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the agate conglomerate may very possibly rest unconformably upon 



it. 



The laterite underneath is better traced. This is the Nowgama bed 



mentioned above. South of Nowgama it is ill seen for some distance, 



but afterwards is seen stretching across past Turkesur nearly as far as the 



Taptee. 



The next bed in descending order, the lower band of nummnlitic 

 limestone, is well seen on the road from Turkesur south-east 

 to Moonjhlao. It abounds in Foraminifera. A flat nummulite 

 (N. exponens ?J is very abundant, as is aho' Orbitoides epki-ppium, Sow. , 

 and Orbitolites Mantelli. Nummulites obtusus, Sow., or some closely 

 aUied species, also occurs. 



Beneath this is a band, probably of some thickness, of agate gravel 

 and conglomerate. No section of it is seen ; its presence being indicated 

 solely by rounded and unrounded agate pebbles at the surface, mixed with 

 masses of chert. This bed occupies a hollow almost throughout the 

 whole distance from the Keem to the Taptee. With the gravel there 

 appear to be occasionally intercalated ferruginous sandstone and yellow 

 sandy limestone. Agates are occasionally collected from this bed for 

 the Cambay lapidaries. 



The lowest bed is a thick massive band of laterite. This com- 

 mences abruptly on the north side of Nerolee 

 village, no trace of it being found further to the 

 north, and it forms a low ridge of hills running north and south. 

 This bed is suddenly thrown about | mile south of Nerolee, by a 

 fault apparently with an east and west direction, and having a downthrow 

 to the north. The ridge is thrown for a considerable distance, perhaps 

 half a mile to the west, but continues on the south side of the fault 

 past the village of Moonjhlao, where there is a slight break, and thence 

 to the Taptee, about half way between the villages of Bhodan and 

 Gulla. 



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