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j. Mantur (Mnntoor) Section. — About eight miles west of Bisnal^ 

 the following set of beds is exposed on the eastern part of the large 

 inlier of quartzites, north of the village of Mantur, in the Mudhol 

 State. The section, both ends of which are covered up by the sur- 

 rounding Deccan trap, shows the following beds along the path leading 

 to Konnur : — 



Quartzite, reddish. 



Clay rock, dull green*grey to grey. 



Quartzite, reddish. 



These beds probably belong to quite the upper part of the series. Part of 

 the clay rock bed is banded with black, and, being rather calcareous and 

 of good consistency, would make a very handsome building stone. 



k. JamJcJiandij Section, — In the section seen in the deep valley 

 running south from the town of Jamkhandij, a great thickness of beds 

 forming the lowest section of the Kaladgi series is seen, although both 

 the uppermost and the basement members of this division are covered 

 up by the trap. 



The thickness of the series here exposed was found on rough 

 measurement to exceed 2,500 feet. If the whole series were seen, it 

 would very probably exceed 3,000 feet. The different beds seen are— 

 Bee can trap. 

 c. Shaley sandstones. 

 b. Quartzites, drab and salmon-colored. 

 a. Grit ieds, of purple, purplish^ reddish and pinkish-brown 



color, greatly false-bedded. 

 a. Grit, hard, red. 



Some of the purple grits contain many angular fragments of pink 

 and red felspar and have a remarkably porphyritoid appearance, in this 

 respect closely resembling the arkose of continental geologists. The 

 hard, red grit, bears a very strong resemblance to a granite-gneiss, and 

 might very easily be mistaken for it. 



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