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The Lameta beds are considered by Mr. J. G. Medlicott as probably 

 replacing the Mahadevas to the eastward. To the westward the last 

 representatives of the great Mahadeva sandstones and conglomerates of 

 the Puchmurry hills occur at LokurtuUai, south of Hoshungabad, on 

 the Morun River, where between 100 and 200 feet of coarse conglomerate, 

 resting upon sandstone, is seen intervening between the traps and 

 the Damudas. These conglomerates are remarkably similar in appearance 

 both to those just mentioned as occurring below the trap in the neighbour- 

 hood of the Taptee, south-west of Baitool, and also to the rocks already 

 mentioned, which are believed to represent the Bagh beds in the Dhar 

 forest. 



To return to these latter : The Bagh beds proper are concealed by 



trap, as already mentioned, south-west of Mandoo. 



Bagh beds near Burwai. „, , t. . „ . , < i f> j 



Close to Burwai a lew irregular patches oi sand- 

 stone and conglomerate and occasionally of limestone occur. In the latter, 

 in one place, fragmentary marine shells were met with, one of which 

 appeared to be a portion of an ammonite, a second a rTiyneonella. These 

 calcareous beds certainly belong to the Bagh group, and there appears 

 very little doubt but that the sandstone and conglomerate is also 

 identical with that of Bagh which it resembles in mineral character. 



The sandstones and conglomerates are traced for some distance 

 along the northern boundary of the Dhar forest. To the south they 

 are less prevalent, but representatives of them occur about 2 miles west 



of Poonassa and just north of Bhorla. They are 

 Near Poonassa. 



conglomerates precisely similar to those north-east 



of Burwai, and also closely resembling those of Lokurtullai on the Morun. 

 In the neighbourhood west of the village of Bhorla and apparently over- 

 lying the conglomerate nodular and massive grey limestone with chert 

 and containing fragmentary shells, is met with. At Bhorla tank is some 

 hardened porcelain clay. The relations of these beds to each other is 

 somewhat obscure, the ground being much covered by alluvium. There 



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