178 W. BLANPORD^ WESTERN INDIA. [PaRT II. 



containing felspar and chlorite^ and resembling basaltic trap in external 



appearance. Some hornblendic greenstones also occur. 



South of the belt of hills near Kudwal, and around Jumbooghora, 



nearly all the surface is composed of granite, passing occasionally into 



granitoid gneiss. North-west and west of this plain, the hills of Narookot, 



,, ^ , , , Dandiapoora, &c., consist of the quartzite and 



Is ear Jumbooghora and !.■>■' 



Narookot. conglomerate of the Champaneer group. South-west 



of Jumbooghora the rocks, although somewhat similar in composition, 



are more highly metamorphosed, the bedding in places, as near Peepia, 



being obliterated. In Massabar hill near Peepia, a spur running to the 



east consists of very quartzose gneiss, containing large rounded masses 



„ , , . , of quartz and other rocks. It is evidently a meta- 



Metamorpmc conglome- -^ "^ 



rate in Massabar hill. morphosed conglomerate, and a rock of precisely 



similar constitution, though unaltered, abounds in the Champaneer beds. 



Some good exposures of the Champaneer beds are seen on the road 

 from Jumbooghora to Soorajpoor. The range of hills north of the road, 

 at the extremity of which is Narookot, is formed 

 of a fine granular quartzite-sandstone, vertical or 

 dipping at a very high angle to the southward. Similar rocks form the 

 hiUs to the north near Dandiapoora, &c., and indeed the latter have much 

 the appearance of being composed of the same great bed, which rolls over 

 to the north of the Narookot range and then appears to turn up again. 



South of Narookot granite and gneiss occur in the valley, and in 

 the hUls to the south, but at Anandpoor slates and conglomerates 

 come in, vertical or dipping south, and apparently resting upon the quart- 

 zites of the Narookot range. They are probably faulted against the 

 gneiss. The slates are in places well cleaved and fine grained, and 

 might afi'ord good roofing slate. 



Conglomerates form a ridge of hills south of the road as far as the 



village of Jhubban; there they twist round, con- 

 Bocks near Jhubban. , . i j • 

 formably to the underlying quartzite, and dip 



west. Upon them, south of Anandpoor, a series of quartzites rests, ha^ang 



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