J 00 W. BLANFOUD, WESTEKN INDIA. [PaRT II- 



interstratified with the traps: As all the ground in the neighbourhood 



is covered with cotton-soil, the relations of the beds are very obscure. 



About a miles east of Mirzapoor^ coarse gritty sandstone is first 



met with. At Mirzapoor 30 or 40 feet of con- 

 Near Mirzapoor. 



glomerate^ of a dark colour, is seen restmg upon 



the granite, and covered by trap, which alters the uppermost part into 



a quartzite. In the Kanyar, a little above Mirzapoor, at Mowripoora, 



coarse quartzose and fine argillaceous sandstones occur, the former white, 



the latter purplish and mottled, false-bedded, but apparently dipping at a 



low angle to the south. These beds are very soft. Some low hills higher 



up the stream are of the same sandstone capped and hardened by trap. 



West of Mirzapoor, the conglomerates and sandstones cover a 

 considerable space along the base of the hills. The pebbles in the con- 

 glomerate are mostly of quartzite, some, but not the majority, being of 

 the typical Vindhyan colour. Jasper also occurs in considerable quanti- 

 ties ; the beds have much the appearance of Mahadevas. 



These rocks are traced to Katkot. They may not perhaps be continuous 



as represented on the map, but they are certainly 

 Xear Katkot. 



very nearly so. Around Katkot they spread over a 



large area, and are met with for four or five miles to the east of the 

 village. Very little rock is exposed, but, in the few sections which 

 occur, soft sandstone or conglomerate is seen, except near the village 

 itself, where some yellowish earthy limestone occurs. South of the 

 village, in some nullahs, fine, soft, brownish, red and cinereous sandstone 

 is seen, somewhat resembling some of the finer sandstones of the Damuda 

 rocks. Clays also occur, mottled or purplish, as in the infra-trappean 

 rocks to the west of Baitool. Near Katkot these clays contain fragment- 

 ary carbonaceous markings. All the beds are horizontal, so, probably, 

 no great thickness exists. 



There can be little doubt in assigning these rocks to the cretaceous 

 series, so much more largely developed further to the west. 

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