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and higher than the trap hill. All these are additional instances of the 

 denudation of the cretaceous beds before the trap period. (Kg. 12) . 



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Fig. 12. Sketcli section of traps, cretaceous and metamorpbic beds near Goorsul : a, 



trap : h, cretaceous beds : c, metamorpbics. 



Between the cretaceous and metamorphic beds on the Maan river 



and those next exposed to the west on the tribu- 

 Eocks on Ooree river. 



taries of the Ooree stream, there is an interval of 



about 4 miles, occupied by trap as usual. About the Ooree river, there 

 is still a considerable development of the coralline limestone, and fossils 

 are still by no means scarce. The manner in which the rocks occur 

 is precisely as to the east, the cretaceous beds forming an intervening 

 stratum, of small thickness, between the traps and the metamorpbics. 

 South-east of Bulwaree between that village and Mohunpoor there 

 Red beds near Bui- ^^ ^ high level tract of Salee {Boswellia timrifera) 

 ^^^™®' forest, formed of a peculiar red rock, calcareous, 



but having frequently a breceiated appearance, being traversed by a 

 net-work of fine quartz veins. It often consists of laminse of red and 

 white limestone. It has somewhat the appearance, near Mohunpoor, 

 of passing into the ordinary Bagh beds, but this is far from clearly seen. 

 In another place, it appears to rest upon trap, and to pass into a crys- 

 talline trappean looking rock, but upon this observation also no great 

 reliance can be placed. It is by no means clear whether this bed 

 should be classed with the Bagh beds or with the traps. It may be 

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