250 KING: KADAPAH AND KARNÜL FORMATIONS. [PART III. 
In writing of the Aukiveed valley, Mr. Foote notes “that the general 
lithological characters of the slates are, grey colors, fine grain, but not 
much compactness of texture.”* A small bed of compact grey limestone 
occurs in the slate about a mile north-east of Aukiveed village. The 
slate beds are very much cut up by cleavage, which strikes generally 
north 5° east, dip 7°—5° east by south. Variations in the strike and dip 
of the cleavage are not at all common in this region, and none of any 
importance were observed. None of the slates are fit for roofing 
purposes. "The beds roll about at low angles in the bottom of the 
valley, but along the sides they rise up.the inclined planes formed by 
the slopes of the enclosing ridges at angles varying from 25° to 40°. 
There is no sign of any unconformity among these upper quartzites 
i and slates of the Nullamullays, and it is not im- 
Higher quartzites. 
probable that the slates just described are merely 
a band in a group of quartzites. The quartzites both on the Nundy- 
cunnama and at Howhoblum, which overlie these slates, are massive 
white, fine sandstones just like those beneath on the Nemillygoondums. 
The Kistnah Beds. 
The Nullamullay mountains are in their northern extension traversed 
by the Kistnah river, and may in describing this 
Strata on the Kistnah. à ; 
part of the country be viewed for convenience 
as the Kistnab range: while the rocks, evidently of the KADAPAH form- 
ation, may be considered as the Kisina series, The question is, what 
group of the Kapapaus they represent. 
The stratigraphy of the country of Doopad and the Dorenall 
UBRO Santen valley is, as already observed, very obscure. Well- 
ey: marked and often very thick series of quartzites‏ ی 
disappear or thin out westward along the latter valley, and are brought 
* It is quite possible that the slates may be more compact where freshly exposed 
en masse; but I observed no fresh section by which to form an accurate judgment.—R. B. F. 
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