4 BALL: CHOPÉ COAL-FIELD. 
different set of beds which seem to be Barakars appear, and there is 
no repetition of the coaly shale. This fact renders it probable that 
there is a parallel fault bounding the trough or basin of coal rocks on 
the north to that on the south by means of which the Talchirs have 
been brought to the surface, and Barakars higher than those actually 
seen in contact, and resting on the Tálehírs on the north side of the 
anticlinal have, on the south, been let down and preserved. 
This view of the structure will be more clearly understood by refer- 
ence to the accompanying sketch section (see Map). 
Further up the bed of the river Talchirs, again resting upon gneiss, 
appear with a slight roll. After which several short reaches exhibit - 
sections of gneiss, and then a spit-like prolongation of the Talchirs, 
bounded on the north by a north-east south-west fault, strikes into 
the bed of the stream. Thence northwards as far as the village of 
Bandgaon, granitie and hornblendie gneiss are the only rocks exposed 
in the bed of the Mohan. 
Mr. Hughes when examining the Itküri field found gneiss south 
a from it as far as the village of Pornadih, or about 
Itkün field. 
twelve miles north-west of Bandgaon. Whether 
coal rocks appear in the interval has still to be determined when the 
general examination of the district shall be taken up. 
BARÁKAR ۰ 
The description of the section above given leaves but little to be 
said specially under this head. 
According to the interpretation of the section adopted, there are 
two distinct portions of the Barákar group existing in this field. One, 
the higher, let down by a pair of parallel faults, and the other resting 
immediately on the Talchirs. 
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