MEMOIRS 
OF THE 
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 
On the Kapapan and KARNÜL Formations iz the MADRAS PRESIDENCY, 
by Wurm Kine (Junior), B. &., Geological Survey of India. 
PART I. 
CHAPTER l.— INTRODUCTION. 
This report is descriptive of a series of rocks in Southern India, 
which has hitherto been known by such names 
as the <“ Diamond Formation”, <“ Clay Slate 
Formation”, &e.,* and which, it is almost certain, has its representatives 
Object of Memoir. 
in the more central and northern parts of our Indian empire. 
In Southern India, the series is most largely and typically developed 
Roke of Copel in the Districts of Cuddapah and Kurnool, and as 
(He TRON Deoa the old nomenclature has been found, on investiga- 
tion of the rocks, to be entirely unsuitable, the names of these districts 
have been adopted as distinctive of the two formations under which the 
different groups of rocks can be classed. 
* * Diamond Sandstone and Limestone" of Captain Newbold; “Old Red Sandstone" 
of Dr. A. T. Christie; **Clay Slate Formation" of Voysey. 
Memoirs, Geological Survey of India, vol. VIII, Art. 1. 
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