192 W. BLANPOKD^ WESTERN INDIA. [PaRT II. 



last is especially the case to tlie south-west^ and is well exliibited in the 



Taptee_, below Mandvee. This is the commencement of a steady west- 



wardly dip of the traps which continues to the southward, till beyond 



Bombay. 



In the southern portion of the Hajpeepla hills there are only one 



or two places which need notice. One of these is at Ooskur south-east 



„, 1 , ^ of Turkesurj where the bed occurs, to which re- 



Shaly rock near Oos- ' 



^"^- ference has already been made in the chapter upon 



the tertiary beds, when describing* the evidence of unconformity between 

 the nummulitics and the traps. This bed is of very shaly character, at 

 times assuming" almost a porcelanic structure. It is lilac grey in colour, 

 and contains minute felspar crystals. It exhibits distinct and fine strati- 

 fication, much disturbed however, and possibly due to that peculiar 

 agency which causes lines of pseudo-stratification to be so distinctly 

 developed in some beds of basaltic trap. Beds similar to this shaly rock 

 of Ooskur are met with largely in and about Powagurh hill. (See 

 Section 12). 



The section exhibited by the river Tap tee, between Chiklee and 



Bhodan (near which the nummulitics appear,) 

 Section in Taptee river. i • p n • , • 



deserves a briei description. 



Below Chiklee the Taptee runs in a deep channel cut through the 

 older alluvial deposits, conglomerate and silt capped by regur ; conglome- 

 rate being less prevalent than in other sections. Trap appears here and 

 there in the bed of the river and dips to the north. All the ground ad- 

 joining the river is alluvial, being the western extremity of the alluvial 

 plain of Khandeish. 



A large quantity of conglomerate is seen in the small stream which 

 runs past Jharwan into the Taptee. It is seen resting on trap, and is in 

 places 20 to 30 feet thick. It is very hard, and is composed of rounded 

 and subangular fragments of trap and agate, similar to those in the 

 stream bed, cemented by carbonate of lime. 



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