200 W. BLANFOUDj WESTERN INDIA. [PaUT II. 



carbonate of lime. Some of the nummulitic Leds^ however^ crop out 

 here and there. 



At Wagulkhore there is an interesting" section. At the base is a 

 thick bed of laterite ; next comes yellow clay, upon 

 which rests a bed of pipe clay dug out by the 

 natives, and said to be used to clean cotton thread before dyeing. The 

 next rocks in ascending order are sands, passing upwards into limestone, 

 both ferruginous, and the latter abounding in nummulites. Gasteropoda 

 and other fossils. Above these is a band of sandstone, and then laterite 

 again, containing in places pebbles. The matrix containing the pebbles 

 has a strong resemblance to decomposed trap. 



The peculiar interest of this section, apart from the numerous 



„ ,. ^ . . j> fossils, is the distinct evidence it affords of the 



SedimeDtary origin oi ' 



laterite. sedimentary origin of the laterite. In one place 



the fossiliferous stratum is scarcely distinguishable from laterite.^ 

 The beds near Wagulkhore dip to the north-west at 10°. A little 



further down the stream, a laterite bed again occurs 

 BMlod. 



at Bhilod, just north-east of which clays and fer- 

 ruginous sandstones are seen dipping at about 50° to west-1 0°-north. 

 Thence to Limbat very little rock is seen. At Limbat agate conglomerate 



with argillaceous sandy beds crops out. It is 

 Limbat and Heerapoor. 



nearly horizontal in the stream, but on the north 



bank, a bed is seen turned up at a high angle, and dipping at 50° 

 to south-35°-east. There may be faulting -, there is certainly a line of 

 disturbance, which may be traced for some distance to the north-east. 

 Some large oysters occur here. The stream runs along the strike of the 

 rocks (north-east south-west) from Limbat to Heerapoor, where soft sand- 

 stones, containing hard round concretionary masses and conglomerates, 



* Yet the laterite so closely resembles decomposed trap that I at first sight supposed 

 the beds of it to be decomposed lava flows interstratified with the nummulitic rocks. It 

 may very probably consist of detritus derived from the trap. 



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