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stone beds. The dip of the beds here is generally west-20°- south at an 

 angle of 20°. The sandstone hills east' and south-east of Achre attain a 

 maximum elevation of about 300 feet, and exceed the surrounding 

 laterite hills. The sandstones are mostly white in color and of saccha- 

 roid texture, but other colors are also to be seen. 



Extensions of these rocks appear below the Deccan trap and laterite 

 at different points all round the Achre patch, but chiefly to the north 

 and south, e. g,, at Mongia (Monge), and at the mouth of the small 

 river falling into the sea at Meetbaon (? Mitgaon) to the north, and at 

 Chindurwari to the south. South of the Bhuruthgarh river the Kaladgi 

 beds, here consisting of sandstones and shales, are exposed in numerous 

 sections in the valleys cut by the tributaries of the Mussoora stream, an 

 important afiluent of the small river just named. In the ravines north 

 of the stream platey argillaceous shales only are to be seen. These shales 

 are of dark blue or slate color when freshly broken, but weather to a 

 very light blue or slate color ; in texture and fracture they vary from 

 hard and conchoidal to soft and soapy. They are generally overlaid by, 

 sandstones, but are also interstratified with thin seams of the same 

 rock. 



The sandstones appear also on the coast at Malwan and in a couple 

 of small outliers on either side of the Kodal river four miles south- 

 east-by-south of Malwan. The last and 'most southerly outlier of the 

 Kaladgi rocks in the Konkan occurs at the southern extremity of 

 the great Bhekurle spur of the ghats, 8 miles south-west of Ramghat, 

 just above the divergence of the ridge into several minor spurs. The 

 Vingorla rocks and other small islands off the coast all consist of the 

 very hard rocks belonging to the quartzite series. 



6. Sections of the south and south-east sides of the Kaladgi basin. 

 We now return to the Kaladgi basin and take up the series of sections 



to be seen along its southern boundaries, beginning 

 Kakti plateau. 



at Kakti, north of Belgaum. The quartzite series 



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