80 FOOTE : SOUTH MAHRATTA COUNTRY. 



and hsematite schist, derived from the beds of those rocks in the gneissic 

 series. The pebbles are all well rounded and so firmly impacted that in 

 most cases they have split in two where the rock has got fissured. 

 Along the summit of the ridge, a little west of Adumurunhal, the display 

 of jasper pebbles, many of them of vivid red color, is such as to remind 

 one of a bed of bright red tulips without any green foliage. In many 

 parts where the rock has been freshly fractured by weathering and still 

 retains its semivitreous lustre the efiect is really fine, especially when lit 

 up by the midday sun. 



d. — Tumunnaiti (Toomoormuttee) Section. At the apex of the sharp 

 horse-shoe curve the basement series makes between the two gorges of 

 the Ghatprabha at Adumurunhal, and Yerkal, another capital section is 

 to be seen which reveals the same succession of beds as in the foregoing, 

 namely, — 



c. Breccia led, greatly broken up and weathered. 

 h. Qitartzites, drab, buff and reddish. 

 t a. Conglomerates, purple with jaspery haematite schist pebbles. 

 G^ieissic series, here consisting of haematite schist and 

 chloritic schists. 



In this case some of the conglomerates approach more to breccias 

 from the imperfect roundness of the contained fragments of the older 

 rocks, many of which are sharp splinters. The matrix of the con- 

 glomerate is richly ferruginous, consisting largely of comminuted hsematite 

 joined by a ferruginous cement. The included pebbles are generally 

 much smaller than those seen on the ridge west of Adumurunhal referred 

 to above. 



«9. — Yerlcal Section. The Ghatprabha river breaks through the 

 boundary ridge for a second time and re-enters the Kaladgi basin at 

 Yerkal (or Herkal) three miles north-north-west of the first or Adumur- 

 unhal gorge, and forms a gorge having a strong claim to be considered 



( HO ) 



