152 W. BLANFORDj WESTERN INDIA. [PaRT II. 



matrix. This rock can only be traced for a few yards in the stream ; it 



is evidently deposited in a hollow in the metamorphic rocks, which form 



the banks. It is quite unlike any of the cretaceous beds, and has a much 



older appearance, yet as no other sedimentary rocks appear in the 



neighbourhood, it is difficult to conceive to what other series it can 



beloug". It is compact and resembles sorne of the Talchir beds. No 



fossils could be found in it. 



A little further west, about Unthee, there is a small exposure of 



,, , , , sandstone, but it is very thin. South-east of 



Cretaceous beds near • ' •' 



'^^'^^^^- Unthee, where these beds die out (near Kunas 



trap rests directly on Bijawurs), they consist of a very calcareous con- 

 glomerate, abounding in irregular angular masses of quartz, and so 

 strongly resembling some of the quartzo-calcareous rocks of the 

 Bijawurs that they can only be distinguished by the pebbles of red 

 jasper and other minerals derived from those beds which they contain. 

 Immediately south of this is the tract of Bijawur rocks already 

 Bijawurs of Jobut and referred to as existing between Jobut and Kunas, 

 ■^^^^* and which may be described here. It is of rather 



irregular form, approaching a triangle with rounded angles. The 

 boundaries are not so distinct as are those of the Bagh patch, but 

 here also they appear to be in great measure faults. The map upon 

 which the lines are laid down is not very accurate in detail, and the 

 boundaries of the formation are possibly straighter in reality than they 

 are represented, at the same time some of the curves in the junction 

 near Jobut have much the appearance of belonging to a natural 

 boundary. 



The chief characteristic of this tract of Bijawurs is the prevalence 



of red jaspideous rock, less brecciated than it gener- 

 Bed jaspideous rock. ,. . . 



ally IS. It IS a ferruginous jasper with fine irregu- 

 lar veins of white silica, more or less amorphous, and occasionally resemb- 

 ling Chalcedony or hornstone ; it covers the surface nearly from Kunas 

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