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In the north-westj about Nandod, a broad alluvial tract occurs along 

 Alluvial plain near *^® Nerbudda. This is everywhere fertile and 

 cultivated. The ground^ except in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of the river,, is undulating, as is usually the case on the 

 older alluvium, and only close to the Nerbudda is there a flat of com- 

 paratively recent deposits. 



Along the range of hills south-west of Nandod (the continuation 



of the Peeplode and Rajpeepla range to the westward), the traps appear to 



be somewhat irregular in dip. The extreme north-west corner is at 



Sursho hill, east of Ruttunpoor. The beds of this 



Sttrsho hill. i -n i i 



hill have been greatly tilted up, like the nummu- 



litics close by to the west, and they dip to the north-west at 60°. The 

 rocks are pecuHar, one being a conglomeritic breccia, containing angular 

 and subangular masses of sandstone and conglomerate. This is similar 

 to the beds seen south of Kawat. Beneath the breecia is a pecuhar fine 

 grained amygdaloid, so fine and amorphous as almost to resemble a pitch- 

 stone. Other beds appear to consist of volcanic ash. 



Some distance south of this and east of Padwani is a hill composed 

 Trachytic rock near °^ ^ ^'^^^ coloured, nearly white rock, containing 

 Padwam. quartz and felspar, and singularly trachytic in 



character. It contains fragments (probably crystals, but much decomposed) 

 of an orange felspathic mineral, about ^ inch in length. This rock has 

 a more trachytic appearance than any other met with amongst the traps 

 of these districts : it forms an isolated mass, only extending about a mile 

 from east to west, and about half as much from north to south. It may 

 be a volcanic nucleus, exposed by denudation. Its extreme extent to the 

 west is not seen, as it is covered in that direction by the nummulitics. 



Throughout the northern portion of the Rajpeepla country, there has 



been found a general southern dip of the traps. 



South of a line drawn through Jubboogam and 



Sakhbara this is changed, and the dip is either north or west. The 



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