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Of true talcose rocks but very little was met with^ and in one place 



only in any quantity ; this was at Todihal on the 



south bank of the Krishna river and fifteen miles 



north-north-east of Kaladg-i. Here several small beds of pale pinkish 



white talc rocks occur intercalated between beds of hornblendic gneiss. 



Talcose rocks are much more common in the Konkan gneiss area 

 than in the Deecan. Mr. Wilkinson found a hard 

 blue talc rock in the bed of the Tillar river at the 

 crossing of the Ram Ghat, Vingorla road. This rock decomposes into a 

 light-colored soapy material. It is interstratified with compact dark- 

 green hornblendic and mica schists, and is of some importance as the bed 

 extends up into the spur lying between Sasoli and Komberil (Koomberle). 

 Similar compact blue talc rock occurs near Akeri (Akoree) to the north- 

 west-by-west of Sundur Wari. At Bamburda, eight miles north-east 

 of Vingorla, talc rock forms a hill capped by an outlier of the coast 

 laterite. Schistose talc rock occurs at Pingul (Pingool) four miles 

 north-north-west of Bamburdee at Bid Wari at the northern end of 

 the Konkan gneiss area, and on the south bank of the Assia Mat 

 (Usya Mat) river between the village of that name and Wankda. 



Actinolite schist was noted by Mr. Wilkinson at four places in the 



Konkan, but none was seen by me above the ghats j 



one occurrence of it at Nandawadagi, fourteen miles 



east-by-south of Hunugund, was noted by Captain Newbold. The 



actinolite schists observed by Mr. Wilkinson were met with at Kodal 



(Koodal), eleven miles north-west of Sundur Wari, and at Pamburda, 



five miles north-east-by-north of Kodal. At Tulsuli (Toolsoolee), about 



three miles to the east of Pamburda, beds of actinolite schist and 



quartzite form the mass of a group of hills immediately west of the 



village. Actinolite schist, associated with quartzite and micaceous 



schists, occurs also between Kusal and Koonda six miles north of 



Pamburda. 



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