174 W. BLANFOHDj WESTERN INDIA. [PaRT II. 



metamorphic rocks, besides quartzite and red jasper. This conglomerate, 



in fact, precisely resembles that of the Dhar forest. 



It is probable that the traps between Wasna and Nuswadee rests 



upon beds low in the cretaceous series, the upper members having- either 



been denuded, or having- never been deposited. In the Men river, near 



Kukoowasan, the upper fossiliferous beds come in 

 Near Kukoowasan. 



below the trap, and the tract of sandstone south-east 



of the Men appears to consist principally of these beds, but they are rarely 

 exposed at the surface, there being generally a thick alluvial covering. 

 At Kukoowasan, in the bed of the Men, the uppermost twenty feet 

 below the trap consist of alternations of nodular limestone with white 

 earthy and rubbly beds, also calcareous. These beds abound in fossils 

 which are, however, much crushed and ill-preserved. Oysters predominate, 

 a few Gasteropoda, not in sufficiently good state of preservation to be 

 identified, and a plate of a Cidaris were also found. 



Below the limestone comes fine purplish grit, and then massive 

 sandstone and conglomerate. All these beds appear to dip nearly 

 conformably beneath the trap at about 10° to south-30°-east. A 

 bend above Kukoowasan again takes the course of the river for a short 

 distance out of the traps, and exposes the same upper beds of the 

 cretaceous series. 



Between the Aswun near Uggur and the Men river all the rocks 

 are concealed by alluvium. In the Men, at Ulun or Ulwun, bluish 

 purple shales with numerous small irregular calcareous nodules and coarse 

 soft sandstones are seen dipping at about 15° to the south-east. About 

 South of the Men near 100 yards further south, on the road leading to 

 ^^^- Gundeshwar, coarse thick massive sandstones occufj 



almost horizontal. Besting upon these are flaggy calcareous beds, asso- 

 ciated with yellow shales, about 50 or 60 feet thick, and abounding with 

 oysters of at least two different forms, one somewhat triangular, the other 

 long and oval. In the shales are fragments of plants and marks re- 

 sembling the tracks of small Crustacea. 

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