300 KING: KADAPAH AND KARNÜL FORMATIONS. 
quartzite, overlaid by other beds of quartzite of whitish, reddish, or 
bluish colors. These are followed by grey and whitish gritty beds, 
the surface of which has been much broken up, apparently in search. 
of diamonds. The total thickness of these beds I estimate as from 
50 to 100 feet, and they form the highest of the series as far as exposed 
along this special line of section. 
Continuing south-eastward along the line of section the slate series 
(Í) reappears, the slates being here chiefly of dun grey and drab colors. 
Below these slates are a succession of quartzites (and grits) and slates, 
agreeing in lithological character and relative order with the beds 5, 4 
and 3 of the former and e, d, c of the latter in the north-west half of the 
section. These bands are arranged apparently in a low anticlinal fold; 
but from the nature of the ground their position is very obscure and a 
little doubtful. If the anticlinal fold be really the true arrangement of the 
strata the Slates (€) must be faulted against the much lower slate bed (a), 
for the latter is overlaid by a limestone (7!) which I cannot but consider as 
belonging to the Palnád limestone, both because of its peculiar character 
and of that of the underlying slate, which is of a dark purple color charae- 
teristic of this bed in many other places where no possible doubt can arise 
as to its real position in the series. Resting on the limestone, which has 
here a much smaller thickness than at Moogetalah, is a bed of quartzite 
that must be regarded as a distinct and separate formation or as the 
quartzite (No. 2), the slate bed (b) of the other end of the section being 
nurepresented. 
These beds are suddenly cut off by a fault, and abut against a mass 
. of gneiss. 
The reappearance of exactly the same beds in the same relative 
position about half a mile to the south-east would seem to confirm the 
latter view. They are brought in by another fault. The quartzite bed 
(No. 2) appears on the east side of the Kistnah, forming the bare slope 
of the Oostapully hill. The limestone has apparently thinned out 
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