112 KING: KADAPAH AND KARNÜL FORMATIONS. [PART I1. 
The edges of the suture-hke partings are generally weathered of a 
brown color, and the partings themselves are occasionally filled in with 
carbonate of lime. 
The most strange and embarrassing feature about the eeu and 
north-east part of the Palnád area of limestones 
Deceptive succession 
of limestone strata. 
is the apparently generally steady dip of the beds 
to the south-eastward, and the apparent intercala- 
tion of several bands of slates and taleose schists with much white 
quartz ; while along the north-west edge of the field on the left bank 
of the Kistnah there is no evidence of such great succession of beds. 
For a good part of this north-western boundary the limestones, with 
underlying shales and flags, lie quite naturally 
Apparent strike of beds ۱ 
not parallel with shore- up over the quartzites beneath, so that were the 
VERRE limestones and slates of the western part of the 
area, which is a nearly level plain, in proper succession, the successive 
outcrops ought to trend round from their usual north-east-south-west 
strike more to the east-north-east so as to be parallel with the north-west 
boundary. Such, however, is not the case; for after getting (on the 
left bank of the Kistnah or in the Hyderabad territory,) as far east as 
the Vaiml-air river—up to which point the limestones are not cleaved, 
while their outcrop runs parallel with the boundary—the strata then 
begin to show cleavage strongly, and very shortly afterwards give a 
strong north-east-south-west outcrop with a steady dip to the south-east. 
This steady outcrop dies out, however, close to the boundary, and the 
strata are striking regularly with the slates and quartzites below; the 
cleavage, which is about north-east-south-west and dips south-east, 
nevertheless remaining constant through limestones and shales, the latter 
being now more slates than shales. 
Then again the limestones, slaty-shales, and bottom quartzites follow 
each other at their boundaries in a tolerably parallel way round the 
extremity of the Battavole or Juggiapett promontory of KARNÜL and 
KADAPAH rocks. 
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