MEMOIRS 
OF THE 
GNOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 
The Yrkninf COAL-FIBLD, by Tazo. W. H. HUGHES, F. G. s., Associate, 
Royal Schoot of Mines, Geological Survey of India. 
I.—Ixrnopvorrox. 
Ineidentally, I alluded in one of the preceding memoirs to the 
Itkhürî (Eetcooree) field; but I am not aware that besides that instance, 
and its mention by Dr. Oldham in the * Coal Resources of India," it 
has ever been noticed in any publication. 
The area indeed of its coal-bearing rócks is so very small, that it 
would probably have escaped examination for some years to come, had 
not the attention of the Deputy Commissioner of Hazáríbágh, Major 
Boddam, (who communicated to the Geological Survey the knowledge of 
the existence of coal at Ftkhürf) been specially drawn to the fact by a 
quarrel which arose between two petty zemindars regarding the proprietor- 
ship of the land in which the coal occurred. 
The designation of the field is derived from the name of the some- 
what considerable village of I'tkhárí, which, although outside the boundary 
of the coal measures, has been preferred as being better known than any 
of the villages that might have a prescriptive right to contribute a name, 
as being within the limits of the field. 
II.—GENERAL GEOLOGY AND PHYSICAL FEATURES. 
In addition to a few patches of laterite, only two series of rocks 
occur, the Talchirand the Damüdá. Out of the total area of the field, the 
former series overspreads the whole with the exception of half a square 
mile or so occupied by the Damüdá, and a similar area occupied by Laterite. 
WOOL) 
Memoirs, Geological Survey of Iudia, Vol. VIII, Art. 2. 
