10 HUGHES: DALTONGANJ COAL-FIELD. 
The lowest seam of carbonaceous matter appears in the bank on which 
Kumand stands. The thickness at its out-crop 
HR E varies from 6” to 1'6”. Above it is pale, yellowish- 
white sandstone and shale, having a very gentle dip down the river. 
In a field where coal seams are numerous, I should pass over without 
notice such a bed of carbonaceous shale as this. But where out-crops 
of anything approaching coal in their look or character are so rarely 
seen, as in the present district, I have felt 1t to be a necessity to allude 
to them ; first, to prove that they did not escape notice ; and, secondly, to 
prevent that importance being attached to their value which is usually 
the case where coal or the semblance of coal is rare. 
Going down the Amanat, a series of sandstones and shales without 
any coal and with a general low dip makes up the section for more than 
four miles. ۱ 
Just before the confluence of the Jinjot, however, there occur two 
seams of coal dipping northwards. The highest is only 8^ thick. 
The lowest is indicated by 3' 6" of black mud at the out-crop, which 
increases in thickness in the direction of its inclination to nearly 6'of coal 
and shale. The angle of dip is not more than 6° to north-north-east, which 
is low and favourable for working. The quality of the seam is good in 
parts. There is a slight undulation in the bed, and about 80 yards north of 
the out-crop there is a small throw fault running north -west-south-east. 
The strike varies rapidly within short distances, especially in the 
Jinjoí river, the section of which will be alluded to presently. 
Opposite Singra, on the right bank of the Amanat, the 8” seam is 
again expesed, but exhibiting a different section. In one place I 
measured in descending order— 
1. False bededd sandstone. 
2. Conglomerate band ۰ S one pose AO ESN 
3. Coal Ws Bs dod s d 18s 2)" 
3a. Clay shale. 
4. Fine shalely sandstone. 
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