42 M^ BLANFORD, WESTERN INDIA. [PaRT I. 



pebbles are very numerous, and as they are dissolved away on the surface 

 by exposure to the weather, the hollows which contained them remain 

 empty, and give a peculiar vesicular appearance to the rock. Some of the 

 limestones of the pebbles contain silicious laminae as in the limestones of 

 the Bijawurs, but the rock in this case is more crystalline. It rather 

 resembles the limestone in the metamorphies east of Kanas. The cleavage, 

 which is characteristic of the Champaneer beds throughout, is frequently 

 apparent in these pebbles, though it is but rarely distinguishable in the 

 sandy matrix ; none of the pebbles are typically Bijawur. 



At one place near Anandpoor the matrix of the conglomerate 

 appeared to be a perfect breccia, a mixture of angu- 



Breccia conglomerate j^j. fragments of black slaty silicious rock and 

 near Anandpoor. ° "^ 



coarse sandstone, both containing pebbles. This was 



near the junction of the conglomerate with slaty beds, the latter apparently 



the newer. The rocks appeared to have been much crushed ; they look as 



if angular fragments of slate had become mixed with sandstone, and then 



all reeonsolidated. The granite and quartzite pebbles, however, exhibit 



no signs of any violence. 



Very little can be ascertained of the sequence of the beds. The 



slates, limestones and quartzites of Soorajpoor 

 Sequence of beds. 



are evidently high in the series; they appear 



to rest upon the conglomerates of Jhubban and these again upon the 

 quartzites of Narookot and Dandiapoora. Judging from the extent 

 of alteration too, the Soorajpoor beds are high in the group. But no base 

 is seen, unless the quartzites of the southern patch rest upon granite 

 about Manikpoor. These quartzites much resemble those of Naroo- 

 kot, &c. 



Reference has already been made to the apparent passage of 



Biiawurs into metamorphies : in the case of the 



Passage into meta- '' ^ 



morphics. Champaneer beds the appearances are much 



stronger, especially along the southern boundary ; so much so indeed 

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