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as a really picturesque spot in a very generally tame^ if not positively 

 ug-ly country. The section of the basement series here displayed is one 

 of the most clear and instructive to be seen in this region. Little or no 

 detritus obscures the several rock-beds here exposed which occur in the 

 following succession :— 



c. Breccia, calcareo-f erruginous or " dirty breccia.'* 



h. Quartzites, buff, pink, and brown, with intercalated shaley 

 sandstones. 



a. Conglomerates and quartzites, the former purple, the latter 

 purple and grey. 



Gneissic se^-ies. Highly contorted beds of jaspery haematite 

 schists. 



Some of the beds of quartzite include thin layers of pebbles. Many 

 of the pebbles and fragments in the conglomerates consist of jasper and 

 jaspery haematite. The hsematite beds form the very fine cliff shown 

 in Plate III. The conglomerate beds are lying against the north 

 wall of the hsematite cliff. The rocks in the middle of the river are part 

 of the lowest conglomerate bed and dip north or away from the 

 spectator. The low and rather shelving cliff on the right or east bank o£ 

 the river is part of another hsematite schist-bed running parallel to the 

 north of the main ones. The low rising ground behind the great tope 

 consists of limestones and shales and the breccia bed "c" which underlies 

 them ', and all are faulted against the gneiss along the northern boundary 

 of this part of the basin immediately behind the rise. 



f. Sitamani Section. — This section, like the last, is very clear and 

 instructive, the various rocks here making up the basement series being 

 well exposed on the Sitamani (Seetamunna) hill on the south side of 

 the gorge through which the Krishna here forces its way across the 

 north-east extension of the Kaladgi basin. The boundary ridge of the 

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