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occurs, with cleavage striking- west-20°-north. The range running 



south-east from Sidhul is also of quartzite, 

 Sidhul. ... 



which, near this, dips every way from the granite 



of Manikpoor, upon which it appears to rest. The last mentioned 



small ridge of hills runs for some distance out into the alluvium of the 



Baroda plain. To the south of the ridge, on the road from Manikpoor 



to Maro, schistose slate occurs, followed by a white quartzite-breccia in a 



reddish-brown or dull brick-red matrix, silicious 

 Beds near Maro. ■' 



and sandy, not jaspideous ; this rock much 

 resembles some of the Bijawur breccias. 



It is far from clear that these rocks belong to the Champaneer beds ; 

 scarcely anything being seen, except quartzite. Still the probability 

 is in favor of their affinities being with those rocks. 



A small patch of cretaceous beds is seen in the Deo river near 

 Cretaceous beds near ^oowada j alluvium then comes in, but further 

 Moowada. down at Viarra some trap is seen. 



No trap is met with west of the metamorphics and Champaneer 

 ^ ^.„ beds to the north of Viarra until the base of 



Fowagurh hill. 



Powagurh hill is reached : this immense isolated 



mass of trap forms a most striking feature in the landscape for many miles 



around. It is a huge terraced block, rising very steeply to a height of 



- above 2,000 feet, and shews the enormous denudation which has affected 



the region since the trap period, for Powagurh must have been connected 



by beds as thick as it is high, or nearly so, with the equally massive beds 



of the Rajpeepla hills. It is not easy to understand how the whole large 



intervening tract can have been cleared of trap without marine denudation, 



and Powagurh may possibly have been an island at one time. A very shght 



change in the relative levels of sea and land would suffice to render it so again. 



The traps of Powagurh, unlike those to the south-east, are perfectly 



Peculiar traps of ^oi'izontal, and a large portion of them possess 



Powagurh. ^ ^g^y. peculiar mineral character. The number 



of terraces on the hill side is far greater than usual ; there are 20 in a 



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