60 KING: KADAPAH AND KARNÜL FORMATIONS. [PART 1I. 
the east, or to a narrow flat terrace on the other sides, and there is always 
a vertical scarp varying from a few feet to the extreme of nearly one 
hundred feet of the Paneum quartzites. To the west and north the 
plateau heads up to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea in Ramwarum- 
conda and the Booryal scarps. Both the pinnacled beds and the under- 
lying quartzite sands, grits, and pebble beds are exhibited in the capping 
of this plateau; as also the tendency of each member, or at any rate of 
the lower one, to thin out towards the confines. of the group. Towards the 
middle of the plateau, on the eastern edge, the lower sandstones thicken 
very distinctly, while they show very thinly along the scarps under 
the great buttressed beds. The pinnacled beds are quite denuded from 
the southern edge of the plateau and over the flat basm in which the 
village is built, as also from all the caps of the outlying flat-topped hills. 
It is curious how such thick and hard beds of the pinnacled 
۷ quartzites have been in some places, on and about 
weathering of Paneums. this plateau, so perfectly denuded back from the 
scarp of the lower beds, often for a mile or so, showing on their part a 
second scarp bounding the terrace of lower beds, buttressed and pinnacled 
in the same way as the usual outer scarp of the white beds. The 
following sketch section of part of the Oopalpád plateau will show this 
terrace and scarp, as in the hills immediately north-north-west of 
Owk, a village just below and on the east side of the plateau. 
Fig. 6. Sectional outline of part of Oopalpád plat eau, &e. 
Here the inner searp is from 10 to 15 feet in height, though this does not 
represent the thickness which the pinnacled beds originally had at this 
point. The pinnacled beds are much jointed (especially on the plateau 
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