KALADGI SERIES. - 87 



I. Rahkavi Section. — In this section nothing but quartzites^ with a 

 few intercalated beds of drab or pale reddish-white shaley sandstone, 

 are seen. The quartzites are of reddish-brown, pinkish, purplish, and 

 greyish-drab colors, and, as in the Jamkhandi section, all the beds dip 

 southward and are extremely regular in their succession and position. 

 Both ends of the section are covered up by the Deccan trap. In both 

 these sections the line of the valley along which the section was taken 

 lies north and south. 



2. The GoMIc Sections. 



The lower parts of the basement series are well displayed around 

 the town of Gokak in Belgaum district. 



The great series of pebbly and gritty quartzites which are here 

 to be studied in numerous good sections show but little that deserves 

 special notice, being remarkably uniform in their color and texture. 

 Drab to reddish-brown are the predominant colors. The panoramic view 

 of Gokak town and the hills behind it which forms the frontispiece shows 

 how numerous are the lines of cliff in which the basement beds may be 

 studied. The best section is that to be seen in the gorge of the Ghat- 

 prabha, just below the famous and beautiful fall the river makes in de- 

 scending from the Ghat region into the Deccan proper. The total thick- 

 ness of quartzites and conglomerates exposed cannot be much less (and 

 probably is more) than 4Q0 feet vertical, of which more than 300 feet is 

 exposed in the cliff on the north side of the falls. The scenery of 

 Gokak and its environs is very pretty and the place well worth visiting. 



It is moreover the best centre for e-eoloffical 

 Falls of Gokak. , , & S 



studies in the whole South Mahratta country. 



The Ghatprabha river has, as the accompanying sketch (Plate IV) 

 shows, cut itself a horse-shoe shaped basin, into which it falls over a 

 cliff 178 feet high,'^ and forms a deep pool of dark brownish-green 

 water. The view is taken from the south edge of the gorge below the 



* According to the measurements of Captain Newbold, F.R.S., &c., &c. 



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