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CuarrER 3.—'lug CHEY-AIR BEDS. 
Poolavaindla, or Naggery Quartzites. 
Returning again to the examination of the western belt of quartz- 
ites and slates, it is found that the Paupugnee 
Paupugnees overlaid , i ; 
unconformably by a Beds are overlaid unconformably by another series, 
second series. £ 1 f 
of which the lowest beds are quartzite sands, grits, 
and conglomerates. These overlap the Vaimpullys to the north on the 
Kistnah river; as they likewise do to the south, over the rather obscure 
hilly country in the neighbourhood of Cuddapah. 
For so much of the outcrop as 1s thus certainly known, it is perhaps 
Poolivstadia duit better to treat of the beds locally under the name 
dee. of the Poolavaindla* quartzites, though these 
rocks do not show in any force there. "They might be named after some 
prominent peak in the long and narrow belt of ridges which they form by 
their hade up to the westward; but there is no one of these sufficiently 
distinctive. 
Commencing from the north, these rocks are seen in detached areas 
until the broad shoulder of country opposite the 
To the north, in de- 
SEONG OED Oopalpád plateau is reached. First, in the western 
part of the Kistnah Nullamullays near Margooty ; again, in the low 
Gardimuddoo range of hills east of Kurnool ; and then;-over part of the 
elevated country between the Gunnygull hill fault and the Puspulla valley. 
Opposite or west of the Oopalpád plateau, the inner or Puspulla 
Continuous thence to ridge of quartzites is of this sub-group, and as a 
Cuddapah by  Puspulla 
ridge. 
continuous right away down until immediately south of Cuddapah ; 
more or less elevated run of this kind it is thence 
whence it is traceable, though with some obscurity, into the western. 
hills of the Chey-air valley as the Naggery quartzites. The continuity 
of this western outcrop is concealed at various points between the Kistnah 
* Poolavaindla, a large and well known taluq village, some 40 miles west by south 
of Cuddapah. 
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