 

 of Guzerat, east of Baroda. 



To the north-west only a few outliers of trap are met with, the 



Extension to the north- Country being believed to be mainly composed of 



^^^* ■ metamorphic rocks; it has, however, not yet been 



surveyed, and almost all that is known of it is to be gathered from the 



papers of Dangerfield, Eraser, and one or two other observers. 



The metamorphic rocks of this region have a different general folia- 

 tion-strike from that observed further east. It 

 Direction of foliation. . • i i i 



IS extremely constant throughout a considerable 



tract as usual. Except to the west and near the southern boundary in 

 places, it rarely varies much from north-west to south-east, its extreme 

 limits being usually east-south-east and south-south-east to west- 

 north-west and north-north-west, and it is constantly nearly vertical. 

 In very large tracts the rock is so excessively granitoid that no foliation 

 Passage from gi-anitic ^^n be seen, but occasionally in the midst of a 

 into gneissic rock. j^-^y^ granitoid tract a well foliated bed of 



limestone or hornblendic rock may be detected. This occasional 

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